26 AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. [Jan. 



a considerable proportion of our grass lands, pastures and 

 meadows, in their present state of productiveness, can claim 

 to be. More satisfactory results can be obtained, no doubt, 

 in many cases by turning indifferently yielding dry grass 

 lands, if at all capable of higher cultivation, to account for 

 the production of some other suitable fodder crops than 

 grasses. The good services of dry fodder corn, corn stover 

 and a good corn ensilage, for a more economical production 

 of milk, are deservedly from day to day more generally 

 recognized. However o:ratifvin<»: this fact will be consid- 

 ered, it is not advisable, in the light of past experience, in 

 a general farm management to raise one fodder crop at the 

 exclusion of all others, however lucrative at the time this 

 practice may prove ; such course can at l)est only offer a 

 temporary relief. The introduction of a greater variety, in 

 particular of annual reputed fodder crops, promises a more 

 permanent improvement in fodder supply. Such course 

 wherever adopted has not only resulted in cheapening the 

 production of milk and beef, but has proved to be a most 

 economical way to raise the general productiveness of farm 

 lands to a higher standard." 



Our local experience with a variety of annual leguminous 

 fodder crops, as vetches, cow-peas, serradella and soja bean, 

 has been very encouraging. The satisfactory results obtained 

 in previous years are fully confirmed year after year. We 

 are raising the present season vetch and oats, Canada peas 

 and oats, soja beans and serradella, partly for green fodder 

 and for ensilage, and partly for hay. 



Quantity of Milk produced per Day ( Quarts) . 



Consid(!ring the period of lactation in the case of each ani- 

 mal, the decline in yield of milk as the time of observation 



