106 



Cured Fodder Crops. 

 2 acres, Spring Eye, wilted 12 hours and put in silo, 14.080 lb. 

 Mixed crop, cereuls, second cutting, 1,825 lb. 

 llj acres, Corn, wilted on an average two days, and put in silo, 130 tons 1,750 lb» 

 (That is equal to 183 tons 450 lb., green weight.) 

 1 acre, Corn, stooked in field to cure, 11,940 lb., as weighed February, 1892. 



14i 



IJ acres, Corn, fed green to the cattle (from 7th August), with mixed crop. 



4^ acres, pastured. 



3f acres, mixed crop, as in plots 1 to 5, fed green ; nearly IJ acres of this was 



used in erecting paddocks for the bulls, and the crop on it was partially 



spoiled by the traffic incident to the work. 



The following Table and explanatory notes present the details of the different 

 crops : — 



Ripened Crops. 



Eight Acres Mixed Crops. — The land had no manure applied for at least five 

 years; it was cropped every year; it was ploughed in the fall of 1890; it was 

 disc-harrowed twice in spring of 1891 ; the smoothing harrows were used on it 

 twice. It was divided into eight plots, each one acre in size. 



A different mixture of grain was sown on each plot. 



Table I. 



Notes.— The mixtures were all sown on 30th April, and oame up on 12th May.'.Two pounds of flaxseed 

 were sown with the mixtures on plots 1 to 5. It ripened, and was ground with the grain for the feeding of 

 cattle. I think at least 3 pounds per acre will give better returns. 



The crop from plot 6— wheat and pease— gave the largest yield of grain per acre. That mixture of 

 grain is also the most valuable for feeding in combination with corn ensilage. The second largest yield of 

 grain was on plot 5, from a crop of wheat, barley and oats. I do not recommend this mixture, as I con- 

 sider that every mixture should contain either pease or vetches. These latter grains do not require to obtain 

 their supply of nitrogen from the nitrates in the soil as the other grains of the mixture do. 



