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Analyses of Green Barley and Oreen Horse Bean when cut, July 9. 



HAY OF BARLEY, 



[The barley was cut July 9, 1885, while the seeds were in the milk.] 



Part of the crop was fed green in connection with a feed- 

 ing experiment with milch cows. 



Analysis of horse bean, see above. 



To raise a mixture of fodder plants upon one and the 

 same field has proved, in many instances, good economy; 

 the total yield is in most instances larger than if each crop 

 had been raised by itself. The practice of raising some 

 of our grain crops, together with difierent kinds of legu- 

 minous plants, — as clover, vetch, beans, peas, etc., — de- 

 serves the serious consideration of our farmers. 



A proper selection of mixed crops for fodder can not only 

 substantially aid, in the earlier part of the summer season, in 



