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April 5, 
Live Stock and Dairy 
MAKING PASTURE FOR HOGS. 
We have two acres of ground in an 
old orchard that I am to have for a 
hog pasture next Summer. It is all the 
hog pasture I am allowed. It is bare 
of sod, as the tenants before me used it 
to raise potatoes and corn. I would like 
to divide it in two parts; use one part^ 
early as I can and the other after the 
middle of June. I have four sows and 
five small shotes to fun out on it. The 
sows will have pigs by the eighth of 
June. What can I sow in the way of 
seed that will make a quick growth and 
do for pasture on the first acre of ground? 
Also, what to sow that will do for the 
second acre and be ready for pasture until 
the second week in June and be good for 
the sows and their pigs? I would like to 
have something permanent on the second 
acre if possible; if not, I would sow every 
year. q. m. w. 
Cliambersburg, Pa. 
An old orchard of two acres, if it has 
many trees remaining, will have a lim¬ 
ited area for growing pasture crops for 
four sows and their expected pigs and 
five shotes, but you will of course have 
to do the best you can with what you 
have. I would at once give a coat of 
manure; plow this in, not too deeply. 
If a disk harrow is at hand the land 
may be prepared with it without plow¬ 
ing, the crops last year having been corn 
and potatoes. Make the preparation of 
the seed bed, whether plowed or not, 
very fine, and if not plowed, four or 
five inches deep. Some time during the 
preparation of the acre sow or drill 
about 300 pounds of acid phosphate and 
work in with the tillage. Early as pos¬ 
sible in April, in your latitude, drill in 
deeply 1 Yi bushel per acre of Canada 
peas. If soil is compact put a weight 
on drill teeth irons to make them go in. 
Do not try harrowing in the peas from 
broadcast sowing, as the round peas will 
remain on top or near it. After sowing 
the peas, at once or within a few days 
drill in about the same quantity of good 
oats, not so deeply as to reach the peas. 
If you care to make the investment you 
will probably find it will pay to sow 
about 50 pounds to the acre of nitrate 
of soda when the oats are sown. This 
will give both crops a good quick start. 
If the land is quite fertile you will not 
need the nitrate. If ground is sandy 
and reasonably loose, roll after sowing 
the oats. If fine and clayey, don’t. How 
soon you may expect to pasture this 
acre will depend upon the season and 
the soil, but certainly not much before 
the first of June if at all fair returns 
are expected. Of course, judgment on 
the spot must be your guide. It will be 
very desirable to have those sows on 
green feed a couple of weeks before 
farrowing, and you may consider it ad¬ 
visable to sacrifice part of the crop value 
for the sake of the sows. 
The sows surely should have some 
ground for outing exercise. If too 
much confined feed corn lightly unless 
they are thin in flesh. Use some bran 
or gluten feed. Give all the water they 
will drink. Persuade them to eat plenty 
of chaffed clover hay or the leaves and 
drift from clover hay fed larger animals. 
The second acre is wanted for pasture 
after the middle of June, and we only 
have the first ready to use at the first 
of June. It will be better by the middle 
of June than at the first; that is, give 
much more returns; therefore it would 
seem wise to crop the second acre pre¬ 
cisely as the first, making the seeding 
perhaps a week later. If the first acre 
must be pastured by the middle of May, 
omit the peas from the sowing for econ¬ 
omy’s sake, and sow three bushels of 
good, clean, early oats. If the oats 
make a fair growth they should carry 
the stock from middle of May till time 
to turn to other patch. While on this 
oats the sows will pay for some corn 
also. As soon as the hogs are given 
the second pasture, plow the first acre, 
use 200 pounds acid phosphate, prepare 
ground well and plant in rows three 
feet apart half the ground in early yel¬ 
low dent corn and the other half in 
Stowell’s Evergreen sugar corn. These 
corns will grow rapidly and abundantly. 
At the last working of the corn, sow 
12 pounds of American-grown Crimson 
clover seed and four pounds of Dwarf 
Essex rape. The corn will be most eco¬ 
nomically fed by cutting and feeding to 
the swine, as will also the second acre’s 
crop of oats and peas, provided the labor 
to dp the cutting can be spared from 
other work. When the corn is thus cut 
and fed the Crimson clover will have 
been established for the next Spring's 
early grazing, while the rape will make 
a lot of green nutritious feed up till 
killed by the actual coming of Winter. 
If the oats and peas are cut and fed 
as a soiling crop, as fast as the land 
is cleared it may be worked up with a 
disk and up to the first of July planted 
to sugar corn. If all the second acre 
is thus second-cropped to sugar corn, 
and it is desired to establish a perma¬ 
nent pasture in this acre, sow in the 
standing corn and harrow in in Sep¬ 
tember \ J /2 bushel Winter rye, six quarts 
Timothy and five quarts of Alfalfa. If 
the Fall is late the rye will make some 
Fall pasture, in connection with the rape 
in the other acre. In the Spring follow¬ 
ing, on the rye sow five quarts of Red 
clover and two quarts of Alsike. Give 
both acres a good dressing of manure 
next Fall after the ground is frozen. 
The rye will make early pasture and 
the grass and clovers be for permanent 
use. ‘ 
After the Crimson clover in the first 
acre is too old for good pasture, about 
the first of June, the land can be planted 
to corn or cow peas, Soy beans or rape, 
and later with rye. If the plan for a 
permanent pasture for next year is not 
attractive, instead of sowing Timothy 
and Alfalfa with the rye sow one bushel 
of rye, 10 pounds Crimson clover, five 
pounds Sand vetch, and half bushel of 
wheat, and get a mass of green stuff 
the next Spring. Use tillage, manure 
and acid phosphate, and perhaps some 
potash. You needn’t bother about lime, 
for if your ground is good you don’t 
need it, and if it is very good the lime 
will help you rob it. 
w. f. m’sparran. 
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Treatment for Worms. 
IIow is salt and sulphur a vermifuge? 
You say omit the sulphate of iron if for a 
mare in foal; then these other two in¬ 
gredients must do the work. A local 
veterinarian gave me the laugh when I 
told him this and asked me to explain 
how salt and sulphur could kill worms. 
This I could not do, as I could not find 
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as alteratives and to help expel worms. 
For pigs he says “Daily doses of one to 
two teaspoonfuls of flowers of sulphur 
answer well.” Personally the writer uses 
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