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In case of I. the yield and cost of milk are practically 

 identical, while in II. the hay has slightly the advantage. 

 This is, however, largely ofiset when it is noted (see sum- 

 mary above) that the vetch and oats period was four times 

 as long as the hay period ; cows would naturally shrink 

 somewhat in their yield during this time. The cows gained 

 in flesh during the vetch and oats period. 



Yield ^jer Acre of Vetch and Oats. 



We have succeeded in raising on an average about three 

 tons of hay per acre. It begins to bloom between the 25th 

 of June and the 10th of July, depending of course on the 

 season. It can be fed as a green fodder for some ten days, 

 and the remainder made into hay, or it can l)e cut directly. 



Several lots of seed can be sown some ten days apart in 

 the spring, and green fodder thus secured for nearly a month. 



After cutting the vetch and oats the land can be ploughed 

 and planted to a second fodder crop. We followed vetch 

 and oats this year with Hungarian grass, and in spite of the 

 extremely dry season succeeded in getting one ton per acre 

 of Hungarian hay. Had there been a fair amount of rainfall, 

 this yield would certainly have been doubled. By this 

 method four tons of hay per acre of an equal value with 

 good English hay were secured. The land was manured with 

 ten tons of barn-yard manure in the spring, and received no 

 other fertilizer during the season. In place of the manure 

 six hundred pounds of ground l)one with two hundred pounds 

 of muriate of potash would have answered the same purpose. 



jSeed j)6r Acre. 



It has been found that four bushels of oats and fifty pounds 

 of vetch are about the right quantities and proportion for one 

 acre. Both seeds are sown at the same time, and harrowed 

 in. In our case an Acme harrow was used. 



