THE CULTIVATION OF FORAGE. 



harvested. It is pulled in handfuls, left to dry, tied in bundles, and 



either at once submitted to rippling for the separation of the seed, or 



stacked for after-treatment. After being separated from the seed which 



is effected by pulling the heads, a handful of stems at a time, through the 



steel teeth of a comb, placed upright against a horizontal board, on either 



of which an operator sits the straw is rotted, either by prolon 



>sure to the weather on the surface of any grass field, or, in a more 



rapid way by soaking; and that is either done in a stream or pond, or in 



tepid water in a vat, the mass of sheaves in the water being weighted so 



as to keep the top just below the surface. In this way the woody part of 



i rots. It is then dried, rolled to break up the dried stems, and 



scutched for the removal of the rotten " wood" and the seperation of 



the fibre. 



THE CULTIVATION OF FORAGE AND GREEN FODDER CROPS 



OF THE FARM, 



In order to have a full idea of the position of these either in " soiling " 

 is helps in mixed farming, the following paper by myself may serve 



all purj 



We are accustomed to hear of the different systems of farming called 



grain-growing, root farming, dairy farming, and mixed farming 



ach and all of which the live stock go and come from field to field in 



according to conditions of cultivation and the various modes of 



management. 



In i -uuples tin- animals search for food, and must he aatlA- 



with what they find within a limited area, thus differing from 



the wild state, only in having a more choice bite for a certain 



. hut with less variety and fewer successions of crops, for natin 



all our combination of s-i-ncc and practi* a more regular rotation 



than the lir-,1 of our model tanning no\\ 



therefore to think of tie- summer management of eattle on 



ial plan of moving from place to place, or ha\ ing the r.r 



non hush, we possil.ly could not improve iij.oii them in the desire for 



ble milk and go.>d he, -I', in moderate <|ii mtity, at the 1,-aM posi- 



>:nparative|y ne\\- country though we be, our 1. >!in U are 



lined, and ever land <; 1. The 



; Untariu at !> ist -when every fence will have ii-< 

 Miically, when OVery open ditch will be grudged. e\ 



