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The Succession of Green Crops. 
sowing), we have pulled, and heaped where they grew — in Novem- 
ber, and covered with a little straw and earth. These, of course, 
we have to cut and consume in troughs. For such time longer as 
we wish to keep sheep, we feed them in the yard until there is 
clover into which they can be turned to feed upon. Where 
grazing stock alone is kept, we believe this to be the best system 
possible. 
But we Avill now detail the second plan we have spoken of, 
and which also has much to recommend it. 
Example of 200 Acres of Good Mixed Soil. 
50 acres wheat. 
50 acres roots ; thus, 10 aci'es rye, followed with beet ; 10 
acres rye-grass, sown on the wheat in spring, and followed with 
common turnips ; 5 acres of tares to feed, to be followed with 
common turnips ; 5 acres of tares to mow, to be followed 
with mustard (this will come earlier than the mustard after peas, 
which is a very important point) ; 20 acres beet. 
50 acres barley. 
50 acres clover and peas : thus, 25 acres of red clover ; 13 
acres white clover, and rye-grass and trefoil ; 12 acres peas, 
followed with mustard. 
Even on the stiffer mixed-soil lands it will usually be possible to 
obtain common turnips after rye-grass or tares, as common tur- 
nips will generally thrive if sown any time between the beginning 
of July and the end of August. In any ordinary season there 
will be rain enough in this long interval to prepare the land for 
the seed, however hard it may have been. 
' We shall thus have a continuous succession of green crops, as 
follows, viz. ; — In January, common turnips and beet ; February, 
beet; March, beet and rye; April, beet and rye and rye-grass; 
May, beet and rye-grass and clover, tares; June, rye-grass, clover, 
tares; July, clover, first and second crop, and tares; August, 
clover, tares ; September, mustard and clover and stubble-feed ; 
October, mustard ; November, mustard, common turnips, beet ; 
December, common turnips and beet. 
In this plan there is less weight of roots provided, but there 
is greater variety of spring feed and more summer supply. 
Where a breeding flock is kept, this plan perhaps will be best, 
especially if there be no pasture on the farm. 
In all the croppings we have sketched, we have estimated that 
we have supplied sufficient provision of clover to keep up the 
usual requirement of " stover " for the horses, besides providing a 
constant succession of green crops for green food all the year 
round. 
Where neat stock is kept through the summer, it is sometimes 
