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larly valuable as pasture for sows and young pigs, many farmers 
sowing them for this purpose. One farmer claims that he is less 
troubled with scours in pigs on oat pasture than on alfalfa. 
RYE. 
Rye is not so generally grown for a pasture crop in Oklahoma and 
Kansas as the crops just discussed. Many farmers, however. use rye 
to make a part of the pasture crop for their hogs, and its value can 
not be denied. 
Rye is seeded from September 1 to the middle of October. The 
early seeding is best, as 1t comes on early and gets well established 
before cold weather and will thus make better fall and winter pasture. 
Rye is an excellent pasture for late fall, winter, and early spring. 
If not pastured too heavily in the spring it will head out and make 
a very good yield of grain. The grain is an excellent ration to feed 
with corn to pigs and growing hogs or to grind and mix in slop for 
sows with pigs. 
The amount of pasture furnished by rye is about three-fourths 
that furnished by alfalfa, being estimated as supporting from 6 
to 12 hogs per acre. One man reports having pastured 50 head 
of hogs on 5 acres during fall, winter, and spring, then harvest- 
ing 20 bushels of grain per acre. In the southern part of this 
region rye would be an excellent cover crop for the soil during the 
winter. Besides furnishing pasture it could be turned under as a 
green manure to add humus to the soil. 
LESS IMPORTANT FORAGE CROPS. 
While alfalfa, wheat, oats, and rye are the principal forage crops, 
there are others that are used to some extent. Among these are 
clover, rape, sorghum, cowpeas, soy beans, artichokes, and grasses. 
CLOVERS. — 
The clovers are not generally used in the territory discussed. Among 
those most used for pasture crops are red clover and white clover. 
These are good, especially in the latitude of central Kansas and 
farther north, but south of this the clovers do not do so well. Red 
clover and white clover are the older pasture crops and are in more 
general use in the older sections of the country. They are both 
excellent forage crops for hogs. Red clover comes in well in the 
rotation of crops; it fertilizes the land and furnishes both pasture 
and hay. It is often sown with oats or barley in the spring, or 
later in corn after the last cultivation. It does very well with corn 
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