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Evergreen, and these two will yield, or should be made to 

 yield, at least eight tons of cured fodder, or eighteen tons 

 of ensilage, per acre. The next crop on the corn stub- 

 ble will be roots, and this crop is followed by rye seeded 

 with clover in the spring and cut green if necessary for 

 the cows in the summer. AVhere fine butter can be sold, 

 sweet corn is also readily salable; and as the dairyman 

 needs the fodder, this vegetable can be grown for market 

 with great advantage in conjunction with winter dairy- 

 ing. Musk-melons are another excellent crop for this 

 business, and some skillful growers make from .$300 to 

 1500 per acre from it upon a rye stubble, leaving the 

 land clear for sowing rye again for seeding with clover in 

 the spring. Early potatoes, peas, and summer cabbages 

 and turnips are also profitable crops for this business, 

 and they leave the land in time for a crop of sweet corn 

 or millet for winter feeding. It is these summer crops, 

 taken in connection with the fodder crops for winter use, 

 and which afford some feed for the cows while on the 

 restricted pasture during the summer, that present a sub- 

 ject for close study and methodical arrangement by the 

 winter dairyman. Another important part of the busi- 

 ness is the rearing of calves upon the sweet skim milk, 

 warmed to a right temperature (eighty to ninety de- 

 grees). The heifer calves from a herd of well bred cows, 

 or of good grades served by a pure bred Jersey, Holstein, 

 or Ayrshire bull, afford a considerable profit to the dairy- 

 man, and we know from personal experience that the 

 progeny of a good cow may be made to bring in to her 

 owner in the course of her useful life no less than $500 

 without any difficulty. 



The cows for winter dairying should be of some breed 

 which is largely productive of butter. The best strains 

 of Ayrshire cows are excellent, but w^e have found the 

 butter to be too hard under the heavy grain feeding and 

 the low temperature, and consequently an equal number 



