Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1913-05-02 | Page 6 | Hog Mulch for an Orchard

HOG MULCH FOR AN ORCHARD Canadian Field Peas and Sometimes Oats Seeded in Spring Animals Do Not Touch Trees. A Michigan man uses hog mulch and handles it very successfully. At least, he calls it a hog mulch, says the Northwest Farmstead. His land is not particularly good. He cultivates culti-vates in the spring and seeds Canada field peas, sometimes using a small quantity of oats. When the peas are pretty well formed he turns in 200 hogs. They do not touch the trees, and by the use of movable fences he has been able to switch them from one part of the orchard to another, until the entire crop is fed down. He furnished his hogs with a little corn and then turns them to market as a by-product of his orchard. The orchard or-chard is well cultivated by the rooting of the hogs and a large amount of humus is available to plow under the follo'ving spring.