PASTURliXG Ai\D SOILING 



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IL is well put by Director H. J. Waters of the Mis- 

 souri experiment station, in Bulletin No. 79, and with a 

 wide application elsewhere, outside of his state, in his 

 a\ernient that "perhaps the largest single waste occur- 

 ring on the Missouri farm is that which comes from the 

 too exclusive use of corn in growing and fattening- hogs. 

 The cheapest and most easily applied remedy is a more 

 general use of the proper forage plants in summer and 

 the use of some home-grown protein in winter. It is 

 not, of course, to be denied that the hog is primarily a 

 grain consuming animal, but forage plays an important 

 role in economical hog production and deserves far 

 more attention than it has yet received." 



COMPARATIVE A ALUE OF PASTURE FOOD 



A comparison merely of the nutritive values in the 

 product of an acre of land in grain or in grass, including 

 the legumes, such as clover, particularly red clover, and 

 alfalfa, serves to show the importance of the grass. If 

 a comparative basis be taken of four pounds of grain or 

 15 pounds of green clover or alfalfa to make one pound 

 of pork, and the pork is valued at four cents a pound, 

 the following table will show a fair average: 



NUTRITIVE MATERIAL PRODUCED ON ONE ACRE OF LAND 

 IN CEREALS OR LEGUMES 



