. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. FORAGE CROPS FORAGE CROPS 303 FORAGE CROPS. Forage is herbage food, whether green or cured. The forage crops are grasses (whether utilized in meadows, pastures or otherwise), all coarse natural grazing crops such as animals are likely to find provided in nature, and miscellaneous roots and vegetative parts grown specifically for feeding purposes. They are distinguished from the threshed grains and all manufactured products. It will be seen at once that there are two cultural groups comprised in the class of forage crops,—the group occupyin
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. FORAGE CROPS FORAGE CROPS 303 FORAGE CROPS. Forage is herbage food, whether green or cured. The forage crops are grasses (whether utilized in meadows, pastures or otherwise), all coarse natural grazing crops such as animals are likely to find provided in nature, and miscellaneous roots and vegetative parts grown specifically for feeding purposes. They are distinguished from the threshed grains and all manufactured products. It will be seen at once that there are two cultural groups comprised in the class of forage crops,—the group occupying the land for a series of years (meadows and pastures), and the group comprising the annual-grown or biennial-grown plants (as maize, cowpea, pea, millet, roots). These groups overlap, however, so that no hard and fast line can be drawn between them. The word roughage is applied to the coarser for- age products, as maize, cowpeas, kafir corn ; some- times it is used as equivalent to forage. Fodder is practically equivalent to the word for- age, but is less specific ; it is by some restricted to dried or cured forage. The word is commonly used for the coarser kinds, in distinction from hay. Soiling is the feeding of green harvested forage direct from the field to the animals. The feed is carried to them. This system is distinguished from pasturing. The animals are kept in small enclo- sures or in stalls, and thereby their feed is regu- lated and the crop is not injured by them. The term is probably derived from that use or origin of the verb to soil that indicates to satisfy or to fill. A species of pasturing is sometimes known as soiling. By means of movable fences, the animals are allowed to graze a part of the crop clean, and then to move on at the common-language usage must prevail with a word which has so long been general property. In this Cyclopedia, the main forage groups are treated separately, for cultural and other reasons. Some of the leading forage discussions ma
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