24 FORAGE CROPS. 



the hight of four to six Inches, By judicious har- 

 rowing is meant, using a light harrow, adjusting the 

 teeth to a backward slant that will hinder them from 

 cutting too deeply and too erectly, and using it when 

 the land is not overmoist. When the harrow teeth 

 are used in an erect position, they tear out too much 

 of the corn. As soon as the seed has been soAvn, the 

 roller may, in nearly all instances, be made to follow 

 the drill with much advantage. It presses the par- 

 ticles of soil more closely around the seed, lessens 

 the degree of the exposure of the seeds to the light, 

 and lessens the drying out of the soil; hence the 

 quick germination of the corn will be greatly facil- 

 itated, unless where moisture is abundant. On soils 

 that lift with the wind, the harrow should soon 

 follow the roller, and in any case the crop should be 

 harrowed before the corn has appeared. The other 

 harrowings, of course, come later. But when other 

 plants are sown with the corn, one harrowing given 

 before the plants are up may be all that can be given 

 without hazard to the plants. 



Pasturing. — When pasturing corn with cattle or 

 with sheep, it should be allowed to make a good 

 growth before the animals are turned in to graze it 

 down, as it does not sprout up again. The grazing 

 should commence when the plants are from eighteen 

 to twenty-four inches high. But where the promise 

 of forage is so abundant that the supply is likely to 

 be quite beyond the requirements of the live stock 

 that are to be grazed upon the corn, the pasturing 

 should begin somewhat earlier, unless in instances in 

 which the residuum of waste from the pasturing 

 should be looked upon as an important factor when 

 plowed under for improving the land. Care should 





