. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. ean land, ly vigor- sown as be made ion may undantly I plowing one suffi- eed seeds ited with idance of ass roots ) liable to plant life, i^ely with ifter win- leen eaten ngle year ^ is favor- • the rape sen it fol- harvested ith much fallowed, pastured t has been se of the 5 land for t may be soils, well ly in muck uring the RAPE AND CABBAGE. 153. season of growth. On stiff clays, the seed is slow of germination, and subsequent development on this class of soils is also
. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. ean land, ly vigor- sown as be made ion may undantly I plowing one suffi- eed seeds ited with idance of ass roots ) liable to plant life, i^ely with ifter win- leen eaten ngle year ^ is favor- • the rape sen it fol- harvested ith much fallowed, pastured t has been se of the 5 land for t may be soils, well ly in muck uring the RAPE AND CABBAGE. 153. season of growth. On stiff clays, the seed is slow of germination, and subsequent development on this class of soils is also slow. On poor, sandy lands it may start quickly, but the growth will not be vigor- ous unless fertilizer in some suitable form has been freely applied to them. When moisture is present, good farmyard manure is particularly favorable to the growth of rape. Nor would it be easy to sup- ply the manure in excessive quantities. Commer- cial fertilizers rich in phosphates have been found valuable in stimulating the growth of this plant. Preparing the Soil.—In preparing the soil for rape, much will depend upon its nature, upon the character of the season, and upon the time of year when the rape is sown. But, in any event, the aim should be to have the seed bed fine, moist, and as clean as it can be made under the conditions. When the crop is sown early, moisture is usually present in ample supply. If it is sown in the late spring or (luring the summer the roller should follow close tipon the plowing to prevent the escape of moisture. When the seed is s^wn early, or when the rape crop follows just after the removal of another crop, but little can be done by way of sprouting weed seeds with a view to destroying them before sowing the rape seed; but if it is not sown until the season is advanced and on land not previously cropped the same year, there is ample time to clean the land on and near the surface before the rape is sown. Sowing. — The time for sowing rape will de|>end,
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