PREFACE 
This work is intended to give brief and practical 
farming suggestions that will be helpful in the 
growing and using of forage crops. Special atten- 
tion has been given to soiling crops and to rota- 
tions, in order to suggest a continuous supply of 
forage throughout the growing season, a subject 
of increasing importance to dairy farmers in the 
vicinity of large cities. 
These suggestions for both crops and rotations 
have been found to be satisfactory in practice, but 
the work must be carefully planned if it is to prove 
successful. The systems of forage-crop rotations 
here outlined are intensive, and to secure the full 
benefits from their adoption the cropping must be 
accompanied by liberal use of manures and fertil- 
izers and by extra good tillage. 
The suggested improvements in the systems of 
rotation for general farm practice, where grain 
crops are the chief object, have also been found to 
be practicable for many conditions, although they 
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