PASTURE AND GRAIN CROPS FOR HOGS. 



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winter use the bearded varieties are allowed to stand in the field until 

 the fall rains have set in well. This usually gives plenty of time 

 after harvest for the hogs to glean the stubble field. Blue barley, a 

 bearded variety, is generally sown for late fall and winter use. When 

 allowed to stand in the field it does not shatter and sprout nearly so 

 easily as wheat or the so-called winter varieties of barley. 



On a farm in Umatilla County, Oreg., during November, 1910, 80 

 hogs were pastured 18 days and 98 hogs 10 days on 11.4 acres of bar- 

 ley on a steep hillside. The gam in weight averaged 230 pounds per 

 acre, having a value of $18.35 per acre. The estimated yield of 



Fig. 4.— A hillside on the farm of W. H. Steen, Umatilla County, Oreg., too steep for the use of a binder, 

 but satisfactorily harvested by hogs. The shotes in the picture are gleaning the barley after the fattening 

 hogs have taken the greater part of the feed. 



barley was 21 bushels per acre. Figure 4 shows the hillside with 

 shotes gleaning the barley after the fattening hogs have taken off 

 practically all the feed. 



DETERMINING THE AREA TO BE HOGGED OFF. 



In order to reduce the waste to a minimum, the area of each crop 

 hogged off must be thoroughly cleaned up. Owing to the variation 

 in crop yields and the quantity of grain that hogs of different sizes 

 will consume, it is not always easy to determine the acreage of each 

 crop to be used in this way. Suppose a portion of the main winter- 

 wheat crop is to be fenced and hogged off from the time the grain is 

 just past the stiff-dough stage, say July 10, until the stubble field is 

 open, August 15. What area of the winter wheat shall be set aside 

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