300 THE CEREALS IN AMERICA 



404. Sowing with Other Cereals. — The Ontario Agricultural 

 College grew oats, spring wheat, barley and peas separately and 

 in eleven combinations for grain and straw during six years. 

 In about ninety per cent of the experiments, the mixtures pro- 

 duced the larger yields of grain, a combination of oats and 

 barley being best.^ The Ottawa Station found oats alone pro- 

 duced a better yield than a mixture in one location and that the 

 mixture did best in another location and season. The best 

 mixtures were one bushel each of barley, oats and peas, and 

 one-half bushel of spring wheat, one of oats, three-fourths of 

 peas and three-fourths of barley per acre.^ 



405. Sowing with Field Peas. — Oats are sometimes mixed 

 with field peas for the production of green or dry fodder for 

 grain. They may be mixed and sown in an ordinary wheat 

 drill, or peas may be sown and the land plowed, covering the 

 peas about four inches deep. Land may then be fitted and the 

 oats sown broadcast or with drill. Sowing the oats may be 

 delayed for about a week to give the peas a start of the oats. 

 This mixture is frequently sown for soiling milch cows where 

 pasture is restricted or not available. By sowing at different 

 dates a succession of green fodder may be had as follows in the 

 North Atlantic and North Central States, allowance being made 

 for soil and season : 



Time of seeding Time of cutting 



March 20-April i June 1-20 



April 1-20 June 15-July 5 



April 20-May 10 July i-July 25 



The Vermont Station secured 10,917 pounds of water-free 

 substance containing 12.6 per cent of protein by growing peas 

 and oats for fodder, and found this mixture superior to oats 

 and spring vetch ( Vicia sativa L.)."' Zavitz found in Ontario, 



1 Ont. Agr. Col. and Expt. Farms Rpt. 1S9S, p. 144. 



2 Can. Expt. Farms Rpt. 1900. 



3 Vt. Rpt. 1895, p. 195. 



