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when it is sown during the latter part of June or the first half of July. When 
put in earlier, the hot suns of August seem to hasten its maturity, and the yield 
is not satisfactory. If sown in drilis, it should be cultivated as long as a horse 
an be driven between the rows. Sheep may be pastured npon: a field of Pape by 
cin it up into small pens by means of movable hurdles, s arts 
f eld may be depastured in rotation. Cattle should not be turned into a 
field, because they will trample and destroy much more than they eat. Rape 
ed to cows increases the flow of milk, and there is less danger of un w being 
tainted than when turnips or turnip tops are fed. There is con 
in turning hungry sheep or cattle into a field, because of a liability to tub di 
is also a good rule never to turn animals into a field in the early morning. 
Brassica oleracea. Cabbage. 
An annual or biennial plant, indigenous to various parts of Europe, and widely cul- 
tivated as a vegetable * the world. Cabbage is largely grown in some 
is far superior to turnips. It has been estimated 
that the crude protein of an acre of cabbage 
amounts to about 1,500 pounds—an enormous 
yield compared with that of alfalfa or red clover. 
Carex aristata. Giant sedge. 
A Esa Meis e, with vues running rootstocks and 
lea 
afy stems 2 to 34 feet high. This is one of the 
most piba! forage plants of the Upper Mis- 
souri prairies, large part of t 
where it occurs, and furnishes a large amount 
of early pasturage and hay. The hay contains 
over 11 per cent of crude protein. 
Carex jamesii. 
A sedge which is abundant in the moist meadows of 
northern Utah, where it occasionally occupies 
the ground to the exclusion of other species. It 
is pastured or mowed, and produces a poor qual- 
ity of hay 
Carex muricata. Water grass. 
A sedge, native of Arizona and Néw Mexico; very 
n- 
Fig. 9.— Sedge (Carex vetrorsa). meadows, and is eaten well by stock. 
Carex retrorsa. Late-fruited sedge. (Fig. 9.) 
A stout, erect, tufted, leafy sedge, 14 to 3 feet high, growing in wet, oes places 
in the lake region of Minnesota and the Dakotas. It is very tender and juicy, 
and is readily eaten by stock. It is seldom cut vd hay, because of its growing 
in places too wet to be mowed, but it is an important factor in the natural for- 
age of theregion. Analyses show that it unes nearly 16 per cent erude pro- 
in. This is one of the species which is deserving of cultivation. 
— siccata. * Ime 
by means of creeping rootstocks, with clus- 
- tered erect stems 1 to 2 feet high, and erect , narrow, pointed leaves, shorter than 
the stems. Common on dry bottonis and in swales in the Upper Missouri prairie 
region. It may be distinguished by its E ONR brown heads and by its habit of 
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