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HAIRY \'ETCH. 



For a winter forage crop, to cut for ha\-, there is none 

 more valuable than hair}' vetch. It can be planted on any 

 kind of soil without fertilizer and is a gfreat soil improver. 

 Sow broadcast any time from August until January. The 

 best way to plant it is with oats, as they help to hold the 

 vetch off of the ground, using about 35 pounds of vetch to 

 3 pecks of oats. 



VELVET BEANS AND COW PEAS. 



These two vine crops are leaders as soil renovators and 

 forage crops. They seem particularly adapted to our soil 

 and climate. All you have to do is to plant them, then 

 stand off and watch them grow. If >-ou wish to build up 

 worn-out land, plant either one of these, and when the crop 

 is matured plow it under. You will find it necessary, if you 

 have a very heavy crop of vines, to first go over them witn 

 a board drag ; then cut them up with a cutaway harrow be- 

 fore the>' can be plowed under. For removing the sourness 

 from new land )'ou can find nothing better than these crops. 

 They cannot be planted before the middle of February in 

 the Central and Northern portions of the State ; in the 

 Southern portion they can be planted any time of the year. 

 The beans are planted in rows, five feet apart, and require 

 one and a half pecks to plant an acre. They will onlv re- 

 quire cultivation until they start to run. Broadcast the peas, 

 using about a bushel to the acre. For table use. plant the 

 California Pdackeye, but for a forage crop plant either the 

 Whippoorwill, Unknown, Cla}-, Iron and Red Ripper. 



DWARF ESSE.X R.KPE. 



Rape is a most satisfactory quick-growing green food 

 for any kind of stock. It can be used for pasture from six 

 to eight weeks after s iwing, and is excellent for fattening 



