404 Western Live-stock Management 



grain, and with ordinary prices of grain, $2.00 a ton is the 

 maximum premium that could be given for middUngs. 

 Barley and wheat are of practically equal value with corn, 

 while speltz, the non-saccharine sorghums, hog millet, oats, 

 and rye, generally range in the order given. In connection 

 with good pasture, two and one-fourth pounds of grain 

 feed should be allowed to each 100 pounds live weight of 

 pigs, and if pastures are poor, the amount of grain should 

 be increased. 



Clover, rape, alfalfa, green wheat, and mixed grain which 

 is not over five inches high, make satisfactory pasture. 

 Rape will afford more pasture when sown in rows and 

 cultivated until six inches high. In this way the plants 

 will be tramped very little, and will start up several 

 times during the summer. Clover, in early summer, and 

 the second growth if rains follow the cutting, affords good 

 pasture. Irrigated alfalfa is second to none. As a rule, 

 liberal feeding of the growing pig is profitable, since 

 feeding simply for maintenance nets no profit. 



Selling the pigs at feeder size is practiced to a consider- 

 able extent when plenty of alfalfa and but little grain is 

 grown. These feeder pigs are taken to the grain regions 

 for finishing. Local conditions will determine whether 

 there is any profit in this business. 



NUMBER OF PIGS TO THE ACRE 



The Eastern Oregon Experiment Station found that 

 when no grain was fed, twelve pigs kept an acre of alfalfa 

 cropped close, while with a self-feeder, twice as many pigs 

 could be run to the acre. 



Rape pasture, if conditions are favorable, will carry 

 about ten or twelve pigs to the acre. The carrying 

 capacity will be somewhat increased if the pasture is 



