this regularity, but it will be sufficient for the purpose. The crop is 

 to be cultivated and harvested in the same manner as corn. The 

 first seeding should be made May 15 and a second June 5. 

 One-half acre is ample for 10 cows two weeks. The first sowing will 

 be ready to cut about August 20 and the second the first week in Sep- 

 tember. When cutting begins the corn will have many well formed 

 ears, and the beans will have begun to form seed. The yield to the 

 acre will be in the vicinity of 12 tons, equal to 2| tons of dry matter 

 containing 3600 pounds of actual digestible material. If corn is grown 

 extensively upon the farm one planting of corn and beans may be 

 sufficient, the farmer preferring to feed from his field corn after the 

 first week in September. 



Fodder corn without the beans also makes an excellent green feed. 



Soy beans may be grown by themselves in rows 2i feet apart. 

 The usual quantity of seed required for an acre is 16 quarts, which 

 may be sown with a corn planter so regulated as to place the seed 

 one inch apart in the row. The crop is cultivated in the same man- 

 ner as corn. The writer is however inclined to prefer the cor7i and 

 bean mixture for forage purposes.* 



A small power cutter is a great convenience on any farm. Such 

 crops as barnyard millet, corn, and corn and beans, are eaten clean 

 if cut fine, while if fed without cutting, the animals are likely to 

 leave the coarser portions as soon as they become tough. 



Barley and peas furnish a satisfactory green crop dur- 

 Barley and ing the first three weeks of October ; they are not 

 peas. injured by frosts. One and one-half bushels each to 



the acre are sown together the first of August and 

 deeply harrowed in with a wheel harrow. The yield will not be as large 

 as in the case of the oats and peas, six tons to the acre being about an 

 average crop. The land from which the oats and peas were taken 

 earlier in the season can be utilized, thus producing two crops in one 

 year, equivalent to four tons of hay to the acre. Should the month 

 of August prove unusually dry, this crop might prove a failure et^pec- 



*CoiMi and soy beans also make a very satisfactory ensilage. When tliej' are 

 grown separately, however, the extra expense involved in cutting and putting the 

 beans into the silo exceeds the value of the increased amount of protein 

 obtained. It is also questionable whether the corn and beans if grown together 

 could be handled with sufHcient economy to warrant their use for silage purposes. 

 The experiment is however worthy of trial. 



