192 RESULTS OF EXPERIMENTS IN SWINE FEEDING 
Experiment Station with supplementary feeds with corn, hogs 
were pastured upon both clover and timothy. Without going 
into details, it may be said that the experiments indicate that 
clover produced pork at the rate of 400 pounds per acre, and 
timothy at the rate of 278 pounds per acre. This is probably 
more than can be expected from these crops as a general rule. 
Hairy Vetch or Sand Vetch.—This crop is very much 
relished by hogs, and if sown in the fall gives an early pasture 
of high nutritive value. Smooth vetch is sown in the spring, 
but it is rather late in the season before it is ready for pasture, 
and it does not give the amount of pasture which is desirable. 
The liability of hairy vetch to winter-kill in some districts when 
sown in the fall, and the high price of the seed, prevent the crop 
from becoming widely popular. 
Velvet Bean.—This plant flourishes in certain parts of the 
South near the Gulf coast. The Florida Station (Bulletin 113) 
gives a rather adverse report on velvet beans for swine. Cull 
velvet beans and velvet beans in the pod were fed separately and 
in combination with corn and other feeds, but in no case could 
the results be called satisfactory. They also produced a poor 
quality of pork when fed in any considerable quantity. The 
velvet bean is a valuable cover crop and soil improver where it 
can be grown, and, incidentally, can be made to furnish pasture 
for hogs, especially when grown with field corn. 
Various Forage Crops.—Bulletin 95 of the Missouri Ex- 
periment Station reports three years’ work with several forage 
crops. 
Shelled corn and corn meal were used to supplement the 
rape and the leguminous forage; and a ration of corn meal 
6 parts and oil meal 1 part was used to supplement the sorghum, 
blue grass, and rye grain forages. 
Blue Grass—“ An average of 12.6 head of hogs was 
pastured for an average of 155.3 days for the seasons of 1908— 
09-10, and produced on the average 285.2 pounds of pork 
