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 middlings. 
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 
