. Spring 1897. Nursery stock Wisconsin Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs. RAPE AS A PASTURE. * Rape is unequaled as a pasture for sheep in the autumn; as a fattening food in the field it is without a rival in point of cheapness or effectiveness. The sheep that pasture upon it do the harvesting in the most efiective manner and with but little cost to the owner. When Rape is estab- lished as a pasture, the necessity for sending sheep and lambs to market in a lean condition will be removed. Cattle may
. Spring 1897. Nursery stock Wisconsin Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs. RAPE AS A PASTURE. * Rape is unequaled as a pasture for sheep in the autumn; as a fattening food in the field it is without a rival in point of cheapness or effectiveness. The sheep that pasture upon it do the harvesting in the most efiective manner and with but little cost to the owner. When Rape is estab- lished as a pasture, the necessity for sending sheep and lambs to market in a lean condition will be removed. Cattle may also be pastured upon Rape, but through treading they destroy and waste it in a considerable degree. Because of this it is better to remove them to an adjoining pasture when they have satisfied their wants The results are usually very satisfactory when they are pastured upon it in the day only and fed in the stable or shed in the morning before going to the Rape pasture. This is an excellent way of making Christmas beef. Rape will keep a long time in early winter in heaps like shocks of hay. When thus put up at the approach of winter, it may be drawn and fed as desired. RAPE AS A CATCH CROP. Rape is particularly adapted for being grown as a catch crop, as. like the turnip, it grows better late rather than earlier in the season. When a grain crop, therefore, has failed from any cause whatso- ever, there is ample time to plow the land and to sow Rape upon it. OF SUPERLATIVE VALUE. On our farms we sow Victoria Rape into last cultivation of Corn or on Oat and Wheat stubble, at the rate of 3 lbs. per acre. This gives a tremendous lot of good green fodder by fall, remaining until snow flies! It is immense! It is the biggest yielder imaginable ! PRICE OP DWARF VICTORIA RAPE; Pkg., 10c.;lb.,15c.; by mail, 30c.; by freight, •; 100 lbs., « * ' ^ Dwarf Essex Rape. This is the only variety of Rape sold by seedsmen in this country, and is highly recommended by agriculturists bo
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