6 BULLETIN 876, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
much a standard product as rye, beans, potatoes, or buckwheat. 
The yields obtained are not large, as a rule, but the seed is of high 
quality, good color, and practically free from weed seeds. 3 
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Fic. 1—Outline map of the eastern portion of the United States, showing the approximate location of 
the countiesin which hairy-vetch seed is known to have been produced. 
A third source of vetch seed is in screenings from wheat. Hairy 
vetch was planted years ago in many of the winter-wheat sections In 
southern Michigan and still persists in the fields as a weed. Vetch 1s 
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