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THE RURAIi NBW-VURKKR 
February 6, 
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Hairy Vetch With Oats. 
R EFERRING to article on page 41, by 
C. S. Phelps, I would like to know 
how Hairy vetch is grown. In what 
quantity would the seed be sown? As 
the seed is too large to be placed in seeder 
attachment, I suppose it is mixed with 
the oats. In many vineyards and or¬ 
chards around here the Ilairy vetch has 
been sown in the Fall, and it nearly al¬ 
ways winter-kills. Some time ago I met 
a Scotchman who criticized our manner 
of handling “vetches.” He said that in 
the part of Scotland he came from the 
Winter Ilairy vetch was sown in the 
Spring. I tried the Spring vetch with 
oats, and it was all killed by dry weather. 
On comparing not s with some neighbors 
I find that several had the same result 
with the variety known as Spring vetch. 
North East, Pa. E. S. D. 
In reply to the inquiry of E. S. D. of 
Pennsylvania, about growing Hairy vetch 
with oats, I will say that hundreds of 
acres were grown in this way in Northern 
New York during the past two years. 
Although this vetch is a cold climate 
plant, I can sec no reason why it should 
not grow as far south as Pennsylvania. 
Being closely-related in its habits to the 
pea, the vetch, like the pea, should be 
planted deeply. If mixed with the oats 
and sown in a drill so as to be covered 
two to three inches deep, there should 
be no trouble in this respect. The vetch 
needs a lot of moisture to cause it to 
sprout well. For this reason the vetch 
and oats should be sown as early as the 
land can be safely worked. Two bushels 
of oats with 15 pounds (one peck) of 
Hairy vetch, makes a good seeding when 
the crop is grown entirely as fodder. If 
the oats are to be allowed to ripen, the 
quantity of vetch seed should be reduced 
to 10 pounds. The oats will support the 
vetch nicely and there is very little ten¬ 
dency for the crop to lodge, but too large 
a proportion of vetch in a grain crop will 
tangle and interfere with the operations 
of the reaper. If the mixture is grown 
entirely for fodder it should be cut when 
the oats are in milk or earlier, so that 
there will be no tendency for the oats to 
shell out. If the oats are wanted for 
grain the vetch will not have formed seed 
sufficient to shell out, at least, not in 
Northern New York. As far south as 
most of Pennsylvania, I am inclined to 
think the mixture would do better grown 
entirely as a fodder, but in our great 
northern oat belt it handles all right with 
oats grown as grain. Of course, in this 
case, the vetch goes with the straw, but 
as most of our farmers feed oat straw 
they value the addition of the vetch. It 
is like clover added to Timothy hay. 
One great value of the Hairy vetch 
when grown with oats is that as soon as 
the oats are cut. the vetch sends up a 
new, vigorous growth. This is very val¬ 
uable to plow under or to leave over 
Winter to come again in the first year’s 
hay crop. If the oats are to be followed 
by a cultivated crop the vetch should be 
used for green manuring. The past Fall 
several of our farmers plowed under a 
thick mass of vetch with their oat stub¬ 
ble, in October. If the clover and Tim¬ 
othy seeding is done with the oats, as is 
almost universally done in this country, 
the vetch lives over and makes a fine 
growth with the clover the first year. After 
that the vetch dies, although a little may 
happen to drop seed in case the first 
year’s hay crop is cut rather late. 
E. I). S. speaks of having poor success 
with Hairy vetch sown in a vineyard, as 
a Fall and Winter cover. My own expe¬ 
rience with this vetch for orchard work 
in southern New England indicates that it 
needs to be seeded early in order to ob¬ 
tain sufficient root growth to prevent 
winter-killing. I would suggest that E. 
D. S. try sowing his Hairy vetch in the 
orchard not later than July 15 to 20, and 
to take great care to cover the seed 
deeply. ciias. s. piielps. 
St. Lawrence Co., N. Y. 
Spring-sown Oat Crop. 
C AN I sow Timothy grass seed with 
cow peas and oats, Canada field peas 
and oats. Spring vetch and oats, or 
some other hay crop that can be sown in 
the Spring? J. l. 
North Seituate, R. I. 
Except in wet Spring seasons we have 
never had good results in seeding grass 
with oats and peas. This crop makes 
a very thick, rank growth, and if the 
Spring is inclined to be dry the grass 
suffers. Seeding with oats alone will be 
much more satisfactory, but we would 
seed grass in the early Fall in your lat¬ 
itude. 
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