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Show FEW SIDELIGHTS ON HOG RAiSSHG Farmer Will Find That Green Herbage Makes Pork Production Produc-tion Most Profitable. ALFALFA BEST FORAGE CROP fiome of Heavy-Yielding, Quick-Growing Plants Will Add Much Feed Liberal Allowance of Grain Must Be Supplied. The farmer who provides pasture for his hogs whenever possible is the one who makes the production of pork most profitable, says the United States department of agriculture in Farmer's J Bulletin 951. In epitome, the advice given in the bullotiu is: . Green herbage is essential to the economical production of pork. A permanent pasture supplemented with quick-growing, heavy-yielding. It Does Not Pay Nowadays to Raise Hogs on Grain or Mill Feeds Alone. temporary forage crops Is most satisfactory. satis-factory. Alfalfa Is Best Crop. Alfalfa, where it can be grown, is undoubtedly the best forage crop for hogs. On an average one acre of permanent perma-nent pasture should be kept for each brood sow. Some of the heavy-yielding, quick growing forage crops will add much feed to the quantity produced by a permanent pasture. There should be mature crops such as corn, soy beans, peanuts, or velvet beans, for finishing the hogs in the fall. Oats, rye and wheat give satisfactory satis-factory winter grazing. 'v "-r--,- Green forage alone is little better ""-thnn a maintenance ration. If rapid gains ara desired, the hogs should have a liberalailoance pfrain. The role should be "all the grain they will eat without waste." Growing forage crops and "grazing them off" on the land is an efficient method of improving soils depleted in organic matter. The exercise obtained In grazing exerts a beneficial Influence on the health of hogs. Various Forage Crops. The yarlous forage crops for hogs, each discussed in detail, are corn, sorghnm. winter grains, alfalfa, black ft Hogs in Alfalfa Alfalfa Is One of the Best Forage Crops for Pork Production. medic and hop clover, red clover crimson clover, soy beans, velvet beans, cowpeas, peanuts, chufas, sweet potatoes, mangels and rape. Suggested cropping systems are given, giv-en, but the statement is made that it is impossible to plan a succession of crops that will be satisfactory for any large number of farms and that each farmer must plan his own system according ac-cording to his conditions of climate, fertility, and layout of fields. Copies of the bulletin can be had free on application to the division of publications, United States departmeni of agriculture. |