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find ten farms where the hogs have 

 hurt the trees more or less. On eight 

 of these farms one of two conditions 

 exist — either a large number of hogs 

 are confined around a few trees, or the 

 hogs have become poor because their 

 ration has been nothing but roughage 

 (alfalfa, clover, waste fruit, roots and 

 the like). I find on the other two of 

 these ten farms the hogs have done a 

 slight amount of harm even where they 

 have been well cared for. On the other 

 side of the question, I find ninety farms 

 where the hogs have not harmed the 

 trees in two to seven years' experience. 

 This makes two out of one hundred 

 farms on which the hogs have been 

 properly fed and cared for where they 

 have injured the trees while pasturing 

 down the cover crops. Now, it doesn't 

 do any good to say "properly fed" un- 

 less brief mention is made of how the 

 feeding is done in the successful places, 

 because indefinite information is worth- 

 less. 



Feeding hogs would be a long dis- 

 cussion in itself. So, to be as brief 

 and concise as possible, the failure in 

 raising profitable hogs and preventing 

 injury to trees while pasturing cover 

 crops are practically all due to getting 

 the hogs poor and stunted by feeding 

 them nothing but roughage. Enough 

 concentrated feed to keep the hogs 

 thrifty is absolutely essential. For pigs 

 and shoats this will be about a two per 

 cent grain ration — that is, two pounds 

 of grain for one hundred pounds of 

 live weight of hogs. Now, I hope no 

 one will contradict this statement of 

 facts because he has seen someone 

 keeping brood sows or other mature 

 hogs fat on pasture alone. Mature hogs, 

 if placed on pasture while in good con- 

 dition, can be carried in that condition 

 on roughage, but pigs and shoats posi- 

 tively will not keep fat enough to grow 

 good without a small amount of con- 

 centrated feed. 



Will the hogs in the orchard pay? 

 I will cite only two or three of a num- 

 ber of illustrations that might be given. 

 The following experiments were car- 

 ried on with grade Durocs. A farmer 

 who is a good feeder was induced to 

 weigh his hogs in and out and keep 

 accurate accounts of all feed except 

 roughage (that is, the pasture and 

 waste fruit). To make a long story 

 short, he grew the hogs for 3.(5 cents 

 a pound, not including the roughage. 

 The hogs sold at 7% cents per pound. 

 This left him .3.0 cents per pound to 

 cover the cover crop pasture and the 

 waste fruit and his work in looking 

 after them. These hogs were fed 

 enough grain tr) keep them reasonably 

 fat from the time they were weaned 

 until they were marketed, which time 

 was four and one-half months. An- 

 other man kept figures and he lost 

 .$105.60 on thirty head. Don't let this 

 next point slip by you. His pigs were 

 run on alfalfa alone after they were 

 weaned until they got poor. At the 

 same time anotlier farmer was keeping 

 figures for us. He bought the grain at 

 the same place and he got $82 for the 

 pasture and waste fruit put into 18 

 hogs in four and one-half months. 



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