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 outs-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.! 
The best time for cutting is when the oat-grain 
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