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posely omitted, advising the soiler to work into 

 lucern gradually, and as to crimson clover my own 

 experience has not been successful, but others have 

 been. If you will begin with the rotation given, you 

 will soon find opportunities of branching out with 

 the clovers. It is not advisable to depend upon 

 common red clover; oats and peas are better. By 

 all means, however, have a patch of lucern for the 

 horses, if nothing more. The following interesting 

 letter is from Mr. Charles Wolcott, Blue Hill Farm, 

 Canton, Mass., June 11, 1881: 



F. S. Peer, Esq. 



Dear Sir : I have yours of the 4th and note the inquiries. 

 Our practice has been to feed upon winter rye first, then oats, 

 next spring rye, next millet (the golden) grown on the win- 

 ter rye land. Sweet fodder corn (Stowell's Evergreen) grown 

 on oat lands. Southern white fodder corn sown in drills on oat 

 land and spring rye land, and, lastly, barley grown on the 

 land formerly occupied by winter rye, and lastly by golden 

 millet. This gives a good rotation for feeding, and with us 

 always has worked well. Respecting the value of manure 

 saved by soiling, my judgment is that all that is made is 

 saved, for I do not believe that the manure dropped in pas- 

 tures enriches the soil at all, it being mostly dried up into an 

 almost insoluble cake. 



The care of my stock (now forty-eight head of milch cows) 

 devolves on one man, who feeds, cleans, and waters them in 

 the barn, two men to help him milk. One man and one horse 

 draw the green fodder in less than half a day. We feed three 

 times a day in the stanchions, where the cows stay except 

 when they are turned out once a week in the yard if it is cool, 

 for an hour, but never if it is hot. They much prefer the 

 bam to the yard. Their health is always good, and they are 

 thriftv. The quality of milk with los is about be same the 



