. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. 136 AGRICULTURE It is a valuable hay crop in sections where redtop, timothy, and clover cannot be grown. Rape. — Rape is a valuable crop for pasturing and soiling. It is easily grown and furnishes a large amount of forage that ,is especially relished by sheep and hogs. In the South it supplies late fall and winter grazing, and at the North cheap summer forage. Legumes.—The most profitable fodder crops are legumes. They do double work, — fertilizing the soil, as you have learned, P- 74 lbs N. seibs R 35 It P. A Bibs RA. 211k. lOOIbs. Timot
. Agriculture, its fundamental principles. Agriculture. 136 AGRICULTURE It is a valuable hay crop in sections where redtop, timothy, and clover cannot be grown. Rape. — Rape is a valuable crop for pasturing and soiling. It is easily grown and furnishes a large amount of forage that ,is especially relished by sheep and hogs. In the South it supplies late fall and winter grazing, and at the North cheap summer forage. Legumes.—The most profitable fodder crops are legumes. They do double work, — fertilizing the soil, as you have learned, P- 74 lbs N. seibs R 35 It P. A Bibs RA. 211k. lOOIbs. Timothy Red Clover COWPEAS Alfalfa This diagram shows the amount of potash, phosphoric acid, and nitrogen, as indicated by initial letters, removed from an acre of soil by different hay crops. It is estimated that timothy will yield two tons of cured hay to the acre; red clover, two tons; cowpeas, two tons ; alfalfa, three tons. The shaded figures indicate that the legumes, under proper con- ditions, get their supply of nitrogen from the air. and also furnishing a large yield of excellent feed. Besides luxu- riant foliage, many of them produce seeds having a high food value. They are strong-feeding plants, and their long roots pump up food that is out of reach of shallow-rooted plants. In the large legume family are members adapted to widely different conditions. Red clover is the one most widely grown in the North, cowpeas and crimson clover in the South, and alfalfa in the West. No one of them, however, is limited to one section. Red Clover. — Red clover is a perennial which is usually culti- vated as a biennial. It makes a light yield the first season, and a heavy yield the second one. It 'is often sowed with grasses. The. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Soule, Andrew MacNairn. [from ol
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