CHAPTER VII 

 MISCELLANEOUS CROPS 



FORAGE CROPS 



Millet is commonly grown as a catch crop where some 

 other crop has failed, or where it is necessary to sow a crop 

 late. It is usually cut for hay, but some of the varieties 

 known as the broom corn millets are grown for seed. The 

 seed is used as feed for live stock. Millet has about the 

 same effect on the soil as a grain crop. It is very good as 

 a cleaning crop, as it grows quickly and covers the ground 

 very thoroughly. It will grow on most any kind of soil. 

 It may be sown any time during the early summer, and will 

 be ready to cut for hay eight or ten weeks after seeding. 

 Two to three pecks of seed per acre should be sown. 



Rape is a forage plant that appears, when growing, very 

 much like rutabagas. It does not, however, produce a 

 heavy edible root like the rutabaga. It is used chiefly as 

 a pasture plant for hogs and sheep. Cattle will eat it, but 



Figure 51. — A field of rape ready for sheep or hogs. 



