90 Soiling. 



less than the estimates first above given. No cow 

 can possibly consume half a square rod of rye, bar- 

 ley, oats and peas, or millet in a day's feeding, 

 where there is a good strong growth. 



I cannot lose this opportunity to call your atten- 

 tion to the great feeding capacity there is in an acre 

 at this rate. There are 160 square rods in an acre. 

 This, at one-half square rod per day, gives 320 days' 

 feeding from one acre. 



It is always best to make a liberal allowance. 

 There need be no waste, since any surplus may be 

 cut and cured for winter forage, or, better still, 

 plowed under as green manure. 



In laying out the work necessary to provide for 

 fourteen head of full-grown animals, we will start 

 the fall before the season we intend to begin soiling, 

 and carry the work along for the year. The first 

 question is to decide how much land shall be allowed 

 to grow the necessary amount of forage. Fourteen 

 head of cattle (consuming, say, three-quarters of a 

 square rod per day) will require ten and one -half 

 rods per day, or seventy-three and one-half rods per 

 week ; say eighty, an even half acre. This will re- 

 quire for June and July (eight weeks) four acres of 

 ground. Then we add the necessary corn ground, 

 two acres more for the August crop ; the September 

 and October crops are grown on the land from which 

 the June and July crops were taken. For June we, 

 therefore, sow during the autumn this six acres, 

 more if possible, to rye and wheat. Wheat sown at 

 the same time as rye will follow rye the next spring, 



