72 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



II. The growing of soiling crops, the introduction of 

 new soiling crops, and practical feeding experiments to 

 test their merits. 



Goessmann was very much interested in animal 

 nutrition. He had studied thoroughly the works of 

 Grouven, Wolff, Henneberg, Stohmann, and their 

 pupils, and was anxious to try out and put in practice 

 their teachings. He recognized that the New England 

 pasture was rapidly becoming inferior, due to neglect 

 and to the oft-occurring summer droughts; and further 

 that the hay crop was likely to decrease in amount and 

 increase in price. In order to remedy these conditions 

 he advocated the growing of a variety of summer for- 

 age crops, especially the legumes. He experimented 

 with vetch, alfalfa, serradella, horse-beans, lupines, 

 cow-peas, soy beans, and many others of less economi- 

 cal importance, most of which were new to this country. 

 He also advised the growing of mixed fodder crops, 

 that is, the mixture of a non-legume with a legume, 

 recognizing that a larger yield frequently resulted than 

 when these two crops were grown separately. In his 

 judgment, a mixture of vetch and oats, and peas and 

 oats was a very satisfactory combination. Other green 

 crops which especially proved their worth from his 

 point of view, were the soy bean, the cow-pea, and the 

 serradella. He recognized in the lupines a valuable 

 plant for soil-renovation. 



In looking over the results of his experiments with 

 green crops, one is impressed with the large variety 

 of plants that he brought together for trial. In the 

 writer's judgment, however, he did not succeed in 



