Under favorable conditions two or three cuttings may be made in 

 a single season from a field of rape grown as a primary crop. Mr. 

 W. H. Heidman, of Kalispell, Mont. , reports three cuttings the first 

 season with a heavy yield of forage. He allowed the plants to stand 

 the second season and obtained a fine yield of first-class seed. Not 

 much attention has been paid to growing rape for seed in this coun- 

 try, possibly because of the fact that in most localities where this 

 crop has been extensively grown the winters are so severe as to 

 destroy the plants. It seems however that there are localities where 

 rape can be profitably grown for seed and farmers might well devote 

 more attention to this feature of rape growing since most of that 

 now used is imported. 



Thomas A. Williams, 



Assistant Agrostologist. 

 Approved : 



James Wilson, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



Washington, D. C, Mmj l, 1899. 



