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Feeding Altogether in Fields. — This plan is fceeoming more 

 and more widely practiced, but when it consists solely in feeding in 

 corn stalks, it is usually a failure. When sheep eat down corn in 

 which rape or soybeans are grown economical gains and prime finish 

 may be secured, or if good pasture can be utilized in connection with 

 the corn, the feeding operation can be made successful (Fig. 216). 



In feeding altogether in the fields, the feeding period may be 

 either short or long. A long period amounts really to a rather 



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Fig. 216. — Sheeping down corn. Rape, soybeans, the clovers, or pasture grasses form good 

 supplements to use with the corn. 



extended period of stocking through the winter and a short fattening 

 period in the spring. 



Specialized Plants. — The feeding stations or accumulating 

 stations mentioned in the previous chapter, are to be classified 

 under specialized plants. In such places all the feeds are pur- 

 chased and the manure, instead of being hauled out on the land, is 

 put through a drying and pulverizing process and sold as com- 

 mercial fertilizer. Those who feed at the accumulating stations are 

 nersons who either are attempting to do business as did the old- 

 time operator, or have started to feed at some other point and for 



