FATTENING 257 
“ For permanent pasture, it is doubtful whether we can get 
anything better than Bermuda and Johnson grass.” 
Pasture Supplemented with Grain.— Professor Good, in Bul- 
letin 175 of the Kentucky Station, gives results of carefully con- 
ducted experiments with several forage crops for swine. Follow- 
ing is a summary of the principal points brought out in the expe- 
riments: 
To obtain best results young green rye, barley, wheat, and 
oats should be grazed by hogs when the plants are between 6 
inches and 15 inches in height. 
There is no time that grain can be so profitably fed to a hog 
as when he is young and running on pasture. Some experiments 
showed as high as 18 pounds gain in weight for each bushel of 
grain fed. 
It is a mistake to run young pigs on forage crops without 
a grain ration. Breeding sows, when not nursing pigs, can be 
maintained on pasture alone, but young pigs are apt to become 
stunted. 
During the spring, summer, and early fall months, from one- 
half to three-fourths of a full feed of grain was fed to hogs 
running on pasture. During the late fall, winter, and early 
spring, when the pastures were short, nearly a full ration of grain 
was fed. 
Corn meal should be supplemented with soy beans, tankage, 
middlings, or with some other nitrogenous supplement, when fed 
to pigs running on young rye or barley during the winter months. 
Pigs averaging 66 pounds per head, receiving corn meal 
alone, but allowed the run of a clover pasture until it was killed 
by frost, and then turned on a pasture of young rye, averaged 
215 pounds in 124 days, making a gain of 14.65 pounds of pork 
for every bushel of corn meal fed. 
Eighteen pigs, averaging 51 pounds per head, averaged 222 
pounds at the end of 166 days, from receiving a ration of a 
mixture of corn meal 9 parts, and soy bean meal, 1 part, and 
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