Xii LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



Fig. pahe 



26. Matured kaflr corn roots il8 



27. Matured sorghum roots 119 



28. Typical heads of different varieties of sweet sorghum. Reading 



from left to right, the varieties are: (1) Early Amber; (2) 

 Black Dwarf ; (It) Kansas Orange; (4) Coleman. 124 



29. Field of Orange sorghum in Kansas 127 



30. Sorghum at good stage of maturity for soiling 128 



31. Fodder corn. ' Thoroughbi-ed White Flint in New Jersey, after a 



crop of oats-and-peas, yielding twelve tons of green forage 



to the acre 135 



32. Corn-busker and shredder at work (International Harvester Co.) 152 



33. Oata-and-peas 174 



34. Oats-and-peas for soiling or for hay 178 



35. Oats-and-peas for soiling. . A vigorous growth of both plants 181 



36. Oats-and-peas, showing great vigor of the peas 182 



37. Oats-and-pea hay 185 



38. Oats-and-spring-vetch for soiling 188 



39. Wheat-and-winter- vetch for soiling. A poor stand of vetch 191 



40. Wheat-and-winter-vetch. A good stand of vetch 192 



41. Corn-and-cowpeas for silage, the cowpeas planted five days after 



the corn 196 



42. Corn-and-cowpeas, planted after a soiling crop of wheat had been 



harvested 199 



43. Cowpeas-and-kaflr-corn, showing height arid thickness 200 



44. Cowpeas-and-kaflr-corn 205 



45. Sorghum-and-cowpeas, in rows, ready for soiling. Sorghum alone 



at the left; sorghum-and-cowpeas at the right 206 



46. Alfalfa in New Jersey, an acre yielding nineteen tons of green ■ 



forage a year 213 



47. Alfalfa; first cutting in the season. Three feet tall and very 



thick 220 



48. First cutting of alfalfa. Ready for soiling May 27. New Jersey. 227 



49. Field of crimson clover, grown as a catch-crop seeded in corn at 



last cultivation 243 



50. Crimson clover ready for soiling, May 20. New Jersey 247 



51. The cowpea 255 



52. Cowpeas planted in rows and cultivated 259 



53. Crop of cowpeas for soiling .■ 260 



54. Field of cowpeas, seeded after oats-and-j)eas and to be followed 



by rye 267 



55. Eye after cowpeas, without fertilizer 268 



