The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1916-10-14
ALFALFAIs GOOD FOR HOGS
When Properly Fed Will Produce More
Pork Per Acre Than Any
Other Forage.

Alfalfa as a feed for hogs will pro-
duce more pork per acre than any
other forage crop grown in Kansas"
asserts Ray Gatewood, instructor in
animal husbandry in the Kansas State
Agricultural college.
BY experiments conducted on the
college farm says Mr.. Gatewood, lit
was shown that 10 pounds of green
alfalfa, cut and fed in q dry lot, was
equal to 100 pounds of corn. Six
pounds of corn was necessary to pro-
duce one pound of pork, so the 10
pounds of alfalfa produced 16 %
pounds of pork. Estimating that during
the season an acre of alfalfa will yield
10000 pounds of green hay, this, if cut
and fed green with corn, would make
1000 pounds Of park Figuring the
pork at 6 cents a pound, it would
mean that an acre of alfalfa was
worth S120.
I'm a winter experiment, LOG pounds
of alfalfa hay displaced 90 pounds of
corn. Five pounds Of corn was neces-
sary for one pound Of pork, and there
fore the 100 pound of alfalfa made 10
pounds of pork. The average annual
yield for alfalfa hay is about four tons
per acre. This fed in connection with
corn would make 1900 pounds of
pork, or 500 an acre for alfalfa hay
In an experiment on pasturing, it
was shown that an acre of alfalfa pas
tured for 163 days produced 591.8
pounds of pork. Care should be taken
not to pasture too closely as alfalfa
will not stand heavy foraging. 1t is
best to so pasture that at least two
cuttings of hay may be taken off in
addition to that eaten by the hogs"
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Killed in Motor SpiIi.-John Bolig
was killed and George Wurth severely
injured when the car in which they
were riding became unmanageable and
overturned at Ellis the other night.
Both the men lived in Ellis.
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Former Pop Leader Dead.-Taylor
Riddle, former Kansas live stock san
itary officer md the inspector for the
Wichita Live Stock company, is dead
at his home in Marion. He was about
so years old.
Robbed Longford Bank.-The state
bank at Longford, was blown open by
robbers the other night and about $500
taken. No trace of the robbers has
been discovered.
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Oil Near Emporia.-Ol in a light
flow was struck in a well on the Pix
lee farm twenty miles south of En-
poria the other day. Oil showed at
2,212 feet, and in fifty-five feet there
has been little change in the charac-
ter of the sand. Oil promoters say
this is the first oil found at this depth
in Kansas, outside the limits of the
Augusta-EIdorado fields.
Couple Wed 81 Years.-The Rev. A.
B. Kirkland and Mrs. Kirkland ceIe-
brated the sixty-fourth anniversary of
their marriage at Salina recently
Both are "a years old.
Wichita Doctor Dear.-Dr. E. E.
Hamilton, eye specialist of Wich-
| tia, was striker with heart di-
sease while at lunch in the Wayside
Inn, at DTury. east OF CalQW6u, at
noon the other day, and died an hour
later. after being taken to Caldwell in
a motor car.
Train Killed Football Player
Ronald Goode, II years old, son
OF Mayor Goode of Marion, was killed
| at Florence when he fell underneath
a moving train. He was a member of
! the Marion High School football team.
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Dinner for 15s Old FoII<s.-One hun
dred and fifty-eight men and women,
| each 20 years old or more, were guests
| OF the First and Trinity Methodist
churches of Ottawa at the twenty-first
! annual t'old folks " dinner. Six of the
guests have passed 90.
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Junction City Candidate Dies
James Edward ZoIIinger, So years old,
is dead Of apOplexy at Junction City.
He had been in business for many
years and was the Democratic nomi-
nee for probate Judge at the time Of
his death