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is the great fat-producing food, corn, alfalfa, clover and hogs are fitted 

 by nature to be closely associated. 



For spring shoats on grass after weaning, the correspondents that 

 use corn alone were in nuich higher percentage than those using corn 

 alone on blue grass or timothy. This practical experience is strength- 

 ened by the feeding data given under the discussion on blue grass and 

 timothy, when it was shown that corn ^lone on clover pasture has 

 about the same value as corn and middlings or shorts on blue grass or 

 timothy pasture. The number and percentage of correspondents that 

 use the different kinds of supplements to corn for shoats on alfalfa 

 or clover pasture, are as follows : 



From the remarks made by our correspondents, we learn that as 

 the pigs get older, the supplements to the corn are gradually decreased 

 until, in a large majority of the cases, only corn is fed to the shoats 

 on this kind of pasture. The inability of a two or three months old 

 pig to give the best gains on forage and corn alone is shown by the 

 fact that 63.5 per cent, of our correspondents prefer to feed some kind 

 of supplement to corn to pigs of this age. But as the hog gets larger, 

 he is better able to eon.^ume forage and does not need such a well- 

 balanced grain ration. 



Amount of Grain to Feed Pigs on Clover or Alfalfa.— The amount 

 of grain to be fed on clover or alfalfa pasture varies, of course, from 

 no grain at all to a full feed, according to the time the hogs are in- 

 tended for market. Of the 153 replies to the question as to whether 

 hogs will make a satisfactory gain on pasture alone, 121 replied in the 

 negative and 32 in the affirmative. Of the 32 men who got satisfactory 

 gains without grain, 16 use clover alone, 2 alfalfa, 3 clover and alfalfa, 

 while 6 more use clover in connection with other crops, and 2 do not 

 designate the kind of pasture. Three of the 16 replies mentioning 

 clover alone, state it is used only when in bloom, and the others do not 



