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the preceding season, and are ready to feed about July 1. 

 A succession may be secured to last through July by sowing 

 at intervals of a week or ten days from April 15 to May 15. 

 If Canada field peas are sown Avith the oats, at the rate of 

 about one bushel to the acre, the value of the feed is ma- 

 terially increased. One acre of land well managed should 

 produce enough oats and peas to furnish two-thirds of the 

 roughage required by 15 cows for a month. With a pasture 

 . capable of giving full feed to 15 cows in June, an acre of oats 

 should make full supplement for July ; but the dairyman 

 need not fear to over-produce this cro}). Any surplus not 

 needed for sunnner feeding will be found equally valuable to 

 cure as hay for winter use. 



Millet follows oats and peas. Probal)ly the most useful 

 variety is the barnyard millet, although Hungarian and Ger- 

 man millets make valuable catch-crops. Barnyard millet 

 sown on rich land about the middle to last of May will be 

 ready to feed by August 1, and be a very acceptable forage 

 until corn has reached the milk staije. An acre of good 

 millet ought to keep 15 cows nearly through August, supple- 

 mented by a moderate grain ration and what the pasture 

 produces. I should not advise growing a surplus for ha}", 

 but should aim to feed the whole cro}) green, unless a part 

 of it could be turned to account for seed. Its use as silaoe 

 is permissible, but corn should be grown in preference for 

 that purpose. 



Corn^ the king of all forage crops for the corn belt, is not 

 likely to be su})})lanted by anything new, and its general use 

 on dairy farms should be realized to the fullest extent, both 

 for green forage and as a silage crop. Its culture and use 

 are too well known to need extended discussion. Corn likes 

 green farm manure better than almo.>jt any other crop, be- 

 cause its season of most rapid growth coincides with the 

 season of most rapid nitrification of farm manures. They 

 are Avell suited to each other. Liberal applications of potash 

 to corn crops are jirofitable. Wood ashes and the potash 

 salts are the standard sources of potash. 



Clover enters into our late summer soilinij scheme as a 

 general utility crop, to be grown as largely as possible, to 



