826 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA, 
too early may be plowed and resown in late July 
after being cut two or three times. 
Repeating the Mowing.—Once one gets started 
over the field cutting for soiling he ought to manage 
to come around with his second cutting in about 35 
days. This is not very difficult to manage. Suppos- 
ing the normal time for alfalfa harvest to be June 
1, if he begins cutting for soiling on May 15, which 
he very easily can do, and cuts a strip each day till 
June 20, he will not find the crop very woody, and by 
that time his first cutting will be ready to go over 
again and so on in rotation all summer long. 
Soiing for Dairy Cows.—Doubtless the dairy cow 
relishes green food most of any farm animals, and 
needs it most. There is something about green sap 
that makes milk. Dry that sap and it never is so 
good again. Then dairies are often situated in re- 
gions where feeds are dear. A man keeping cows 
near any of our eastern cities can find immense profit 
in growing alfalfa for feeding green as well as dry. 
There is not a dairyman with a little farm land who 
can not grow alfalfa with splendid profit. He has 
the manure for starting it, he has the market in his 
own animals for the forage. If he can make a living 
at all in the dairy business he can make money, and 
plenty of it, with the aid of alfalfa and soiling. 
Soiing on Pasture—tI have already mentioned a 
system of feeding that combines practicability with 
economy and gives good results, that is the feeding 
of green alfalfa in racks on pasture. These racks 
