The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1914-06-25


(. Byron Hunter, vice director of @
Q the state bureau of farm devel- .
Q opment, to a meeting of East .
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lfoG-RA1SERS quite frequently make
ll one of two mistakes; frequent one
being the trying to make hog on
pasture alone In my work among hog
raisers, have noticed the non who are
enthusiastic and are not discouraged
about the business, are those who feed
a liberal grain ration along with pas
turage. The man who is trying to max e
the hog grow on pasturage alone almost
invariably is discouraged. He says there
is nothing in it, and he is right. There
is nothing in raising hogs that way.
Then, agan, in order to economically
produce pork, we must prepare crops
that the hog can handle himself. If we
expect hog to eat large quantity of
pasturage, it must be attractive. 1t is
better to have the pasture cut up in sew
eral lots, feeding first in one and then
the other. In this way the hog can he
started in clean, fresh pasture. Better
results are obtained in that way. Also.
handled in that way, the pasture will
handle a much larger number Of stock
per acre.
In studying the use of different crops
IN connection with the production of
hogs in the states of Idaho, Oregon and
Washington, have become very favor
ably impressed with the results obtained
where the hogs are allowed 70 do their
own harvesting
For instance, the average cost of hush-
ing and crbbing fifty or sixty bushel
crop of corn is about five cents per
bushel. AS the yield decreases, the cost
per bushel increases. 1t costs from
twenty to forty cents bushel to har-
vest and market wheat in the wheat
belt The cost varies with the yield,
the method of harvesting, threshing, the
distance to market and so on. Naturally
when the crop is hogged off these ex-
penses are very materially reduced.
Crops That Are Suitable.
Then again, most of the crops that are
suitable for hogging off are utilized dur
ing the busy season of the year when it
is very desirable that the hog has as
little attention as possible, the farmers
being busy in other directions. The
vegetable matter in the soil is material
ly increased by being broken up and
tramped in by the pigs, making blowing
under easier The droppings of the an
imals are quite evenly distributed over
the field, whereas, in feeding lots or
pens the manure is deposited about the
feeding places. Hogging off crop also
gives the pig exercise, and compels him
to chew his feed much better than when
the threshed grain is fed.
Following I shall give the results of
my observations in the use Of different
crops used for hogging off in the states
of my territory, and some of the re-
suits obtained in this practice.
Winter wheat is pasture crop suit.
able in the more humid parts of the
wheat belts OF idaho, Oregon and Wash
ington. Planted early in September
depending upon the rains-this crop il
used for pasturage approximately from
October Is to November Is; and in the
spring following, from March Is until
about June l. Clover planted the prev
ious year is used April 10th to December
LIST. Alfalfa planted the previous yea
is used from April 18th to November