94 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Daniels. We tried it once, but I do not like to grow 

 two croj)S at the same time. Both growing together, neither 

 develops to the fullest maximum growth, and it is a hard job 

 to cut them by hand. I think a harvester would cut them all 

 right. 



Mr. S. H. Reed. Taking into account the difference in 

 season, would you advise Eureka corn for our use for the silo ? 

 We cannot plant until May 20. 



Mr. Daniels. I do not think your season is very different 

 from ours ; we expect frost about the 15th of September. 



Mr. Reed. We expect it from the 6th to the 8th, — never 

 later than the 10th. 



Mr. PoTTEK. I want to ask the lecturer why he prefers rye 

 to wheat ? My experience has been that it does not last very 

 long, gets woody, and does not do as well as wheat. 



Mr. Daniels. We are trying to introduce wheat into our 

 system, so as to have it to feed to hens. Wheat is a new thing 

 with us, and rye is one of the things you can almost always 

 bank on as a staple crop. You can sow it in the fall and get 

 good winter covering, and it is sure to do well in the spring. 

 I understand wheat winter-kills on certain soils. If wheat 

 will do as well as rye in the spring, I certainly advise planting 

 it, because it is as good in the green form as rye, and if grown 

 to maturity, so that you can have the grain for poultry and 

 the straw for bedding, it is certainly more valuable. 



Question. Do you eliminate the pasture in this system ? 



Mr. Daniels. Very nearly so. We let our milking herd 

 remain in the home pasture for a month or six weeks, expect- 

 ing them to get the equivalent of what we feed as hay. About 

 the first of July we feed them hay as well as ensilage, and 

 they remain in the pasture a little longer, going into the stable 

 about the 1st of September and remaining there the rest of the 

 year. The advantage of turning them into the pasture is that 

 it keeps them in good condition. If they are confined all the 

 time, their feet get out of shape. The young stock are turned 

 into another pasture every day through the season. 



Mr. DoDCJE. I think this is the most thorongh exposition I 

 have ever heard of the producing of dairy crops on the two 

 different types of land most of us own, — one where we can 

 grow tillage crops, and the other where we are obliged to grow 



