CHAPTER XII. 



SUCCESSION IN FORAGE CROPS. 



By succession in forage crops is meant that 

 order in which they may be grown throughout the 

 season so as to provide pasture in uninterrupted con- 

 tinuity, and so that each kind of forage may be 

 grazed when at its best. The treatment of this 

 question is difficult because of the great variation in 

 the forage crops that are adapted to various sections 

 in the wide area under consideration, and because of 

 the no less variation in the climates of the same. 

 No better plan, probably, can be adopted than to 

 divide the country into sections, and to formulate a 

 succession in forage crops that would be suitable to 

 each. This division should, of course, have a due 

 regard to similarity in conditions such as relate to 

 climate and soil. 



The various forage crops will be enumerated in 

 the order in which they are usually ready for being 

 grazed. They are not thus enumerated with the 

 idea that the farmer shall grow all of them, or even 

 a majority of them, in a single season. It would 

 seldom be wise for him to do so. But they are men- 

 tioned in the order named that he may the more 

 readily select such of them for being grown as shall 

 best suit his purpose. Where grasses are a sure 

 reliance, it will seldom be necessary for the farmer 

 to grow more than one, two or three kinds the 

 same year. Forage from grass should always be 



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