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pounds of forage per acre, containing 46, 23, and 19 

 pounds respectively. It seems to me the one serious ob- 

 stacle to cultivation of vetch is the cost of seed, and this 

 the farmer could in a measure obviate by growing his 

 own seed a thing easily enough done. Vetches germi- 



Hairy Vetch. 



Cowpea, 



nate slowly and should be sown early in northern lati- 

 tudes in late July, in the South as late as October and in 

 the Gulf States it may thrive sown in November, though 

 earlier seeding is desirable if there is moisture sufficient 

 to germinate it. Inoculation may be given by immers- 

 ing the seed in very muddy water, made by stirring in- 



