FORAGE CROPS FOR*HOGS IN KANSAS AND OKLAHOMA. o9 
where there is sufficient rainfall, but in the drier regions this method 
of seeding clover is not to be recommended. The first fall it is used 
for pasture; the second season it is used as a pasture and hay crop. 
Tt will furnish pasture for about ten head of hogs per acre during 
the first half of the season and half that many the last half, pro- 
vided the soil is fairly good and the season not too dry. The hay 
is excellent for hogs, especially for brood sows in winter, but does 
not equal alfalfa hay. 
White clover is better used in permanent pasture with some of the 
grasses, as Kentucky bluegrass. It will not furnish as much pasture 
as red clover, but is especially good while in bloom during May and 
June. It does better on moist ground than red clover and will do 
very well on some poor soils. It is not reeommended to sow alone 
nor for hay, although the dry hay contains upward of 14 per cent of 
crude protein. ; 
Alsike clover is better in some regions than red clover, especially on 
low, moist ground. In some localities farther north it does better 
and is a more certain crop. It will supply about as much pasture as 
red clover, is seeded at the same time, and furnishes pasture for the 
same period. Asa hay crop it will not yield as much, but it is a little 
better than red clover, as it does not have as woody a stem. 
Crimson clover has not succeeded well in the past in this region, but 
is to be recommended for further trial as a pasture crop. Along the 
Atlantic coast, the only region where it is largely and successfully 
grown, it has been found that the hairs of the blossoms are likely to 
gather in dense balls in the stomach and intestines of animals, espe- 
cially the horse, and cause death. For this reason it should not be cut 
for a hay crop after the flowers mature. It is an excellent ‘winter 
pasture crop for swine, however, and will furnish more pasture than 
red clover. It is a winter annual, and should be sown in August or 
September. 
The chief value of crimson clover is that it acts as an excellent 
cover crop for soil during the winter months and prevents the soil 
from washing or leaching. It also furnishes in southern regions 
excellent winter and early spring pasture for hogs. 
RAPE. 
Rape is usually sown in early spring—in March or early in April— 
in Oklahoma and furnishes pasture by May. The Dwarf Essex 
variety is used. It is seeded either broadcast, at about 4 pounds of seed 
per acre, or else in drills 30 to 32 inches apart, using 3 pounds per acre. 
Drilling is the best method, as this permits of cultivation. The plants 
grow more rapidly and make pasture sooner. When sown in drills, 
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