Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1915-06-11
Hogging-Off Grain Crops

VI Misunderstanding tndt w ACouSC
the cost of production and at the
same time maintain the quality
of the product, means direct in
crease in net profits. The wide
variation found on different
farms in the cost of pork produc-
tion would indicate that if the
methods followed by the man
who produces pork at the least
cost were in general practice, the
actual cost would be reduced
more than one-third.
Careful investigation on many
different farmsl shows that the
average cost of harvesting a crop
equals the cost Of growing it
ready to harvest. It has also
been demonstrated by numerous
experiments that the pig can do
the harvesting of various crops
without wasting any food mate
rial. 1t follows logically there
fore that up to the extent that
the pig can do its own harvesting
there is saving of so per cent
IN the cost of each pound of
meat produced from an acre of
| ground where the pip does the
harvesting.
1t is seldom practicable to pro-
duce pork at the least cost by
having the pig harvest all of its
feed, but to the extent that
the pig can do harvesting salts
factorily, it is decidedly profitable
to let the pig do it. Pasture
grass to the extent of one-half
the daily feed is probably one of
the cheapest class of pork MAX
ing material. Next to this, comes
any of the cereal crops such as
rye, wheat, barley, oats, peas or
corn, to be hogged-off.
The farmer who will arrange
such system of cropping as will
enable him to hog off the various
crops at the right season, can
very materially lessen the cost of
pork production. The best per-
manent hog pasture is combi-
nation of grasses and clover, in
cluding alfalfa. Alfalfa alone is
,, not a satisfactory or economic
hog pasture. Winter rye will
: furnish the earliest satisfactory
feed for a season, and if there is
no permanent grass and clover
! pasture, then the rye should be
supplemented by seeding early
! IN well prepared ground, a mix
I ture of spring grains seeded very
Y heavily, say 100 lbs. per acre.
e This may include spring wheat,
: spring rye, barley, oats and three
: or four pounds of sorghum, kafir,
s milo maize or federetta. If the
s pasture is divided into about four
II separate lots, so the pigs may
/ be changed to new plat each
8 week, which will give each plat
n three weeks rest to one weeks
: pasturing, the same area of land
e will carry satisfactorily twice the
the number Of pigs.
Ie The earliest annual crop with
= which to supplement the pasture
2, is peas and oats. To grow thu
le peas and oats to the best advan.
IS tage, manure the ground in tn,
g fall, and disc, mixing the manur,
.e we'll with the surface soil. TIL,
ID ground may be fall plowed, O
Is plowed as early in the spring a
n it is dry enough to crumble from
a. the mould board. Disc or pacl
d. with a Campbell sub-surfac
n packer, and drill in the peas thre
n and one-half to four inches deer
ne one Numbered pounds per acre
then one week seed forty pound
of oats per acre half as deep a
the peas.
III Enough peas and oats shoul
be seeded to take care of the pie
es- until the winter wheat is in til
]. dough. If the winter wheat the
S. is supplemented by an equal are
at of spring wheat, they can ordil
err arily be kept on the wheat f,
of four or five weeks.
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