Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1914 — Hogs and Pasture. [ARTICLE]

Hogs and Pasture.

Applicable recommendations of Prof. Soule, of the Virginia Experiment Station farm, are the following: •

"Prepare the land with the greatest possible care, and seed alfalfa. Alfalfa will be the most desirable of all the gracing crops, as it can be graced over two or three times during a single season, and will remain in the land several years, if well established. He also recommends artichokes to feed through fall and winter. "Some grain should be sod to the hogs In gracing crops—one to three pounds per day, depending on the ago and sice of the animals. An ear or two of corn will often be all that is necessary. By using grazing crops the corn can be made to go much farther, and a better quality of poi* obtained at a lower cost per pound. Hogs kept in grazing crops are under the very best sanitary con. dittoes. The plan suggested will provide gracing for 25 to 50 hogs, depending on the character of the land and the crop season.