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SPRING VETCHES 
FIELD PEAS 
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SEEDS FOR COVER CROPS 
The importance of a Cover Crop as a cheap and beneficial way of getting humus and 
Nitrogen into the soil is yearly becoming more impressed upon the fruit growers of 
California. We can supply any of the following legumes and will be pleased to quote 
prices on large quantities. 
Double your crops of the above legumes by inoculating before planting with Nitro¬ 
gen Culture, the greatest agricultural discovery of the century, recommended by the 
United States Department of Agriculture and agricultural experts throughout the 
world. (See page 29 for full particulars and prices.) Do not fail to give it a trial. 
VETCHES 
PRICES 
lb. 10 lb. 100 lb. 
Spring Vetches, or Tares. Growing into favor more and more each’ 
year for plowing under. They have the advantage over peas 
in that they make a greater growth of vine, while as the seed 
is much smaller in proportion to peas, a smaller quantity is re¬ 
quired to plant an acre. They are valuable also as a green food 
for milch cows. Sow 50 pounds to the acre.. $.10 $.80 
Vetch, Sand or Winter (Vicia villosa). A valuable forage plant 
from Europe, and now in great demand here. It will thrive on 
the most barren soils and produce two cuttings during the season; 
also valuable for plowing in as a green manure. It may be sown 
alone or together with rye. The latter method is preferable; as 
the vetches grow from 3J to 5 feet, the rye will afford support 
for them. Sow from 25 to 30 lbs. to the acre.15 1.25 
FIELD PEAS 
60 to 90 pounds per acre. 
Field Peas, White Canadian. Highly valued for plowing under 
in orchards as a soil-improver. 10 
Field Peas, Blue Prussian. Similar in habit of growth to the white; 
splendid for cooking when in a dry state; also used for plowing 
under to fertilize the soil. 
.75 
COW PEAS 
40 to 50 pounds per acre. 
Whippoorwill. A bunch-growing variety; great favorite; brown 
speckled seed.. 
Black Eye. Used in some sections as food. 
Clay. A favorite variety in some sections of the South. Is pro¬ 
lific, both in yield of peas and growth of vine. 
New Era. An early maturing variety, which has proved very 
popular and satisfactory. It is upright-growing, quick to ma¬ 
ture, and remarkably prolific of peas. The vines cure easily, 
making splendid dry forage. 
CLOVER 
Burr Clover. Somewhat resembling alfalfa in the shape and color 
of the seed, also in its habit of growth. It is a great nitrogen- 
gatherer. Orchardists regard it with great favor as a green 
fertilizer, as it often thrives in shady places where peas fail to 
make a good stand. Hulled, solid seed, free from burr. Sow 
15 pounds per acre. 
Melilotus Clover. A strong growing plant of the ’ clover family 
yielding a large amount of humus and nitrogen and having a 
great root system. _ Recommended by the Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment fetation of Arizona for sowing in Citrus groves. Sow 10 lbs 
acre. 
FENUGREEK 
Fenugreek. Admirably adapted for sowing in orchards for cover 
crop; stands erect and makes a stronger growth than peas. 
Sow at the rate of 20 pounds to the acre. 
NITROGEN CULTURE 
The germs have been discovered, and are to be had in unlimited 
quantity, that enable leguminous plants to collect nitrogen from 
t0 the - earth > th , ereb y ^plenishing poo? and ex- 
hausted land with a, copious supply of nitrogen, and also making 
f a ° d m 0 r f 1 P rodu . ctlve - D .oes away with artificial manure^ 
and ab°r; is convenient to handle, effective in results 
The method'of 11111 °r t0 try * and be convinced, 
the method of application is simplicity itself, consisting in in¬ 
oculating the seed that is about to be planted as a crop to turn 
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