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were just out of the dough stage. "A herd averaging 12 

 hogs per acre was pastured on cow-pea forage for an average 

 of 35.7 days during the seasons of 1908, 1909, and 1910. 

 There were produced on the average 224.9 pounds of pork that 



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FIG. 45. Cow-peas grown in hot weather in eight or ten weeks. Good for hog pasture. 



could be accredited to each acre of cow-pea forage." The cow- 

 pea forage was 'supplemented with corn meal to the extent of 

 % to % of a full ration. 



Soy Beans. Two tests were conducted with soy-bean 

 forage. The first test, in 1909, was unsatisfactory, owing to 

 a poor stand of soy beans. In 1910 the re'sults were satis- 

 factory. Medium early yellow soy beans were sown June 15th 



