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TTOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION
I n f o r m a t i o n o n R a is in g H o g s in N o r t h w e s t
Why Men Who Try to Raise Hogs on Pasturage Alone Frequently Become Discouraged.
15th. Kale and rape planted in April or
May aro used June 15th to December
The follow ing is a verbatim <$> 15th. Winter wheat sown early in Mav
is used June 1st to November 15th.
report of an address made by
Byron H unter, vice directo r of « Wheat sown in corn at the last cultiva
♦ the s ta te bureau of farm devel- <$> tion of the corn is used September 15th
to November 15th.
The Stubblefield
opm ent, to a m eeting of East-
eru W ashington «wino produc- 4> may be used from the time the crop is
<5> off, about August 1st, till the ground is
ers.
worked the following spring.
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<•> Now, ns to winter feeds to be used
- . » » » » » • • • •
in connection with grain:
H m J R A ISER S quite frequently make
Prominent among these is found al
one of two m istakes; a frequent one
being the try in g to make a hog on fall'a hay and the root crops—arti
pastu re «lone. In my w oik among hog- chokes, carrots, turnips and the like.
raisers, I have noticed the men who are Wheat often is fed in the straw—in
en thusiastic and are not discouraged bundles or in other unthreshed forms.
about the business, a re those who feed Alfalfa hay is fed either in ricks or
a liberal grain ration along w ith pas - run through the chopper, soaked for
tnrage. The man who is try in g to make twelve hours, and mixed with grain—
th e hog grow on pasturage alone alm ost rolled wheat, barley or whatever may
in v ariab ly is discouraged. He says there be used. White French sugar beets,
is n -th in g in it, and ho is right. T here ninngels, carrots and the like as men
tioned, form a succulent part of a ra
is nothing* in raising hogs th a t way.
Then, agan, in order to economically tion, the grain being fed in addition
Artichokes aro used
produce pork, we must ¡»repare crops to the roots.
th at the hog can handle himself. I f we mainly in the late fall after alfalfa and
expect a hog to eat a large q u an tity of elover cease to furnish pasturage and
p asturage, it must be a ttra c tiv e . I t is until the ground is frozen up; then,
b etter to have th e p astu re cut up in sev again in the early spring, as soon as
eral bits, feeding first in one and then the frost is out of the ground and the
the other. In th is wav the hog can be soil settled. The hogs root the arti
started in a «dean, fresh pasture. B etter chokes out. All hogs used for breeding
resu lts are obtained in th a t way. Also, purposes can be carried through the
handled in th at way th e pastu re will winter just as well on unthreshed
handle a much larger num ber of stock wheat or field peas.
Crops Used for Hogging Off.
per acre.
Winter wheat planted early in Sep
In studying the use of d ifferen t crops
in connection w ith the production of tember or October should be ready
hogs in the sta te s of Idaho, Oregon and about July 10th to September 1st. If
W ashington, I have become very fav o r one has not winter wheat, beardless
ably im pressed w ith the result.', obtain ed barley sown in the early spring can be
where the hogs are allowed to do th eir used from July 10th to the beginning
of the winter rains, or until the stubble-
own harvesting.
For instance, th e av erag e cost of husk field is open. Field peas sown in the
in g and cribbing a fifty or six ty bushel early spring is ready about July 15th,
erop of corn is about fiv e cents per or can be used from July 15 to Novem
bushel. As th e yield decreases, th e cost ber 1st. Spring wheat would be ready
jH*r bushel increases.
It costs from July 25 to September 15. Corn plant
tw enty to fo rty cents a bushel to b ar ed May 1st to 20th would be used Sep
vest and m arket w heat in the w heat tember 1 to November 15.
Blue barley sown in the early spring
belt. The cost varies w ith the yield,
th. method of h arv estin g , threshing, the and allowed to stand in the field until
distance to m arket and so on. N aturally the .fall rains have softened it can be
when the crop is hogged o ff these ex used during the late fall and winter.
All of the uses of different forage
penses are very m aterially reduced.
crops and grain 1 have mentioned are
Crops That Are Suitable.
Then again, most of the crops that arc found now actually in use in the three
Suitable for hogging off are utilized dur states named, over which the rainfall
ing the busy Reason of the year when it averages from 20 to 25 inches.
To show that it is feasible to use
is very desirable that the hog has as
little attention as possible, the farmers these crops in this way. Mr. Hunter cit
being busy in other directions. The ed a number of demonstrations which
vegetable matter in the soil is material have been performed under his direc
ly increased by being broken up and tion by different farmers
Mr. W. H. Steen, of Umatilla eonn
tramped in by the pigs, making plowing
under easier. The droppings of the an ty, Oregon, hogged off eleven acres of
tm als are quite evenly distributed over wheat that was seeded on a side hill
the field, whereas, in feeding lots or which was too steep to permit the op-
pens the manure is deposited about the ration of harvesting machinery upon
feeding places. Hogging off a crop also it, in March, 1910. This land had
gives the pig exercise, and compels him never been farmed before. When the
to chew his feed much better than when wheat was in the stiff dough. July 17,
ninety head of hogs vrere weighed and
the threshed grain is fed.
Following 1 shall give the results of turned Into the field. When they had
By observations in the use of different cleaned up the field, August 24th, they
«reps used for hogging off in the states were again weighed. The gain was 160
At nine rents a
• f my territory, and some of the re pounds per acre.
pound—the price of pork at that time—
golts obtained in this practice.
Winter wheat is a pasture erop suit the net profit per acre for the standing
able in the more humid parts of the grain was »14.40. This was on land
wheat belts ot Idaho, Oregon and Wash that previously had produced only a
tngton. Planted early in September— little early spring pasture.
Utllixing Stump Land.
depending npon the rain»—this erop is
These same hogs were weighed and
Used for pasturage approximately from
O ctober 13 to November 15; anJ, In the turned into 178 acres of Stubblefield
Spring following, from March 15 until that had been eut with a eombined har
about June 1. Clever planted the prev vester. The land was level and a good
ious year is used April 10th to Dr.-ember job of harvesting had been done. W hile
Jst Alfalfa planted the previous year in the field the hogs made a gain of
la used from April 15th to November 11.73 pounds per acre. At nine cents
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a pound this amounts to $1.05 an acre.
In harvesting grain on steep land the
waste is frequently as much as ten
times more than that on the land owned
by Mr. Steen upon which this experi
ment was made. The profits of clean
ing a field with hogs would be in pro
portion to the waste.
In the fall of 1910 Mr. Steen also
hogged off 11.43 acres of standing bar
ley. This was also seeded on virgin
steep side hill. The barley was allowed
to stand in the field until the fall rair.s
had softened the kernels. Eighty head
of hogs were weighed and turned into
the field.
During November they
gained from the 11.43 acres 201 pounds
per acre, worth eight cents a pound—
a gain from tho barley, per acre, of
$10.08.
Mr. Hunter claims that there are
thousands of acres of steep side hill
land in the wheat belts of Washington,
Idaho and Oregon that could bo used
in tho way above indicated to economi
cally and profitably produce pork. In
order to get an accurate comparison of
tho results obtained from hogging off
certain crops and from harvesting sim
ilar ones, Mr. Hunter had arranged a
demonstration on the farm of Mr. M. E.
Schreck, of western Whitman county,
Washington.
In July, Mr. Schreck
fenced off 7 3 16 acres of standing
wheat of his main wheat field. When
the wheat was in the stiff dough he
weighed and turned in 109 head of
hogs on July 30th. August 17, when
they had cleaned up the field they were
reweighed, the gain per acre being 2351
pounds per acre. The cost of putting
in and taking out the fence, allowing
one tenth for depreciation of the fence,
and the cost of hauling the hogs to mar
ket amounted to »1.48 per acre. Al
lowing eight cents per pound for pork
the gain was $18.82 per acre. Deduct
ing the expense items for fencing and
marketing left a net gain per acre from
the standing grain when hogged off of
$17.34 per acre.
Tho rest of the field was harvested
and hauled to the warehouse, and there,
the receipts showed a yield of 18| bush
els per acre. At 69 cents per bushel—
the price of wheat at that time—this
acreage yield was worth $12.77. De
ducting the cost of heading, threshing,
sacks and hauling amounted to »5.17
per acre, leaving a net return of »7.60
per acre for the wheat when harvested
instead of being hogged off.
It should be said, however, that
these hogs had access to some green
food, alfalfa and sorghum.
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