Show hog pasture rotation practiced in illinois in tul ful loing loNing out his sanitary hug bug raising plan hen bert kellogg of kend kenda county illinois uses a five year rotation writes earl price in lanu farill life each cach field lias has spring wheat or some other spring sown email grain followed by two years of aJ asafa falfa then two years of corn on this particular farm arm each lot contains about ne file acres ind and all are located near the burns barns so that feed and water are convenient the first year alfalfa Is always used fie as the sanitary pasture tor for tile lie spring pigs portable bughouses bug hog houses provide shade find and shelter and tile litters are moved out of the farrow ing house to the pasture as soon as weather permits the second year alfalfa Is pastured v nith ith cattle usually both crops of foro corn are supplemented with soy benni beans arid and hogged olt off in preparing fur for the lie spring grain tie the second year corn stalls stalks are either plowed under or thoroughly dit ditled ked mr kellogg finds that pasturing with hogs and tile ise of alfalfa two years out of the five keepe keep his soll roll high in fertility fertl llly and organic matter |