8 FARM MANAGEMENT 



stuff for stock and also as litter or bedding for 

 them, when it becomes mixed with their dung 

 and urine, forming farmyard manure, which is 

 returned to the land to enrich it sufficiently to 

 grow good crops next year. 



Peas and beans, although not called corn 

 crops, may nevertheless be included in this 

 division, as their grain is a rich food-stuff and 

 their straw or ** haulm " serves the same pur- 

 pose as corn straw, though much inferior to it. 



The forage crops comprise all those giving 

 bulky nutritious herbage, such as meadow grass, 

 rye, lucerne, sainfoin, vetches, clover, maize, 

 timothy, etc. These crops may be cut and 

 made into hay for future use or may be con- 

 sumed in the green state. 



Root crops comprise turnips, swedes, man- 

 gels, rape, kohl rabi, potatoes, cabbages, etc., 

 and they provide the succulent cooling food 

 that is required by animals in connection with 

 grain and hay ; moreover, they form the bulk 

 of the animals' food in winter, when their chief 

 summer food, grass, has ceased to yield a 

 sufficiency. 



The above are the crops grown on the 

 arable or cultivated part of the farm. The grass 



