1905. 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
153 
HOGS OR YEARLINGS ON CLOVER. 
One of our readers in Michigan presents the 
following problem: He has five acres of 
clover that would average one ton of hay to 
the acre, if cut. He wants to pasture this 
lot during the Summer with little pigs or 
yearling cattle. He asks us how many pigs 
or yearlings he can pasture on these five 
acres, and have them in a fair condition for 
fattening in September. That would mean 
about four months of pasture. The soil is a 
strong clay loam. What would such pigs or 
cattle, the former standard-bred Berkshires, 
he expected to gain during the four months 
on this pasture? 
Of course we could make a rough esti¬ 
mate of the amount of stock and the gain 
in weight that could be derived from five 
acres of clover, but at the same time may 
be very far from some people’s ideas. If 
it could be cut up in one-acre plots with 
woven wire fence, so as to pasture al¬ 
ternately, it could be made to afford much 
more than if stock have the run of it all 
at once, as one plot could be recovering 
from feeding off while the others were be¬ 
ing fed. Then I would think 25 or even 
30 good thrifty pigs could get sufficient 
pasturage to make profitable gains for four 
months, say 25 pigs and five head of 
yearling Short-horn cattle, or any of the 
beef breeds; 25 pigs, weight 30 pounds 
each when turned in, should gain 1 pound 
per day for four months, or 120 days, 
equal to 150 pounds per head at end of 
four months pasturage, or 3,750 pounds for 
the whole number. Then five yearlings, 
weight 500 pounds each at time of going 
to pasture (perhaps a low estimate for 
good cattle), would gain l x / 2 pound per 
day, or 180 pounds each, making the 
whole weight for five head 3,400 pounds. 
This makes the whole number of pounds 
gain for 25 pigs and five yearling cattle at 
the above estimate 3,900 pounds. Of course 
I may be in error, but there are many dif¬ 
ferent points to be considered. For an 
extremely dry season this might be much 
too high, while for an unusually wet sea¬ 
son there would be a much larger growth. 
This estimate is open to criticism. 
Lowell, Mich. m. t. story. 
It would depend somewhat on the sea¬ 
son, as to the amount of rain at the prop¬ 
er time, etc. If good cattle of a beef 
breed were chosen there would be suffi¬ 
cient feed for five or possibly eight head. 
The gain of these ought to be about 200 
pounds each. Should the five acres be 
used for a hog pasture, I would consider 
it as ample for 40 pigs, or half that num¬ 
ber of yearlings. It is supposed, however, 
that the pigs would have other rations in 
connection with the clover, such as milk, 
shorts and a little corn. A gain of 75 to 
100 pounds each can reasonably be ex¬ 
pected from these pigs. The yearlings that 
are fed a ration of corn ought to make 
a gain similar to the pigs. On a small lot 
of three acres or less, with only a fair 
stand of clover (heavy soil and high) we 
kept 30 Spring pigs and two yearling 
steers, and when it was flush we turned 
in three horses. The feed remained good 
all Summer and was best where kept 
down most closely. c. s. allen. 
Pulaski, Mich. 
I would think five acres a small lot to 
think of putting yearling cattle on, or 
even hogs (at least Berkshires), for they 
could not get enough exercise. I sold 
for breeding purposes only in 1903 286 
head, in 1904 347, besides the culls; they 
go to the fattening pen. I have 20 or 30 
acres of clover; use 5 to 10 acres at a 
time, with 5 to 10 acres of rape. I shall 
sow 20 acres of rape this year. I grew 
March 23 pigs to weigh 376 pounds Sep¬ 
tember 25 (Durocs) last year on clover, 
rape and middlings. I had a 12-year Cots- 
wold ewe that raised a pair of ram lambs 
that sold for $15 each; she sheared \2 l / 2 
pounds of wool at 24 cents, fed on rape 
and clover. As* to cattle, I do not have 
very many, and cannot tell you about 
feeding on five acres of clover, but I 
would think if he had a good kind of 
hogs and about two acres of rape, with a 
good feed of middlings along with his 
clover, he could grow perhaps 50 good 
hogs L. R. KUNEY. 
Adrian, Mich. 
Profit in Pigs. —September 3, 1904, I 
bought two Chester White pigs six weeks old, 
for which I paid $6. They had all the sepa¬ 
rated milk they would drink, and all the 
nubbins of corn they would eat clean. Jan¬ 
uary 26, 1905, they were killed, and when 
dressed for market weighed 168 pounds each. 
They were sold for 8% cents a pound, bring¬ 
ing $28.56, a net gain of $22.56, as I think 
the manure paid for all the grain the pigs 
ate. c. d. s. 
Stepney Depot, Conn. 
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coal tar. The first coat will dry a dead 
black and the second will give a nice gloss. 
It is also much more durable than lead paint, 
but if you want to keep it looking very nice 
give it a thin coat every year. The coal tar 
seems to form a chemical combination with 
the iron and appears to become a part of it; 
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The Cream Separator World’s Record 
It lias come to our attention that the representatives of our “ Would-be competitors,” in order to holster up their sales, are claiming that the 
United States Cream Separator 
oil the The UnUed StttKS Separat ° r did tha ‘ — ■>« 
We Will Give $5,000.00 
amount to be distributed in premiums. 1 ine 
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The U. S. Holds the World’s Record 
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