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Turnip seed can be sown with oats or barley. The turnips make but 

 little growth until after l.arvest, but in August and September sometimes 

 make a large growth, which can be fed off by the sheep, and often proves 

 to the sheep owner as valuable as the grain crop. The turnips cost only 

 the seed. 



Lord Bauff, prize Short-Horn Bull, owned by Geo. Ward, Hawarden, Iowa, 

 and shown at the Iowa State Fair, 1902. 



Rape also can be sown with the small grain, or in the cornfield the 

 last time the corn is plowed and commonly yields an immense amount of 

 best pasturage in the fall. 



For a month during the hottest period of our drouth in the summer 

 of 1901, with ti^e thermometer many days in succession 100 degrees and 

 over, my 500 Delaines were turned out of my shortened blue grass pas- 

 tures and into my cornfields commencing at the time when the corn first 

 silked out, where they thrived on the grass and weeds (which had got 

 some start in the wet June) and on the lower leaves of the corn, doing 

 the corn crop no injury, but rather helping it. When in the last of August 

 the ears bent down to their reach I returned them to their pastures, 

 which would have been very bare of feed had they been cropped by the 

 sheep during the time they spent in the cornfields. If they had remained 

 longer and pulled down some of the ears, there would have been little 

 waste, for they shell off and eat what they pull down. 



Sheep can be well fattened in less time than cattle. The 100-day fed 

 steer is not finished; but sheep in very moderate condition can be well 

 fattened in 100 days. 



