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If oue has but a few acres of tillable land, and wants to get 

 a largo amount of roughage to feed with ensilage, he can disc 

 some corn stubble in early spring, sow oats and marrowfat 

 peas, make them into hay, disc again, and sow millet. Two 

 large crops of hay may be secured, and corn be grown on the 

 millet sod the following year. The practice of alternating 

 corn with oats, peas and millet may be continued by applying 

 a heavy coat of manure every year. When corn is to follow 

 corn, I sow rye on the corn stubble, and harrow in. This 

 protects the ground from washing by heavy rains ; utilizes the 

 available portions of winter-applied manure in early spring, 

 holding them until the corn crop is ready to use them ; fur- 

 nishes early pasture, a soiling crop or poor hay, before plow- 

 ing time ; when turned under, adds humus to the soil and 

 makes the soil looser ; and, slowly decomposing, furnishes food 

 for the corn during the growing season. Perhaps a better dis- 

 position of the rye field in the spring is to harrow in clover 

 seed and roll, then cut a crop of rye hay and a crop of clover 

 hay that season, two or three crops of clover hay the following 

 season, and corn again the third. I have been perplexed for 

 many years to know what kind of a rotation to practice, having 

 but little land, and not wishing to grow anything except stock 

 feed. I have about settled on this: (1) corn; (2) rye hay 

 and clover hay; (3) three crops of clover; (4) corn again on 

 clover sod. I am not satisfied with this method, for I do not 

 like rye hay, but am at a loss to know what better to do. 



Manure spread daily on the land, except during the muddy 

 season and on deep snow, does the land much more good than 

 manure that has been jjiled around the barns ; and the absence 

 of the old-time manure pile has no bad effect on the quality 

 of the milk, the spring work, or the appearance of the place. 

 The spreader should be regulated so as to cover all the land 

 every year. Top-dress the meadows first up to January or 

 February, then apply the fresh manure to the corn ground. 

 I have noted that the portions of the corn field having the 

 freshest manure had the heaviest corn. 



Grain. — I feed a pound of grain for every three pounds of 

 milk a cow gives, as a standard, feeding more or less, according 

 to age of cow, condition, pressure of milk market, etc. Four 



