32 KEEPING ONE COW. 



English) Peas make an excellent food, coming into use in March, 

 and lasting to June. I remember one year I produced five crops 

 for soiling, on the same land, in one year, namely : oats, three of 

 corn, and one of cow-peas. The last named is a superb food late 

 hi the year, after corn has gone. I have never experimented with 

 roots, nor am I aware of any being cultivated in the South as a 

 soiling crop. Cabbages set out in September and October will be 

 ready for feeding in December, and will, next to corn, produce the 

 largest weight of green food. One year I fed them to a consider- 

 able extent, and found my cows were very partial to them. By 

 beginning with cabbages in December, to be succeeded by oats in 

 March, then peas, corn, and millet, to wind up in November with 

 cow-pea, a cow in our climate can be soiled every day in the year. 



