RYE AND OATS PASTURE. 



Here is a combination that will furnish most excellent fall pas- 

 ture. And how the ewes and lambs will relish it ! Winter rye is 

 often pastured in -the spring; but with oats, sown as a catch crop on 

 odd bit of ground it is especially certain and cheap as a fall pasture. 

 Unlike rape, rye will grow on poor land, while oats in the fall will 

 grow wherever they're dropped. Everyone can find a place for few 

 acres. If no other available land, after corn is cut, run cultivator or 

 riding harrow over corn stubble and sow broadcast. If your corn is 

 cut clean, not too many ears lying on the ground, you can turn in 

 few hours each day before husking; however this practice requires 

 watchfulness, for while it will take the lambs a long time to discov- 

 er and eat corn ears, the ewes will soon nose them out and if left 



too long at a time may eat too many. When they do get to eating 

 them, if you leave them all day, you'll very likely find a dead ewe 

 or so at night. Some may say, why not pasture a regular crop of 

 rye and not bother with this extra piece? Well, you can; we have 

 ourselves, but the practice has many objections. The crop may not 

 be much injured if it has good top, the young timothy (usually sown 

 with winter rye) will though, and then the ground will be compact- 

 ed so as not to be in as good condition for clover seeding the follow- 

 ing spring. It is much better to have a piece by itself, you'll get 

 two or three times the amount of feed from it and won't worry over 

 possible injury. Just make up your mind to have it and you'll find 

 the land. Sow any time during September, use twice as much rye 



