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markable gains, and when the corn and peas are gone, can be profit- 

 ably finished on corn alone." 



One other method of sowing cowpeas in corn that has proven 

 very successful, is to drill from two to three rows of the peas between 

 corn rows with a one-horse grain drill at the last cultivation of the 

 corn. This would be pastured down in the same manner as indicated 

 in the quotations used above. In hogging down corn, however, too 

 large an area should not be pastured at the same time, else the hogs 

 will wander too much and waste more grain than if confined to the 

 amount of ground they can clear in about a month. Pigs running with 

 large hogs also eat scattered grain and thus prevent waste. 



RAPE FOR HOGS. 



On the best regulated farm there are times during the spring, 

 summer or fall when the regular pasture is short, or when it has 

 been injured until it will not make sufficient pasture for the hogs. 

 On such occasions, a quick-growing plant that will furnish a large 





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Fig. 5. RAPE MAKES A GOOD HOG PASTURE. 



amount of forage per acre is exceedingly useful. The rape plant has 

 been found to fit in exceedingly well on such occasions. In reply to 

 the question as to the best forage crop for hogs, four correspondents 

 in the northern and eight correspondents in the southern part of the 

 State said "rape;" one said "rape and oats;" and another "cane at 

 heading time and rape." After many years experience with rape. 

 Professor Carlyle, at the "Wisconsin Experiment Station, drew the fol- 

 lowing conclusions : 



