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ELEMENTARY AGRICULTURE 
11. When should alfalfa be used for pasture? . 
12. How is alfalfa soil inoculated? 
13. What clover makes the best pasture for bees? 
14. What forage crops are best for grass and lawns? 
PRACTICAL WORK 
Exercise 1 
Object: To collect and study seeds of forage crops. 
Materials: Collect samples of seeds mentioned in this chapter. 
Examine them for impurities. Do you find any weed seeds 
present? Count out one hundred seeds of each forage crop, and 
estimate the number of seeds that do not belong to the kind 
you are studying. Estimate the percentage of impurities. Plant 
some broom corn, kafir, Sudan grass, soy beans, or cowpeas in 
your garden and see how they grow. Raise two different kinds 
of peanuts to find out which is better. 
WORDS TO BE LEARNED 
Cocks. A small conical pile of hay. 
Forage. Rough feed for animals, such as hay, straw. 
Furrow. A trench made by a plow. 
Grain. Sorghum, a cereal grass raised for grain and fodder. 
Inoculate. To introduce bacteria by inoculation. 
Leguminous. Belonging to a large family of legume bearing 
plants. 
Permanent. Continuing in the same state, fixed. 
Plates. A flat thin piece of metal of uniform thickness and 
containing small holes. 
Sweet Sorghum. A variety of cereal grass used for making 
syrup and forage. 
Windrows. A row of hay raked up to dry before being heaped 
into cocks. 
REFERENCES 
The following bulletins may be secured from the United States 
Department of Agriculture: 
“Cowpea Utilization/’ Bui. 1153. 
“The Making and Feeding of Silage,” Bui. 578. 
“Bermuda Grass,” Bui. 814. 
“Market Hay,” Bui. 508. 
