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J. W. Fox, the author of the bulletin, adds this : "The 

 farm is fenced, making it possible to fatten the hogs 

 largely on peas planted in the corn as a catch crop for 

 fertilizing purposes. This crop gives the South a dis- 

 tinct advantage over other sections, and this feature of 

 the work cannot be too strongly urged. The fact that 

 the peas can be converted into money without any cost 

 of harvesting should add an additional incentive to grow 

 more corn and peas and thus improve the land, conduct 

 the farm with less labor, and keep the cotton money at 

 home." 



Bulletin No. 143 of the Alabama experiment station, 

 issued in July, 1908, gives a summary by D. T. Gray, J. 

 F. Duggar and J. \V. Ridgeway of three years' work 

 in swine production, with a view to making a compari- 

 son between linishing hogs upon corn alone and upon 

 corn supplemented with either green crops or concen- 

 trates. An aggregate of 90 hogs was used in the vari- 

 ous tests. The conclusions arrived at from this work 

 were summarized as follows, and are, of course, from, 

 the standpoint of a typical southern or cotton-growing 

 state. 



AVhen corn was used alone as a ration for fattening 

 hogs both the daily gains and the hnancial outcome were 

 unsatisfactory. Money was lost in every case where 

 corn was fed without a supplement. 



When corn was supplemented with a partial ration of 

 cottonseed meal the daily gains and the financial out- 

 come were satisfactory. Four deaths occurred as a re- 

 sult of the use of cottonseed meal, hut these deaths did 



