

WINTER GREEN ENSILAGE 161 



The writer's plan on such farms, where any cart- 

 ing of farmyard manure is undertaken (on one or two 

 farms no carting of either crops or farmyard manure is 

 undertaken, everything being consumed where 

 grown), is this: The dung is usually carted out as 

 opportunity offers on to the headlands of the fields 

 where it is intended to sow the winter greens. This 

 considerably expedites the work of carting and spread- 

 ing the manure. 



There are conditions, however, where to cart the 

 manure on to an oat stubble, before sowing the 

 vetches (this latter crop, in most rotations, will pre- 

 cede winter greens), better fits in with the general 

 arrangements. Again, conditions may be such that 

 farmyard manure might be applied as a top-dressing 

 on the vetches during the winter, say in frosty 

 weather. 



This matter of fitting in the work, especially such 

 heavy work as manure - carting and spreading, is 

 really a matter of individual judgment, and the 

 general art of fitting in or dovetailing the work is the 

 nucleus of all successful farming. Yet how very few 

 farm stewards possess this art to any great extent. 



Nevertheless, if a preceding crop of vetches have 

 been grown with artificial manures, the winter greens 

 should receive a liberal dressing of farmyard manure, 

 from 20 to 25 tons per statute acre. Along with this, 

 especially in dry seasons, or on poor land, from 1 to 

 1J cwt. of nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia per 

 statute acre, should be applied immediately the seed \ 

 has been sown. The object of giving artificial manures ^ 

 is to push on tne crop in its early stages of growth. 

 A good start with a winter green crop is one of the 

 main requisites for success. 



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