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The leading varieties for Southern 

 California are the Placentia, NefT's Pro- 

 lific, El Monte and Ware's Prolific. I'\)r 

 (Central and Northern (<alifornia the 

 Eureka is undoubtedly, all things con- 

 sidered, the best variety on heavy soil 

 with good moisture conditions. Then 

 come Mayetle, Eranquetfe and Concord. 

 These being better on the lighter soils 

 than the Eureka. 



Hogs in the Orchard 



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OREGON'S mild winter climate, which 

 allows the vetches, rape, turnips 

 and othei- suitable orchard cover crops 

 to produce such an abundant growth, 

 also allows the bog to feed and grow 

 without having his feed frozen or cov- 

 ered by snow for any length of time. 

 Eor the past several years we have 

 grown cover crops and raised hogs in 

 our young (io-acre orchaid, situated on 

 the rolling hills at Sheridan, Yamhill 

 County, Oregon. These crops were 

 originally intended merely to replenish 

 the soil, which had been "grained to 

 death." The type of soil is the deep 

 red hill soil, common in that section of 

 the Willamette Valley. 



Our starting to raise hogs in the 

 orchard was rather an accident and 

 began in this way: We first com- 

 menced to raise common vetch to re- 

 plenish the nitrogen in the soil, and, in 

 the spring, having bought a prolific old 

 brood sow, there was no place for the 

 I)igs to run that winter except in the 

 orchard. The year-old pigs taken from 

 this vetch crop in the spring and fed 

 for ten days averaged 225 pounds in 

 weight; and the i)igs, in the meantime, 

 had increased from one brood sow to 

 forty-two pigs in all. After having used 

 vetch for th)-ee seasons and obtained an 

 enoi-mous tree growth, we decided to 

 try some potash producers and sowed 

 rape, cowhorn tuinips and yellow Aber- 

 deen tui'nips, also sowing some jiieces 

 to common vetch and haiiy vetch. 



The pi-eference of the hogs for the 

 various feeds was (juite interesting. 

 They kei)t the common vetch croijped 

 very closely at all times and did not 

 touch the hairy vetch at all. Next in 

 lireference to the common vetch was 

 the yellow Aberdeen turnips. They ate 

 all of them before touching the cow- 

 horn turnips, which came next in pref- 

 erence. After cleaning up the cowhorn 

 turnips they took to the rape, but 

 always keeping the connnon vetch 

 closely cropped down and never touch- 

 ing the hair\- vetch. Of course they 

 would undoubledh do well on any of 

 these feeds, but their lines of prefei- 

 ence foi- the different feeds were ver\ 

 decidedly marked. If would seem that 

 hairy vetch would be eliminated in this 

 climate, as connnon vetch does so well 

 and can be bought here for two to three 

 cents pel- ])ound in the fall, whereas the 

 hairy vetch costs us sixteen cents per 

 |>ound. However, the same number of 

 pounds of h;nry vetch will seed more 

 ground than the common, as fhc haiix 

 vetch seed is nuich smaller. The vel- 



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