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Other soiling crops grown this season have been Alfalfa, Prickly _ 
Comfrey, clover, oats and vetches, oats and peas, Hungarian grass, 
barley and corn. ; 
Mangolds and silage were fed: alternately a month at a time 
during the spring months, including fifteen days of June. Grass i 
was fed the remainder of June; clover the first ten days of July, 
and oats and vetches the remainder of July. Oats and peas were ~ 
fed in August until the sixteenth, when, the severe drought having va 
checked the growth of successive sowings, the crop failed and the  —— 
stock was returned to silage until corn ripened enough to put in as 
silo. Corn then became the late crop. 
There was too little of Alfalfa or Prickly Comfrey for feeding 
so many animals as were being soiled on similar food to make it 
worth while to use them, so Alfalfa was made into hay and Prickly 
Comfrey used for pigs (see Bulletin No. 22). Oats and vetches 
proved a very satisfactory crop.: One acre furnished about 700 
pounds of food daily for twenty-one days in July from the time 
pods began to form, until well along toward maturity. Another 
acre sown later and affected by the drought yielded one and one- 
half tons of hay. 
The different early sowings of oats and peas came off about 
together, and with the early oats and vetches. These made 
7.7 tons of hay cut when the pods were well formed, and the | 
oats were mostly in the watery stage, and some in milk. Some 
plats of oats and peas, and the last but one sowing, supplied 
green food for the stock only sixteen days. he last sowing rusted , 
badly, stopped growing during the drought, and was plowed under ~ 
for wheat. A strip of 2.2 acres below the plats were sown to 
Alfalfa in the spring. 
It has done well considering the long drought, and promises 
well in future. The ground was rather stiff, and was prepared 
by plowing under oats and peas in 1889. The plat was then 
tilled and sown to rye, which was plowed in in the spring when 
all other ground on the farm was too wet to work. These crops 
seemed to have helped free this soil of surplus water. 
One acre of mangolds have been grown with intention to obtain 
the actual cost, and use them as a change of diet from silage for 
all stock at times during the winter. 
The hay crop amounted to 84.59 tons, not counting oats and 
peas, or oats and vetches, at harvest as stored. This, from very 
nearly thirty-eight acres, gives a yield of 2.2 tons per acre. — 
