SOILING CROPS 



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Mississippi. " One of the best, surest and safest crops for soiling 

 is sorghum, planted thick, and with the rows not over two feet apart. 

 The sorghum may follow a crop of oats or some other early crop, and 

 will withstand dry weather better than most other plants. Cow- 

 peas are good, and corn may be used satisfactorily on land that will 

 produce fair to large yields." (Moore.) 



Kansas. Dates when soiling crops are available : Alfalfa, May 

 20 to September 30 ; wheat, June 1 to June 15 ; oats, June 15 to June 

 30 ; sweet corn, July 15 to July 31 ; field corn, August 1 to September 

 15; sorghum, August 1 to September 30; kafir, August 1 to Sep- 

 tember 30; wheat and rye pasture, until the ground freezes. (Otis.) 



Dates for planting and using soiling crops in western Oregon and western 

 Washington (Hunter) 



Rotation used successfully by practical dairymen in the middle latitudes 



(40 N.) 



