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els to the acre. The yield after the vetch was nearly 
go bushels to the acre of large, splendid white corn — 
an increase over former years of over I00 per cent. 
The cost of vetch seed for this field was $3 per acre. 
The author’s brother is the owner of a farm the soil 
of which is clay underlaid with a gravelly subsoil. 
When first cleared, more than sixty years ago, it was 
rich and produced enormous crops. Fifty years in the 
hands of tenants, with an insufficient soil-building ma- 
terial added to it, reduced the yield of corn to less than 
30 bushels to the acre. In the fall of 1908 fifty acres 
of this land was planted to vetch. The extreme dry 
fall made the seed come up slow and uneven, and only a 
fair growth was obtained before winter. At plowing 
time the following spring a fair crop of vetch was 
plowed under and forty acres planted to field corn. The 
crop gathered from the field corn produced over 70 
bushels of corn to the acre—an increase of over I00 
per cent. 
Ten acres were plowed under and the ground culti- 
vated until June, when it was planted to alfalfa, about 
which we will speak later. Another vetch enthusiast 
was added to the list. 
Both author and brother had (December 2oth, 1909) 
vetch growing on their farms, sowed in the open and in 
corn, that covers the ground like a thick velvet carpet. 
The author’s experience with vetch for potatoes and 
sweet corn has been as successful as it has been with 
field corn. Sweet corn has been grown after vetch on 
poor soil that produced from 4% to 5 tons to the acre 
—a money value of $36 to $40 per acre. In 1909 one 
