Farm crops, their cultivation and management, a non-technical manual for the cultivation, management and improvement of farm crops . ny time during the summer, it does best when seeded in the latesummer or autumn. It generally blossoms in May and matures seeds inJune or July. It is valuable as a winter cover crop. The plant has a reclining is, therefore, best to seed rye and vetch together. About twenty-fivepounds of vetch and one-half bushel of rye per acre makes a suitable mix-ture. The crop may be turned under early in the spring for the benefit ofthe soil, or pastured or cut green
Farm crops, their cultivation and management, a non-technical manual for the cultivation, management and improvement of farm crops . ny time during the summer, it does best when seeded in the latesummer or autumn. It generally blossoms in May and matures seeds inJune or July. It is valuable as a winter cover crop. The plant has a reclining is, therefore, best to seed rye and vetch together. About twenty-fivepounds of vetch and one-half bushel of rye per acre makes a suitable mix-ture. The crop may be turned under early in the spring for the benefit ofthe soil, or pastured or cut green- for soiling purposes, or made into hay. Canada Field —This term is used for field peas regardless oftheir variet5\ The plant is adapted to a cool, moist climate and succeedsbest when seeded early in the spring. When used for having or soiling 150 SUCCESSFUL FARMING purposes, it is best to seed it with oats. The oats support the peas andfaciUtate the harvesting of the crop. The amount of seed to use will vary with the size of the pea and thecharacter of the soil. It will vary from two bushels per acre in case of small. Hairy Vetch and Rye Gro^t;ng Together.* seed to three and one-half bushels of the large seed. Wlien seeded with oats,two bushels of peas and one bushel of oats per acre is about the right pro-portion. On light soils peas may be sown broadcast and plowed under to adepth of three to four inches. Peas should not be buried so deeply on stiffclays. Best results will be secured by drilling the seed Avith a grain of the peas will be broken in passing through the drill, but the loss From Farmers Bulletin 515, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. ANNUAL HAY AND FORAGE CROPS 151 will not be serious. When oats and peas are drilled together, it is bestto drill the peas first, after which the oats may be drilled at right anglesto the peas and not so deeply. Since the oats come up more promptlythan the peas, some advocate deferring drilhng the oats until three or fo
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