290 ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON STOCK FEEDS AND FEEDING 



with succulent feed or add in quantity and quality to the ordi- 

 nary hay crop." 



Cropping System for Dairy Farm in Michigan. — Farmers' Bui. 

 280, gives a description of a dairy farm in Michigan run on 

 the tenant basis which has been successful. This farm is of 120 

 acres, and 60 cows, 43 calves and yearlings, 2 bulls and 9 horses 

 were on the place at the time of these observations. All the 

 roughage was grown on the farm, and the oil meal, bran and 

 cotton-seed meal were purchased. 



System of Cropping for 1905, 1906 and 1907' 



Field 

 number 



Acreage 



Crop, 1905 



Crop, 1906 



Crop, 1907 



I 



2 



3 



4 

 5 



6 



17 

 24 



32 



13 

 10 



Timothy hay . 

 Pasture 



Corn 



Oats, cut for hay; 



seeded to alfalfa. 

 Oats, cut for grain 



seeded to rye • ■ . 



Alfalfa 



Pasture 



Corn, sowed to rye 



13 acres corn . . . 

 18 acres o ats 



seeded to alfalfa 

 I acre rye, seeded 



to alfalfa .... 



Alfalfa 



Rye, followed by 

 corn, seeded to 

 rye 



Alfalfa 



Corn 



Rye, to be cut for 



hay and followed 



by corn 

 13 acres corn 



1 



\ 19 acres alfalfa 



Alfalfa 



Rye, to be cut for 

 hay and seeded to 

 alfalfa 

 Alfalfa 



In addition there was a pasture oi 2% acres, which was never 

 plowed. 



Enough manure was produced on this farm to cover the whole 

 form with 6-8 tons per acre. No commercial fertilizer was 

 used. 



The corn for silage was a large ensilage corn planted on well 

 manured land. The corn stubble was seeded with rye which 

 proved to be very successful as a hay crop. From 10 acres, 4 

 big loads of rye hay and 15 tons of silage to the acre were har- 

 vested for 1906. 



^ Farmers' Bui. 2S0. 



