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Show Let Pigs Harvest Corn - and Different Pastures "Pigs will be pigs and might as well be hogs ; so turn them loose in the pasture," says R. B. Hinman of the New York State College of Agriculture. Agri-culture. An acre of pasture may be worth 50 bushels of corn to a pig. Another good thing about turning pigs into pasture is that they do the harvesting har-vesting themselves. Rape Is the best annual crop for pigs, and on good ground will suffice for more than twenty to the acre. On alfalfa and clover pastures, which fit well into crop rotations and tend to improve the soil, about seventeen pigs' can be fed. In early spring and late fall sows with suckling pigs can pasture pas-ture on blue grass. A combination of clover and timothy timo-thy also serves as a good pasture for pigs and If farmers use a mixture of clover and timothy in their annual crop rotations, hogs may be pastured on this crop without the necessity of planting special pastures. |