Mr. Connell is also enthusiastic on
pigs. He has been taking a little
advice here from the Baton Rouge
experiment station and from his
four hundred and fifty acres sells
one hundred and fifty to two hun
dred porkers a year weighing about
one hundred and seventy-five pounds
each. He says people in the norlth
are a heap too fond of working
themselves and a heap too fussy
about their pigs. "Who wants to
wait on a pig like lie is a baby?"
31r. Connell asks. He makes his
pigs work for their living and lie
thinks the practice may have some
beneficial moral influence on them.
Part of his oat landl is plowed in
Tune or July, and about ten acres
of sweet potatoes and ten acres of
peanuts are planted. Along in Oc
tober both are ripe, and the hogs are
called on to perform their part,
which is to dig and eat. The pigs
eat the sweet potatoes-tops, roots
and all. The potato with its starch
is a perfect substitute for corn; and
ihe peanut-which is about the rich
tast -tilng nature has produced-is
high in both fat ana protein. Be
tween them these two pig-harvested
crops make just about a perfectly
balanced ration anti a perfect pig
for market, not for breeding. After
ti.e pig is ail tilhough, the land is
sown to lespedeza for next year's
:iiay crop.
