CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR STOCK FARMS 285 



First year, corn, 4/5 and soy bean 1/5 

 Second year, corn 

 Third year, oats 

 Fourth year, clover 



Four equal fields of 20 acres each were used in this rotation. 

 The soy beans were harvested and used as hay for winter feed- 

 ing; the clover was pastured; the oats were used for feed- 

 ing the hogs and work horses ; and the corn stover, sheaf oats or 

 oat straw were also used for feeding. A little hay was pur- 

 chased. Besides the 80 acres used in the rotation, 10 acres were 

 in blue grass, 31 acres in timber and 10 acres were used for the 

 orchard, garden, barn lot and yards, making a total for the farm 

 of 131 acres. 



Five horses, two cows, fifteen Duroc-Jersey brood sows which 

 averaged eight pigs to the litter, and 120 yearling hogs were 

 kept. The yearling hogs were pastured on 12 acres of the 

 clover and grain fed, at the rate of 2j4 to 4 lbs. a day depending 

 upon the pasture, during the summer and were sent to market 

 about August i-io weighing 325-350 lbs. 



The sows and young pigs were put on 8 acres of clover and 

 turned on the remaining 12 acres when the yearling hogs were 

 marketed. The sows and pigs were grain fed and by fall the 

 pigs weighed about 100-125 lbs. 



In the winter the pigs were fed 5 lbs. of the following mix- 

 ture : 



2}i pounds corn 

 X pound shorts 

 1^ pound oil meal 



Soy bean hay was also fed. By spring these pigs weighed 

 200-225 lbs. 



The sows were fed clover hay, enough of which was cut from 

 the pasture for this purpose, and 4 lbs. of grain, consisting of 

 ground rye or bran, oil meal, shorts, and corn. 



The owner of this hog farm says : "We think now we shall 

 change our rotation and have one division in alfalfa, running a 

 rotation of corn, corn, clover on three fields ; or we may use soy 

 beans and omit the clover." 



