Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture . for eight years and where different methodshave been used in seeding, has shown that it is nota profitable practice there to expend the extralabor required in plowing-in the peas or in seedingthe two plants at an interval of a few days. Quiteas even distribution and as large yields have beensecured when the oats-and-peas have been mixedin the grain-drill, and all seeded together. It isimportant in any case that the seed be distributedevenly. Time of cutting oats-and-peas When seeded as early as it is possible to pre-pare the land, the first c
Forage crops for soiling, silage, hay and pasture . for eight years and where different methodshave been used in seeding, has shown that it is nota profitable practice there to expend the extralabor required in plowing-in the peas or in seedingthe two plants at an interval of a few days. Quiteas even distribution and as large yields have beensecured when the oats-and-peas have been mixedin the grain-drill, and all seeded together. It isimportant in any case that the seed be distributedevenly. Time of cutting oats-and-peas When seeded as early as it is possible to pre-pare the land, the first cutting for green foragewill be ready in about two and one-half of its good proportion of nutrients, it maybe used as the exclusive source of food for dairycows, although this is not a desirable practicewhen it is the purpose to keep the animals up tofull standard of production, as it would requireabout 100 pounds of the forage per day.^ The best time for cutting is when the oat-grain 1 New Jersey Experiment Station Bulletin, No. 130.
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