FOOD FROM FIELD ROOTS AND TUBERS 34! 



For sheep, the best results, all things considered, are 

 probably obtained from feeding cabbage, and in no way 

 can they be more profitably fed than by grazing them 

 off where they grew. An enormous amount of food per 

 acre can thus be furnished from a crop of cabbage grown 

 under favorable conditions, more than can be obtained from 

 rape, but more labor is involved in growing cabbage. The 

 grazing of cabbage may be continued later than the graz- 

 ing of rape, as cabbage take less injury from frost. As 

 when grazing down rape, the results will be more satisfac- 

 tory when the sheep may have access also to a grass pas- 

 ture in an advanced stage of growth. Sheep also answer 

 admirably for gleaning in areas from which the merchant- 

 able heads have been removed. In mild latitudes sheep may 

 be thus grazed far on into the winter, but on stiff clay soils, 

 such grazing would tend to impact the land. 



For swine, rejected cabbage may be profitably uti- 

 lized at any season and under nearly all conditions of 

 feeding, but the crop is never grown primarily for 

 such a use. Cabbage leaves and soft cabbage may be fed to 

 swine at all times, or they may be allowed to glean amid the 

 unharvested portions of a crop after removing the market- 

 able heads, but the waste will be greater than when sheep 

 are used for such grazing. The rejected heads from stored 

 cabbage may be better utilized by swine than by other stock, 

 as they are less harmed by consuming partially decayed 

 heads than other classes of live stock would be. 



To horses, cabbage are seldom fed, but there are 

 no reasons why they should not be fed to colts and 

 brood mares except those which arise from inconvenience 

 in feeding them. To work horses they would have to be 

 fed with prudent caution. 



Pumpkins. This crop may be grown successfully un- 

 der any conditions that are favorable to the growth of a crop 

 of corn. They are very frequently grown in the corn crop, 

 and they may be grown thus without in any way retarding 

 the growth of the corn, but they are also frequently sown as 



