Soilage. 



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is not only practical but is absolutely essential to reasonable success 

 on most stock farms. The usual midsummer shrinkage in milk flow 

 with cows and in flesh with beef cattle can best be avoided by housing 

 them in darkened stables during the heated portion of the day, and 

 by feeding liberally with fresh-cut green forage, turning the cattle 

 to pasture at night for exercise and grazing. Under this system 

 young animals continue growing, steers increase in fatness, and 

 cows yield a normal flow of milk during a period of the year when, 

 because of heat, flies, and scant pastures, there is usually no profit, 

 but often serious loss. It is also advantageous to supply extra green 

 forage during the fall months, even tho the pastures have then in 

 part recovered their ability to supply nutriment. 



330. A soiling 1 chart. Below is given a soiling chart by Voorhees 1 

 of the New Jersey Station : 



Forage crops grown at the New Jersey Station for the support of a herd 

 equal to 50 dairy cows for 6 months. 



This chart is especially helpful as an example of a practical system 

 of soilage, since it records the actual attainment of one who has suc- 



1 Forage Crops, p. 35. 



