OTHER FORAGE PLANTS— MUSTARD. 123 



I foot apart, with or without a light corn crop. Sow 

 20 lbs. of seed per acre for cover, or 25 lbs. for forage. 

 It is better to sow in drills than broadcast, as the 

 weeds can be got at more easily under the drill 

 husbandry. In the second autumn after the sowing — 

 having been cleaned at intervals during both summers 

 — the crop wOl have attained a growth rendering it 

 M'orth cutting. 



MustaFd. 



(Sinapis.) 



This is one of those coarse, quick-growing plants with 

 wide-spreading leaves which obtain a very consider- 

 able portion of their nourishment from the atmosphere ; 

 hence it may be considered an ameliorating crop, giving 

 back to the soil more than it takes from it. Ordinarily 

 it is of trifling value as forage ;' but the failure of other 

 plants may make it valuable for this purpose, and at 

 anyrate it assists in the preparation for grain crops. 

 It may be sown with some advantage for autumn feed, 

 or it may be taken as a second crop after Vetches, 

 early Pease, &c., when — from the season being too far 

 advanced — it is impossible to grow anything of greater 

 value. 



The White Mustard (Sinapis alia) is the variety 

 grown for the purpose of forage or green-manuring. If 

 sown or drilled at rate of one to two pecks per acre in 

 last week of July or in August in a tolerably favourable 

 season, it will be fit for ploughing-in or folding-o£f in 

 two months from time of sowing. Sheep are generally 



