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BEEF CATTLE, POULTRY AND THE DAIRY ADD THEIR QUOTA OF WEALTH TO THE ANNUAL INCOME OFSISKTYOU COUNTY FARMERS20
"Hogs and Alfalfa! "The slogan "'hogs and Alfalfa" is a charm with which to conjure wealth.The consumers of pork products in California will continue to pay the highprices that have long prevailed unless the industry takes on an unusualgrowth. Fifty carloads of pork foods are shipped into this State each week.In Illinois there are sixty hogs to each inhabitant, while in the Golden Statethe ratio is only three to one. Obviously there is a rich field for the hograiser in Siskiyou County where the conditions of the caterer to thesemarkets are ideal, where land values are still low and the transportationrates are reasonable.On the irrigated alfalfa farms of Shasta Valley practice proves that oneacre planted to alfalfa will support one brood sow and her two litters, raisedeach year. One man in this valley began with seventy-seven swine on fortyacres of alfalfa land and in the first year received a profit of $1,855 after hehad paid for his feed and fencing. He had a nucleus of 265 hogs with whichto start in his second year.The most successful results have been obtained by feeding the bearingsows with one part barley and three parts of skimmed milk, bringing up theyoung porkers on alfalfa, and fattening them for the market on barley andKaffir corn, or wheat and barley to improve the quality of flesh. Abundantgrain is grown in all these Siskiyou valleys to supply the local needs.A pork-packing plant, which will be soon established at Montague, willmaterially reduce the cost of marketing Siskiyou's swine. However experiencedin hog raising the reader may be, he may gain many helpful ideas fromthe recent publications on this industry issued by the Southern Pacific Railwayand the University of California. Analyses of the nutritive values ofalfalfa, grain and grasses grown in Siskiyou County and climatological datapublished by the Federal and State governments will further prove that hogsthrive in this ideal region, enjoying immunity from disease and discomfort.A Great Sheep RangeSheep and Mount Shasta are shown in a striking illustration. Once MountShasta was noted for the bands of mountain sheep which ranged about itssnowfields. The highlands of Siskiyou seem made by Nature for a paradisefor sheep. Thirty thousand graze over this county, and there is ample roomfor hundreds of thousands more without encroaching upon the agriculturaland horticultural acreage of the valleys.Horses and MulesDuring the Spanish war, twelve thousand horses were bought by the UnitedStates Government in Siskiyou County. The German Government has been agood customer in this horse market in the past. Likewise Great Britain securedmany mounts for her troopers in the Boer war from among these mountaingirtvalleys.There is now a horse or a mule for every two of the inhabitants of thiscounty. There is need for many more and the conditions of raising stock ofall kinds in this most suitable region will amply justify a large increase ofthese indispensable helpers of man. Hundreds of draft horses are sold fromthis county each year.Vegetables and Truck FarmingThe fact that a thousand tons of potatoes are now produced in Siskiyouis especially significant in that this total tonnage only supplies local needs.The deep, rich soils of its valleys yield from ten to twenty tons of the finestpotatoes. At the present rates of thirty-five cents a hundred-pound sack tothe central markets of California and Oregon, a net profit of from $75 to21
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