1911 
PROVIDING PASTURE FOR HOGS. 
I have four sows bred to farrow in 
March next, also :>5 Fall pigs now grow¬ 
ing well. I wish to carry these pigs over 
and market all that I may have in the 
Winter of 1911-12. I should have after 
farrowing iu the Spring alxmt 70 hogs and 
pigs. I have ground oats, rye and corn to 
feed what I have until April 1, but that is 
all. I have 15 acres of potato ground, left 
as it was after potatoes were dug. This I 
plan to put all in corn. I shall grow a 
good crop of car corn ; also seven acres 
manured last Summer from which I took a 
crop of buckwheat. It was also left as it 
was after harvesting, also six acres of 
gravelly soil from which I took a crop of 
oats ; nothing done to field since. Also five 
acres from which I took rye seeded with 
Timothy, but stand is poor. I have five 
acres in Timothy and clover, good crop of 
Ked clover last Summer, but I suppose 
there will be little next Summer. Would 
it be possible to sow' clover seed on this 
sod without plowing? If it could be as 
it was this past Summer it would make 
fine hog pasture. I also have meadows and 
pasture land; will have manure from four 
cows and six yearlings, hogs and chickens. 
Where shall I put it and for what crops? 
Please advise me what to plant to get the 
earliest Summer feed and the most feed 
possible. What vegetables, what grains, 
sweet corn, Hubbard squash, mangels, rape, 
barley? I shall have skim-milk from six 
cows after about July 1. Is 15 acres enough 
corn or too much? I shall need the fodder 
for cattle. t. u. h. 
Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
In the first place I would advise the 
questioner by all means to push his 35 
Fall pigs as fast as possible, and put 
them on market. They will bring more 
per pound when they weigh 150 pounds 
than when heavier. It is a poor busi¬ 
ness proposition to sustain a large 
amount of live weight for a long period. 
It will take about three pounds of dry 
matter to sustain 100 pounds of animal, 
without gain or loss. To illustrate: I 
had 10 shotes gaining a pound a day 
each. I sold them when they dressed 
150 pounds, and put in their place 16 
pigs weighing about 8o pounds alive. 
The ]6 ate less than the 10, but gainecj 
a pound apiece daily, 16 pounds a day 
instead of 10, and at less cost. The 
price of pork is high; it is quite likely 
it will be lower next year. Further¬ 
more, it is poor business to devote all 
the land to the swine, particularly as 
the land is in no shape to care for 
them, nor will it be until midsummer. 
If the four sows have say 30 pigs, and 
$4 apiece can be obtained for them when 
six weeks old, I would sell at least half 
of them, for they will make a lot of 
clear profit then, and under existing 
conditions it may be on the wrong side 
of the ledger next Fall. Oats are a poor 
food for young pigs, because of the 
hulls. They are also expensive. In 
them a pound of digestible protein will 
cost 14 cents, with oats at 42 cents, pro¬ 
portionately more at a higher price. 
Wheat middlings at $25 a ton will sup¬ 
ply a pound of digestible protein at 
about 10 cents. Hence I would sell the 
oats and buy middlings for the pigs. 
Some of the fallow land should have 
been put into rye last Fall. This would 
have given early pasture, and later in 
the season could have been put into 
rape or squash. Some of it would have 
been harvested, and the straw would 
have paid all expenses. The first thing 
to put in is Canada peas. Sow 2*4 
bushels to the acre, get them in as deep 
as possible. They can be fed to the hogs 
for forage by the middle of June; from 
that time on the grain will increase. 
The hogs can be turned in the field if 
desired. When the first peas come off, 
the ground can be planted with some 
coarse variety of squash or pumpkins, 
or Dwarf Essex rape for Fall feed. 
Some of this rape can be sown in 
Spring and the hogs can pasture on it 
from the time it is six inches high. 
Then plant an early variety of sweet 
corn. Make the main crop corn. The 
sweet corn can be fed, stalks and all, 
the land sown the latter part of July 
with rape for Fall pasture. At first the 
Hint corn can be fed the same way, 
later pick off the ears, without remov¬ 
ing the husks. It never pays to husk 
corn for hogs if they are fed on a hard 
clean surface. The main crop will make 
Winter food for hogs, or anything else. 
Plant plenty of pumpkins in the corn. 
Do not cook them or remove the seeds. 
I should sow some oats for horse feed, 
on the buckwheat ground. If you do 
not care to do this, sow one bushel of 
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oats, one-half bushel of barley and 12 
quarts of peas, 2*4 bushels to the acre. 
This can be harvested and thrashed. It 
will not pay to sow clover on the old 
seeding. The oat and pea ground can 
be seeded with clover, and it will give a 
crop of hay or pasture next year. If 
you can grow potatoes; they will make 
a good money crop, and the small ones 
fed cooked to the hogs. I would sow 
all the land with the crops off to rye, 
sowing four quarts of Timothy with it 
per acre. Then sow clover in the Spring. 
The crop can be utilized as suggested 
above, or if you get sick of hogs, will 
make a good money one. 
I would call your attention to a west¬ 
ern way, which while at first glance 
may seem slack, but when labor is con¬ 
sidered, and one makes hogs the only 
money crop, as you contemplate, I be¬ 
lieve an excellent one. The hogs are 
turned in the rye, harvesting the entire 
crop. The year following this is clover, 
with some volunteer rye, which is again 
pastured, alternating with another rye 
pasture. The hogs harvest the corn in 
the same way, sowing that ground to 
rye, without plowing between the corn 
at last cultivation, the clover sod fol¬ 
lowed by corn. The corn, stalks, clover, 
as well as oats, and peas, are as valu¬ 
able for the cows as the hogs. 
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