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Title: Southern pork production
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: Ewing, Perry Van
Subjects: Pork industry and trade Swine
Publisher: New York, Orange Judd Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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frostin spring to heavy frost in the fall. Cowpeas pasture.—The great value of this legume tosouthern agriculture is attested by the fact that it hasbeen grown here for over 150 years. It originally camefrom India or China. It is an annual summer legume.There are many varieties, and they vary from an uprightplant to plants with runners 12 to 16 feet in length. Theseeds are of all colors and mixed, and some varieties areearly and some late. It is adapted to practically all partsof the South, and it is unequaled as a soil renovator andlegume forage crop for swine. The pigs eat the pods andtender leaves and shoots. It is generally not grazed untilthe first peas begin to mature, the peas not all maturingat the same time, but coming on along for a month or FEEDING SWINE 133 more. The time at which the pigs are turned on has agreat deal to do with the feeding value of the crop. Onehundred pounds of the feed consumed by the pigs is ofgreater feeding value as the crop matures, the consump-
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Feed wastes can be prevented by properly constructed troughs.Courtesy W. D. Troutman of North Carolina.
-tion of this amount of feed containing all the way from3 to 15 pounds of digestible protein, from 8 to 50 poundsof digestible carbohydrate and from .4 to 1 pound ofdigestible fat. It has an average nutritive ratio of about1: 3, which suggests its use in connection with such feedsas corn, sweet potatoes, sacharrine and non-sacharrinesorghums, Bermuda grass and by-products of the ricemilling industry. It is generally planted in April as soon as all dangerof frost is past, and it is available from August toNovember. A common practice in most sections is togrow a crop of cowpeas either in corn or else after a 134 SOUTHERN PORK PRODUCTION small grain crop, such as oats, in which case it is gener-ally September before it is available for pasture. It isnot so valuable as soy beans for the production of seedfor several reasons, not the least among which is thenecessity for hand picking resu

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