. Productive swine husbandry. Swine. PASTURE AND SOILING CROPS 187 pounds of green hay, this experiment would show that such an acre of alfalfa, cut green and fed fresh, would produce some- thing like 2000 pounds of pork. Of course, this is fed in connection with corn, and a statement that an acre of green alfalfa would produce 2000 pounds of pork would be very mis- leading. Figuring on the ba'sis of these two experiments, alfalfa hay, yielding four tons per acre (8000 pounds), would produce 1600 pounds of pork, and its value at 4 cents per pound would be something like $ per acre; and gr
. Productive swine husbandry. Swine. PASTURE AND SOILING CROPS 187 pounds of green hay, this experiment would show that such an acre of alfalfa, cut green and fed fresh, would produce some- thing like 2000 pounds of pork. Of course, this is fed in connection with corn, and a statement that an acre of green alfalfa would produce 2000 pounds of pork would be very mis- leading. Figuring on the ba'sis of these two experiments, alfalfa hay, yielding four tons per acre (8000 pounds), would produce 1600 pounds of pork, and its value at 4 cents per pound would be something like $ per acre; and green alfalfa producing ten tons per acre (20,000 pounds) would. Fig. 44.—Alfalfa is good both tor soiling and for hay for swine. produce 2000 pounds of pork, which, at 4 cents per pound, would be worth $ per ; Kansas and Wyoming Trials.—The Kansas results from feeding alfalfa are about the most favorable of which the writer is aware. Very fair results were obtained at the Wyoming Experiment Station, where alfalfa hay and wheat were fed against wheat alone. In this experiment it required 449 pounds of wheat for 100 pounds of gain where wheat was fed alone; and pounds of wheat and pounds of alfalfa for 100 pounds of gain where wheat and alfalfa hay were fed. On this basis, a ton of alfalfa hay would give. 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 Day, George E. , 1863-. Philadelphia & London, J. B. Lippincott Company
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