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among the best for early pasture. Blue grass or orchard 

 grass will supply green feed as soon as the snow is off. 

 Alfalfa is on hand early and late in the regions where 

 it flourishes. Rye, in its territory, sown somewhat early 

 in the fall, makes an excellent substitute for grass early 

 the following spring. For a quick-growing crop sowed 

 in the spring rape is probably to be accorded first place, 

 as hogs may be turned in on it when it is a foot high, 

 which will be within a few weeks from sowing. 



SUCCOTASH 



A mixture crop may be used to good advantage for 

 preliminary pasturage. A sowing of ecjual parts wheat, 

 oats and barley, mixed, with the addition of 2 pounds 

 of rape seed to the acre, supplies good spring grazing. 

 "Succotash" is a term applied in recent years to various 

 mixtures sowed together and designed for either for- 

 age or soiling. These mixtures admit of considerable 

 range, but usually consist of one or more legumes, one 

 or more smaller cereals, and corn. Experiments in this 

 line have not been extensive enough to determine what 

 mixtures would be standard for special purposes, and at 

 present the term succotash may be applied to any mix- 

 ture of green crops for live stock feeding. 



A succotash crop may be purposely shortlived, and 

 to tide over an emergency, or it may be so calculated as 

 to return two soiling crops, with a moderate grazing 

 between the cuttings. In the former instance it will 

 probably be grazed off closely, and its usefulness ended. 

 When it is some crop that will yield a growth after the 

 first cutting the mixture should not be of such varieties 



