GERMAN FARMING — IQSS 



Germany as in England, therefore the risk is not so 

 great as one might imagine. 



To get back to the farming story, the first impres- 

 sion on the journey from Hanover down into 

 WestphaHa is one of admiration. You think, what 

 crops ! and how well the land is farmed, not a spare 

 foot in field, forest or garden ; even the roadsides 

 are planted with apple- or pear-trees. The fields 

 were just heavy with standing crops, and reminded 

 me very much of a visit I paid to the Lothians 

 of Scotland in the late summer recently, just vital 

 crops for man and beast. No meadow hay for 

 the cows in winter, or very little, just a few odd 

 pastures for summer feeding. You would see clover, 

 wheat, barley (winter), sugar beet, rye, oats and 

 beans, also many fields of rape seed to supplement 

 the call for oil, following on in rotation much as I 

 have recorded them, and I must not forget the very 

 important potato crop. 



I was particularly interested in the oat and bean 

 mixture, both of spring variety. This is a crop 

 grown on a 4 to 9 basis, and quite a common one, 

 more particularly for the milk cow. In order to 

 make myself quite clear, let me say the 4 to 9 basis 

 is for planting purposes, and is not quoted as a 

 correct balanced ration. It is my intention to give 

 this crop a trial. I rather think it will fill the gap 

 we have in our home-grown feeding-stuffs. 



Another thing that strikes one, or it did me, who 

 is in the habit of seeing a few fallow fields on heavy 

 land, is the absence of them in Germany. It may 

 have been partial, of course, to that part of the 



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