PASTURING AND SOILING I7I 



tliat the rapid gTOwth of one will smother others of a 

 slower growth. 



The Michigan experiment station obtained good results 

 with succotash crops (Bulletin No. 235). It was found 

 that a "succotash mixture, consisting of corn, peas, oats, 

 rape and clover, is an extremely useful combination and 

 that it can be produced as regularly and successfully as 

 any other crop or mixture if properly treated. Though 

 the first attempt was to use this mixture as a forage crop 

 for swine, it has not proved so valuable for that pur- 

 pose as was expected. When the succotash was grazed 

 off, the losses were heavy from the trampling and wal- 

 lowing of the animals ; in fact, so much so that it had 

 to be hurdled off, giving them access to but a limited 

 area every few days, and this is a somewhat expensive 

 and troublesome method. When cut, hauled, and fed in 

 the hogf lots or pens there was little or no. loss. Wlien 

 the rape and clover were bitten off close to the ground 

 by hogs many plants failed to grow again ; when cut 

 higher with a scythe they did not fail to grow. The 

 composition of this succotash does not vary greatly 

 from that of green corn in the earlier stages when 

 used for soiling. If succotash is grown to any great 

 extent for soiling purposes it should be sown at two 

 or three different dates, the first late in April or early 

 in May, the others following at intervals of ten days or 

 two weeks. From the different dates of seeding some one 

 or more of the lots is almost sure to produce a second 

 growtla suited for swine pasture. The ability to secure a 

 crop of clover on the same ground the next season is at 

 present uncertain, but is well worth trying for." 



