56 THE EQUIPMENT OF THE FAKM. 



The land referred to in the previous table has been 

 cropped as follows : 



1. Wheat ....... 100 Acres 



{ Trifolium followed by late-sown turnips, or mustard 1 



' \ Vetches do. do. do. do. 10 



9 J Rye, followed by early-sown turnips . . 10 



' "S Mangel Wurzel 30 



/ Swedish Turnips 30 



( Cabbage, early and late .... 10 



3. Barley and Oats 100 



4 f Clover 50 



'" \ Winter beans 50 



The produce, so far as provision for livestock is con- 

 cerned, which is the point under consideration now, will 

 include straw, hay, and green food of various kinds. The 

 straw will go only partly for food, chopped up and mixed 

 with pulped roots and a certain amount of meal or cake. 

 It will thus be a contribution to the feeding powers of the 

 farm and must therefore be named : but it will mainly go 

 as litter to the dung-heap. The hay will be calculated in 

 the following table not as hay but as the green crop which 

 it originally was, the months for its consumption being those 

 in which the hay, into which that green crop has been con- 

 verted, is eaten. The probable produce per acre is men- 

 tioned in the first column of the table, and in the sub- 

 sequent columns corresponding to the months of the year 

 we have stated the quantities available for each month from 

 the several crops. 



The produce according to this calculation comes out equal 

 to 350 tons of green food a month more or less during the 

 year, of which some 440 tons are given as hay about 50 

 tons a month during 7 months of the year, a certain quantity 

 being left for use during the summer. This is equal to 

 10 tons of hay, ( = 50 tons of green food) monthly during 



