22 FORAGE CROPS. 



forage less coarse than would result from thin sow- 

 ing. And intermediate quantities of seed should be 

 sown on intermediate soils. Varieties of corn with 

 a large seed kernel should be sown more thickly than 

 those with a small seed kernel. And those kinds that 

 are naturally of a leafy habit of growth should be 

 sown more thinly than those opposite in character. 

 The larger the proportion of other seeds sown 

 along with the corn, the less will be the proportion 

 of the seed corn required. When corn is sown to 

 provide forage without intermixture of other seeds, 

 the quantity of seed to be used will range from one 

 to three bushels per acre. When sown in combina- 

 tion with other forage plants, the proportion of corn 

 may be reduced as low, in some instances, as one- 

 half bushel per acre. Equal quantities of cowpeas 

 and corn sown together would answer well in some 

 localities. The proportions of two parts corn and 

 one of vetches would answer well in other localities, 

 and Dwarf Essex rape seed sown with the corn, or 

 with the corn and vetches, at the rate of two and 

 three pounds of the seed per acre, should further 

 improve the pasture. And when the corn had all 

 disappeared, in consequence of the grazing, the other 

 plants would, under certain conditions, make a good 

 second growth. But the proportion of the seed of 

 the respective plants used that would best meet the 

 requirements of each locality can be fully ascertained 

 only by actual test. A field of second growth of 

 rape sown with corn is seen in Fig. 3. 



Cultivation. — When the corn is sown alone,- it 

 will be greatly benefited by harrowing it judiciously 

 at least two or three times from the period of sowing 

 the corn and the period when it shall have attained 



