The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1915-06-03

Ahaia alone is not satisfaction.
ooionlc hog pasture. Winter rva u.,,,
turhlsh the earliest satisfactor, 80
ior season, and If there Is no ner,,o
ne"' grass and clover pasture then The
rye should be supplemented bv saaatre.
eaIiy on well prepared ground. r,x9
.uie oi spring grains seeded very
heavily. say 100 lbs. per acre MI
may include spring wheat. spring 10
barley, oats and three or four nounds =,
sorghum, kafir. milo maize or fadarett,
II the pasture is divided into abont
TOUR separate lots, SO that tho ,,a.s
may be changed to a new Mat each
week, which will give each plat 4hrae
weeks rest to one weeks pasturing
.he same area of land will carry salts
Iactorily twice the number of pigs.
The earliest annual crop with which
TO supplement the pasture is meas ana
oats. To grow the peas and oats 70
the best advantage, manure the s,,rfaca
SOIL The ground may be fan plowed
or plowed as early in the spring as #
Is dry enough to crumble from the
mould board. Disc or pack with a
Campbell sub-surface packer and drn
In the peas three and one-half to four
inches deep, one hundred pounds per
acre; then one week after seed forty
pounds of oats per acre half as deep as
the peas.
Enough peas and oats should be seed
ed to take care of the pigs until the
winter wheat is in the dough. If the
winter wheat then is supplemented by
an equal area of spring wheat. they
can ordinarily be kept on the wheat
for four or five weeks.
March farrowed pigs that have had
a light grain ration each day, in addi-
ton to the pasture. will be in condition
to make very rapid gains and will. in
fact. make more pounds of meat per
acre from each acre OF wheat hogged-
off at this time of year than they
would be able to do from the same
amount of wheat harvested, threshed,
rolled and fed in the most approved
manner. When the wheat has become
fully ripened and hardened, they could
still be allowed to get a part of their
daily food from the ripe wheat but
If this is supplemented with green
corn, the gain will be much more
rapid than it would from the wheat
alone and the earlier varieties of corn
will be in the roasting ear stage by the
time the wheat has begun to harden.
Where land is high priced and the
labor is available, the corn may be cut
and fed in the wheat field or pasture
lot but it will be found that until the
corn is well hardened the pigs will
make more meat from each acre of
corn, If fed to them stalks and all or
allowed to hog it down. than they will
and fed dry.
Barley allowed to stand in the field
without harvesting will produce more
pounds of pork per acre during the
fall and winter If the pigs do their
own harvesting. than will the same
amount of barley threshed, rolled and
fed in the house or feed lot
Ordinarily it will be found advan-
tageous to give the pigs every even
ing a light feed of some other kind
of feed than that which is being hog
ged-off, for 1t is a well recognized fact
that other things being equal, the
greater the variety in the ration the
better will be the results from each
pound of feed fed.
If in hogging- off any kind of crop
portable fence is used and only sc
much of the area uncovered at time
as the pigs can clean up in three OF
four days, there will be less waste and
better gains from the same area than
where they are allowed to run ovei
the whole field. The manner, however
In which the hogging- off is done must
depend in a great measure upon the
location of the farm, fencing, labor
water and other factors that must be
considered but 1t has been demonstrat-
ed beyond the possibility of a doub'
that up to "the extent that the pigs
do their own harvesting, the cost oi
producing the meat Is reduced abou'
one half.
C. l.. SMITH.
Agriculturist