CHAPTER X. 



Alfalfa for Swine 



No community with high-class swine prominent in its 

 husbandry is poor. No community with large areas of 

 alfalfa can afford to neglect swine husbandry, for its peo- 

 ple possess the material for economical pork production 

 equaled by no others. Those who know it best are per- 

 suaded that alfalfa will grow, with varying degrees of 

 thrift to be sure, in every one of the United States and in 

 Canada. Hence it is not a misstatement to say. speaking 

 generally, that the American farmer without alfalfa is 

 so through his own fault rather than through any fault 

 of location, latitude, longitude, altitude, precipitation or 

 temperature. These premises being correct, it would 

 seem almost self-evident that he who would rear swine 

 to the best advantage should have alfalfa, and. con- 

 versely, the man with alfalfa fields is provided with a 

 part of an excellent equipment for profitable swine-grow- 

 ing-. Either interest which is a stranger to the other 

 should take early opportunity for a mutual acquaintance. 



HOGS WILL EAT HAY 



In the preceding chapter it was stated that alfalfa 

 is a valuable pasture or soiling crop for pigs. It is 

 equally true that they will with great relish actually eat 

 alfalfa hay. "A hog is not usually ranked as a hay-eat- 

 ing animal, but an exception must be made as to his 

 eating alfalfa hay." says "The Book of Alfalfa."* As 



*"The Book of Alfalfa." Orange Judd Company, New York. 344 pp. 

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