. Productive agriculture . goodrecord for an acre of alfalfa in making pork. 98 PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURE Results -mTH Alfalfa, (One Years Trial) Number of days pastured 163 Number of hogs per acre Gain per acre i3io-o pounds Grain fed per acre 4022,0 pounds Gain accredited to forage 59i-S pounds Grain fed per pound gain pounds Value of forage with pork at six cents . . $35-51 Alfalfa balances the ration. In Figure 41 one pig was fedcorn in a dry pen for iSo days; the other pig was provided corn and alfalfa pasturefor 80 days, and thencorn and alfalfa hay for100 days. Although thepigs w
. Productive agriculture . goodrecord for an acre of alfalfa in making pork. 98 PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURE Results -mTH Alfalfa, (One Years Trial) Number of days pastured 163 Number of hogs per acre Gain per acre i3io-o pounds Grain fed per acre 4022,0 pounds Gain accredited to forage 59i-S pounds Grain fed per pound gain pounds Value of forage with pork at six cents . . $35-51 Alfalfa balances the ration. In Figure 41 one pig was fedcorn in a dry pen for iSo days; the other pig was provided corn and alfalfa pasturefor 80 days, and thencorn and alfalfa hay for100 days. Although thepigs were practically thesame size at the begin-ning of the experiment,at the end of the periodthe pig that was fedcorn alone averaged 75pounds and the otheraveraged 185 bones of the pig fedcorn and alfalfa wereabout twice the size ofthe bones of the pig fedcorn alone. The pig fedcom alone made gainsat a cost of ahundred pounds, whilethe other pig made onehundred pounds gain at Bulletin no, Missouri Courtesy Kansas Exp. Station. Fig. 41. — Corn and alfalfa were a fairh- goodration. Corn alone did not pive p>od balances the ration if fed with corn. ALFALFA 99 a cost of $ This indicates that protein substances arenecessary for bone formation and growth. Cost and Feed to Produce One Thousand Pounds of Beef What was Fed Amount Cost Lot I ....Lot 2 .... Prairie hay-GrainAlfalfaGrain 16,760 lb. 3,050 lb. 1,620 lb. Ms-10 Alfalfa plus grain produced one thousand pounds of beef at acost of $; and prairie hay and grain at a cost of $ Making Alfalfa Hay. — In order to get the best results withalfalfa, two points in its harvesting should be observed. I. The crop should be cut when the new shoots on the crownsof the plants are beginning to grow. If cutting is delayed untilthese new shoots are cut off, the next crop will be greatly re-duced. Maximumyields can be had only when the alfalfa iscut at the proper time. S
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