Show ABOUT SOILING CROPS IT jt now by ill tre A old adage bath it that closing the barn door after the theft of the hors is not the best method of pre tenting burglary yet it is held to bo worth while as a discourager of further petering pit ering the dairyman who this past has seen his cows shrinking feels inclined to shut tho barn door how n ay he do th s best if he has planted so 1 ng chopa I 1 ke peas and oats hungarian millet and tl e 1 ke and has been supple the dying pastures with green feed in the barn or yard he 1 as closed the door before rather than after the tact moreover the necess ty for the summer feed ng of grain is greatly lessened if te has no reco arse to so 1 ng crops nothing but buying grain can lea en the shrinkage the vermont exper betit elation has for many 5 ears eapen mente 1 th soiling crops and becom mends to di aymen the large use of summer ensilage sud of oa e and peas sown at weekly intervals and fed dur ng ju 5 and august ensilage is probably the cheaper food oats and peas somewhat the better if the former is contemplated as a steady d et for ears it would be ell to cons der the erect on of a 8 al s immer s lo 10 preferably ro n 1 witch a email d aine ter and a relit vely pre iter depth ens lage over a larye surface in summer a rapidly and loses largely in feeding alue if oats and peas be chosen they hould be sown in successive lots at weekly intervals the two sova separately the peas first rather deeply ind harrowed in tl e oats two or three lav later and b sled in A better is 1 kely to be secured in th s way than if sown together the crop kiy be either fed green hayed or put in the silo let thoe whose july in august m ak ells prole dl nt n try ensilage or oats and peas next year country gent amao |