TENTH ANNUAL YEAR BOOK— PART X 477 



prepared, clean ground raises the heaviest and hest crop. If not cut too 

 short the first time there will be a luxuriant second growth, which comes 

 into good use for the field lambs in the autumn. The housed sheep do 

 wonderfully well with rape as their green feed. 



Thousand-headed kale is another very desirable green crop, and in 

 apearance is about between rape and cabbage. Of course, the leaves of 

 rape are wide out, while those of cabbage form a head, but kale would not 

 come under either description. Possily it is harder to raise than rape, but 

 it contains more dry matter. The best crop of kale comes from having 

 drilled it in rows about eighteen inches apart. Then when it has come 

 well up it can be thinned in the rows according to the growth of plant 

 that is desired. They should be left fairly close together or they will 

 become so large that the stems will be woody. If it is your first year 

 with these plants, only a small patch of kale should be put out, and then 

 it can be seen how kale and rape compare. 



CABBAGE. 



As neither kale nor rape will keep in good condition very long after 

 cutting, the exhibitor must raise some crop that will afford the necessary 

 green stuff while away at the shows. Cabbage fills this place very well. 

 Seed of the early varieties can be sown in a "bed" at the house and the 

 plants transplanted as soon as spring opens up. This method is neces- 

 sary in order that you may be sure of some fair-sized heads when you 

 first need them. For the later cabbage some flock-masters prefer to drill 

 the seed in the field, but we have never had very good success in that way, 

 so have adopted the same manner of transplanting that we have with the 

 early varities. If you get a good cabbage crop you have assurance of 

 keeping your flock in form throughout the fair circuit. 



TUENIPS. 



The flock while away do all the better if they have some additional 

 feed other than cabbage and their grain, and as it should be of a succulent 

 nature, the turnip comes into place. In the early spring a small patch of 

 turnips should be planted, and although some prefer the Purple Top, we 

 have always obtained the best results with the White Globe. It doesn't 

 matter so much what variety it is, so they are put in early and on a clean 

 patch of soil. They should be drilled in rows so they could be well cared 

 for and their growth stimulated. IMangels and rutabagas cannot be suc- 

 cessfully used in place of the turnip so early in the season. When bag- 

 ging them for the fairs be sure to remove the tops, and when they are 

 sliced for the sheep they should be perfectly clean, because some bad 

 results have been recorded from the feeding of sandy and dirty turnips. 

 With these in addition to cabbage the exhibition sheep will thrive excep- 

 tionally well while away from home. 



