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come so rank, especially if the season is a wet one, that the plants 

 will grow as tall as the oats or barley. When this happens trouble 

 occurs at harvest time owing to the green rape plants being cut and 

 bound in the sheaves, causing them to rot under the bands. The 

 following is a better plan: Eight or nine days after sowing the oats 

 or barley, when the young grain plants are three or four inches high, 

 run a slant-tooth harrow over the field to loosen the soil. Then 

 seed two or three pounds of rape and harrow lightly again. By 

 seeding in this way the grain crop has so much the start of the rape 

 that the latter is kept small and spindling until the grain is harvested. 

 After harvest the rape plants getting the benefits of sun and moist- 

 ure begin to grow, and in good season the field will soon be covered 

 with green forage. Rape seed can be sown broadcast any time 

 from April until August. For broadcast seeding prepare the land as 

 for oats and sow three or four pounds of seed per acre and harrow in 

 lightly. Land on which rape is sown broadcast should be compara- 

 tively free from weed seeds and in good condition generally." 

 HENRY. 



CARE OF FALL AND WINTER LAMBS. 



Fall lambs come strong and can look after themselves; there is 

 little or no trouble with the ewes, the most important thing is to 

 watch their udders, for they have full ones at that time. We make 

 a practice of putting the ewes on thin pasture a few weeks before 

 the lambs are due, then as fast as they drop the lambs we take them 

 to the barn, where they are kept for a few days, getting a bite of 

 hay and a bit of grain. As soon as the lambs take all the milk, the 

 ewes can be put on full pasture of grass, rye and rape, until snow 

 flies. One thing to bear in mind is, these lambs should never get 

 wet; fall storms are not like summer showers, and they are very 

 severe on young lambs, even the heavy dews of fall nights where 

 the pasture is tall and heavy should be avoided. For this reason 

 and also because it is safer for the ewes, pasture the rye, rape and 

 new seeding of grass during the day, and put them on the short 

 grass at night. The best way of all is to bring them to the barn for 

 over night, they will have shelter in case of sudden storm, and any- 

 way when the lambs are a few weeks old you will want to teach 

 them to eat grain; the bam is the place to do this. They should 



