1901 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
253 
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Live Stock and Dairy 
THE BREEDER'S WAYSIDE. 
Pigs on Rape and Clover. 
I have five acres of low land, which I 
intend to keep for hog pasture, sowing 
half of it to rape and clover this Spring, 
and the other half next Spring. Will the 
clover make a growth while the rape is 
being pastured, so that it will furnish 
early pasture next Spring, until the rape 
in the other lot will be large enough to 
pasture? If so, could the land be kept up 
with a fair application of fertilizer every 
time it is seeded down (which would be 
every two years)? How many hogs, weigh¬ 
ing lOO pounds each, should I be able to 
keep on the five acres, having one-half in 
rape and the other half in clover each 
year? 
Grantsville, Md. 
I feel rather doubtful about this ex¬ 
periment, for such it will be. To begin 
with, Red clover sown this Spring, at 
its best, will not be suitable for allow¬ 
ing stock to pasture on it before August, 
and even then clover that has never 
been cut, and has not stooled much, will 
not stand rough usage. A field pastured 
by pigs or sheep is really trodden a good 
deal, and the chances are that the clover 
on so small a field would be injured 
quite a good deal. Again, I am not so 
sure that rape sown broadcast on this 
field, after clover seeding, will do as well 
as when drilled or cultivated in. I as¬ 
sume, of course, that the clover will be 
sown while frost is on, and that rape 
will be planted perhaps two or three 
weeks later. I believe the rape seed 
should be well covered with mellow soil, 
and have a good seed bed. If, as the 
writer suggests in the last part of his 
letter, which is different from the first, 
he has half the five acres in rape and 
half in clover each year, then he may do 
very well, especially if some clover-top 
is plowed in every two years, and fer¬ 
tilizer is used to some extent. As to how 
many pigs he can keep on the land, this 
is a problem only he can figure out. This 
will depend on the strength of the soil, 
and the adaptability of both rape and 
clover to the local condition. Generally 
speaking, I do not think rape does as 
well as far south as Maryland or Indi¬ 
ana, as in Canada, and the more North¬ 
ern States. It seems quite adapted to 
our cooler regions north. 
I do not think that pigs should be 
kept exclusively on rape or clover. They 
should be fed some grain. At the Wis¬ 
consin Station feeding experiments with 
rape have been conducted for two or 
three years. In the first trial 10 pigs 
on rape ate in 76 days 1,386 pounds of 
corn, 690 pounds of shorts and one-third 
of an acre of rape, and gained 853 
pounds. A lot not on rape, penned, ate 
2,096 pounds of corn and 1,042 pounds of 
shorts and gained 857 pounds. The third 
of an acre saved 1,062 pounds of grain, 
or an acre of rape would be worth 3,318 
pounds of grain. In another trial of two 
lots of 19 pigs each, for 49 days, the rape 
lot ate 2,220 pounds of corn, 1,109 pounds 
of shorts and 0.6 acre rape, and gained 
1,066 pounds, while those not given rape 
pasture ate 3,106i/^ pounds of corn, 1,553 
pounds of shorts and gained 1,076 
pounds. The gain is about the same in 
this experiment also, but the rape saved 
the use of 886 pounds of corn and 444 
pounds of shorts, or showed that one 
acre of rape is worth 2,217 pounds of 
grain. Now our friend must do some 
experimental work in this field, for it 
is one of those peculiar cases where 
nothing but personal experience will set¬ 
tle the question satisfactorily. 
_ C. S. PI/UMB. 
Malt Sprouts. —We have fed malt 
sprouts to dairy cows with good results 
for several years, feed from two to four 
pounds a day. We feed them mixed with 
cornmeal dry. Some cows take to them 
kindly, while others refuse to eat them at 
first. Pound for pound, we consider them 
equal to wheat bran. The local breweries 
sell them at from $6 to $8 per ton. 
Eau Claire, Wis. m. a. b. 
Thai Billion-Dollar Grass.” 
A word concerning “Billion Dollar 
Grass.” This millet was introduced 
from Japan by Prof. Brooks, of Massa¬ 
chusetts Agricultural College, and with 
us is proving of very great value, espe¬ 
cially for feeding green. In yield it sur¬ 
passes all other millets, growing under 
favorable conditions to a height of six 
feet. At first Prof. Brooks did not 
recommend this millet for soil not nat¬ 
urally moist, but the past two very dry 
seasons proved that nothing except corn 
would give as good returns. We usually 
sow from 12 to 16 quarts of seed per 
acre, broadcast. This amount of seed is 
ample. It should not be sown till ground 
is warm and in good condition to plant 
corn. It is well to sow two or three 
times at intervals of 10 or 12 days, if in¬ 
tended to feed green. I never have 
grown it for grain, but at the College I 
believe they have secured crops yield¬ 
ing 60 bushels per acre, which, bushel 
for bushel, is about equal to corn in 
feeding value. I always raise lots of 
sweet corn to feed to my cows, but cat¬ 
tle will leave the corn for millet every 
time, and as the stalks ai’e succulent and 
tender all is eaten, and there is no 
waste. Milkmen value it very highly, 
and will sow many acres the coming 
season. Being so juicy it is almost im¬ 
possible to cure a heavy crop for hay, 
yet when seasons are as dry as we had 
in f900 it can be done, and feeding gives 
good results. I would certainly advise 
everyone to try it in a small way, buy¬ 
ing of some reliable seedsman, not “Bil¬ 
lion Dollar Grass,” but Japan millet 
(Panicum crus-galli), give it a good 
chance and you will be astonished at the 
amount of fodder produced. Begin to 
cut when it is heading out, and a small 
patch will feed quite a herd many days. 
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iQYz pounds full of feed, and full dress¬ 
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19 he reports: “We dressed a grade 
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weighed 52 pounds full and 47 pounds 
after a ride of nearly 20 miles over and 
through pitch holes, on two different 
scales, but I know he weighed 47 shrunk 
and full-dressed 24 pounds, and as my 
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pounds full-dressed I thought we were 
left. I asked the man if we did not have 
anything that would dress enough and 
he said no, as the best we had was less 
than 47 pounds full of feed. I toid him 
to kill that one and it weighed 28 
pounds. Tunis grade it was, but that 
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