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and British Columbia. Next in point of adaptation 

 should come the maritime provinces of Canada and 

 the New England states, and after these states and 

 provinces, Quebec, Ontario, New York and the 

 northern parts of Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin and 

 North Dakota, also Manitoba. While spring vetches 

 can be grown further south, as stated, the hot 

 weather of summer is against them. 



The highest adaptation for the winter vetch 

 will also be found probably in the Pacific coast states 

 which have been mentioned as possessed of highest 

 adaptation for the spring vetch. This is owing to 

 the mildness of the winters, linked with the mod- 

 erate and moist summer temperatures. Next to 

 these should come the Gulf states. How far north 

 the winter vetch will prosper has not yet been 

 determined. 



Place in the Rotation. The vetch being a legu- 

 minous plant should be grown as a land renovator. 

 The aim should be, therefore, to grow it on land that 

 had borne cereals. Like the pea, the vetch will grow 

 splendidly on overturned sod lands, but such lands 

 cannot usually be spared for it. The winter vetch 

 may be made to follow a crop that has been 

 harvested, because of the late season at which it is 

 sown. And in turn, when pastured off this vetch 

 may be followed by some catch crop, as rape, for 

 instance, or sorghum, according as the climate is 

 favorable to the growth of one or the other of these. 

 The vetch crop should, as a rule, be followed by 

 some cereal. 



Soil. The common vetch, like the field pea, 

 flourishes best in a moist, clay loam soil of free work- 

 ing texture. While it will grow most satisfactorily 



