I08 THE JERSEY, ALDERNEY AND GUERNSEY COW, 



allow it to wilt a few days after cutting, then place it in 

 the barn, with alternate layers of dry straw, each layer 

 about eight inches thick. The straw absorbs the juice 

 from the stalks and prevents heating and moulding, 

 success depending upon the previous amount of drying. 

 Being sown at the rate of some three bushels per acre, 

 it forms no ears, and consequently there is but little ex- 

 haustion of the richness of the stalks or of the fertility 

 of the land, more being left in the soil by the roots than 

 is carried off in the stalk and leaf; besides, the shading 

 of the ground prevents the growth of weeds. Another 

 advantage is the readiness with which the crop may be 

 sown on any waste piece of ground that may be plowed 

 later than it would do to plant a common crop. 



The following is the management of an intelligent 

 young farmer whose herd of cows, fed for milk, pro- 

 duced an average of over 2300 quarts. The winter 

 feed was principally an allowance of three bushels of 

 cut feed and ten quarts of corn-meal and wheat bran 

 mixed in the ratio of one to three. This was fed in 

 three rations, and immediately after one feeding was 

 done another was mixed up, thoroughly scalded, and 

 let stand, closely covered, until next feeding time. 

 These feeds were occasionally interspersed with one of 

 roots. In summer the cows run at pasture in the day; 

 are stabled at night in an open, airy shed and fed a 

 heavy ration of either green rye, oats in milk, Hunga- 

 rian grass, or cornstalks just coming into tassel, accord- 

 ing as one or the other was fit Before they were 



