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Progress Report Series* No. 27 July 1946
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION
of The Alabama Polytechnic Institute, 
Auburn, Ala.
.* * * * * M. J. Funchess, Director * * * *
SUMMARY of RESULTS from OP1RFTION of a COTTON-HOG 
AR1 MANAGEMNT
UNIT at the MONROEVILLE EXPERIMENT FIELD, 1942 1945
Jo W
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RICHARDSON, Assistant Agronomist
Four years' operation of a small cotton-hog 
farm management unit at
the Monroeville Experiment Field has paid labor and investment an average
yearly return of 41,922o93, or about $58 per acre.
Average annual total cash income amounted 
to 42,312o85; out-of-
pocket costs for fertilizer, seed, and extra labor averaged $389.92 per
year
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Sales from the unit's acreage averaged 7-1/3 bales of cotton, a
little over 3 tons of cotton seed, and 11,636 pounds of hogs per year
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PurDose. The experiment was begun in 1942 to determine how farm in-
comes might be increased in southwestern Alabama, where farms are relatively
small
Previous- results from plots on this Experiment Field had definitely
shown the possibilities of growing good crops of corn, peanuts, crimson
clover, oats, and kudzu, Hogs appeared to be the logical livestack for
converting these feed crops into additional cash income, because they re-
quire less land and labor than most other types of livestock. For these
reasons, hogs were combined with cotton
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Cropping system About 33 acres of crops comprise the unit
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The
crops and acreages at present are as follows,
1) 21 acres in a rotation of 7 acres each of cotton, peanuts, and
corno
2) 5 acres continuously in corn, which is either followed by a
winter legume, or fertilized with a commercial fertilizero
3) 5 acres of kudzu (2 areas of 2 and 3 acres)o
4) 14 acres of pasture
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The peanut acreage is divided into 3 acres of Spanish and 4 acres of
runnerso
For winter grazing, oats and crimson clover are seeded in September
following the hogged-off Spanish peanuts
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The oat-crimson clover area is
turned about April 1 and is planted in corn. The 4 acres in runner peanuts
are hogged and later gleaned
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This area is likewise turned about April 1
and planted in corno
SFormerly Mimeograph Series
The present pasture area consists largely of native grasses and is
used as a holding- and .farrow ing area
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Fertilizer -treatments. The 7 acre-s of-cotton are-either fertilized
with 700 pounds per acre of 6-8-4, or 600.pounds of /+l0-7 and side-dressed
with 150 pounds per acre of nitrate of soda
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The pe-anuts are -given -no fertilizer -treeatxent
The oats and crimson clover, which follow the Spanish peanuts, receive
per acre 400 pounds of superphosphate and 100 pounds of muriate of potash
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The corn following goo -growth of winterlegumes.isnot fertilized
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All other corn is fertilized at planting time with 200 pounds per 
acre of
,4-10--7 and side-dressed with 200 pounds of nitrate of soda:30 to 40 days
after plantingo
Hog -enterprisec Four sows are used on the unit, They are bred 
to
farrow twice each year -- during March and September
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The March pigs are
farrowed on oats and crimson clover or on tae pasture 
area
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These spring
litters are kept on the pasture or kudzu areas 
until about August 1, when
the Spanish peanuts are ready to be hogged) As soon as the pigs 
completely
graze the Spanish peanuts, they are moved to 
the-runner peanuts
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The
spring-farrowed pigs are ready for market upon hogging off 
the runners,
about November 1~
The September pigs are farrowed on pasture and are kept 
there until
they are weanedo They a.re then moved.toglean the 
old runner peanut field
and graze --the. C rimson c-lover--oat area. 
From weaning time until marketed,
the fall littes-receie a ful1 fe-eding of corn-plus 
one:-fourth Pound of
protein supplement per pig per day
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Usually, these pigs are ready for
market in April,,,
The brood sows must be moved at leastk- four 
times during the year
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,
b-eginning. with- the spring farrowings, 
these moves are as follows%.
1) From-pasture to kudzu, 
about May 15
2) From kudzu to pasture, 
about September 15
3) From pasture to crimson clover-oat areaD about December 1
4) From crimson clover-oat area to 
pasture, about March 20,
The sows are given a maintenance 
ration of corn and supplement while
on the pasture, and corn only while 
on the kudzu and crimson clover-oat
areas
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