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ing which we must depend solely upon grass as a 

 source of food for our flocks and herds, otherwise 

 we must draw on our winter stores to feed them. 

 " The Dwarf Essex rape is a plant which can be 



Rape Plant, showing growth of two months on station farm, July to 

 August, 1894. 



easily grown in many portions of the United States, 

 and which will furnish abundant supplies of succu- 



