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Show SWINE ON DRY FARMS' More Readily Grown Than Some Other Classes of Animals. Brood Sows May Be Carried Ovm Winter on Alfalfa and Mangels Until About Season of FarrowingRye Far-rowingRye Is Excellent (Tty I'ltOF. THOMAS B11AW.) Swine may be grown on dry land farms more readily than some otbvi classes of domestic animals, and for the reanon that they do not call for so much pasture relatively to austaln them. They are moro dependent on grain than other classes of live stock on the farm, except In the case ol poultry, and good grain yields are. more easily obtained as a rulu In dry areas than good pasture yields. Tbe nialnUInlug of swine In win ler in such areas la not difficult. The brood sows may be readily carried over on alfalfa and mangels until about the eeason of farrowing. A small amount of grain may be helpful In cold weather, but the amount called for la not large. One of the most useful pastures for swine In such areas Is winter rye. it la so because It may be pretty surely started almost any season In the autumn au-tumn by simply drilling It In amid tbe stubbles, if it cannot be arranged to first plow the land. It Is so because it la ready for being grazed quite early In the spring, and for the further rea son that when thus grown, It becomes be-comes a catch crop, so that tbe g raxing rax-ing of the rye may be completed by the time that the season has come for plowing the land as summer fallow. Tbe only labor called for In providing such pasture k that involved In sowing sow-ing the crop, and the only eost Is the seed, which tn such a case would be about Vt bushels per acre, or not more tban two bushels In any event Hy tbe time that the grating season of the rye Is past other grazing may be necessary. It may consist of alfalfa or bald barley. The alfalfa crop Is unexcelled In furnishing grazing among the grasses, and one of the good points about growing It Is that It may be disked In the spring, which encourages the retention of moisture and promotes growth. It may also be disked at a later period, should this be deemed advisable. Hut when alfalfa Is thus graced, It will not endure close grazing and maintain Iteelf In tbe soil for so many years as when It Is grown to produce bay only. It will probably be found to produce more moisture for swine than any other plant especially during the first part of the season, and as a pasture for swine it should endure for several seasons, with due J care In the grazing. I Darley of tbe hull lees variety will I provide such pasture. It should be I sown quite early, as early as the i ground may do to work in the spring I without Injury to the same. It may I be wise, also, to sow more seed than ' wben It Is sown to provide a grain : crop. I Dwarf Kesri rape may be made to I produce peeture In dry areas, but to i make sure that it will be quite sue- I eessful In sucb areas it ought to be I cultivated during the process of I growth. I The Canadian field pea also fur- i Diane good grazing for swine, but It Is in tbe matured form that the best i result by far are secured. i Wben tbe rain falls, more especially I In the autumn, winter and early spring months, as in the Inter moun- tain regions, tbe barley and rape pas- turea may prove less valuable than In i tbe plains country east of the Rocky mountains. When deciding on the growing of sucb pastures the season of the rainfall and the amount of tbe i same abould be carefully considered. , |