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Show rWSrBiW5WrTr,aifc v ,jtM !lep for Iff,.. TUpo Is a most wonderful plant for bogs. It can be town from oarly spring to the first of AusrueL In eight week after tbe early sowing It will do to turn In to, and then you can bave rape for paature till Into December, write a contributor to Michigan farmer. farm-er. Hogs do not nted Miss In their noeen whllo feeding on rape, or at least this la my expert inc. Very llttlo rooting bas been done all aummer for us In our rape field. It Is most excellent ex-cellent tn torn brood sows Into after weaning tbo pigs. No attention need Le given to them all summer only to see that they bave chade and 'water. Tho rape la composed of so much water wa-ter that It almost furnishes enough water We have kept fojrteen largo brood sow lu a patch of an aero and a halt ever since tbe spring pigs wero weaned and they havo been uuablo to keep It eaten down They wero poor when turned In and they thrived right along all summer without anything but rape and water. Ono sow raited five nlco pigs with no feed but rape. Wo il&W havo tbtri-thrco brood sows In this patch sleeking up tbe but rape of j tho season It Is beat to hate two or three small lota sown, so tbat bogs can bo changed from one to the other. Don't feed It olt too close whllo tbe weather Is warm and tbe ground too dry, for It won't como on cry satisfactorily satis-factorily afterwards. We nearly killed one patch In that way this last summer. It should be six or eight Inches high before turning Into. If turned Into when too small, betoro It ba sufficient root, tho bogs will pull a good deal ot It up. If your land Is rich and tree from needs It will be best sown broadcast at Are pounds of seed to tho acre. A good way tu do Is to plow tho ground early and drag It frequently till ready to sow. This will make a One, firm seed bed and rid tho ground of weeds that would otherwise, bothvr. It Is claimed, however, that better result can be bad by drilling In rows about 20 Inches apart and cultivating. However this may be, It woulJ lake a great deal moro work and trouble. I don't sco how much more could grow on the land than did for mo sown broadcast. Ono man told me that hla bog would not cat it. I must say that be either son ed tbe wrong kind ot rape or be bad some very peculiar hog Our hog seemed to Ilk It better than clover, for they had both clover and raie to run Into at tbe same lime, and they could bo seen moat In the rape. Itape, If properly prop-erly aown and properly pastured, will certainly solve tbe problem of cheap pork, for spring pigs, continually kept lu It from weaning time till December, will mako good slxed hogs with very llttlo grain. |