180 FORAGE CROPS 



Many other successful growers prefer to use the 

 ordinary grain- drill for the peas and plant them as 

 deeply as possible, following with the oats a few 

 days later, and before the peas have sprouted. 

 The experience at the New Jersey Experiment 

 Station, where this crop has been an important 

 one for eight years and where different methods 

 have been used in seeding, has shown that it is not 

 a profitable practice there to expend the extra 

 labor required in plowing- in the peas or in seeding 

 the two plants at an interval of a few days. Quite 

 as even distribution and as large yields have been 

 secured when the oats -and -peas have been mixed 

 in the grain- drill, and all seeded together. It is 

 important in any case that the seed be distributed 

 evenly. 



Time of cutting oats- and- peas 



When seeded as early as it is possible to pre- 

 pare the land, the first cutting for green forage 

 will be ready in about two and one -half months. 

 Because of its good proportion of nutrients, it may 

 be used as the exclusive source of food for dairy 

 cows, although this is not a desirable practice 

 when it is the purpose to keep the animals up to 

 full standard of production, as it would require 

 about 100 pounds of the forage per day. 1 



The best time for cutting is when the oat -grain 



1 New Jersey Experiment Station Bulletin, No. 130 



