diate coast  influ- 
WINTER GREEN-MANURE CROPS. 21 
ADAPTATION. 
Fenugreek is grown in quantity in California only in Ventura and 
Orange counties. The recognition of its value as a green-manure 
crop dates back to 1903, it having been distributed the previous 
year by the California experiment station. Since that time its use 
has gradually increased, and while it is only in Orange and Ventura 
counties that it has been used as a regular crop it has been tested 
and grown in a small way in all the citrus sections of the State 
(see fig. 6). 
From. tests and observations made during the past three years it 
seems quite evident 
that fenugreek is best 
adapted to the citrus 
sections of the State 
having the imme- 
ences. The climatic 
conditions of such lo- 
calities are very 
favorable for fenu- 
ereek, and it is there- 
fore in those sections 
that it has attained 
its best development. 
In sections farther 
from the coast, such 
as at Riverside and 
- Redlands, and in the 
Fig. 6.—View in a walnut orchard in Orange County, California, 
showing fenugreek grown as a green-manure crop. 
interior valleys of the 
State, quite good 
crops have been grown, but in such localities the crop is more exacting 
in its requirements as to time of planting, ete. 
COMPARATIVE VALUE. 
In comparative tests made at Redlands, Cal., fenugreek sown 
October 7, 1907, by the middle of February, 1908, had attained a 
height of 10 inches. Common vetch made but 6 inches of growth in 
the same time. At Pomona, Cal., fenugreek sown November 4, 
1907, by the middle of February, 1908, had made a growth of 
18 to 24 inches. Common vetch in comparison made but 8 inches 
of growth during the same time. At Chico, in northern California, 
fenugreek sown October 5, 1908, with irrigation, by the first of 
March, 1909, had made a growth of 12 to 15 inches, and of 16 to 
20 inches by the middle of March. In other tests the fenugreek did 
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