Farm crops, their cultivation and management, a non-technical manual for the cultivation, management and improvement of farm crops . In Florida it is a perennialplant growing from fifteen to thirty feet high. Further north, it becomesan annual, matures seed in a short season and grows only four or five feethigh. The castor bean thrives in sandy soils and its culture is simple. Theseeds germinate wdth difficulty and it is advised to place them in hot watertwenty-four hours before planting. It is customary to plant them in hills two inches deep, eight to tenbeans to a hill. They are afterwards t
Farm crops, their cultivation and management, a non-technical manual for the cultivation, management and improvement of farm crops . In Florida it is a perennialplant growing from fifteen to thirty feet high. Further north, it becomesan annual, matures seed in a short season and grows only four or five feethigh. The castor bean thrives in sandy soils and its culture is simple. Theseeds germinate wdth difficulty and it is advised to place them in hot watertwenty-four hours before planting. It is customary to plant them in hills two inches deep, eight to tenbeans to a hill. They are afterwards thinned to one or two plants per rows should be five or six feet aj^art and the plants from two to threefeet apart in the North, and from five to six feet apart in the South, where the plant grows moreluxuriantly. Theyrequire about the sametillage as corn. Planting should bedone as early in thesjiring as possible, butnmst escape injuryfrom frost. As soon as the podsbegin to open the fruitbranches should be re-moved. This processmust be repeated atleast once a week asThe branches are spread out to dry on the floor of a. Crimson Clover, a Good Winter Cover Crop WhereWinters are Mild. Well suited to the lighter soils in the Coastal Plain Regionsouth of Philadel]ihia. soon as seeds ripensuitable building. In the United States most of the castor beans are produced in Kansas,Oklahoma, California, Oregon and Wisconsin. The chief use of the beans is for the manufacture of castor oil. Thisoil is one of the best lubricants for machinery and is used in the manufac-ture of many articles. Vetch.—Common vetch and hairy vetch are the two most importantvarieties of vetches. Common vetch seed is produced in large quantitiesin the United States only in parts of Oregon. Hairy vetch has a widerrange of growth, but is grown mostly for forage, most of the seed beingimported from Russia. Both of these varieties seed freely wherever grownand the prevailing high price of the seed ($5 to 18 pe
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