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Feeds and Feeding. 



and it has enormously curtailed the growing of legaminous forage 

 crops also. It is a highly interesting and still debatable question 

 aa to how and when and where (if anywhere) systems of farm- 

 ing based on the supplemeaa,ting of Indian corn with roots may 

 best be practiced. ' ' 



While the corn plant is bo truly the superior of the root crop, 

 stockmen should watch, lest failing to make the proper use of the 

 one they neglect the other. Farmers as a rule should have some 

 succulent food for their stock during the long winter; if it is not in 

 the form of silage, then let it be roots. 



II. Miscellaneous Forage Plants, Fruits, etc. * 

 Digestible nutrieTtts and fertilizing constituents. 



Name of feed. 



Cabbage 



Spurry 



Sugar-beet leaves ., 



Pumpkin, field 



Pumpkin, garden. 

 Prickly comfrey... 



Rape 



Acorns, fresh 



328. Cabbage. — This plant is grown to sf>me extent in Europe 

 for stock-feeding. On rich ground, yields fully equal or greater 

 than those from roots may be obtained. Ko food is more highly 

 lelished by sheep or dairy cows, though for the latter cabbage 

 must be fed with caution because it im^Darts a taint to the milk. 

 Where soiling is practiced, cabbage may be found a profitable 

 crop, though the labor required in the cultivation and the difS- 

 culties of storage will probably turn the feeder to the corn plant 

 in its stead. 



329. Spurry. — This plant, grown to a small extent in Europe, 



may possibly prove of value in America on soils too light and 



sandy for red clover. Kedzie, of the Michigan Station, "-' reports 



1 For description of numerous varieties of forage plants see Fodder and 

 Forage Pliints, Bui. 2, Division of Agrostology, U. S. Dijpt. Agr. 

 ■' Uul. lul. 



