FORAGS CROPS. 20/ 



FORAGE CROPS TO SUPPLEMENT SUMMER 

 PASTURE AND WINTER HAY. 



Because of the long continued drouth the prospects are very 

 unfavorable for the hay crop. While it is to be hoped that 

 before this reaches the eye of the reader the drouth will have been 

 broken by copious rain, many farmers will still need to grow 

 special forage crops to supplement the summer pasturage or the 

 winter's hay. While Indian corn is the best forage plant for 

 Maine, if a sufficient acreage has not been planted the season is 

 so far advanced that other quicker growing plants can now be 

 more advantageously used. 



Hungarian grass, German, Pearl and Japanese Millets, Rape, 

 and on light warm soils Early Soy Beans, are the most desir- 

 able. The smaller growing millets can be made into hay, the 

 larger can be fed green or made into silage. Rape is valuable as 

 a summer and fall feed for cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry. The 

 Soy Bean is highly nitrogenous, but Maine is so far north as to 

 make it a somewhat uncertain crop. Those who need to plant 

 supplementary forage crops should send to the Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Washington, D. C. (Do not inclose postage as the 

 Department has free use of the mails), for the following 

 Farmers' Bulletins : 



No. loi. Millets. 



No. 164. Rape as a Forage Crop. 



No. 168. Pearl Millet. 



Do not send to the Maine Experiment Station for these publi- 

 cations, as we cannot supply them, 



June, 1903. 



