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be taken and divided into two sections, or two fields 

 can be used for the purpose. On one section or field 

 tares can be sown in autumn, and should be sown in 

 rows and inter-cropped with winter greens. 



By this means a supply of green forage for 

 the folding of pigs will be available for eight or nine 

 months in the year, and, as mentioned in my book 

 on Tillage Dairy Farming,* pork can be produced 

 by folding pigs on such a crop at less than one-half 

 of what the cost was in pre-war times; where pigs 

 are fed in the ordinary manner, owing to the 

 higher price of meals due to the war, pig-feeding on 

 this system is not more than one-fourth as costly as 

 in the ordinary system. 



The remaining section can be cropped with mangels, 

 and after the mangels are lifted, tares inter-cropped 

 with winter greens in the following summer can 

 follow. That is to say, the rotation would consist of 

 first year, tares plus winter greens; second year, 1 

 mangels. The section which in one year is under the 

 former crop, will in the second year be under 

 mangels, and vici versa. 



* C. Arthur Pearson, Ltd. Price 2/6. 



