The Huttig news., 1917-03-10
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MORE MONEY IF HANDLED RIGHT.

and above there is money in the swine industry for every farmer in Arkansas but there is more money in the business for a man who will give it particular attention and pro- vide plenty of forage crops which will give good grazing throughout the year, thus reducing the cost of production to a minimum. The profit in any product of farm lies between the cost of production and the selling price. Too often we do not give the cost of producing any commodity enough thought and at tention We think only of the sell ing price.
 Every farmer should plan to have more hogs this year than ever before. He should protect himself by having his hogs immunized against hog cholera and should en- deavor to supply plenty of forage crops for these animals. In the past we have too often tried to raise hogs on corn alone or we have turned them out on mast to hustle for themselves. Both of 
 these methods are wrong. The first one is too expensive and the latter gives only small amount of pork of poor quality and the hogs are always exposed to diseases The tests of the experiment sta tion and the experience of the suc- cessful farmers have shown that the cheapest and most successful way of producing pork is with rnaximum amount of good pasture and the minimum amount of corn. J. H. Mcleod, specialist in live stock with the Extension Division, suggests the following crops with given acreage to furnish success ion of grazing for litter of eight pigs from early spring until mark eted in January:
 l. Dwarf Essex rape. 2-5 of an acre planted about Febr. Is and ready for grazing about April 5 or May l
 2. Amber sorghum. 2-5 of an acre planted about April l and ready to cut or graze about June 5 or July l.
 s. Medium yellow or Haber- landt soybeans. 2-5 of an acre planted about April l and ready to graze about July Is or August |.
 4. Soybeans or cowpeas plant, ed in corn at laying-by time ready to graze by fall. l
 All of these crops can be planteo1 later than the date scheduled bus. they should follow in succession as, listed in order to be sure that there, will be feed at all times. Thee acreage of crops as shown in ths' outline is based upon an experi-n ment by the Arkansas experimentl station and reported in bulletin No. Al.
 WHY BURN THE STALKS2
 On our thin and worn out soils, instead of burning the stalks this year and destroying valuable chem ical elements, such as nitrogen, phosphoric acid, lime, etc, would it not be better, by far, to cut them in short lengths with stalk cutter and turn them under,? says c. w. Watson, state agent. Burning stalks is nothing but waste of plant food that should be prevent ed as most of the above named soils are deficient in organic mat ter and we should save all stalks, trash, etc, by turning under in or der to keep all the fertility in these soils.
 The average, acre of corn yields about 5000 pounds of stalks. This means tiff they are burned) the loss of about 25 pounds of nj trogen and about AS pounds of pot ash, lime and phosphoric acid.
 Can't we afford to cut up and blow under stalks that are so valu- able as plant food9 This, of course