The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-18
Pig. I'm Clover.


The term that heads this article Is
economy used to indicate the acme of
porcine happiness. Experience has
shown that a clover pasture is the ideal
environment for a hog, health as well
ms appetite and rapid growth consid-
cred Since Ii is more difficult for us
In most parts of Alabama to have good
clover pastures or at least good req
clover pastures, than 1t is for our
Northern friends. we must find other
substitutes as the most important fac
tor In the hogs paradise. Let us say
for South Alabama, pigs in peanuts'
for certain other regions. pigs IN soy
beans: and certainly for the prairie
region pigs in alfalfa.
/ was impressed anew with the de-
hight that pigs take in clover as !
watched a month ago. sixty-nve neao
of hogs on the Diyersification Farm on
the Munford plantation near Union
town as they grazed on a pasture car
peted with a mixture of Bermuda grass
and low white clover. With push CT
the snout along the ground porker
would lift q mass of the leaves ana
tender creeping stems OF white clover
and chew and swallow the whole with
the relish of a school boy eating candy.
This lot of hogs were maintained on
about one pound of corn per day per
head plus the pasturage from fifteen
to eighteen acres of mixed Bermuda
and white clover. This continued from
late winter or early spring until July
~, when the writer saw them turned
for the first time on a field of alfalfa,
which they relished even more than
they had done their former pasture.
This field of seven acres of alfalfa
on which sixty-five head of hogs -four
teen brood sows, a Berkshire boar and
n great number of shoats) were turned
July H. 1904, had been sown in March
of the present year, and cut for hay
early in June. yielding about one-half
Ron of hay per acre after weeks of dry
weather.
When set apart for hog pasture the
second growth was about eight inches
high, with here and there a purple
bloom. The corn ration of about a
pound per day will be continued and IL
nhe hogs keep this area of young al
falfa too close they will be transferred
flor few weeks to the Bermuda so
lthat the alfalfa may grow out for later
Brazing. j. F. d.
Winter Crops In n Pecan Orchard.
A South Alabama correspondent asks
about the advisability of sowing burr
clover and hairy vetch in his pecan
orchard.
The plan outlined in your letter of
your pecan grove for winter covering
IS good one. The vetch seed should
be inoculated and the burr clover
should also be inoculated If you pur-
chase thrashed seed. but not If you buy
the seed in the burrs. Since your soil
may be somewhat acid, 1t may be nee
essary to use at least half a ton of
slaked lime per acre and also to sow a
mixture of the two plants so that the
one best adapted may take possession
of the soil. You will probably have to
use disk harrow to cover the seed IL
you do not pillow the land. and in order
to get a good growth of either the
vetch or burr clover, you will probably
have to use about 200 pounds per acre
of acid phosphate. Inoculating mate
rial for each plant may be obtained
from the United States Department of
Agriculture. J. F. D.
Alfalfa Following Dwarf Essex Rape.
Answering an inquiry and proposed
plan for utilizing rich prairie land for
growing fall rape and spring sown al
falfa, the following reply was sent:
The plan you propose, namely, SOW
ing a rich prairie field first in peas,
then In September in rape, and in al
falfa next spring is a good one If there
is enough moisture in September and
October to force the rape forward rap
idly and If the ground Is dry enough in
December and January to permit graz
ing without injury to it's mechanical
condition. However, the connection is
almost too close between rape and the
succeeding crop of alfalfa, since you
may not use all of the rape before il
IS time to pillow the land for alfalfa.
However. considering rape as not ex-
rlusively food crop, but utilizing a
part of it to add vegetable matter and
Improve the mechanical condition of
the soil. your plan is a good one. The
rape will need nitrogen and probably
acid phosphate for rapid growth
'uggest 200 pounds of acid phosphate
md 100 pounds of nitrate of soda for
rape. I am by no means certain that
1t will pay to use any fertilizer under
alfalfa on your rich prairie soil al
though at the Canebrake station the
Rlfa1fa sown this spring afforded a
Slightly larger yield at the first cutting
when fertilized with a mixture of acid
phosphate. muriate of potash, and nj
tra.e of soda than when other fertilizer
or stable manure was used
OH and Kerosene Emulsion for Cattle
Ticks.
We sometimes use cotton seed oil
rubbed on with rag for getting rid OF
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