. 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. FEEDS FOR SWINE 375 vetch, eowpea, soybean, and other legume pasture in summer, and in winter feed freely of well cured hay from the legumes, in order to have healthy animals and to keep down the cost of production. The finer parts of clover and alfalfa hay, especially the first cutting of clover and the last cutting of alfalfa, are often as valuable for feed- ing pigs as is the same weight of e
. 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. FEEDS FOR SWINE 375 vetch, eowpea, soybean, and other legume pasture in summer, and in winter feed freely of well cured hay from the legumes, in order to have healthy animals and to keep down the cost of production. The finer parts of clover and alfalfa hay, especially the first cutting of clover and the last cutting of alfalfa, are often as valuable for feed- ing pigs as is the same weight of expensive wheat middlings. The southern planter has a specially choice list of equally valuable legumes in the eowpea, soybean, velvet bean, peanut, etc. Legume hay may. Pig. 106.—Brood Sows Eating Alfalfa Hat from Racks Fine, well-cured legume hay should be provided for all brood sows and may often be used with profit for other pigs. (From Breeder's Gazette.) be fed to pigs from slatted racks or from boxes with openings low on the sides from which the animals can eat at will. The legume hays not only furnish protein, so essential for building all the lean meat tissues and the organs of the body, but they also carry much calcium (lime), which is needed in bone building. They are therefore doubly useful in supplementing Indian corn and the other cereals, which are rather poor in both protein and calcium. Leafy, bright alfalfa hay is the best of all hays for the pig. Not only is this hay useful for brood sows and stock pigs but it is a cheap and fairly efficient supplement to corn or the other cereals for fatten- ing pigs. "While fattening cattle and sheep will consume enough alfalfa hay to make a fairly well balanced ration with corn, the fat-. 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
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