Lot No. 2 is sown to alfalfa during the summer or early fall. 



Lot No. 3 is planted to sweet corn and cow peas in the spring. 



Lot No. 4 is planted to field corn. 



In the spring turn the pigs into the rye lot. They will eat down the 

 rye and tramp the clover seed into the ground. After they have been in 

 the rye for one month, turn them into the alfalfa lot. When the rye 

 is nearly ripe, turn them back into the rye field. After the rye is eaten 

 down, turn them into the sweet corn and cow peas, leaving the gates 

 open into the rye and alfalfa lots. Between the young clover, alfalfa, 

 cow peas and corn, the pigs will be ready for market when the corn is 

 gone. The corn in Lot No. 4 is husked and fed to the brood sows during 

 the winter. By adopting this plan, the hogs do most of the harvesting 

 and the farmer secures from $40.00 to $50.00 per acre from his land. 



Rape 



Rape is a very valuable pasture for pigs of all ages. It makes a rapid 

 rank growth in rich ground, reaching a height of a foot or more in six or 

 eight weeks. Pigs can be turned in at any time after it is six or eight 

 inches high. Pigs on a rape pasture should be given a little corn or other 

 grain. 



Pigs make a greater gain on rape than on clover and the amount of 

 concentrates required per one hundred pounds gain is less. In speaking 

 of the importance of legumes, rape and roots, Henry says: 



"If this country is to make any further great advancement in pork 

 production, such progress must come in no small measure through the 

 wider and more intelligent use of legumes, rape and roots. Because the 

 hog shows supreme fondness for corn and because that grain is widely 

 and easily grown, we have come to think of corn and the hog as the 

 beginning and end of pork production. It is true we provide meagerly 

 of other feeds, but grudgingly and under protest, as it were, regarding 

 anything other than corn as something to be given in small amount 

 rather than liberally. Let us now change the viewpoint and hold that 

 it is not only best, but also more economical to grow the pig largely on 

 the legumes, rape and roots, and use a heavy allowance of corn for fat- 

 tening only. The feeder who will conduct his operations on this basis 

 will find his pork output greatly increased and his income correspond- 

 ingly advanced. Instead of measuring the possible pork output by the 

 quantity of corn available, one should figure on what is possible from 

 all the available corn plus the gains that the pigs can make from the 

 freest use of all such crops as alfalfa, clover, Canada peas, soy beans, 

 cow peas, peanuts, rape and roots that the farm will economically grow. 

 By the wisest and largest use of these crops throughout the land, the 

 amount of pork now produced in the United States can easily be 

 doubled without any corresponding increase in the total cost of produc- 

 tion. The large and general use of the legumes, rape and roots by those 



