. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igi6 BETTER FRUIT Page 21 changed from one plat of alfalfa to the other to keep them on succulent feed and get a maximum growth of forage. If not fed down closely, the alfalfa stubble should be clipped as soon each time as hogs are removed. In a Hood River experiment this past summer, thirteen hogs, Duroc, averaging 7,'> pounds, made a total gain of 241 i)ounds in 32 days. This amounts lo individual gain of pounds and an average daily gain of .57 pounds per hog. This gain was made on clover pasture alone. For a thirty-day period on clover with .5 pound
. Better fruit. Fruit-culture. igi6 BETTER FRUIT Page 21 changed from one plat of alfalfa to the other to keep them on succulent feed and get a maximum growth of forage. If not fed down closely, the alfalfa stubble should be clipped as soon each time as hogs are removed. In a Hood River experiment this past summer, thirteen hogs, Duroc, averaging 7,'> pounds, made a total gain of 241 i)ounds in 32 days. This amounts lo individual gain of pounds and an average daily gain of .57 pounds per hog. This gain was made on clover pasture alone. For a thirty-day period on clover with .5 pound grain (rolled barley) per hog per day they gained pounds per hog, or .44 pounds per day. During a 58-day period on the same clover and field peas which were mature, the same hogs made a total gain of pounds, which amounted to a daily gain of .77 pounds. For a the period of 120 days these animals made a daily gain of .64 pounds, amounting to an individual gain of pounds and a total gain for the period of 1,004 pounds. As the hogs were of excellent stufl' for such an experiment they no doubt did well under the conditions, however they did not have sulTicient grain to make maxi- mum gains. Witli about 2 per cent of grain they should have made 1 pound gain a day. As they ran over three acres of clover and fed off four acres of peas in company with twenty head of smaller animals, it is impossible to determine what income they yielded per acre of clover, or of peas. The question is sometimes asked, will not the hogs damage the trees? Yes, quite fretpiently they will injure young trees, and there are certain indi- viduals that need watching or remov- ing from the orchard. However, if there is an abunrlance of feed and good varieties, there is less danger. If the apples get heavy enough so as to bring the branches near the ground, hogs will often shake off large quantities of fruit. One should not try to over- class the orchard. The cull fruit is of questionable value.
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