Show hog pasture rotation practiced in illinois in following out his sanitary hog bog raising plan bert kellogg of kendel county illinois uses a five year rotation writes earl price in farm life each field beld has spring wheat or some other spring sown mail email E grain followed by two years of alfalfa then two years of corn on this particular farm each lot contains about five acres und and all are located near the barns bares so that feed and water tire are convenient the first year alfalfa Is always used as ag the sanitary pasture for the spring pigs portable doghouses dog hog houses provide shade and shelter nod and th the litters are moved out of the farrow ing house to the pasture as soon as weather permits the fecondo year alfalfa Is postured pastured with cattle usually both crops of corn are supplemented with soy beans and hogged bogged off on in preparing for the spring grain the second year corn stalks are either plowed under or thoroughly disked mr kellogg finds that pasturing with hogs and the ase of alfalfa two years out of the five keepe keep his soil high in fertility and organic matter |