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FIG. 5. Ewes and lambs pasturing on rape, which has been practically all eaten off. 

 This crop, which was sown alone for early fall feeding, was used to supplement the 

 typical New England pasture shown in the background. 



be spared, it is probably best to raise the crop alone (see fig. 5), but 

 if the feed is not needed until some little time after corn is normally 

 cut, the latter practice answers the purpose as well. In New England 

 a period of from 8 to 12 weeks should be allowed from the time of 

 sowing the seed until the crop is ready to feed. If sown alone in early 

 May and cultivated, feed should be afforded by the latter part of July, 

 while a seeding in corn from July 1 to 15 ought to provide October 

 and later fall feeding as long as needed, much of the growth being 

 made after the corn is cut. Cultivation induces growth and in- 

 creases the yield, though the results obtained by seeding corn on 

 good land are very satisfactory. 



One acre of the crop grown alone, or 2 acres following corn, is 

 usually sufficient to fatten from 30 to 40 lambs if allowed the run of 

 other fields, as is usually the practice where rape is grown. Care 

 should be taken in regard to bloating, when first turning sheep into 

 a field of rape, but after the first few feeds no trouble need be ex- 

 pected. This crop, if more generally grown would do much toward 

 solving the fall feed question and should be more extensively used 

 where sheep are kept. 



WINTER FEEDS. 



As to winter feeds, any one of the finer hays makes good forage for 

 sheep. Legumes are to be preferred if not too coarse, coarse hays 

 making poor feeds for sheep. Alsike Clover in particular is to be 



