HINTS ON RAISING FARM CROPS S5 
has produced a few crops of hay into pasture 
land. Such crops as white clover and Kentucky 
blue grass usually find their way into these 
old meadows, and seed themselves, thus saving 
the farmer the work of especially preparing a 
separate pasture. Some farmers plan to leave 
their old meadows that have been seeded to a 
mixture of red clover and timothy to provide , 
pasture for their cattle, but these plants are not 
ideal for pasture, due to their inability to stand 
the tramping of the cattle. In a few of the 
western states, some farmers have successfully 
used alfalfa as a pasture crop. This practice is 
not general, although alfalfa makes an ideal 
feed for the animals during the summer time. 
A combination that has been gaining favor with¬ 
in the past few years with many farmers, es¬ 
pecially when their alfalfa or clover failed to 
survive the winter, is a combination of oats 
and Canadian field peas. This has been used 
successfully as an emergency hay crop, per¬ 
haps even more than an emergency pasture 
crop. However, as a pasture, the cattle should 
not be allowed to graze on this mixture until 
the peas are commencing to pod. 
There are numerous kinds of hog pastures, 
varying with the location in different parts of 
the country. Alfalfa has also been used with 
great success for this purpose, but in a some¬ 
what restricted area west of the Mississippi. 
Rape makes a very good hog pasture, either 
when sown alone, or when mixed with other 
seed, such as oats and Canadian field peas. 
In fact, too little attention has been given the 
matter of pasture for hogs in the past. For 
