Table of Contents 



XI 



Sorghum-cane ...... 



Soybeans 



Limited versus full feeding on soybeans 



Soybeans versus rape .... 

 Cowpeas ....... 



Cowpeas versus dry lot 

 Peanuts ; velvet bean ; chuf as . 



Peanut forage versus dry lot 

 Recommendations for forage crop plantings 



PAGES 



177-178 



178-182 

 180-181 

 181-182 

 182-185 

 183-185 

 185-188 

 186-188 

 189-193 



CHAPTER IX 



METHODS OF FEEDING ON FORAGE .... 194-227 



The composition of forage crops .... 194-195 



Experimental feeding trials 195-208 



Supplements for pigs on rape .... 198-200 



Amount of supplements on alfalfa . . . 200-202 



Supplements for pigs on winter rye . . . 202-203 



Supplements for pigs on timothy and blue-grass 203-205 



Corn alone on clover ...... 205-206 



Oats, Canadian field peas, and rape . . . 206 



General summary 207-208 



Feeding a grain ration to pigs on forage . . . 208-222 



Pigs intended for market 209-220 



Rate and cost of gains during forage season 210-212 

 Rate and cost of gains during the entire 



breeding period 212-216 



Time of marketing as affected by system 



of feeding 216-217 



Summary and conclusions .... 217-220 



Pigs intended for the breeding herd . . . 220-222 



Possible dangers from full feeding . . 220 



Conditions which affect the problem . . 220-221 



Summary and conclusion .... 221-222 



General management of the pigs in the summer . 223-225 



Sanitation 223 



Ringing 223-224 



Shade and water . 224-225 



