SOILING ROTATION 35 



in different localities ; but in order to give an idea 

 of how rotations work out, the record of one year's 

 soiling crops at the New Jersey Experiment Sta- 

 tion is here presented: 



A Rotation of Soiling Crops Which Supplied Fifty Animals 



Six Months 



T^- J Seed iised Date of Period of cutting Yield, 



(bushels) seeding and feeding tons 



Rye, 2 acres 4 Sept. 27 May 1-7 9.4 



Rye, 2 acres 4 .... Oct. 3 May 7-19 19.2 



Alfalfa, 1 acre, first cutting f^ May 14 May 19-2.5 11.1 



Wheat, 2 acres 4 Sept. 26 May 25-June 1 10.4 



Crimsoi) clover, 6 acres. .. 1^^ July 16 June 1-21 42.8 



Mixed grasses, 1 acre June 21-26 8.3 



Oats-and-peas, 2 acres. . -| ., I.. April 2 June 26-July 4 12.4 



Oats-and-peas, 2 acres. . 4 „ !-.. April 11 July 4-9 8.2 



Alfalfa, second cutting July 9-11 2.1 



Oats-and-peas, 5 acres. . -| r-y J- . .April 19 July 11-22 '. '.. 16.4 



Southern white corn, 



2 acres 3^ May 2 July 22-Aug. 3 17.7 



Barnyard millet, 2 acres. . 1% June 19 Aug. 3-19 23.2 



Soybeans, 1 acre 2 June 1 Aug. 19-25 8.8 



Cowpeas, 1 acre 2 June 10 Aug. 25-Sept. 1 . . . 10.5 



Cowpeas-and-kafir corn. r21 tiia o^-i-i^ nt a 



2 acres \ 1 /--J^lylO Sept. 1-16 24.4 



Pearl millet, 2 acres 34 July 11 Sept. 16-Oct. 1 20.2 



Cowpeas, 1 acre 13^ July 24 Oct. 1-5 8.0 



Mixed grasses, 5 acres 



(partly dried) Oct. 5-27 20.0 



Barley, 2 acres 33^.... Sept. 2 Oct. 27-Nov. 1.... 5.2 



Total 278.3 



The above crops supplied sufficient green for- 

 age for an equivalent of fifty full-grown animals 

 from May 1 to November 1, fine feeds being used 

 in addition as the animals seemed to require them. 

 It will be observed that the average quantity of 

 food consumed daily by each animal was 60.4 



