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FOEAGE PLANTS AND THEIR CULTURE 



cultivation is preferable, as the harvesting can be more 

 easily done. 



635. Rate of seeding. The quantity of seed to be 

 sown to the acre will vary somewhat according to the size 

 of the seed and the use of the crop. With rows from 24 to 

 36 inches apart, from 20 to 30 pounds of seed to the acre is 

 satisfactory. When sown broadcast for hay, from one to 

 one and a half bushels of seed is required. Few rate of 

 seeding experiments have been reported, but the following 

 results were secured at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 

 Station : 



TABLE SHOWING ACRE YIELDS OF SOYBEAN HAY AND SEEDS 

 WHEN PLANTED AT DIFFERENT RATES 



636. Time of seeding. Soybeans may be sown at 

 any time after danger of severe frosts is over. The 

 plants, however, grow slowly in cool weather and ordi- 

 narily there is no advantage in planting them earlier than 

 corn, especially late varieties. In the cotton region, two 

 crops of the early and medium varieties can be grown in 

 a single season by planting the first early. With the 

 very earliest varieties this can also be accomplished as far 



