-_DRY-LAND PASTURE CROPS FOR HOGS. Lig | 
CORN. 
_ The quality of ‘corn pastured was rather poor, and the yield was 
small. Six spring pigs weighing 442 pounds were placed on the 
plat of corn on September 6. Twelve days were required to complete 
the harvesting of the crop. The total gain made was only 54 pounds, 
or 0.75 of a pound per pig per day. During this experiment the 
hogs were supplied with alfalfa hay, but consumed only 8 pounds 
during the 12 days. 
The check plat of corn yielded 8 bushels per acre. Using this yield 
as a basis for estimating the grain Pose on the pastured plat, 
it required 8.3 pounds of corn to make a pound of gain. 
ALFALFA. 
A scarcity of fall pigs did not permit pasturing the entire acre 
plats of alfalfa to the best advantage, so the plats were divided and 
only half an acre was used in each case. For comparison the returns 
are reduced to an acre basis. 
The broadcast plat was stocked at the rate of eight pigs to the 
acre and the row plat at the rate of six pigs per acre. This difference 
seemed advisable, as the longer grazing period given the row plat 
in 1917 resulted in the killing out or damaging of the forage to a 
eee degree than was experienced on the broadcast plat. This. 
amage seemed to be confined entirely to the continuously grazed 
areas of the year before. 
The alfalfa was about 7 inches high when the grazing began, and 
10 seemed to be making a good growth. . 
The initial weight of the six hogs on the row plat was at the rate 
of 532 pounds per acre, and the eight hogs on the broadcast plat had 
an acre weight of 702 pounds. ‘The animals remained on both plats 
until the forage became unpalatable, owing to the coarseness of the 
growth and the drought which hindered new growth. Both lots 
were removed on July 9, after a pasture period of 63 days. The 
lot on the row plat made an increase of 296 pounds per acre, or 0.78 
of a pound per day per pig, while the lot on the broadcast plat gained 
an acre total of 848 pounds, or an average daily gain of 0.69 of a 
pound per pig. The ratio of corn fed to gain was 3.01 pounds of 
corn to 1 pound of gain on the row plat, and 3.3 pounds of corn to 
1 pound of gain on the broadcast plat. The row plat made a greater 
daily gain per pig and did this on a lower corn ratio than the broad- 
cast plat, but the latter made the greater gain per acre. 
Contrary to expectations, however, the forage on the row plat 
seemed to suffer more from drought than did that on the broadcast 
plat. The ground between the rows of alfalfa was packed hard by 
tramping, and in many places the soil was deeply cracked. This 
condition was absent on the broadcast plat. ; 
The unpastured halves of each plat were eut#or hay and yielded 
1,224 pounds per acre for the row plat and"1,800 pounds per acre 
for the broadcast plat. The acre check plat seeded broadcast made 
1,254 pounds per acre. 
BROME-GRASS. 
Owing to the small number of hogs available for the work, the 
brome-grass pastures were reduced to half an acre each, as had been 
done with the alfalfa plats. Hach half acre of brome-grass was sup- 
plied with four fall pigs on April 30. This was a week earlier than 
