IRRIGATED FIELD CROPS FOR HOG PASTURING. 
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the utilization of irrigated field crops in swine production. Reports 
of certain features of these investigations have been made from time 
to time, 1 and the results secured at individual stations have been dis- 
cussed. In this bulletin an attempt is made to bring together some 
of the more important information which has been obtained at all 
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Fig. 1. — Map of the western United States, showing the location of the Government 
irrigation projects. The projects on which data have been obtained with reference 
to the utilization of irrigated crops by hog pasturing as discussed in this bulletin 
are shown by circles. 
these stations with reference to the feed efficiency of certain irrigated 
field crops used as hog pasture and for hogging-off purposes. Some 
data which have been secured in tests 2 conducted in cooperation with 
1 See the list of publications near the end of this bulletin. 
2 These cooperative tests were supervised by the following field men employed by the 
Office of Demonstrations on Reclamation Projects : E. F. Rinehart, Charles S. Jones, 
L. E. Cline, Carl Christopher, Don G. Magruder, H. A. Lindgren, R. P. Bean, and 
H. A. Ireland. 
