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oats and three-fourths of a bushel of vetch has 
been very satisfactory. The vetch makes much 
more leaf, and is not so firm a grower as the pea, 
but under favorable conditions it will make a large 
yield. It is not open to the disadvantage of being 
attacked by the pea-louse, and thus will serve in 
combination with oats when later seedings of oats- 
and-peas are found to be undesirable. The method 
of harvesting and feeding are the same as for the 
oats-and-peas. 
This crop also makes an excellent hay, the 
vetch contributing the protein in larger proportion 
and making a food rich in nitrogenous nutrients. 
When the vetch is allowed to mature, it shells 
rapidly, and unless care is used may prove a 
nuisance by volunteering as a weed. 
BARLEY - AND-PEAS 
For late feeding, a combination of barley and 
Canada field peas is desirable, as the pea makes a 
luxuriant growth in late fall and is not injured 
except by heavy freezing; and the pea-louse, which 
is so destructive to the spring-seeded Canada pea, 
usually does not attack the fall-sown crop. The 
quantity of seed should be about one and one-half 
bushels of barley and one and one-half bushels of 
the pea, seeded in the same way as oats-and-peas, 
preferably from the first to the middle of August. 
