CHAPTER IX. 

 ROTATION OF SOILING CROPS. 



LAYING OUT THE WORK. 



IN laying out the work it is simply necessary to 

 know how many head of animals we wish to soil. 

 If some are calves or yearlings, estimate about 1,000 

 Ib. live weight as equal to a full-grown animal. For 

 the sake of illustration, let us suppose that we wish, 

 the coming season, to soil ten cows, three two-year- 

 olds, four yearlings, seventeen head, equal to four- 

 teen head of full-grown stock weighing 1,000 Ib. each. 

 The first thing we wish to know is how much land we 

 will require per day, week, or month to supply the 

 necessary amount of forage. The following esti- 

 mate has been adopted of the land required for a full 

 grown animal per day : 



Of lucern, clover, three-fourths square rod per 

 day. Of barley, oats and peas, rye, wheat, millet, 

 one-half square rod per day. Of corn or sorghum, 

 one-quarter of a square rod per day. 



This is a fair estimate for a day's feeding on land 

 in a good state of cultivation. For a beginner it 

 would be well to add, say, one-fourth more in each 

 case until he learns the capacity of his soil. When 

 land is in a high state of cultivation, it will require 



