HOW TO CULTIVATE WINTER GREENS 145 



For this purpose rye is usually sown in late July or 

 early August, but it can be sown still earlier, say, 

 before midsummer, and cut green in the month of 

 September for soiling to cattle. June-sown rye by 

 the latter month will be about a yard high, and will 

 yield from 12 to 15 tons of green food per statute 

 acre. Then, if manured immediately (preferably 

 with liquid manure), it will give good sheep grazing 

 by the first of the following April, pr it could be cut 

 for a green soiling crop again about the third week 

 of April. 



If green soiling at the time mentioned is not 

 required, then the crop can be cut twice for the 

 purpose of conversion into sweet ensilage. Also it 

 may be cut in autumn, or soiled or folded in autumn, 

 but in the latter case it may be folded again in April, 

 and about a month after the sheep have been removed, 

 so quick does rye grow, it can be cut for a hay crop. 

 The land may then be broken up for a crop of rape or 

 hardy green turnips, to be sown in June. 



Another characteristic of rye is that it grows at a 

 lower temperature thap any other kind of winter 

 greens. 



SOWING RYE 



The sowing and cultivation of rye is quite a simple 

 matter. The crop is sown in exactly the same way 

 as an ordinary corn crop, the seed required being 16 

 stone per statute acre. As regards manure, from 15 

 to 20 tons of dung should be applied, or a 

 mixture of 3 cwt. of superphosphate, 3 cwt. of 

 kainit (when procurable), and 1 cwt. of sulphate 

 of ammonia, per statute acre. If the crop is 



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