. Elements of agriculture, southern and western. Agriculture; Agriculture. HOGS, SHEEP, GOATS, POULTKY, AND BEES 279 With oats, vetch, bur clover, rape, and other crops for winter grazing; and with sorghum, peas, and green corn ? PI UEi. Fig. 102. — Movable Fence for summer; and peas, peanuts, sweet potatoes, chufas, corn, kafir, etc., to fatten off the hogs in winter, pork can be raised very cheaply in the South and West. With a variety of crops like the ones mentioned, and small amounts of corn, these sections could raise bacon hogs enough to supply the world. Fed in this way, almost any kin
. Elements of agriculture, southern and western. Agriculture; Agriculture. HOGS, SHEEP, GOATS, POULTKY, AND BEES 279 With oats, vetch, bur clover, rape, and other crops for winter grazing; and with sorghum, peas, and green corn ? PI UEi. Fig. 102. — Movable Fence for summer; and peas, peanuts, sweet potatoes, chufas, corn, kafir, etc., to fatten off the hogs in winter, pork can be raised very cheaply in the South and West. With a variety of crops like the ones mentioned, and small amounts of corn, these sections could raise bacon hogs enough to supply the world. Fed in this way, almost any kind or breed would make good bacon hogs. To handle hogs in this way would require a good deal of fence. A suitable amount of movable fencing built in panels, as shown in Figure 102, would go far to meet this difficulty. Sheep and Goats: where grown.—Most of the slieep and goats of the country are now raised on the dry lands of the West, and on lands that are too dry and rough for cattle to thrive well. The sheep of the West are almost entirely of the Spanish Merino type, or fine- wooled sheep, but they also bring about as high prices for mutton as the mutton breeds. On the farms of the. 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 Welborn, W. C; Ness, H; Sanborn, Charles Emerson, 1877-; Marstellar, R. P. New York, The Macmillan company
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