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A Farm and Home Weekly for .
Carolinas, Virginia, Georgia, and Florida.
FOUNDED 1886, AT RALEIGH, N. C.
Vol. XXXII. No. 12.
SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1917
$1 a Year ; 5c. a Copy
Plant Plenty of Grazing Crops for the Hogs
THE once humble hog is not so humble, since he has reached a
a price of 14 cents a pound on foot, and the world-wide short
age in food and feedstuffs makes it appear likely that high prices
will continue to prevail for some time.
rape in the northern half of the Cotton Belt, the problem now being to
supply a succession of crops from early summer until next winter.
First of all, no farmer is equipped for hog-raising unless he has a
permanent pasture for the hogs, this opening into a number of en-
I PIGS GRAZING ON RAPE
Whether Southern farmers will profit or lose by thesenrices depends
upon whether they, have meat to sell or to buy. In theformer case,
they will, through the use of hogs, utilize what otherwise might large
ly oe wasted, converting a potential loss
into an actual profit. In the latter case
if they have meat to buy instead of to
sell they will not only have overlooked
a chancc at a sure profit, but will like
wise have incurred a heavy expense"
for meats that should have been pro
duced right at home.
Hut in order to produce pork at a
Profit, ample feed must be provided.
And of course the cheaper this feed can
b grown and harvested, the greater
will be the net profit from our hogs.
This calls for crops that are easily grown
and that may,. largely at least, be har
vested by the hogs themselves.
Among these, the winter and early
sPnng crops like rape, rye, oats and crim
n and bur clover should have a very
Prominent place, but it is of course too
late now..to plant these, excepting' possibly
closed plots that are to be planted to crops that will provide a grazing
succession. This permanent pasture should always include Bermuda
grass, supplemented generally by lespedeza and bur and white clover.
l ne piois opening out irom me perman-
DON'T FAIL TO READ- p
How to Grow Celery . . Y. 4
Selection of Materials for Home-mixing Fer
tilizers
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Varieties of Velvet Berfns . . . . . . . 7
Natural Factors Determining the Degree of
Boll Weevil Damage .10
Making Money With Hogs .......
Cooperative Bull Associations . . ' . . . .
Close Spacing of Cotton Best Under Weevil
Conditions . ... . .
Getting a Stand of Cotton .
Eight Things to Do This Week and Next
A Success Talk for Farm Boys . . . . .
The Blossoming of Life in Rural Denmark .
Eight Questions About Your School .
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ent pasture should be amply large Jo
provide plenty of grazing, and suffici
ent in number to allow for at least four
or five crops at the same time.
One of these plots should be in alfalfa,
the land having previously been made
rich, limed and inoculated; another in
early cowpeas; another in soy beans, and
still others in velvet beans and corn,
peanuts, sweet potatoes, and possibly
chufas and sorghum. By a little careful
planning, these crops may be ready one
after another all summer and fall and
even welf into winter.
. . There's money in hogs, if we go about
raising them in the right way, and the
right way very largely consists in plenty
of cheap feed.
Let's get busy now and see that this is
provided.
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