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or can be put in later as directed for crimson clover. When sown alone 

 for soil improvement, sow from a half bushel to three pecks of seeds per 

 acre. When sown with small grain for hay, sow from 15 to 20 pounds 

 of vetch seed and a bushel and a half of oats, or three pecks of wheat, 

 or a half bushel of rye, to the acre. This should be done at the proper 

 time for sowing the oats, wheat or rye. 



Yetch hay is easier cured than clover hay. When sown with wheat 

 or oats, cut when the grain of the wheat or oats is in the dough stage. 

 For hay, vetch is preferable to crimson clover as it is not so apt to 

 cause the formation of the so-called "hair balls" in the intestines of 

 horses as does over ripe crimson clover; also, it makes a hay higher in 

 protein contents than clover will. 



For inoculation use either soil from a field that has recently grown 

 vetch or use the culture as for other legumes. 



Fig. 30. — Field of Iron cowpeas broadcasted thinly. 

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Cow Peas. 



Cow peas are too well known in North Carolina to need any descrip- 

 tion in this Bulletin. They are the most widely distributed legume 

 crop that we have. The acreage in cow peas probably equals that of all 

 the other cultivated legumes grown in the State. They are good for man 

 and beast, and also for the land. When properly cured they make a 

 hay almost equal to wheat bran in feeding value. A ton of good cow pea 

 bay contains more than three times the protein that timothy hay has, 

 and about one-third the nitrogen contents of a ton of cottonseed meal. 

 The acreage grown in cow peas has very much increased within the 



