152 THE DOMESTIC SHEEP. 



An easy way to make this crop most useful is to grow it 

 adjoining a grass pasture so that the green stuff may be fed 

 in racks on the grass, and by moving the racks a little every 

 day get the whole of the pasture evenly manured by the 

 droppings. This is far more economical than folding the 



TWO MONTHS' OLD RAPE PLANT. 



sheep on the rape, by which a good part of it is trampled 

 down, and goes to waste as feed. 



In this experiment the rape was fed to hogs, and steers, 

 as well as to the lambs, proving it to be equally valuable 

 for this use as well. Unfortunately it is not adapted for the 

 silo, at least it has not been thought to be, but as the Ger- 

 man and French beet growers, for making sugar, ensilo the 



