36 HINTS ON RAISING FARM CROPS 
growing pigs, it is much more profitable to pro¬ 
vide them with a nutritious pasture, which 
will encourage them to forage around and se¬ 
cure the exercise that they need, as well as 
to reduce the cost of producing a pound of 
gain. When pigs are fenced up in a little lot, 
where no inducement has been provided to 
urge the pigs to rustle for themselves, they 
will seek a shady spot and stay there until 
they are fed some high priced feed by the 
farmer at the regular feeding hours. 
Some of our farm land has been devoted to 
pasture for a great number of years, and when 
such a permanent pasture is to be maintained, 
it should receive extra seeding occasionally, 
as well as a loosening of the sod, as this sod 
will likely become sod-bound in time. Weeds 
can be cut when they are found too numer¬ 
ous. These should be cut with a mower before 
they blossom, so that they cannot spread by 
their seed. If the old pasture land is occa¬ 
sionally disced, and grass seed sown at the 
same time, it will invigorate the pasture for 
the following years with the minimum expendi¬ 
ture of time and money. 
It is a common experience amongst farmers 
to find that their pastures dry up during a pro¬ 
tracted dry spell. This is particularly true of 
pastures containing any great amount of Ken¬ 
tucky blue grass. Because of this fact, the 
farmer will be money ahead if he provides for 
more pasture land than he would need during 
a wet season. This is best accomplished by 
having two pastures, and alternating his cattle 
from one pasture to another, thus allowing the 
