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Up. SOW oats at the rate of about two bushels per acre 

 and harrow them in. We would sow Early Champion 

 oats. This in the latitude of central Iowa should give a 

 good grain feed by the 25th of June; earlier, south, and 

 later, north. If you cannot get the Early Champion oats, 

 sow Manshury barley. The next thing we would advise 

 is to select the \'ery earliest varieties of corn, say the 

 Early Wisconsin or Pride of the North. It is not worth 

 wiiile to plant them until about the usual time of early 

 corn-planting. We would plant in the latitude of central 

 Iowa about May i, if possible, with a drill, about one- 

 third thicker than the usual stand of corn, say a stalk 

 every ten inches. This will furnish early corn — not so 

 much of it as the later varieties, but by feeding it you 

 will get the market price of old corn. Except in case of 

 necessity, we would let it mature, if possible, but wc 

 would by all means grow these early varieties, say to the 

 extent of from three to seven or eight acres. 



"By this method the farmer can have pasturage for 

 his hogs, of the best kind, until the peas are formed. 

 The corn will furnish him grain feed later. He will be 

 astonished at the amount of feed he will get from two 

 or three acres of rape, but he should sow the grains with 

 it, as the hogs will prefer them until the rape is about 

 eight or ten inches high, after which they will prefer the 

 rape until the grains begin to form seed. 



"The shortage of the corn crop means not merely the 

 sale at a cheap price of a large amount of what the Eng- 

 lish call store cattle or stock cattle, and stock hogs and 

 stock sheep, but it will prevent the growing of hogs the 

 next vear. There is a harvest here for the man who can 



