268 PRINCIPLES OF f'l.F.DlNG FARM ANIMALS 



bemcntionecl : pca.s and oats, rye, alfalfa, clover, vetch and 

 wheat, soybeans, cowpeas, corn, millet, sorghum, and rape. 

 On some farms green crops are fed throughout the season. 

 In a general way the practice includes the rotation somewhat 

 as follows, with substitutes in certain cases where the season 

 has unfavorably influenced the usual order or makes possible 

 the use of some local crop : 



''a. Winter r3'e or wheat, to be cut in May. 



"6, Green alfalfa, to be used any time. 



"c. Green clover, cut and fed in June. 



''d. Peas and oats, sown early in spring, with a succession 

 at two or three intervals. 



"6. Corn or sorghum, planted as early as possible, to be 

 used during July and August. 



''/. Millet, planted in June or early July, and fed in August. 



"^. The land from which the peas and oats and early corn 

 are removed may be seeded to millet for August feeding." 



A number of rotations for soiling have been worked out for 

 different localities. These tables usually give the crop to 

 plant, the amount of seed per acre, the time of seeding, the 

 area for ten cows, and the time of cutting. 



The main advantage of soilage over pasturage is the much 

 larger amount of feed which may be removed from the 

 land, as an animal on pasture, by tramping, defecating, 

 urinating, slobbering, etc., destroys more feed than it eats. 

 Also one may often get two crops off a part of the land in 

 one year. Thus, one acre in soiling crops may support as 

 many animals as two or three acres in pasture. The dis- 

 advantages of soiling are the greater expenditure for labor, 

 seed, and fertilizer in producing the crops, and the greater 

 expenditure for labor in cutting and hauling them to the 



