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On Green or Fodder Crops. 
soon as the corn is cut, flat hoe between the rows of turnips, and then, if the 
harvest be early, single out the turnips as soon as the corn is carried. By this 
means I usually get a nice crop of stuff to eat in the early autumn, which 
makes a good preparation for wheat. Of course, this could not be done on very 
heavy land." 
The fact has been well known in some districts for many 
years, that no more serviceable green crop for the summer 
feeding of weaned lambs can be grown than spring vetches and 
rape mixed together. By the subjoined communication from 
Mr. J. H, Blundell, of Eastwood House, Keighley, it will be 
seen that oats may advantageously be added to the mixed crop. 
He says : — 
" I find the mixture of I5 bushels of spring tares, 1 bushel of oats, drilled 
together, per acre, and 4 or 5 lbs. of cole seed (rape) sown with the barrow on 
well-prepared land produces a quick and most abundant crop of food. The 
first sowing may be made in April, and by the end of May or beginning of 
June will be ready for consumption. It should be eaten when the vetches 
are in bloom, and in favourable seasons will run up quickly to the height of 
two feet, or even higher. This mixed croji I have found to come ready 
earlier than kale." 
There is still another system Avhich was recommended by Mr. 
Coussmaker, of the neighbourhood of Guildford, for sheep- 
feeding on clay soils, in a discussion at the Farmers' Club some 
few years since. This gentleman stated that he was in the 
habit of earthing-up one-half of the mangold crop in heaps on 
the land where grown, the other moiety being carted to the 
homestead to be consumed by cattle. The lifting took place 
in October, and the ground was at once ploughed and sown to 
vetches. Sheep are not purchased until the ensuing summer, 
when the vetches are commencing to bloom and fit to consume. 
Then the two crops, — or rather, moieties of crops, it being conve- 
nient to cart half of the vetches to the homestead, — are fed 
together, the mangolds being placed through the cutter and 
given in troughs, and the sheep thrive so well on the mixed diet 
that they generally fatten rapidly without artificial food. Before 
they have half consumed the food in store for them, the vetches 
develop into pod,— the state in which carters are so fond of 
taking the crop for their horses, as they consider it to be " corn 
and green meat " combined. Probably a slight extension of the 
system would enable clay-land farmers to keep much larger 
flocks on their arable land in summer and autumn than they do 
at present. Larger breadths of mangolds might be cultivated to 
be treated in this way, only portions of the land might be sown 
to rye and winter-oats, the feed of which would mature suffi- 
ciently early lor a flock either of hoggets or ewes and lambs to 
be brought in about the first or second week in April, just at 
the period when store sheep can be purchased most advantage- 
