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States that are well adapted to its growth. The 

 exceptions are along the coast line of Washington 

 and Oregon. In the United States and Canada, 

 therefore, the rutabaga when grown is chiefly stored 

 in cellars and pits and fed to the live stock in winter. 

 It makes a grand winter food for all kinds of 

 live stock. 



While the rutabaga can only be grazed off after 

 the English method on the Pacific slope, or in cer- 

 tain of the mountain valleys of the south and south- 

 west, it can also be grown as pasture for sheep in 

 many sections of the country by broadcasting it on 

 certain soils and grazing it off before the season of 

 hard frost. When thus grown it is usually on new 

 lands, frequently spoken of as "breaking." This 

 method of growing rutabagas is not likely to become 

 very prevalent in this country. 



Distribution. — The rutabaga as a winter food 

 for live stock has a wide range of adaptation. Like 

 rape this plant is found at its best where the weather 

 is moist and cool. But good crops can be grown in 

 some of the western mountain valleys in which it 

 cannot be said of the air that it is really moist. 

 Western Oregon and Washington, near the sea, 

 British Columbia and Ontario have special adapta- 

 tion for rutabagas. In all the provinces of Canada 

 east from Assiniboia they may be successfully 

 grown, and also in all the states that border upon 

 Canada, but not equally well in all parts of these. 

 Rutabagas may also be grown further south, but 

 not with the same success, unless in places with a 

 sufficiently high altitude. 



Place in the Rotation. — The rutabaga crop 

 should always be made a cleaning crop, save when 



