Hastings' Seeds : fall 1912 catalogue . down on the more level lands may think that this dontapply to you. Dont fool yourself; its true that your lands dont wash as much as our hill lands do; your lands are mostly sandyand they need vegetable matter or humus worse than our hill lands and all during the hot summer when you are keeping that cot-ton crop clean and out of the grass the sun is burning up the vegetable matter in your soil just as fast as the winter rains wash it(. away from your hills. You need winter cover crops, not so much to stop the wash but to put vegetable matter back into yo
Hastings' Seeds : fall 1912 catalogue . down on the more level lands may think that this dontapply to you. Dont fool yourself; its true that your lands dont wash as much as our hill lands do; your lands are mostly sandyand they need vegetable matter or humus worse than our hill lands and all during the hot summer when you are keeping that cot-ton crop clean and out of the grass the sun is burning up the vegetable matter in your soil just as fast as the winter rains wash it(. away from your hills. You need winter cover crops, not so much to stop the wash but to put vegetable matter back into your soilthat last summers sun took out. No matter where you are in the South, no matter what kind of land you have, you need winter cover crops for grazing, for* hay, for grain and for the lands sake. This catalogue goes to most of you in July or August and when you read this it is none too soon to begin to plant for wintercover crops as well as to stop the Souths winter washing. 10 H. G. Hastings & Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Hairy, Sand or Winter Vetch Georgia Experiment Station Mr. R. J. Redding, then Director of the Georgia Experiment Station,under date of July 16, 19J0, says: I sowed some little patches of the Hairy Vetch on Bermuda sod, andI was astonished and agreeably surprised at the result, and am very muchpleased with it; indeel I find it much more hardy thnn the commonVetch (Vicia Sativa), the severe freeze in February killing the commonVetch to the ground and not even singeing the Hairy Vetch. On oneplat, occupied by a very heavy Bermuda sod, I sowed the seed in Octobermyself at the rate of one bushel per acre, and did not attempt to hnrrowthem in or in any way cover them. The result was remarkable. Whenat its best. I measured a small plat of it accurately and weighed the greenforage. The amount was 29,500 pounds per acre. Mississippi Experiment Station Mr. S. M. Tracy, Director of the Mississippi Experiment Station, savsof this plant: Seed of this species was
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