THIRTEENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART VIII 471 



"On the oats, clover and rape we had 16.66 pigs per acre for 147 days. 

 The average initial weight was 25.8 pounds, average daily gain .914, gain 

 per hundred 3.62, cost of a hundred pounds gain $3.56, net returns per 

 bushel of corn 76.6 cents, pounds of pork to the acre 795. In sowing the 

 oats, clover and rape sow about one and a half bushels of oatS per acre, 

 eight pounds of clover and three or four pounds of rape. Regarding this 

 combination I want to say that if you have a good season the clover will 

 come on and make a full stand but if you have a dry season you will not 

 have much. The oats, peas and rape is a much surer crop one year with 

 another than oats, clover and rape. 



"The blue grass pasture was a mixture of blue grass three parts and 

 timothy one part. This pasture carried 13.94 hogs per acre for 165 days. 

 The average initial weight was 33 pounds, average daily gain .723, gain 

 per hundred pounds 3.69, cost of a hundred pounds gain $4.09, net returns 

 per bushel of corn 61.4 cent?, and 378 pounds of pork to the acre. In re- 

 gard to blue grass and timothy I will say that I believe it would be best 

 to feed about seven parts of corn and one part meat meal (which is a 

 little more meat meal than we used) for the reason that neither blue grass 

 nor timothy are very rich in protein. 



"On the winter rye were 31.11 hogs per acre for 65 days. The initial 

 weight was 36.46, average daily gain .81, gain per hundred 4.15, cost of a 

 hundred pounds gain $3.67, net returns per bushel of corn 75.8 cents, 

 pounds of pork to the acre 347. I don't know what experience others have 

 had but we find that little pigs scour a great deal on rye and with shoats 

 we have found the same trouble. To avoid this we fed one tablespoonful 

 of blood meal to the shoats and about a teaspoonful to the little pigs. We 

 followed the practice of hogging down the rye, but it is something I 

 would not recommend at all. We did not get a third of the market value 

 of rye by hogging it down. The hogs did not do well at all. 



"Clover is a useful crop. Rape does well everywhere. Sweet clover 

 is something that I suggest you use not more than one year without re- 

 seeding. Oats, peas and rape we can recommend. Any man can grow it 

 and it is something you don't have to carry through the winter and it 

 will give good results. Oats, clover and rape does very well if you have 

 plenty of moisture to get your clover through. Rye makes a very good 

 fall feed and also early spring except that it makes the pigs scour. In 

 recommending forage crops there are three or four things to take into 

 consideration. You have to get a crop that will produce a heavy yield 

 per acre. You have to get a crop that the hogs will eat and one that is 

 rich in protein. Forage crops to be ideal should take your hogs from 

 May to November. Blue grass lasts only during July and August; clover 

 does the same. Alfalfa comes on early in the season, the hogs like it, and 

 it is the richest in protein of any crop we have Alfalfa would be my first 

 choice to feed with corn for hogs v/herever a man can grow it. Rape 

 you can sow at any time of the year, even starting in as late as July, 

 and it lasts well throughout the year. In handling rape it is a good idea 

 to let it get ten or twelve or fourteen inches high before you put your 

 hogs in. Don't pasture it too close. Sweet clover is something a man can 

 grow when he cannot grow other things, If you grow sweet clover, keep 



