184 Soiling. 



The principal requirement is to have a thoroughly 

 pulverized seed-bed, and to sow in drills with a hand 

 seeder twenty inches apart, and cultivated two or 

 three times with a horse hoe between rows ; and if 

 ground is weedy, use a garden hand-wheel hoe once 

 or' twice on the rows. 



For a general fall crop, sow broadcast just after 

 the last cultivating among the ensilage corn, the 

 same as you would flat turnips, and by the time that 

 the summer feeding is over, you will have a grand 

 crop for September and October, either to soil from 

 or to turn the sheep on. 



Rape is the best possible green forage to have on 

 hand at time of weaning the lambs, so that they will 

 not go backwards. Lambs may be taken from the 

 ewes earlier, if rape is at hand, than without it, 

 giving the ewes more time to recuperate, there- 

 fore, coming sooner and in better condition to the 

 coupling season. There is nothing like a field of 

 rape to put ewes in the finest possible condition for 

 going into winter quarters, and if grown on the 

 ensilage ground without cultivating, is most econ- 

 omical, and will do what would require a very liberal 

 grain feeding to equal. 



As rape is -a crop not generally known in the 

 States, the following quotations are given, which 

 confirm all I have said in its favor and more : 



United States Bulletin, 11. 



"There is still a season after the corn has been 

 harvested and before the setting in of winter, dur- 



