. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 304 FORAGE CROPS FORAGE CROPS Dreer, Grasses and Clovers; Phares, Farmers' Book of Grasses; Coburn, Alfalfa; Peer, Soiling Crops and Ensilage, M. F. Mansfield, New York city; Stebler and Schroter, The Best Forage Plants, Lon- don ; Voorhees, Forage-Cropping. The Significance of Forage-Cropping. By Charles S. Phelps. The term forage refers to any form of herbage used as food for live-stock. It consists of the leaves and stems of fresh or air-dried plants, to
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 304 FORAGE CROPS FORAGE CROPS Dreer, Grasses and Clovers; Phares, Farmers' Book of Grasses; Coburn, Alfalfa; Peer, Soiling Crops and Ensilage, M. F. Mansfield, New York city; Stebler and Schroter, The Best Forage Plants, Lon- don ; Voorhees, Forage-Cropping. The Significance of Forage-Cropping. By Charles S. Phelps. The term forage refers to any form of herbage used as food for live-stock. It consists of the leaves and stems of fresh or air-dried plants, together, in some cases, with the attached seeds. It includes. Fig. 412. Pea-and-oat hay. Ten acres, average yield, Ion per acre. New Jersey. mainly pasturage and soiling crops; hay of the meadow-grasses, legumes, millet, and cereals ; field- cured fodder corn, sorghum, and kafir corn; the stems and leaves of some grain crops after the seeds are removed; silage crops; and root crops. The acreage in forage crops, according to the cen- sus of 1900, exclusive of pasture lands, represents approximately 15 per cent of all improved land, and a little over 21 per cent of the area devoted to all crops, while the percentage of the total value of all crops is Forage crops stand second in total acreage and in total value in the list of culti- vated crops, corn being in the lead, while the value per acre is only seventeen cents less than the aver- age for the cereals. Pasturage was the earliest form of forage used and is still the chief food of live-stock in nearly all countries in the summer season. In earlier times pasture lands were all held and used in common and only small fenced areas were devoted to the growing of cultivated crops. As the population in- creased, the proportion of cultivated lands became larger and the proportion devoted to grazing be- came less. This change was necessary in order that the land might furnish support for the increasing inhabitants. In the ear
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