farm ftotes for 1893. 
(Home Station, Fort Collins, Colorado.) 
By W. W. Cooke and F. L. Watrous. 
SANDWICK---A Promising Fodder Crop. 
For several years this crop has been grown at various experi¬ 
ment stations in the United States under the name of the Hairy 
Vetch (Vida villosus). Sandwickis its German name. In Germany 
it has long been grown as an important forage crop. It belongs to 
the pea family, but the leaves are smaller and narrower and the 
stem not so long but with many branches. Several stems grow from 
the same root. 
The sandwich was grown at this Station in 1893. It was sown 
in drills, a double row in each 39 inches. About 30 pounds of seed 
per acre were used. The seed was sown June 10th. The plants were 
cultivated three times and received one irrigation in July. The 
growth was not rapid, but in spite of an exceedingly dry summer 
and fall the plants kept green and continued their growth. The 
plant has shown itself, in Nebraska, able to withstand the winter, 
and it bids fair to do the same here, since it is still green at this 
writing (the last of December) and sending out new growth, although 
it has been twice covered with snow. The ground was frozen for 
two weeks in November. 
The amount of the crop is enormous. Its green weight at the 
present time averages 13,400 pounds per acre, and as it has 43 per 
cent, of dry matter, this growth is equivalent to 3 J tons ot well-dried 
hay. This is a much heavier growth than that reported from any 
of the six States where it has been previously grown and shows that 
it is particularly adapted to Colorado soil and climate. 
It is well relished by cattle and horses. The analysis given below 
shows that it is rich in the albuminoids or flesh producing elements 
and, hence, w^ell adapted for the production of milk or for fattening 
cattle. When sown by itself thinly, it spreads close to the ground, 
