CHAPTER VIII. 

 SOILING VERSUS PASTTTBING. 



Penns. Bui. No. 21, page 105 (1889). 



" In instituting a comparison between the yields of 

 pasturing and soiling, it is necessary to take ac- 

 count of the fact that, b}' our system, two crops of 

 soiling are grown on the same ground in the same 

 season. These may be either rye and corn or clover 

 and corn. In computing the yield of corn and add- 

 ing the yield of rye, and in the other that of the 

 clover, and, finally, averaging these sums, the result 

 is as follows: 



Digestible Digestible 



Organic Matter, Albuminoids. 



Pasture 1,125 249 pounds. 



Soiling, rye and corn 5,77& 328 



.Soiling, clover and corn 5, 9^4 374 



" The average yield of edible, digestible matter by 

 soiling crops is 5. 2 times as great as that by pastur- 

 ing. We may say that, in round numbers, we can 

 produce from three to five times as much digest- 

 ible food per acre by means of soiling crops as is 

 produced by pasturing represented by our small 

 plots.'' 



