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Washington, D. C. April 16, 1923 
DRY-LAND PASTURE CROPS FOR HOGS AT 
HUNTLEY, MONT. 
By A. E. SEaMANS, Assistant Agronomist, Office of Dry-Land Agriculture Invescigations, 
Bureau of Plant Industry. } 
CONTENTS. 
Page | Page. 
Introduction: 2... 22s ee a en eng te ae 1 | Resultsvim- 1919 fe. cos: oe rake er ce ee 12 
Purpes ouiline {the experiments. ....-. 2 | FROSUMGS 110 1920 252. 3 RES ee ae 14 
Result Lee Geese eee Seed neh eee Sebresmits ingots et. Fe ae et reek oe 16 
RSPR SMT POL G > See ke ae ee ee oF oe OS 5 | Study of the results with different crops..... 17 
Te) SOUCY Peleg (0) br Ak ee ee CAI SCORCLUSIONS 35 o) Mee ect a a Sots oe mate Seee 23 
PMSIES HANIGIS | Ais. 2s Oh. Se eae cob ccu ewe 10 | 
INTRODUCTION. 
The transition from cattle-range conditions to grain farming has 
been comparatively rapid in the Plains area of Montana. 
Relatively high yields of wheat from low-priced land during the 
first few years when this change was taking place were a mighty 
stimulant toward the rather general adoption aE this one-crop system 
of agriculture. 
The experience of the older agricultural States has shown that a 
combination of live stock and crop farming formed the basis of 
a more permanent agriculture than where either grain or live stock 
was produced singly. Diversified farming as opposed to single-crop 
farming has frequently been demonstrated as a superior system of 
agriculture for the semiarid as well as for the humid sections of the 
country. There is ample reason to suppose that, in general, the 
dry-farming districts of Montana will prove to be no exception to 
this experience; and, furthermore, there have been numerous in- 
stances where the grain and forage returns from dry farms have been 
profitably marketed through live stock. 
Live-stock production to a greater or less degree in connection 
with grain farming not only affords the dry-land farmer another 
direct source of income, but enables him to utilize profitably grain 
1 The results reported in this bulletin are from experimerts conducted under a cooperative arrangement 
between the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, the Office of Western Irrigation Agriculture 
and the Office of Dry-Land Agriculture Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, and the Bureau of 
Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture. 
The following men from the Anima] Husbandry Division of the Bureau of Animal Industry have been 
in charge of the animal-husbandry work at this station and have had the actual care of the hogs during 
the years speci ied: C. V. Singleton, 1917-1918; R. E. Gongwer, 1919-1920; and R. E. Hutton, 1921. George 
W. Morgan,who was in charge of the dry-land work at the Huntley, Mont., Experiment Farm from 1913 
to 1915, outlined and conducted the experiments here reported during the season of 1915. 
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