Show RAPE PASTURE FOR THE HOGS very rank growth on one acre may supply feed for fop twenty five head seed in spring dy by DEAN of the missouri experiment station A good growth of rape will supply pasture tor for 10 to 20 hogs to the aero acre A very rank growth may supply feed i tor for 26 head where the fe feeding eding la a to extend front from 10 to 14 weeks it is I 1 advisable to pasture rape at the rato rate of 10 to 12 head to the acre the favorable fayo rable time for seeding rape asin Is in tho the spring as soon boon as da danger of hard freezing is ta past it will furnish pasture from the middle of way may until the third week in august rape will withstand light frosts but not hard freezing tho best beat results are obtained when oats and clover are ara sown with it sow from five to seven pounds of rape ahead of the drill and then drill in one halt half bushel ot of oats oata and six to ten pounds of clover seed to the aero acre the rapo rape and oats oata wll will serve as a cover crop for the clover and usually a good stand of clover will b bo a obtained that may be pastured with hogs the following year it if rape la Is not grazed too closely in tune june and july so that the stalk of the plant Is eaten ot off it may grow up ind and make fall pasture it should never be pastured red so BO closely es as to destroy all leaves on an the stalk and stock should not be turned on until the plants blants are from 14 to 18 19 inches ht high gh complaint 1 om plaint la is sometimes made by feeders that scabs and cores form on tho the ears cars and backs backs of tho the hogs on rape the remedy Is to move the hogs bogs to another pasture for a short time and then dip them or apply sulphur and lard to tho the sores |