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than sixteen inches, but a small acreage sown in rows 

 for soiling dairy cattle or other stock will be found to 

 be very satisfactory even in the driest parts. 



68. Millet. — The millets are grown only on a very 

 small acreage. Their chief use is as "catch crops" in 

 seasons when the hay crop promises partial failure. They 

 do best in warm, moist seasons. In early spring they 

 make but little headway, and they suffer injury from 

 the first fall frost. They promise most as catch crops in 

 the dry belt and do best when sown early in June. 



Fig. 35. — Cutting Sweet Clover at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 



Sweet clover is probably the best biennial legume forage plant for regions 

 having less than sixteen inches of precipitation. 



Where oats can be grown satisfactorily for hay it is 

 questionable whether it pays to grow millet. 



69. Sweet Clover. — This crop has been little grown 

 as yet by western farmers. It is, however, the most suit- 

 able biennial legume for the dry parts, in spite of its 

 coarseness and bitterness. In those areas where the 

 grasses do not yield well, and particularly where the 

 soil is lacking in organic matter or for any reason is in 

 poor tilth, this crop promises much as a forage and a 

 soil improver. Only northern grown strains should be 



