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days. If the crop is cut with the mower, better work 

 can usually be done when it has been sown broadcast. 

 as then none of the stems lie so near the ground 

 as to escape being cut. When the drills have been 

 raised it is not easy to cut the crop with the mower. 



Rape may be fed as other green food, that is 

 to say, on a pasture, or in a paddock, feed yard, shed 

 or sty. But care should be taken not to feed too 

 large a quantity at first; not to feed when wet, 

 and not to feed to hungry animals all they will take, 

 lest bloating should be produced, which, if not 

 speedily relieved, will almost certainly lead to the 

 death of the animal. There is some danger also 

 that scouring will be produced when green rape is 

 fed in large quantities. The scouring is not nearly 

 so likely to manifest itself when the stock is also 

 being pastured on grass more or less dry, or where 

 there is being fed at the same time a considerable 

 quantity of hay. And it is not a little surprising 

 how much dry food, stock will consume when being 

 freely fed on green rape. Nature seems to furnish 

 a craving for food that aids in correcting the ten- 

 dency to an unduly lax condition of the bowels which 

 may have been induced by feeding rape. And this 

 will be found true also when other kinds of green 

 food are being fed. So certainly does this craving 

 manifest itself that it is questionable if it would not 

 pay at all times to feed some dry food when animals 

 are being fed an abundance of juicy green food. 



It may not be generally known that this plant 

 can be fed green with much profit to young colts 

 more especially after they have been weaned. It is 

 equally good for calves under like conditions. If 



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