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to raise Durum wheat and fatten hogs with it. Wheat does not 
produce pork of the first quality and it is best to feed barley the last 
30 days of fattening, as it makes the pork finer, the fat whiter, and 
greatly improves the flavor. 
Rye is profitably fed in some sections. It will make good gains, 
but the hogs should be finished on barley. 
Milo maize and Kaffir corn will produce about 90 per cent, of 
as much gain on hogs as will an equal weight of corn, and are very 
profitable grains to raise for feeding hogs. Both of these grains 
are constipating and need some laxative feed to be given with them. 
Alfalfa hay is one of the best feeds for this purpose, sorghum hay is 
good, as are also any kind of roots. 
Hubbard squash is an excellent feed for fattening hogs and 
some Colorado farmers use it as an exclusive feed for this purpose, 
but better gains and finer quality of pork will be secured when some 
grain is given with it. 
A mixture of two grains will give larger gains than the same 
weight of one grain fed alone. 
Dairying is one of the surest and most profitable lines of farming 
on the Plains, and skim milk fed with grain to pigs and hogs is one 
of the best of feeds. Hog raising increases the profitableness of 
dairying. 
Grain is high-priced in most sections of Colorado, and while a 
hog should have some grain every day of his life, at least half the 
weight of a 200-pound hog should be made from roughage—pasture 
or fodder. The best pasture is alfalfa, and there are few farms 
on the Plains but what have some spot where alfalfa will thrive if prop¬ 
er methods are followed, and seed from non-irrigated land is used. 
Dwarf Essex rape stands drought fairly well if seeded as soon as 
the frost is out of the ground. Winter wheat and rye make good 
early pasture,, and sorghum may be seeded in the spring in fields of 
rye or wheat and will furnish pasture after the grain has dried up. 
Good alfalfa hay is the best winter roughage to feed hogs. It 
can be fed in a rack and will increase the gains and improve the flavor 
of the pork. In a test made by the writer, hogs fed all the grain 
they would eat gained 400 pounds, while those fed alfalfa hay and 
grain gained 600 pounds. 
Where alfalfa hay is not available good, juicy, sorghum fodder 
improves the thriftiness of hogs and increases the gains. 
Hogs should have access to salt and charcoal or coal at all times, 
and wood ashes are beneficial. Good water plentifully supplied 
is as essential in making gains as is grain. 
The Plains section'of Colorado has great advantages for raising 
hogs. The grains most profitable to grow there produce finer flavor¬ 
ed pork than corn, and usually the grain can be marketed at a higher 
price when fed to hogs than when sold on the market. This is espe¬ 
cially true where the quality of the grain is inferior. 
Denmark sells eighteen million dollars worth of bacon a year 
to England alone. The Danish bacon sells for a considerably higher 
