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tions. Where corn and clover are available, there, 

 generally speaking, hogs will thrive, and cheap 

 gains will be procured. In most sections of the 

 South, clover or some other leguminous forage can 

 be used for hog pasture every day in the year. 

 Corn can be produced at will, and the climate is 

 especially favorable to the production of winter 

 pigs, which have never been an unqualified success 

 in the hog growing districts of the North. 



The South is a wonderful land for legumes. 

 There is scarcely a type of soil upon which some 

 one or another of various rich leguminous crops 

 will not thrive. In one section it may be red clover, 

 in another alfalfa and in still another field peas or 

 crimson clover or Japanese clover, or soy beans, 

 but in nearly every instance some one or more of 

 these can be made to produce abundant pasture 

 throughout the year. The southern farmer should 

 never lose sight of the wonderful soil-restoring 

 properties of leguminous crops, while at the same 

 time utilizing their growth in the feeding or pas- 

 turing of farm animals. 



POSSIBILITIES OF SOUTHERN DAIRYING 



Possibilities for dairying are almost without 

 limit. Enough has been said already of the 

 forage and feeds which can be produced in this 

 section to indicate to the mind of any practical 

 dairyman the wonderful possibilities of milk pro- 

 duction under these conditions. This field has 

 scarcely been touched. The creamery and butter 

 production of the South is entirely inadequate to 

 meet the demand. Less than one-twentieth of the 

 amount used is produced in the South, although 



