One Thousand Ways to Make a Living; or, An Encyclopædia of Plans to Make Money

by Harold Morse Dunphy

PLAN No. 629. FINDS HOGS PROFITABLE

He handled hogs as a side line, and his results run as follows:

“On October 1, 1913, I owned 11 sows, 90 gilts and barrows, 2 boars and 60 pigs, worth approximately $1,270. During the year following I purchased $60 worth of hogs and fed $1,310.21 of feed, all of which, with the exception of $310.90 was produced on my farm. During the same year my sale of hogs amounted to $2,316.33, and on October 1, 1914, I had 8 sows, 100 gilts and barrows, 2 boars and 8 pigs remaining, worth $856. I figure my net profit, exclusive of labor $532.33—not very bad for a side line.”