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cheaply the feed is produced. They do best on light, 

 sandy soils. They go by the name of "pindars" in south 

 Georgia and Florida, and in other sections they are re- 

 ferred to as goobers. While the usual practice is not to 

 put the hogs into the fields until the nuts are mature, it 

 is sometimes done. The stage at which they are pas- 

 tured has much to do with their feeding value. One hun- 

 dred pounds of the material eaten by the hogs will con- 

 tain from 10 to 16 pounds of digestible protein, from 15 

 to 40 pounds of digestible carbohydrates and from 8 to 30 

 pounds of digestible fat, which indicates that as a food it 

 is fairly well balanced, having a nutritive ratio of about 

 1 : 5.5. Being slightly of a nitrogenous nature, it should 

 be balanced up with such feeds as sweet potatoes, corn, 

 sacharrine and non-sacharrine sorghums. Peanuts tend 

 to produce soft pork, and this condition is overcome by 

 the feeding of a little corn, and especially at the end of 

 the feeding of market hogs, for the corn hardens the fat 

 sufficiently that it will not be discriminated against. It 

 is generally planted in June and grazed off from August 

 to January. The great pork-producing value of this crop 

 is indicated by the fact that in one recorded instance a 

 yield of over 1,000 pounds of pork was obtained from one 

 acre. 



Bermuda pasture. — This is by far the most important 

 native grass in the South so far as swine production is 

 concerned. It is a perfect grazing grass in that it seems 

 to be uninjured by the most severe grazing and tramping. 

 It can stand drouth when necessary. Swine make good 

 use of it, but it must be properly supplemented. It has 

 succulent underground roots of which swine are very 

 fond. In rooting for these they do no other damage than 



