OTHER LEGUMES AND CATCH CROPS 



The Canada Pea. Among field peas there are 

 many varieties, but the one chiefly grown in the 

 United States under the general name of the Can- 

 ada pea is the Golden Vine. It makes a green 

 forage or hay that is rich in protein. Usually it 

 is grown with oats, giving a hay nearly as nutritious 

 as that of clover. The crop is adapted to cold 

 latitudes, and the planting should be made as 

 early in the spring as possible. Fall-plowing of 

 the land is to be advised on this account. A 

 good method of seeding is to drill in six pecks of 

 the pea seed to a depth of four inches, and then to 

 drill in six pecks of oats. 



The crop should be cut for hay when the oats 

 are in the milk stage. At this time the peas are 

 forming pods. The hay is not easily made, but is 

 specially valuable for dairy cows. 



There is no profitable place for the Canada pea 

 in crop-rotations farther south than the true oat- 

 crop belt, except as a green-forage crop. The 

 soybean and red clover have greater usefulness 

 in the center of the corn belt. 



Vetch. A variety of vetch known as winter, 

 sand, or hairy vetch is coming into great useful- 

 ness as a catch crop. It is a winter annual, and 

 being a legume, it has special value as a fertilizing 

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