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Show Evidence accumulaten to proto that conditions in the intermountaln country coun-try are almost Ideal for successful hog raising ThUurerne and running wa. ter that are found on all farms In an Irrigated country furnish tho best pos. slble conditions for keeping hogs free from disease. Trof Ourtles or the Iowa station ful-ly ful-ly realizes that the closo confinement and exclusive corn diet so universally irartlced In corn States Is productive of dlseaso Hiof Curtlss commends the pasture proposition for hogs an fol-lows fol-lows . 1!,. ho5'" superior capabilities of eon-i.i eon-i.i !i'.n.B i.'".rim l""'1" ln, mwlt products render It the most prohtabie anlmul do. mestleuted on our farms nnd pork pro-luctlnn pro-luctlnn the mom profitable Industrj of American agriculture. In spite of the rav-nses rav-nses of hog cholera. This dreaded ecourre gives no evldenco of ylelrllng to any if the lourt j nroclnlrmd methods of treatment or Inoculation, but to the man who cltta his hoi," the rango of ell or tho greater ran of a fair sized form and who apulleg vigorous measures of Isolation disinfection and cradlcutlun Urn disease Is laritly robbed of Its terrors It la generally conceded that there Is no certain sredfio ngaintt hog cholera but the free Hnd exttnslvn use of good grass roots and nucculent feeds will do much to maintain a healthful condition that will afford a reasonable safeguard nt,nlnit runny forms of illsense. Tho ho ft the wll state Is naturally an herbivorous iinlmsl and under domestleatlon It would to much more herbivorous In lis appetite If ll had a chance The grizlng elior-actirUtlrs elior-actirUtlrs of swine should by no means bo allowed lo becomo extinct but cultl-voted cultl-voted and perpetuated as a most useful quvllly It will be conducive to hardier hogs, chsper roduetlon nnd belter pork products ' There Is no forage crop that can he fcrown to better advantage In Utah nnd Idaho than the cow peas It la doubtful doubt-ful If nunc pig feed can be grown on nn acre In any other form than In cow. pen One of the best plana for getting the full tnluo from a crop of rowpeas to turn a lot of growing peas on them when some, of the lower pods nro ripe They will Hnd and eat almost every pea and will convert them Into pork of the finest quality, besides tramping the vines clown so that they may easily be turned under with the plow. There Is no better food for rapidly pushing the growth of o lot of pigs and preparing prepar-ing them for finishing off tvlth corn By pasturing with pigs In this manner one gets the best valuo for the peaa obtains all the nitrogen deposited In the boII by the roots nnd has all the vines to turn under for humus Pasturing with pigs and cutting; for hay are probably prob-ably the two most profitable uses to which cow peas can be put. Farmers who farm for profit will not be disappointed disap-pointed ln cow peas. |