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There are several crops that pay well for stock and can be grown without much work. Rape for example, of the Dwarf Essex variety, if sowed in the corn at the last cultivation at the rate of about four or five pounds per acre will make excellent returns in pork or mutton. If the stand of corn is poor it is particularly valuable, not that it furnishes a crop for the bare land, but that It makes a good fall pasture. The stand of corn does not need to be poor for the rape to be good, for In practice the places where the corn is thickest and strongest are the places where the rape grows best. Many farmers have profited handsomely by pasturing lambs, wethers or even old ewes in cornfields after the rape was large enough to browse. If the corn has not been blown down the sheep will do no damage, but will strip off the lower leaves which are partly cured, along with some of the foxtail which will tend to balance the rape. And a minor reason which results is the cleaner field, hence leas unpleasant husking. Rape for a supplement In the business of hogging down corn Is one of the best feeds yet found. There is practically no extra work to grow It and the returns in pork are excelled only in the fattening pen. Shoats averaging ninety pounds turned into a small lot of corn about September 10 in which there is a good stand of rape will make surprising gains from the start. The prac tice of hogging down corn is a good one as many farmers know, but the results can be doubled, or nearly so, iX M-o is there to add Its variety and
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