. Department bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture. DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1143. Washington, D. C. April 10, 1923 DRY-LAND PASTURE CROPS FOR HOGS AT HUNTLEY, MONT. By A. E. Seamans, Assistant Agronomist, Office of Dry-Land Agriculture Invesiigations, Bureau of Plant CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Purpose and outline of the experiments 2 Resultsin 1915 3 Results in 1916 5 Resultsin 1917 7 Results in 1918 10 Results in 1919 12 Results in 1920 14 Results in 1921 16 Study of the results with different crops 17 Conclusions 23 INTRODUCTION. The transition from cattle-range conditions to grain far
. Department bulletin. Agriculture; Agriculture. DEPARTMENT BULLETIN No. 1143. Washington, D. C. April 10, 1923 DRY-LAND PASTURE CROPS FOR HOGS AT HUNTLEY, MONT. By A. E. Seamans, Assistant Agronomist, Office of Dry-Land Agriculture Invesiigations, Bureau of Plant CONTENTS. Introduction 1 Purpose and outline of the experiments 2 Resultsin 1915 3 Results in 1916 5 Resultsin 1917 7 Results in 1918 10 Results in 1919 12 Results in 1920 14 Results in 1921 16 Study of the results with different crops 17 Conclusions 23 INTRODUCTION. The transition from cattle-range conditions to grain farming has been comparatively rapid in the Plains area of Montana. Relatively high yields of wheat from low-priced land during the first few years when this change was taking place were a mighty stimulant toward the rather general adoption of this one-crop system of agriculture. The experience of the older agricultural States has shown that a combination of live stock and crop farming formed the basis of a more permanent agriculture than where either grain or live stock was produced singly. Diversified farming as opposed to single-crop farming has frequently been demonstrated as a superior system of agriculture for the semiarid as well as for the humid sections of the country. There is ample reason to suppose that, in general, the dry-farming districts of Montana will prove to be no exception to this experience; and, furthermore, there have been numerous in- stances where the grain and forage returns from dry farms have been profitably marketed through live stock. Live-stock production to a greater or less degree in connection with grain farming not only affords the dry-land farmer another direct source of income, but enables him to utilize profitably grain i The results reported in this bulletin are from experiments conducted under a cooperative arrangement between the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station, the Office of Western Irrigation Agriculture and the Office of Dry-Lan
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