. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. _^y ^' 1Z.:.- *, &&* •. Fig. 105.—Rape Is One of the Best Annual Crops for Pigs Over most of the northern states, rape is the best annual forage crop for pigs, furnishing excellent pasture from early summer till late in the fall. (From Wis- consin Station.) alfalfa, and that pigs fed corn on rape pasture do not need the addi- tion of more than 5 per ct. of tankage, or an equivalent
. Feeds and feeding abridged : the essentials of the feeding, care, and management of farm animals, including poultry : adapted and condensed from Feeds and feeding (16th ed.). Feeds; Animal nutrition. _^y ^' 1Z.:.- *, &&* •. Fig. 105.—Rape Is One of the Best Annual Crops for Pigs Over most of the northern states, rape is the best annual forage crop for pigs, furnishing excellent pasture from early summer till late in the fall. (From Wis- consin Station.) alfalfa, and that pigs fed corn on rape pasture do not need the addi- tion of more than 5 per ct. of tankage, or an equivalent of other sup- plement, to the corn allowance. Other pasture crops.—Field peas, sown either alone or with oats or oats and rape, are a most satisfactory summer forage crop for pigs in the northern states. As has already been mentioned in this chap- ter, large numbers of pigs are fattened on field peas in certain moun- tain valleys of the "West. Soybean pasture in the North is surpassed by alfalfa, clover, rape, and field peas, except perhaps on light, sandy soil, where the soybean may produce a larger crop. In the South, however, the soybean is one of the best allies of the pork producer. In three trials at the Alabama Station 16 the feed cost of 100 lbs. gain by pigs fed corn ib Iowa Bui. 136. 18 Gray, Ridgeway, and Eudaly, Ala. Bui. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Henry, W. A. (William Arnon), 1850-1932; Morrison, F. B. (Frank Barron), 1887-1958. Madison, Wis. , The Henry-Morrison company
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