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removed, rye and clover may be sown. This will furnish pasture for 
the ensuing fall and for the following year. This makes a three-year 
rotation of pasture crops that fit in very well with each other. Pre- 
paring the land in July and August for the following crop of rye and 
clover effectually eradicates the artichokes. 
The Oregon Agricultural Experiment Station made a test to deter- 
mine the feeding value of artichokes with grain for hogs. The result 
of the test showed that where artichokes were fed there was a saving 
of nearly 2 pounds of grain for every pound of gain in live weight. 
Besides, the hogs were healthy and vigorous all the time. 
The artichoke 1s superior to the common beets and turnips for 
hogs—about the same as potatoes—and they are richer in protein than 
sweet potatoes. 
Peanuts are but little used in this region, but farther south and east 
they are used extensively. One man estimates that when pork is 4 
cents a pound, peanuts return $10 per acre when harvested by hogs. 
The Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station made investiga- 
tions as to the relative value of peanuts, chufas, cowpeas, rape, sor- 
ghum, and sweet potatoes as pasture crops for hogs. The amount of 
grain required with peanuts to make 1 pound of gain was 1.77 
pounds; with chufas, 2.3 pounds; with rape, 2.68 pounds; with cow- 
peas, 3.07 pounds; with sweet potatoes, 3.18 pounds, and with sor- 
ghum, 3.7 pounds. Five Tamworth hogs in twenty days on Spanish 
peanuts gained 2.29 pounds a day each. 
Peanuts can be very profitably grown in many sections of the 
latitude of Oklahoma and Kansas. This crop will do better on a 
sandy loam than on a heavy clay soil, and will make a fair crop on 
thin soil where corn will not yield well. They are a very good crop 
to raise, both for pasture and for hay; stock of all kinds are very 
fond of the hay. When the nuts are left on, it is richer in protein 
than alfalfa hay. The variety best to grow, both for hay and pas- 
ture for hogs, is the Spanish peanut. It is a small-sized nut and 
grows in great clusters close around the taproot of the plant. The 
Spanish nut is not so particular in soil requirements as the larger 
varieties and is easier harvested on account of growing in clusters. 
It is claimed that peanuts can be grown in dry regions where corn 
will not succeed. This, if true, is important in the southern-plains 
region. Peanuts can be made to take the place of corn in fattening 
hogs, although the peanut-fed hog makes softer lard and the quality 
of the meat is not so good, especially in the bacon hog. But as an 
adjunct to corn the peanut is an excellent forage crop. It is claimed 
that the northern-grown nut is better flavored and less oily than that 
grown in the South. 
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