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also involved. The corn crop was ready for being 

 grazed in about six to nine weeks from the date 

 of sowing. 



As soon as the corn was grazed down, sorghum 

 was ready. It was sown alone in nearly all 

 instances, but on two or three occasions rape seed 

 was mixed with the sorghum seed. The advantage 

 of thus growing the two plants together was not 

 clearly apparent, as either the rape or the sorghum 

 was pretty certain to crowd the other, but the plan 

 should not be condemned without further trial. Fig- 

 ure 29 shows sorghum and rape, the third pasture 

 crop grown on the land for the season. The first was 

 rape and the second was corn and rape. In one 

 instance the sorghum was mown and then pastured. 

 In some instances it was grazed down three times 

 in succession and in others but twice. Whenever 

 it was deemed expedient, the sorghum was followed 

 by winter rye sown to provide pasture for the fol- 

 lowing year, as the sorghum ceased to furnish any 

 more pasture after the first frost. Sorghum is not 

 relished so highly as some of the other pasture plants 

 grown, but when the animals are confined to it they 

 consume it with an evident relish, and they make 

 much better progress than if confined to dry and 

 inadequate grass pastures. 



The last crop grown in the succession was 

 cabbage. The seed was sown in rows thirty inches 

 distant and at various times. On one plot it was sown 

 as early as May nth and on another as late as July 

 8th. The late heading varieties sown early proved 

 the most satisfactory, but this may not hold true of 

 localities in which the cabbage worm (Pieris rapae) 

 is not troublesome. This crop proved more satis- 



