PASTURES AND GRAZING THEM BY SHEEP 1 73 



nips and rutabagas may not be grown and grazed off 

 by sheep as they are in Britain. 



Some of these plants may be profitably grown in cer- 

 tain combinations. Those which may be thus grown 

 include the small cereals, non-leguminous, and those also 

 that are leguminous, and white mustard. Corn and the 

 sorghums are not much suitable for such combinations, 

 owing to the shade which they produce in their growth, 

 but they may be grown in certain mixtures with some 

 degree of profit. Rape is frequently grown in various 

 mixtures, but the benefit from it thus grown, except in a 

 limited number of instances, is still problematical. Good 

 results frequently follow from growing it in corn fields 

 at the time of the last cultivation given to the corn. 



The small cereals may be grown in any kind of a 

 combination that may be desired, bearing in mind that 

 only spring varieties may be sown together in the one 

 case and winter varieties in the other. Relative cheap- 

 ness of seed should go far to determine the varieties that 

 shall be sown. Oats is a favorite grain to sow along 

 with the Canada field pea and the common vetch. The 

 sand vetch fits in well with the winter rye, and in some 

 localities crimson clover added is a further improvement. 

 White mustard fits in nicely with rape, since it grows 

 more quickly than rape, and because of its prominence in 

 advanced growth and possibly for other reasons will be 

 much consumed by the sheep when they begin to graze, 

 and it is believed that the consumption of the mustard 

 tends to lessen the liability in the rape to produce bloat. 

 Rape and fall turnips blend nicely when sown along with 

 grain and furnish a very suitable variety in the grazing. 



The succession in such grazing in the northern states 

 and Canada is much the same. It begins with winter rye. 

 Then follow the spring cereals, and in close succession on 

 these dwarf Essex rape, which by variation in the times 

 of sowing may be made to provide grazing on until the 

 advent of winter. Corn and the sorghums furnish sue- 



