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Winter pasture is also provided by sowing rape with oats intended 

 for hay or grain. When sown in this way the rape grows but little 

 until after the oats are harvested and the autumn rains have begun. 



Rape and clover. — One of the most satisfactory ways of providing 

 summer pasture is to sow rape and clover together late in May or 

 early in June. For the details of this method, see Farmers' Bulletin 

 271 of this department. 



Rape in corn. — From 3 to 4 pounds of rape seed per acre are some- 

 times sown in corn during July, just before the last cultivation. If 

 the corn is planted on a well-prepared seed bed and kept thoroughly 

 cultivated, so that the soil will remain moist, the rape usually germi- 

 nates in about five days. It then furnishes excellent green succulent 

 forage during the autumn while the corn is being hogged off. If the 



Fig. 5.— A one-horse disk grain drill used for planting grain between the rows of standing corn. 



corn crop is husked or cut and removed from the field and the rape 

 allowed to grow until late in the fall, the rape furnishes good pasture 

 from November 1 to April 1. 



Vetch and wheat, or vetch and oats, or vetch alone. — Vetch sown alone 

 or with wheat or oats in corn at the last cultivation or in the early fall 

 on spring-plowed stubble land furnishes pasture for hogs during the 

 late fall, winter, and early spring. One bushel of vetch and a bushel 

 of oats or 40 pounds of wheat are used per acre. If sown alone, from 

 90 to 120 pounds of vetch seed are required per acre. The seed is 

 either planted with a one-horse grain drill which runs between the 

 rows of corn or it is sown broadcast from the back of a horse. A 

 one-horse disk grain drill, which can be used for this purpose, is 

 shown in figure 5. If the latter method is used, a hood is placed over 

 the head of the horse to keep the grain from falling into the animal's 



