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Show 'practice soiling for cows Tried at New Jersey Experiment 8ta lion, Where Three Animate Kept on Feed From One Acre. Tin- Jersey experiment Ftutlo' prao tleeH soiling altogether for their rows. 1 hey now rye, which come en first In the spilrg. Willi tliH rye hairy vetch Is seeded anil the two make a splendid feed, besides the vetch enriches tba Intnl. The next nop Is wheat, which also Iiuk velch Heeili il with It. Following Fol-lowing 1 h w heat are oat ami Canada field pea, and MKaln the pen nut only help to balance up the tints, but at the same t tin Improve the land, being a ligume. Following the rutting of the rye, cow pen ami soy beans, fodder coin, etc, are planted. These ran be Inn v esteil In time to row the ground down to the name crop for next year, ami Inter on the sin Ik opened. Pro-feHMii' Pro-feHMii' Mlnkler Ntaleil that he had been libit to keep three ruwtt during the sunnier c n the feed grown on one acre rf ground. Could tills method not be pntiiulile on nuiny farms? Suppose an acre or two Is fenced off In the cow pasture and needed to out and Canada field pea In March, this crop cut off and fed In June, the first of July the ground sown to cowpuaa and these hat vet-ted lu September, and the ground m eded to rye and hairy vetc h. In this way the land would not I email' exhausted very rapidly. The roots and stubblo would almost or iiilte furnish the humus content, the legumes the nitrogen, and liy adding n lltt'e potash and phn horns one should grow crops for years on the same ground |