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delivery or wheel-rake, can be used for the subsequent 

 curing and saving. 



Even where no attempt is made to convert the crop 

 into hay, where the intention is to make ensilage, 

 similar trouble arises. The crop is all tangled, is 

 very difficult to load by hand — it is next to impossible 

 to use a hay-sweep — and, if the stuff has to be chaffed 

 before put into silo, the wet green forage, during the 

 cutting, produces a lot of " soup," chokes the blower, 

 and frequently damages the machine. 



AN AGE OF MACHINERY 



The policy of the writer, in all his farming 

 operations, is to closely follow the factory idea. If a 

 crop cannot be handled by machinery, then (1) either 

 modify the method of raising the crop, so that it can,, 

 and, if this proves impossible, as is to a large extent 

 the case with roots; (2) reduce the crop to a small 

 area, or (3) dispense with it altogether. 



CULTIVATION OF TABES 



The tare or vetch crop can be introduced at almost 

 any stage in the rotation. It can be sown on the lea 

 or after potatoes or roots, also after a crop of winter 

 greens consumed in springtime, and, as is usual, 

 under a Continuous Cropping rotation, on stubble land 

 after harvest. The crop may also, by the adoption 

 of the inter-cropping system, be sown amongst corn 

 and other crops, before the former are cut. 



TIME OF SOWING 



Tares can be sown at practically any time of the 

 year — in fact, the crop is probably the most adaptable 



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