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Show FEED HOGS ALFALFA It is a common mistake, that hogs, and especially brood sow's, should be fed from birth to slaughter on expensive ex-pensive and purely fattening feeds. This, in fact, is an evil practice which should be corrected in this day of food shortage, when economy in hog raising should, be a farm motto, which sums up in the simple suggestions- feed alfalfa. The objections some farmers of the state might raise to this are due to the mistaken idea that alfalfa is only a suitable food for horse and cow; but the fact remains, it is, either eith-er as hay pasture, one of our most economical hog feeds. This statement state-ment is1 born out in the following bulletin bul-letin by one of ourmost successful hog raisers. t "In procurring the largest number of healthy pigs, first attention must be given the mother sow, in keeping her in healthy condition of medium flesh by plenty of exercise and foods of the bone and muscle building quality. qual-ity. Close confinement and fattening fatten-ing feed tends to retard blod circulation cir-culation which is bo essential to the development of the unborn pigs. What is needed is proportional rations ra-tions of protein and carbohydrates, and these are abundantly supplied in alfalfa with a little grain each day. In other words, alfalfa is not only the most economical, but it is the best, food for brood sows, which answers the question: Why feed expensive harvested crops? We would have better hogs and bank accounts if we fed the brood sow on what she most desires and needs alfalfa with clover clo-ver and skim-milk." According to these facts, there is no reason we cannot benefit the country coun-try and world by conserving valuable foods which are useful to man, and at the same time realize tbe best farrows and financial profits on our hogs at market. |