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Smith, of the Nebraska station thus approves the 
use of alfalfa with hogs: 
I cannot recommend too strongly the feeding of good alfalfa 
hay to any kind of swine. It not only furnishes protein, or 
flesh-making material, which is deficient in corn, but it tends to 
offset the heavy character of a ration consisting of corn alone. 
Some scatter the hay on the ground, but it is better to construct 
some sort of a rack through which the hogs can pull the hay 
without trampling too much under foot. If the feeder has a cut- 
ting machine it might be well to cut the alfalfa and mix it with 
the grain. For fattening purposes do not make this cut alfalfa 
more than one-fourth of the entire grain ration by weight, and 
I woud be inclined to believe tha‘ one-fifth alfalfa would be 
better. 
At the Nebraska station also Burnett fed alfalfa 
leaves in comparison with wheat middlings to grow- 
ing pigs. The pigs having the alfalfa leaves made 
the better gain. In Illinois A. J. Lovejoy cuts al- 
falfa very fine, almost as fine as meal, and mixes it 
with corn meal, wetting all and feeding to pigs with 
first-rate results. Instances might be multiplied 
almost infinitely, but one more must suffice. Ex- 
Gov. W. D. Hoard, of Wisconsin, a man who has 
done very much to introduce alfalfa culture into 
eastern America, carries his brood sows through the 
winter with alfalfa hay and skimmilk from his dairy. 
The sows come through in splendid condition, with 
no unnatural or depraved appetites, farrow splendid 
pigs and have much milk for them. 
The Pork Industry Prominent—The hog occu- 
pies indeed a commanding position in American agri- 
culture. The value of the hog in America in Jan- 
uary, 1909, was near $356,000,000. To grow these 
hogs costs American farmers, the writer estimates, 
