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cipal crops for this section are oats, millet, corn, clover, peas, 

 barley and rape. 



Oats are sown in early spring on rich land, manured well the 

 preceding season, and are ready to feed about July 1. A succes- 

 sion may be secured to last through July by sowing at intervals 

 of a week or ten da^'S from April 15 to May 15. If Canada field 

 peas are sown with the oats, at the rate of about one bushel to the 

 acre, the value of the feed is materially 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 crop. Any suplus not needed 

 for summer feeding will be found equally valuable to cure as hay 

 for winter use. 



Millet follows oats and peas. Probably the most useful variety 

 is the barnyard millet, although Hungarian and German 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 

 stage. An acre of good millet ought to keep 15 cows nearly 

 through August, supplemented by a moderate grain ration and 

 what the pasture produces, I should not advise growing a surplus 

 for hay, but should aim to feed the whole crop green, unless a 

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

 is permissible, but corn should be growu in preference for that 

 purpose. 



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

 to be supplanted by anything new, and its general use on dairy 

 farms should be realized to the fullest extent, both for green for- 

 age and as a silage crop. Its culture and use are too well known 

 to need extended discussion. Corn likes green farm manure better 

 than almost any other crop, because its season of most rapid growth 

 coincides with the season of most rapid nitrification of farm ma- 

 nures. They are well suited to each other. Liberal applications 

 of potash to corn crops are profitable. Wood ashes and the potash 

 salts are the standard sources of potash. 



Clover enters into our late summer soiling scheme as a general 

 utility crop, to be grown as largely as possible, to be fed green if 

 needed in the absence of oats, millet or corn, or if they are in short 

 supply to be fed in conjunction with them. Whatever clover is not 

 needed in this connection is equally acceptable when hayed for 

 winter use. 



Barley sown with peas, during the first half of August makes a 



