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Show RAPE MAKES SOUND ROUGHAGE FOR, SWINE Crop Seeded Early in April Should Be Ready for Pasturage Early in June. To provide good,' succulent pasture for the swine, a few acres should, be seeded to rape, according to J. S. Coffey Cof-fey of the animal husbandry department, depart-ment, Ohio state university. Rape seeded early in April should be ready for pasture early in June, if the sea-eon sea-eon is favorable and the soil fertile. Ordinarily an acre of rape will furnish enough pasture for two sows and 15 pigs during the summer and fall. Dwarf Essex is regarded as the best variety to plant and generally costs about 15 cents per pound. Ordinarily the rape is sown by itself on a carefully care-fully prepared seedbed at the rate of five or six pounds per acre. It may be broadcasted or drilled and some prefer pre-fer to sow it in rows 16 inches apart thus making lanes for the swine to walk In, so that the loss from tramping is lessened. |