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RURAL NEW-YORKER 
July 17, 1920 
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Forage Notes 
Kudzu Vine in Connecticut 
I had a circular last Winter praising 
the kudzu vino so highly that I thought 
it worth trying. It gave mo the impres¬ 
sion that iti was more valuable than Al¬ 
falfa, of which I have had a splendid 
piece for some years, but which now 
seems to l>e on the wane. T have a fine 
little farm of four acres within 10 min¬ 
utes of the city, keep one cow. a horse 
and several hundred chickens, which are 
paying me finely. I want to get my place 
down to grass, as I am over 70 years old. 
and it is impossible to get team work or 
help, only at exorbitant prices. I have 
been paying $2 an hour for man and team 
for one hour or for the whole day. I 
have just paid $20 for 10 hours’ work. 
I sent to Michigan for five pecks of 
kudzu seed. I planted over two mouths 
ago. according to the directions. I now 
have 100 plants, -and some just breaking 
ground, and some nearly two inches high. 
Will you tell me how largo the plants 
should be before they are set out. and 
wlmt. time is the host, whether it needs 
rich ground or (according to the circu¬ 
lar) it will grow anywhere, where it can 
find a place to take root; whether it 
needs fertilizing heavily; in fact, anything 
that your experience with the plant would 
give me any help in the matter? 8. m. 
Derby, Conn. 
Better destroy the kudzu before it gets 
well rooted. Tt will inevitably he a 
nuisance on a small place like yours, 
for you cannot, watch it so closely that, 
it will not sneak in- where you do not. 
want it. Tt certainly is a wonderful 
grower. T had- one as a porch climber. 
It sent runners under the porch and 
down beside the dwelling for 30 or more 
feet, and rooted at. almost every joint. 
Tt took me two years to get rid of that 
plant. T have another plant that clam¬ 
bers over my wood and coni house, and 
T have to watch it almost daily. Last 
Summer, when I was too ill to watch it, 
the plant, got its runners out. and a clus¬ 
ter of them appeared in my raspberry 
patch, 20 feet from the base of the plant. 
Only yesterday I found about a dozen 
runners starting out on •the ground seek¬ 
ing a new location. The original vine 
has become a mass of stems from the 
rooting of these runners all around the 
former stem. I keep a cutting tool beside 
the plant for the purpose of cutting off 
(he runners as soon as I see them oil the 
grass. I shall have to destroy the plant, 
if possible, for I am getting too old to 
watch it, and if neglected one season it 
will get possession of the whole garden. 
A plot of it kept pastured all the time 
may be kept in bounds. Otherwise it is 
certain to take the place. ,It is best on 
waste hillsides and gullies on large farms 
to get. some pasturage from these uncnl- 
tivatable places. But on a little place 
than do the other classes of stock. 
W. F. MASSEY. 
Rape as a Pasture Crop; How It Is 
Handled in Canada 
Vai.i'k fok Sheep. —Rape is really a 
valuable feed for all kinds of stock, but 
more especially for sheep. It is greatly 
relished, and produces rapid gains, both 
in growing ana fattening stock. Tt is on 
easy crop to grow, and yields abundantly 
when properly handled. The variety of 
rape most; suitable to grow for fodder is 
the Dwarf Essex. This yields very heavy 
crops of leaves. 
Sowing and Cultivati no. — Early 
sowing is not essential, hut it is well to 
have the ground prepared as soon as it. is 
warmed up in the Spring. It may be 
sown any time up to the last of July and 
after the ground is well wanned in the 
Spring. A cold seed bed is not to be 
advised. When rape is sown in rows 
cultivation should begin as soon as the 
row can lx* seen from end to end. The 
cultivator should run at first as near as 
possible to the plants without burying 
them. Shallow but. thorough cultivation 
should follow at regular intervals. The 
crop mnv be pastured off at various stages 
of its development, according to the ob¬ 
ject sought. W'x'ii eaten down before it 
has made a maximum growth, it will grow 
up again with more or less vigor. But 
the pasturing should not commence, in 
any event, until after the rape has be 
came firmly established in the soil ; that 
is. until after it, has ipade a growth of 
several inches. 
Past thing Off. —Tt is a quest ion as 
to whether more food is obtained by this 
method than by allowing the rape to make 
its full growth before pasturing off. Au¬ 
thorities on the subject are inclined to 
believe that the latter method is the more 
profitable to follow, especially when sheep 
are pastured on it. as it is possible for 
them to eat it down so low as to injure 
its capacity for future growth. It may 
be pastured off with cattle, sheep, swine 
or fowls. Cattle waste more by tramping 
Hum do the other classes of stock men¬ 
tioned. 
■ Saving Gratx. Milk cows should not 
as a rule, be allowed to pasture ou rape, 
as it has a tendency to taint the milk 
but it may be cut. and fed to them at'P-c 
each period of milking. On the whole, 
sheep will do better on rape than will 
either swine or cattle, although at th>* 
Central Experiment Farm at Iowa rape 
has been found to give good i*esults with 
swine, saving in the amount of grain re¬ 
quired to produce 100 lbs. live weight. 
For a long time the Central Experiment 
Farm has recognized the value of rape 
As far back as 1000 it was found that 
with rape pasture a saving was mnde of 
156 lbs. of grain per 100 lbs. live weight 
From August 14 until December 6 three- 
nineteenths of an acre of rape pastured 
six hogs. A meal ration ranging from 
1 lb. per day per hog during the first 
week of the trial to 5 lbs. at. the last week 
produced in the six animals a total gain 
live weight of 1.127 lbs. The saving of 
grain amounted to above 1,700 lbs. 
Avoiding Bloat. —Neither cattle nor 
sheep should be turned on rape when very 
hungry, or when the crop is very .wet with 
rain or dew. They are liable to over¬ 
eat and bloat, which, in a short time, if 
not looked after, will cause death. Iu 
moist climates, such as in New England 
or in Eastern Canada, there is greater 
danger from bloating than there is in the 
arid or semi-arid districts of the West. 
Cattle or sheep become accustomed to it 
best by turning them into the field after 
they have eaten freely of some other food. 
The danger will he still further decreased 
by leaving them only a short time on the 
rape the first day. and gradually increas¬ 
ing the time on each succeeding day. At 
the end of a week they may be allowed 
to remain on the rape, but they should al¬ 
ways have access to a grass pasture . Ani¬ 
mals that are not accustomed to rape 
may not take to it. at first, hut they soon 
learn to like it. and once they have ac¬ 
quired a taste for it they wilt thrive on 
it and never tire of it. 
Grass and Rape. —A grass pasture in 
which the crop has lost part of its succu¬ 
lence. either through ripening or dry 
weather, is a very useful adjunct to a 
rape pasture. It has a tendency to lessen 
a too lax condition of the bowels. Grass 
and rape will keep sheep in first-class con¬ 
dition. A half-pound of oats per head 
each day will have the same effect, al¬ 
though. with the exception of swine, the 
rape alone is quite sufficient for stock. 
Salt and a good supply of water should 
always he easy of access. 
Sheep Followed by Cattle. — But 
when sheep are feeding on rape they will 
not consume much water, as the fodder is 
very juicy. Sheep turned into a rape 
pasture that is neither very tall nor very 
dense will first consume the leaves, be¬ 
cause of their succulence, and at last thev 
will eat. the straws down to the ground. 
Tf the crop is very tall and thick they will 
eat it all up as they go ahead. The leaves 
are considered to he the best part of the 
plant. Sometimes after sheep have cleaned 
up the leaves, cattle are turned in. and 
they will eat the remainder right down 
to the ground. This system will prevent 
a great deal of the loss from trampling. 
Frozen Rape. —‘When cold Winters 
nrevail, the crop should be pastured be¬ 
fore the arrival of severe frosts. After 
rape is first frozen, and until the stems 
become brittle enough to break easily, its 
value as pasture is much impaired. When 
the early frosts come, it is a good plan to 
give the sheep a feed of oats or other 
grain before turning them into the rape 
fidd. In the absence of such feed, the 
sheep should not be turned into the field 
until after the frost has lifted, or serious 
digestive troubles will result. 
Treatment of Bloat.— When the stock 
are not accustomed to rani* or when it is 
wet with dew or frozen, it sometimes in¬ 
duces bloating. Relief must he given at 
once or it will cause death. Medicine is 
seldom of any avail, and the trocar and 
canula .are the best agents of relief. The 
moment a case of bloat is defected, tlx* 
animal should he tapped to allow the gas 
to escape. This- is done by slipping the 
trocar into the pauucli on the left side 
and somewhat, low in the triangular fleshy 
D»rt between the last rib and the hip. 
This gives immediate relief, and in an 
hour oven the worst case of bloat appears 
to he none tlx* worse for the attack. 
Seeding with Corn. —The usual meth¬ 
od of sowing rape is in drills and culti¬ 
vated as for any other root crop, until the 
leaves get. too large to allow passing be¬ 
tween the rows. Borne practice sowing 
rape with corn at the time of last culti¬ 
vation : others sow it with oats. Tt is 
well to kn ow whether one’s condition of 
soil and climate will allow of such meth¬ 
ods before undertaking them on a large 
scale. 
Sowing in Rows. —Sowing in rows 
from two to 2*4 feet apart and culti 
vating ns for turnips is the method used 
for greatest returns of feed. Rape, be 
ine a very gross feeder, requires a soil 
rich in plant food. Good corn or root 
land is good rape land. A man having 
lambs to fatten can grow no better crop 
than rape, nor one from which the quality 
of the flesh will he better. Rape-fed 
lamb or mutton always grades first in 
flavor. An acre of rape will fatten "6 
lambs for a month, and the gain in weight 
will average about 12 lbs. per head. 
Rape-fed lamb or mutton will always 
have the proper intermixture of fat and 
lean that is in such demand by the better 
trade. Tn Manitoba several large feeders 
use rape in fattening store cattle, and 
they find that it effects a great saving 
of grain. J. tl. MC DONALD. 
Cauuda. 
