532 IOWA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 



pigs running with the sows do not need much pasture, and this five acres 

 of young clover will furnish them and the sows all they will need. After 

 removing the hogs from this five acres the clover will come on and 

 later be cut for seed. Ahout June 1 the hogs will all be transferred ta 

 seVen acres of clover adjacent, now in prime condition for pasture, and 

 kept on it until about July 15. 



To furnish fresh, prime pasture for the hogs from about July 15, when 

 the clover is past its prime, up to the time when the corn is ready to 

 be hogged off, six acres of the eighteen-acre clover field will be plowed 

 up about May 1 and planted in sorghum and rape. About July 15 the tem- 

 porary fence next to this sorghum and rape pasture will be removed and 

 the hogs given the run of the pasture they are already on and in ad- 

 dition the six acres of sorghum and rape. This will furnish ample green 

 feed for the hogs until September 15, when all but the sows will be 

 turned in on a portion of the eighteen-acre cornfield planted with peas 

 and later sown to rye and rape. 



The corn plant will have considerable feeding value for the hogs in 

 September, but as the stalks become more woody the cowpeas, rye and 

 rape will furnish the necessary green feed and the corn and cowpeas 

 will furnish the grain. As the hogs clean up one portion of the corn- 

 field the portable fence will be moved and another portion added, and 

 by the time the entire field is cleaned up the hogs will be ready for 

 market. 



In handling the clover crop for seed it is quite desirable that the 

 clover be pastured off until about June 1 in central Illinois. The five- 

 acre field of clover that the hogs were pastured on earliest in the season 

 has been handled so as to fulfill this condition, as shown in plan 2; 

 therefore it may be cut for seed in late August. After the clover field 

 has been cleared of the hogs which were turned into the cornfield and after 

 the clover for seed has been harvested, the sows and boars may be 

 given the run of the entire eighteen-acre field until cold weather or until 

 the field is plowed in the fall for the next year's crop. 



FINANCIAL BETUKNS TO BE EXPECTED. 



The gross returns that may be expected from the eighty-acre farm as 

 here planned are about as follows: 



120 hogs, 200 pounds each, at 5i/^ cents $1,320.00 



5 acres of clover seed, 15 bushels, at $6 90.00 



2 colts, at $50 each 100.00 



2 calves, at $5 each 10.00 



Total gross returns $1,520.00 



From this total must be deducted for the first few years about $175 

 each year for bone meal for the corn, leaving $1,340 to pay interest on 

 the investment, wages and expenses. 



One of the interesting features of these results is that they are about 

 $478, or 55 per cent, better than when the farm is handled in the 

 ordinary way as a sheep farm. Another fact worth noticing is that while 



