156 FARM CROPS 



sary. These are learned only through practice. 

 Following the drying comes the cooling and baling. 

 They are put through a sweating process and then 

 pressed into bales weighing about 200 pounds and 

 sewed up in baling cloth. 



HUNGARIAN MILLET.— See Millets. 



INDIAN CORN.— See Corn. 



ITALIAN RYE GRASS.— A quick growing 

 grass and often used in permanent pastures. It 

 fancies a moist, loamy soil rather rich in lime. 

 When so provided, it makes an excellent hay. If 

 reasonably well fertilized, in two months after seed- 

 ing a good cutting of hay may be secured. For 

 this reason it is prized as a soiling crop. It can- 

 not withstand drouth and it does poorly on stiff, 

 clay lands. 



For hay, the cutting should be when in bloom. 

 From 2 to 3 tons are usually secured to the 

 acre. In seeding about 2 bushels of seed are re- 

 quired to the acre. If seeded in mixtures, half of 

 this quantity should be used. Both fall and spring 

 sowings are practiced. It usually runs its course 

 in two or three years, and, therefore, is not valuable 

 for permanent meadows. It is a good plan to have 

 other plants like red top and timothy in the seed 

 mixture to succeed as it dies out. 



JAPAN CLOVER.— A Southern pasture grass 

 and unsurpassed in some of the more southern 

 localities as a hay crop. It grows on the poorest, 

 barest red clay knobs and on the exhausted gravelly 

 or worn-out sands and at the same time produces fair 

 grazing. It is a legume and a good soil renovator. 

 Its roots are richly supplied with nitrogen-gather- 

 ing tubercles. In the heat and drouth of midsum- 

 mer when plants like common red and white clover, 



