CHAPTER V. 
CATCH CROPS. 
crop wholly or partially fails, or the land is occupied 
during a portion of the season, or an unexpected 
demand for cattle food is probable—such as a 
failure of the root or hay crop, or excessive cheapness of 
stock. 
Catch crops chiefly consist of white turnips, rape, mustard, 
Italian ryegrass, common ryegrass, oats, or bere trifolium (to 
cut green), red suckling, and other mixtures, according to 
requirements. 
Should the seed set fail in the spring too late for a 
subsequent grain crop, catch crops should be arranged from 
rape or kale, either of which can be fed down at least twice 
during the summer and autumn, and yet be off the land 
in time for wheat sowing. 
In place of wheat two crops of tares can be obtained; the 
first may be consumed in June, or early July, which gives 
plenty of time for ploughing and re-sowing a second crop 
before the close of the latter month, or the crop, when young, 
can be folded; in each case a second crop can be grown. If 
the crop be cut or fed off in June, it may be as well to sow a 
jumble of barley, oats, peas, tares, or buckwheat, which can be 
consumed by soiling, or siloing ; or rape, turnips, or mustard, 
