Vetch. 
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Winter Vetch 
(Vicia villosa) 
Hairy or Winter Vetch is increasing in popu- 
larity wherever grown, and is proving to be one 
of the most valuable crops for Fall planting. It 
not only makes the most nutritious hay, but im- 
proves the condition and productiveness of the 
land for crops to follow. Winter or Hairy Vetch 
occupies first place in this respect, it being among 
the few plants grown during the Fall and Winter 
months that are able to gather nitrogen from the 
air and deposit it in the soil for future use of 
other crops. The forage is greatly relished by 
horses and cattle, and is very nutritious; it is 
also a fine milk-producing food. 
Vetch can be sown from July to November, 
and should be sown broadcast at the rate of 20 
to 30 pounds to the acre, with one bushel of rye 
or wheat. The rye or wheat helps to hold the 
Vetch off the ground, enabling it to make a better 
growth, and making it more easy to harvest and 
cure properly. For a hay crop, Vetch should be 
cut just after the rye or wheat has headed out, 
and before the grain matures. If Vetch is sown 
alone, without being put in with rye or wheat, it 
should be sown at the rate of 35 to 40 pounds to 
the acre. It is much better, however, to sow it 
with rye or wheat. 
Flax 
Flax should be sown late enough in the Spring 
to avoid frost, but as early as it is possible to 
do so, in order to secure the early Spring rains. 
When grown for the fiber, about one bushel should 
be sown to the acre; but if for seed alone, usually 
one-half is sufficient. 
. Kudzu 
(Fueraria Thunberglana) 
This is a perennial vine from eastern Asia. It 
is related to the velvet bean and produces long, 
trailing stems, bearing large leaves like the beans. 
The young growth makes good forage, while its 
roots produce nodules and serve to enrich the soil 
like other members of the bean and clover fam- 
ilies. It is a wonderful hardy, rapidly growing 
vine, ornamental in character and suited to cover- 
ing verandas, small buildings, stone fences, rock 
exposures, etc. Planted in hills. 8 feet apart each 
way, it covers the ground in a great mass of foli- 
age and, when provided with a trellis or other 
support, clambers over it, completely burying it 
finally in a bank of leaves and stems. Plant 10 
to 12 seeds to the hill. 
Kudzu has proved at the Experiment Station 
to be completely adapted to Kentucky. In Japan, 
starch is made from its tuberous roots, and a fine, 
strong cloth is woven from the tough fiber ob- 
tained from the old stems. 
Spring Vetch 
(Vicia sativa) 
The Vetches do not do so well in the Spring 
as in the Fall. In some sections, Spring Vetch 
seems, however, to give very good results. When 
sown in Spring, the Spring Vetch makes a quick- 
er growth than the Hairy Vetch. It is best al- 
ways to sow with some grain — beardless barley 
or oats, a bushel of barley or oats and 30 pounds 
of Vetch to the acre. 
CUT WORMS. This is the worm that does more damage to growing crops than 
any other one insects pest that we know of; it attacks the cab- 
bage and tomato plants as well as the fields of corn, small grain, etc., sometimes 
cutting off and killing large areas of all kinds of crops. Cut worms are easily 
poisoned and can be controlled readily on small fields, and on large ones with a 
little more work. One method in the nursery when they attack the small trees, 
is to mix 100 lbs. of bran. 5 lbs. of paris green (and mixing these two thoroughly 
before wetting the mixtures) then take a quantity of water and one gallon of 
molasses. Stir this thoroughly and use just enough to dampen the bran and 
the paris green. This mixture is put in a Planet Jr. drill and a row followed 
as fast as a man can walk. Practically all of the cut worms will be killed in 
one application, as they are very fond of the bran and molasses. 
Another method is to scatter over the ground bunches of fresh clover or cab- 
bage leaves which have been treated with paris green or arsenic either by dip- 
ping into a solution of the poison or dusting it on dry. 
Do not let stock eat any of these poisoned leaves or the poisoned bran. 
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