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CLOVER. 



Among the clovers, the Mammoth or Common Red varieties 

 mixed with alsike are the best for silage purposes. When cut in 

 blossom and run through the feed cutter, they can be ensiloed to 

 best advantage, and give a very good quality of feed ready to use 

 at any time, and even to take the place of soiling crops in summer 

 when grass is scarce. In value it comes next to corn both as to 

 succulence and milk-producing qualities. 



PEAS AND OATS. 



Peas and oats make a good quality of ensilage when cut fine 

 and thoroughly packed. Unless it is well packed so as to drive out 

 nearly all the air it will not keep. It must, in addition, have been 

 cut at an early stage, say when the oats are in the milk. It had 

 better be mixed with clover, alfalfa or corn to insure good results. 



ROOTS AND POTATOES. 



MANGELS. 



Mangels are among the best feeds that can be fed cows in milk. 

 They are exceedingly palatable, easily digestible and very nutritious. 

 Where pulped and fed along with cut dry feed they add greatly to 

 the value of the latter. They have the effect of hardening the 

 butter slightly and are said to affect favourably the flavour of the 

 milk and cream. Much has been said about their value as a sub- 

 stitute for meal in feeding dairy cows. They are, no doubt, of some 

 value as decreasing the quantity of meal necessary, but need not be 

 expected to replace the meal ration to any great extent. Their great 

 value lies in their remarkable palatability or acceptability to dairy 

 cows. A cow refusing to eat almost any other kind of feed will 

 greedily eat quite a considerable Quantity of this most valuable root. 



Of the three types commonly grown, the Long Red or Gate Post, 

 the Tankard or Half Long and the Globe, the Long Red is usually 

 the most prolific cropper as well as the most nutritious. 



(For methods of growing, etc., see Experimental Farm Bulletin 

 No. 67). 



POTATOES. 



The potato is high in nutritive constituents but usually com- 

 mands siuch a good price for table use that it is seldom used as a 



