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oats and three -fourths of a bushel of vetch has 

 been very satisfactory. The vetch makes much 

 more leaf, and is not so firm a grower as the pea, 

 but under favorable conditions it will make a large 

 yield. It is not open to the disadvantage of being 

 attacked by the pea -louse, and thus will serve in 

 combination with oats when later seedings of oats- 

 and-peas are found to be undesirable. The method 

 of harvesting and feeding are the same as for the 

 oats -and- peas. 



This crop also makes an excellent hay, the 

 vetch contributing the protein in larger proportion 

 and making a food rich in nitrogenous nutrients. 

 When the vetch is allowed to mature, it shells 

 rapidly, and unless care is used may prove a 

 nuisance by volunteering as a weed. 



B ARLEY - AND - PEAS 



For late feeding, a combination of barley and 

 Canada field peas is desirable, as the pea makes a 

 luxuriant growth in late fall and is not injured 

 except by heavy freezing; and the pea-louse, which 

 is so destructive to the spring- seeded Canada pea, 

 usually does not attack the fall -sown crop. The 

 quantity of seed should be about one and one -half 

 bushels of barley and one and one -half bushels of 

 the pea, seeded in the same way as oats -and -peas, 

 preferably from the first to the middle of August. 



