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Show Alfalfa Pasture Great Help in Producing Pork Alfalfa pasture will produce more pork per acre on the average than any other forage crop. It is one of the earliest pasture crops to be available in the spring and if kept clipped when necessary during the summer, it will provide good forage until late in the fall. Under average conditions an acre of alfalfa will pasture from 10 to 20 shotes. depending on the conditions previously mentioned. It should not be pastured too closely as it does not stand very heavy foraging. It probably prob-ably would be -best to pasture it in such a way as to permit the cutting of two small crops of hay during the season in addition to the pasture furnished. fur-nished. Alfalfa is a crop that is high in protein and mineral matter, both of which are very necessary in animal growth and which are decidedly lacking lack-ing in corn, the feed that forms the basis for practically all hog rations. For this reason alfalfa is doubly valuable valu-able as a forage crop. |