CHAPTER IV 
STRAW CEREALS AND GREEN-FORAGE GRASSES 
ALL cereal or grain crops produce herbage that 
is acceptable and nutritious to animals. It is often 
allowable to grow such crops solely for the herbage, 
or forage, rather than for the grain. Such crops 
usually adapt themselves well to farming plans; 
or, rather, farming plans are likely to have been 
so formed as to adapt themselves to these common 
crops. In their ordinary relations, these crops are 
well known, and only a brief discussion is neces- 
sary to explain their forage crop cultivation. 
Many of the regular hay crops can also be uti- 
lized to advantage for soiling and for other green 
foraging. The utilization of such crops for special 
purposes, when conditions are right, increases the 
productiveness of animals and also allows, in some 
cases, of a better system of handling the land. 
Two of the commonest of such grass crops are dis- 
cussed in this chapter. 
RYE AS A FORAGE CROP (Fig. 3) 
Although not generally regarded favorably, rye 
is a valuable soiling crop, primarily because in 
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