Soilage. 



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is not only practical but is absolutely essential to reasonable success 

 on most stock farms. The usual midsummer shrinkage in milk flow 

 with cows and in flesh with beef cattle can best be avoided by housing 

 them in darkened stables during the heated portion of the day, and 

 by feeding liberally with fresh-cut green forage, turning the cattle 

 to pasture at night for exercise and grazing. Under this system 

 young animals continue growing, steers increase in fatness, and 

 cows yield a normal flow of milk during a period of the year when, 

 because of heat, flies, and scant pastures, there is usually no profit, 

 but often serious loss. It is also advantageous to supply extra green 

 forage during the fall months, even tho the pastures have then in 

 part recovered their ability to supply nutriment. 



330. A soiling chart. — Below is given a soiling chart by Voorhees^ 

 of the New Jersey Station : 



Forage crops grown at the New Jersey Station for the support of a herd 

 equal to 50 dairy cows for 6 months. 



Crops grown 



Rye, 2 acres 



Rye, 2 acres 



Alfalfa, 1 acre, 1st cutting 

 Wheat, 2 acres 



Crimson clover, 6 acres 



Mixed grasses, 1 acre 



Oats-and-peas, 2 acres 



Oats-and-peas, 2 acres 



Alfalfa, 2d cutting 



Oats-and-peas, 5 acres 



Southern white corn, 2 acres . 



Barnyard millet, 2 acres 



Soybeans, 1 acre 



Cowpeas, 1 acre 



Cowpeas-and-kaflr corn, 2 acres 



Pearl millet, 2 acres 



Cowpeas, 1 acre 



Mixed grasses, 5 acres 



(partly dried) 

 Barley, 2 acres 



Total 



Total 

 seed 

 used 



Bushels 

 4.0 

 4.0 

 0.6 

 4.0 

 1.2 



4.0, 

 3.0 

 4.0 

 3.0 



{t:U 



10.0) 



0.5 



1.4 



2.0 



2.0 



2.01 



1.0 f 



0.25 



1.5 



3.5 



Date of 

 seeding 



Sept. 27 



Oct. 3 



May 14 



Sept. 26 



July 16 



April 2 

 April 11 



April 19 



May 2 



June 19 



June 1 



June 10 



July 10 



July 11 



July 24 



Sept. 2 



Period of cutting 

 and feeding 



May 1- 7 

 May 7-19 

 May 19-25 

 May 25-June 1 

 June 1-21 

 June 21-26 



June 26Jruly 4 



July 

 July 



4- 9 



9-11 

 July 11-22 

 July 22-Aug. 3 



Aug. 

 Aug. 

 Aug. 



Sept. 



3-19 

 19-25 

 25-Sept. 1 



1-16 



1 



Sept. 16-Oct, 

 Oct. 1- 5 

 Oct. 5-27 



Oct. 27-Nov. 1 



Total 

 yield 



Tons 



9.4 



19.2 



11.1 



10.4 



42.8 

 8.3 



12.4 



8.2 



2.1 



16.4 



17.7 

 23.2 



8.8 

 10.5 



24.4 



20.2 



8.0 



20.0 



5.2 



278.3 



This chart is especially helpful as an example of a practical system 

 of soilage, since it records the actual attainment of one who has suc- 

 * Forage Crops, p. 35. 



