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his intestines, which are as full as a city boy at grand- 

 mother's on Thanksgiving day. 



Now corn alone and a place to scamper in will not be 

 all that is necessary for finishing these hogs. They are 

 still to grow some, their growth requires protein mate- 

 rial, and this protein material must be in excess of that 

 found in the corn. Nothing could be better than the 

 clover field or the alfalfa field, but when these are frosted 

 or covered with snow, the Canadian field peas can be used 

 that should have been thrashed out some weeks before. 

 These should be ground for best results and fed in slop. 



If this slop could be made of the fresh separated milk, 

 so much the better. The ration of corn, should you have 

 it ground, and the field peas, which ought to be ground, 

 is very well mixed and makes a good ration when about 

 five parts of corn are fed with one part of pea meal, 

 mixed in a fairly thick slop. Should the feeder not have 

 the pea meal and has only the skim milk, it is well to 

 purchase shorts and make a good slop of the shorts and 

 milk and feed all the pigs will clean up without leaving 

 the trough. 



Rape is one of the most satisfactory crops for early 

 hog pasture when clover is not available. It closely 

 resembles cabbage in appearance and manner of growth, 

 except that it does not produce a head. It has large, 

 coarse, succulent leaves, and ordinarily grows from 20 

 to 30 inches tall. It is a cool weather plant and can be 

 sown early in the spring — as soon as there is no further 

 danger of severe frost. It will endure a pretty severe 

 frost in the fall without injury and may be used for 

 pasture late in the fall, provided the hogs are kept off 

 when it is frozen. 



