LEGUME SEED MIXTURES THAT MAKE MILK 
“Five thousand four hundred acres of annual legumes, soy beans, vetch, and peas were seeded on 
New Hampshire dairy farms in 1932. This is almost double the acreage of these crops in 1931 and 
three times that in 1930. Why are dairymen growing these crops? Because they have found by 
experience that legume hay cheapens milk production during the winter. In this period of economic 
adjustment, hay crops with a high feeding value and low cost appeal to the farmer’s pocketbook.” —- 
Professor Ford 5. Prince, University of New Hampshire Extension Service. 
Our comment in this matter is: “What goes for New Hampshire is good for all New England!” 
The following 90-100-day hay crop seeds are not to exclude rotation of valuable clovers or alfalfas 
which also should be available for the foddering of cows and young stock, as well as for making up 
a more all round feed. 
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE EXTENSION SERVICE CHART 
Mixture 
Date of Seeding 
Amount per Acre 
Time of Cutting 
Varieties 
Vetch and Oats 
As early as 
possible 
x / 2 bu. Vetch 
1 l A bu. Oats 
When oats begin 
to head 
Hairy Vetch 
Peas and Vetch 
As early as 
possible 
1 bu. Peas 
1 y 2 bu. Oats 
When oats begin 
to head 
Canada Peas 
Vetch, Peas 
and Oats 
As early as 
possible 
y 2 bu. Vetch 
1 bu. Peas 
1 bu. Oats 
When oats begin 
to head 
Use Swedish 
Type Oats 
Soy Beans and 
Hungarian 
Last of May 
and June 
1 to 1 y 2 bu. Soy Beans 
15 to 20 lbs. Hungarian 
When pods begin to 
form on beans 
Early Wilson 
and Manchu 
NEVER SEED MEADOW OR PASTURE WITHOUT CLOVERS 
Permanent soil enriching legumes are being accepted as well as used more each year and for 
forage and plowing-under are the most valuable grasses known. EMERSON uses them liberally 
in the following mixtures: 
EMERSON’S DAIRY FARM HAY SEED. Here is a combination of clovers, blue grass and timothy that will 
adapt itself to most any of New England’s conditions. Giving a dense and well supported hay growth, that has 
superior milk producing qualities, its goodness is unsurpassed for all around dairy use. Wonderful for calves. 
Sow 20 lbs. to the acre. 10 lbs. $4.00; 25 lbs. $8.50; 100 lbs. $28.00. 
EMERSON’S STANDARD HAY MIXTURE For horse hay this blend of Kentucky blue grass, timothy, red and 
alsike clovers, will do well on most any drained land. A good top dressing with manure or wood ashes each 
year is all that is needed to keep it yielding abundantly indefinitely. Sow 31 lbs. to the acre. 10 lbs. $3.50; 
25 lbs. $8.00; 100 lbs. $24.00. 
EMERSON’S PERMANENT PASTURE GRASSES. In wet or dry weather on low or high ground this combina¬ 
tion of grasses will give you a permanent grass turf that will grow on the poorest kinds of soil. Their spreading, 
creeping nature being especially resistant to grazing, means maximum forage feed over many years’ time. Sow 
40 lbs. to the acre. 10 lbs. $4.00; 25 lbs. $8.50; 100 lbs. $28.00. 
EMERSON’S REVITALIZING SOIL FORMULA. You can avoid a large percentage of your short crops and crop 
failures. Twenty-five, fifty, or seventy-five per cent crops are unprofitable. A 100 per cent production is what 
puts you on “Prosperity Road,” which all are seeking. This we think can be accomplished, provided you will 
prepare your soil as suggested. 
Let each farmer take ten per cent of his tillable acreage each year and treat it as follows: 
In the Fall, thoroughly chop up the old meadow with a disc harrow before plowing. Sow this land in the 
early Spring with oats and peas. Top-dress this crop with barnyard manure or 408-4 commercial fertilizer. 
When in bloom again use your harrow to cut the crop before plowing. Seed the same land with buckwheat. 
When in bloom harrow thoroughly before plowing. Seed the third time to rye and winter vetch. This crop 
should be harrowed and plowed the following May. 
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