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which could be accredited to each acre of forage eaten. With 

 pork at 6 cents per pound there was returned per acre of blue 

 graiss forage an average of $17.12. The average amount of 

 grain per pound gain was 4.49 pounds. Profits from hogs on 

 blue grass forage must be secured early in the season. The 

 blue grass forage became dry and unfit for swine grazing 

 purposes in August." 



Alfalfa. — " Under ordinary conditions alfalfa will foraga 

 from 10 to 20 shoats per acre. A new seeding should be 

 pastured very lightly the first season. No larger number than 

 ten shoats per acre or one sow and her litter should be used. 

 After the first season as high as 20 head per acre or two sows 

 and their litters may be pastured on it throughout the season." 

 Only one test was conducted with alfalfa, and this on newly 

 seeded ground. The test was started with 12 hogs per acre, 

 which number was reduced to 10 at the end of eight weeks. 

 The hogs averaged 58.5 pounds at the commencement of the 

 test, and were turned on the alfalfa when it was six inches 

 high. " The average amount of grain required to produce a 

 pound gain was 3.07 pounds. The amount of pork which 

 could be accredited to the alfalfa forage was 596.8 pounds 

 per acre. With pork at 6 cents the return per acre was $35.71." 



Red Clover. — Two tests were conducted with red clover, and 

 it is stated that clover will pasture from 8 to 12 shoats per 

 acre. It is recommended not to pasture clover until it is 10 

 inches high. The bulletin recommends feeding shoats about a 

 pound of com per head per day. 



" A herd averaging 11 hogs was pastured for an average of 

 130 days for the seasons of 1908 and 1910, and produced an 

 average of 572.2 pounds of pork that could be accredited to 

 each acre of forage eaten. These experiments indicate that a 

 value of 98 cents may be obtained for each bushel of corn fed to 

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