FORAGE FOR PIGS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43367, 3 September 1908, Page 4

FORAGE FOR PIGS.

A bi lletin' has been issued frora the ' • Missouri Experiment - Station, giving ' the results of some experiments to de,,.termine the ivuluo- ‘bf - the- different rage crops for pigs. . Thirty-six about r 4olbs each, 1 in lots, on . different forage onnection with maize, until ’eady for market, accurate 9g kept of the cost of In cheapness of gains, ked as follows.—Maize , cheapest; maize and second; maize and ’.rd y maize and blueC maize and rape, fifth ; schip stuff, sixth. A yfabout 75 cents, a hundred no cost of grain was effected by using green "clover instead of fresh • r Itluegrass. A saving- of one dollar a hundred was effected by using luc’erno --iiieN ad of Muugrass. When it is realised that lucerne comes on early, and when properly clipped stays green all summer, and until the very hard freezes of early winter, its importance < ns a hog pasture is apparent. Clover '"yields more forage per aero than uiuegrass, and, as shown by these experiments, has a much higher feeding value. It is of the utmost importance therefore to provide this sort of ..pasture for hogs, rather than to require them ,to run on bluegraes, a timothy pasture, or, even far worse than this, to confine them 'in a .dry lot in the summer time.