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STHIS RURAL NEW-YORKER 
March 11, 
SUMMER SILAGE WITHOUT A SILO. 
Cured in the Stack. 
PART L 
The problem of Summer feeding, 
either to take the place of pasture en¬ 
tirely, or to supplement it, is not a new 
one, but there are different ways of 
handling it, some of which may be of 
interest to beginners, who are not so 
fortunate as to have a silo full of corn 
for the coming season. Pasture is often 
worse than nothing, as without it, one 
is forced to provide other feed, while 
depending on pasture alone is often at¬ 
tended with great loss during a dry sea¬ 
son ; and there are few indeed, who are 
making dairying an important part of 
their business, who can afford to depend 
on pasture alone for their Summer feed. 
Making provision for a continuous sup¬ 
ply of green feed throughout the season, 
to be cut and hauled almost daily, re¬ 
quires some judgment. After one fol¬ 
lows it a season through, he has gained 
considerable experience, and there are 
times when other work is pressing, 
which is frequent enough, that the ad¬ 
vantage of having a good supply of si¬ 
lage on hand is very evident. While 
soiling was far better than depending on 
pasture, one season of it was enough to 
satisfy us, and we determined to make 
some other arrangepient for the next 
Summer. In the first place, we found 
that peas and oats sowed early, made a 
great deal better growth than sowings 
made later for succession; therefore, the 
next year we sowed all the peas and 
oats as early as possible, and in what we 
figured as sufficient quantity to carry us 
until silage corn would be ready to feed. 
It was, probably, rather a foolish thing 
to^do, but we did not know at that time, 
that according to some authorities on 
such matters, legumes could not be suc¬ 
cessfully used for silage on account of a 
MOTHER AND TWINS. Fig. III. 
certain property they contained, but we 
never knew of it until after we had been 
using peas for Summer silage with 
great satisfaction for two or three years, 
and had also used clover and Alfalfa for 
silage. The only trouble we had was to 
get enough of it. 
Canada field peas were sown broad¬ 
cast, about one to V/ 2 . bushei per acre, 
and plowed under to a good depth with 
two and three horses. They never 
seemed to get in too deep to come up, 
when the seed was all right. Perhaps 
on heavy soil it would be better to put 
them in shallower. Just as an occasional 
pea began to show above the surface, we 
sowed about one bushel of oats per acre 
and covered with spring-tooth harrow. 
In doing this, we cut off so many of the 
peas I was sure the crop was ruined, 
but the peas did not mind anything so 
small as having their heads cut off, for 
they simply sent up two or three more 
shoots to take their places. As an ex¬ 
periment, we sowed some corn and sun¬ 
flowers with the oats to help hold up 
the peas, and as they grew up together, 
the field was a beautiful sight, the peas 
standing up straight until quite large, 
being, as we supposed, held up by the 
oats and sunflowers, and were going to 
stay so, making nice work in cutting; 
but the uselessness of planting anything 
of the kind with peas on good ground, 
expecting to hold the vines up _ in that 
way, was very evident in gathering that 
and other crops, for they all went flat 
together. Of course, where only a peck 
or so of peas are sown to the acre, or 
on poor land, the peas are easily held up 
with oats or buckwheat; in fact, can be 
almost as easily gathered alone. 
Peas naturally grow up straight for a 
while anyway, of their own accord, 
where sown thick enough to support each 
other, but on rich land, the growth is 
very heavy, and when to this is added 
the weight of a rain and a little wind, 
down they go, peas, oats, sunflowers 
and all, in a thick mat on the ground, 
even before the pods are filled with peas' 
which would bring them down of their 
own weight. Oats will go down alone 
on rich land, and when peas take hold 
of even a big sunflower about the neck, 
he is unable to resist. It is the wrong 
idea entirely to try to hold up the pea 
in this way from the top, for they are 
bound to go down if the crop is heavy. 
The place to work is at the bottom, and 
keep them from lying flat and close to 
the ground, where it is almost impos¬ 
sible to cut them with the mower or 
even a scythe, with any satisfaction; and 
with such a heavy growth lying flat on 
the ground, the leaves often rot, and 
there is nothing left of the lower part 
but the tough stems, and a great part 
of the feeding value of the crop is lost. 
In looking around for some crop to sow 
with peas that would keep them off the 
ground, far enough to allow the mower 
to cut below the mass of vines, we found 
that the growth of rape on rich land 
was just what we wanted. The heavy 
leaves and short, stiff stalks of the rape 
simply prevented the pea vines from 
going clear to the ground, and the crop 
was easily cut. The rape itself makes 
a splendid feed, and after being cut off 
in gathering the peas, even though only 
a short stub is left, it soon starts in 
leaf again. We usually commenced feed¬ 
ing the peas and oats in small quantities 
while they were still quite green, but for 
heavy feeding and for silage, we waited 
until the peas were formed and most 
of the pods well filled. The continual 
popping, popping of the pea pods, in a 
stable containing several cows, all busily 
eating peas, is a pleasant feature of feed¬ 
ing this crop, but still more so is the 
fact that the milk flow increases, and 
the grain ration can be entirely dispensed 
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