Georgia, historical and industrial . ese made are divided. Under the very best conditions itcosts five hours of labor, or fi^ty cents, to look after 500 hogs for one is $ for caring for 500 hogs for 100 days, or ten cents for onehog for a hundred days, or for a gain of 100 pounds, which gives one-tenth of a cent as the labor cost of producing one pound of live weightof hog. If the value of the gain was reckoned at four cents a pound, thelabor cost of producing the pork was only 2^ per cent, of its selling is evident that when hogs are handled in large numbers, as they ma
Georgia, historical and industrial . ese made are divided. Under the very best conditions itcosts five hours of labor, or fi^ty cents, to look after 500 hogs for one is $ for caring for 500 hogs for 100 days, or ten cents for onehog for a hundred days, or for a gain of 100 pounds, which gives one-tenth of a cent as the labor cost of producing one pound of live weightof hog. If the value of the gain was reckoned at four cents a pound, thelabor cost of producing the pork was only 2^ per cent, of its selling is evident that when hogs are handled in large numbers, as they maybe at a creamery, the labor of growing them is a very small item. Theseremarks on the labor-cost of feeding animals are just as applicable to thefeeding of calves as of hogs, though it would be more difiicult to feeda large number of the former than of the latter. On the farm the ex-pense of feeding these animals would be greater than at the value of whey for feeding is generally estimated at one half that CHAPTER IX. STOCK-EAISIXG. So soon as our farmers began to diversify their agricultural industriesand no longer to give their whole attention to the raising of cotton, ademand was created for improvement in the breeds of cattle, and morecare than ever before was given to the raising of stock. Of course, evenunder the old system every enterprising farmer was careful to securea full supply of good live stock for his plantation, and it was no unusualthing to see pastures on which were gracing fine-looking cattle, or flocksof sheep. Glossy-coated, well-groomed horses, champed in the stalls theripened grain or fed upon the nourishing grasses of the meadows. Thewell-ordered plantation of the olden time was well-stocked also with finemules and well-fed hogs, and abundantly supplied with poultry of everykind. But there were many farmers who did well wdth corn and cotton,whose stock was of such inferior sort, as to convey an idea of thriftlessnessand lack o
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