132 CROP GROWING AND CROP FEEDING 



fertility that is going on there. Ere long those lands 'will reach the point 

 where wheat will grow only by liberal fertilization, the necessity for which 

 could be avoided by a timely method of systematic farming. The old notion 

 that stock and dairy farming require a long rotation, and the keeping of the 

 land in grass till the grass runs out, hence, dividing up the farm into a 

 multitude of small fields to be pastured in their turn, is fast giving way to 

 a more rational system in which the great American forage crop, Indian 

 corn, plays an important part ; and the silo becomes the means for increasing 

 the manure deposit, and the fertility of the soil. Feeding the whole corn 

 crop, stalks and all, in the most complete manner, and using the legume crop 

 to balance it, enables the dairy farmer to become a wheat grower as well, 

 and to greatly increase the productive capacity of his soil for his money crops 

 of grain and the dairy. Growing wheat in a three year rotation, with 

 legumes and Indian corn, gives the dairyman two strings to his bow while 

 increasing the strength of both. 



