. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. 152 FORAGE CROPS. â i sown broadcast it ought to be on rich and clean land, otherwise the growth will not be sufficiently vigor- ous, and the weeds may choke the rape. If sown as a catch crop or as a green manure it may be made to follow any kind of crop, as occasion may require, even though weed seeds may be abundantly present in the land, for the pasturing or the plowing in of the crop, as the case may l>e, can be done suffi- ciently early to prevent the maturing of
. Forage crops other than grasses [microform] : how to cultivate, harvest and use them. Forage plants; Plantes fourragères. 152 FORAGE CROPS. â i sown broadcast it ought to be on rich and clean land, otherwise the growth will not be sufficiently vigor- ous, and the weeds may choke the rape. If sown as a catch crop or as a green manure it may be made to follow any kind of crop, as occasion may require, even though weed seeds may be abundantly present in the land, for the pasturing or the plowing in of the crop, as the case may l>e, can be done suffi- ciently early to prevent the maturing of weed seeds in the rape. This plant may usually be broadcasted with advantage on overturned sod. The abundance of the vegetable matter furnished by the grass roots promotes growth, and such lands are not so liable to be filled with weed seeds or other germs of plant life, as lands that have been cropped successively with grain for a term of years. If rape is sown after win- ter rye, or mixed grains or com that has been eaten off, two crops may thus be obtained in a single year from the same piece of sod. Such cropping is favor- able to the clearing of the land, howsoever the rape may be grown. And the same is true when it fol- lows cereal crops or clover that has been harvested at maturity. It may also be grown with much advantage on land that is being summer fallowed, whether the rape crop is turned under or pastured off. The aim should be to follow rape that has been cultivated with some cereal crop, because of the favorable condition in which it leaves the land for growing these crops. Soil.âRape is best adapted to what may be termed deep, rich, moist and free working soils, well stored with humus. It grows magnificently in muck soils not unduly saturated with water during the *«â¢=.;.< ,: J iK4^*>wk'«Mw«ftaMK^«n!ttjMi^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colorat
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