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heavy they are somewhat liable to roll over on the 
back and so perish. They do not require any 
water when feeding upon rape, but should have 
access to salt at will. 
“There is no limit to the numbers that may be 
put upon one field except its capacity to sustain 
them. The labor of hurdling does not seem neces- 
sary, as the sheep waste very little of the rape. 
When it has grown strong and rank, they feed 
around the borders. Like an invading army of 
crawling insects, they make clean work as_ they 
go, but when the crop is light and thin tney feed 
in any portion of it.” 
Rape is also good forage for cattle, although, 
when fed to dairy cows, it is liable to contribute 
undesirable flavors to milk and its products, even 
though fed after milking, as recommended for 
turnips or other members of this family of plants. 
In experiments at the Wisconsin Agricultural 
Experiment Station (Bulletin No. 115) to deter- 
mine the quality of cheese as affected by the feed- 
ing of rape and other forage plants, it was found 
that whenever the rape was fed before milking, 
there was, in most cases, a very pronounced rape 
flavor; when fed just after milking, there was also 
a very noticeable flavor. In no case was the 
amount fed larger than ten pounds per day, al- 
though it was all consumed between the morning 
and night milking. In fairness to the rape, it is 
