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Show Hogs Do Well on Alfalfa ONE of the most extensive and successful swine raisers In Kansas tells this: "Twenty-five years of pasturing hogs of all ages on alfalfa has proven conclusively to me that a fourth to a half grain ration while they arc on such pasture will produce greater growth per day than when in dry lots on full feeds of corn. Hogs will maintain a reasonable growth, but not fatten much, on alfalfa pusturo alone. I believe it profitable to feed thorn some grain while running on gicen alfalfa. If it is desired to full-feed hogs, they will make a rapid fattening growth from increasing the grain ration while on pasture, and with the full grain ration the meal will be nearly as firm as that of hogs kept in a drv lot w here gmin alone has been fed. I find no distinction on the market between alfalfa-fed swine and those purely grain-fed. and they sell price and price alike. The general health of the alfalfa fed hogs Is equal to that of those maintained on any other feed, and they are prolific." |