THE rOKK-MAKEK S MAINSTAV 2gi 



with ashes, salt, coal, cliarcoal or charred cobs as cor- 

 rectives, with corn. The supplementary feeds are treated 

 in their respective chapters following. 



In time of a short corn crop from droug-ht or for any 

 Dlher reason, the farmer may be compelled to look to 

 some substitute as an early feed, and t)iis may be at times 

 a perplexing problem. When corn is scarce, other feed- 

 ing stuffs are likel}^ to be high in price. .\n Iowa man of 

 long experience, who has weathered a number of "corn 

 famines" as a hog-raiser, and lias devoted special atten- 

 tion to this question, gives advice undoubtedly most prac- 

 tical : 



"We advise," he has said in Wallaces' Farmer, "hrst 

 the sowing as early in the spring as possible of a mix- 

 ture of oats, spring wheat, barley and rape; about three 

 l)oun(ls of rape seed per acre and about one-third of the 

 usual seeding of each of the rest. Get this in just as 

 quick as you can in the spring. In addition, we would 

 plow up the barn lot. if possible, after the manure is 

 hauled out. and the lots around the buildings where cat- 

 tie ha\e tramped out the grasses. \\'hen the growth is 

 high enough to make a bite, we would turn in the hogs. 

 Where it is not possible to sow a held in this way we 

 would at least have two or three acres sown around the 

 buildings. Bear in mind that you cannot get this in too 

 soon in the spring. 



"\\'e would, if i)ossible. put an acre or two in oats and 

 Canada peas, sowing these just as early as we could. 

 Prepare the ground and sow the peas at the rate of i>4 

 bushels per acre and plow them under about three inches 

 deep, then a few days afterwards, and before they are 



