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laid down in these notes. By this our green fodders would accompany 

 the first, second and fourth divisions after sod breaking, so as to agree, and 

 not interfere with s} T stematic rotation and management over the whole 

 farm. 



The sod for one or two years' pasture is broken up and dropped with 

 peas and grain fodders, these grain fodders being corn, tares and oats 

 millet and rye ; the second year is wheat and oats in proportion of five 

 and ten respectively ; the third in roots with foliage fodders in the shape 

 oj rape, cabbage and kale, and prickley comfrey all the latter as with 

 roots proper, admitting of thorough cultivation, manuring, and cleaning, 

 upon which rests the backbone of this system. During the fourth year 

 grass seeds (of timothy and clover) are laid down with barley or wheat, 

 and part, if deemed necessary, with red clover alone as the green fodder 

 section of this division, and of course the fifth and sixth years are hay, 

 with the exception of, say, one-half of the sixth as pasture ; seventh year 

 pasture. 



In all this there is an easy and luxurious cropping, suitable to the 

 best of mixed farming and according, with the " soiling " system under 

 consideration. There is no excess of grain and hay, but thorough cleaning 

 and strengthening of soils by root management, with sufficient rest (so 

 -called) by depasturing with sheep and young cattle. 



The twenty acres devoted to green fodders, will on an average, give, 

 Bunder the best management, 234 tons per annum. 



WHAT CAN BE DONE WITH THIS AMOUNT ON GREEN FODDERS. 



Allowing for waste, one cattle beast of average size, age and circum- 

 stances as regards fattening, breeding, or milking, will consume daily 100 

 Ibs. of these green materials, along with such dry fodders and grain as 

 may be considered desirable more or less, of course, according to objects. 

 Tor the six months named this means the maintenance of twenty-six head, 

 or nearly one and one-third (1J) animal per acre. Now it is well 

 known in Canadian experience that it takes fully three acres of ordinary 

 pasture not poor pasture remember, but well laid down timothy and 

 -clover, to keep one of such cattle in full progressive condition either 

 laying on fat decently well, or milking well over the average, no stinting 

 or having the animals walking two miles a day over and over a twenty 

 acre field in search of a bellyful. 



We have then the striking difference of four (4) to one (1) meantime, 

 in favour of " soiling," or against grazing, without allowing for any other 



