The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-03
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CONDUCTED BY PROF. ,. P. DuaoAH.


 seed, or one bushel, per acre to make thick stand of vetch alone, but a much smaller amount of seed serves the pur- pose if sown with oats or a beardiess variety of wheat. One of these grain plants is needed In order to hold up the vetch vines and permit the cutting of the hay For hay. SOW two thirds the usual amount of oats or wheat and pre- ferably about thirty pounds of vetch per acre broadcast, although some what smaller amount of vetch may suf- flee. For pasturage, SOW as above. or combine vetch and rye.
 To cause vetch to reseed 1t should be sown with some grain that permits very early cutting for hay. for exam pie. with very early variety of beard- less wheat, such as our Southern grown Blue Stem variety, or with rye. Cut for hay when the first blooms appear on the vetch and expect the second growth to make sufficient seed. provided rains oc- cur, to thoroughly reseed the land. An other method of reseeding which we have found satisfactory, though vast ing some of theeoats through shattering is as follows. Sow eats as usual for grain and every six feet plant a row of vetch seed by hand, the man planting dropping four or five vetch seed every step upon the soft ground, and then covering them by stepping on them with his heel The same end is accom- pltshed by the use of the small rotary hand planter, Which can also be used in hand replanting skipped places in corn. cotton, etc. The amount of seed required for this kind of planting will be about one-eighth bushel per acre, costing about 60 cents. In field of oats where one row Of vetch was thus planted we have had the vetch by seed ing time in June to reach from row to row. As soon as the pods of vetch have colored, cut the oats and the vetch. Ex- pect some of the vetch seed to be shat tered upon the land and some of them to be threshed out with the oats for sowing next fall
 This shattering of the vetch requires that the moving of the rust proof oats be postponed at least a week later than the usual time of cutting for grain. If vetch and turf oats are sown together they mature about the same time, so that the loss from the shattering of the oats need not be considerable. Howev- CT, for hay purposes, we find red rust proof oats better for sowing with vetch on poor and medium land. For hay turf oats are rather too late to be grown with vetch except on good land. Inoculation Is absolutely necessary to
 
 soil in Alabama, always excepting old garden spots, rich lots around the gar den and old vetch fields. To inoculate vetch, apply for artificial inoculating material, furnished by the United States Department of Agriculture, which germ fertilizer will be sent free by mail for the number of acres indicated, accom- panied by directions for use. The wri- ter has not been so successful with the II the use of soil.
 inoculation is to use the soil from an old field where any kind of vetch has grown recently or from an old garden spot where English peas have been re- peatedly grown, the two plants being near enough kin for soil from one to affect the other. The method of inocu- lation with soil will vary with the amount of soil used. The more soil the better, up to at least one and one-half tons per acre. If only a peck or bush el of soil per acre Is available, stir this small amount of soil into twice it's bulk of water, and into the water thus mud died dip the vetch seed. Then if addi- tional inoculating soil is at hand, dry the seed by sprinkling this inoculating soil upon them, a step that Is not abso- lutely necessary. Sow the seed and cov- CT promptly without undue exposure to the sun. When larger amount of soil Is available. treat the seed as above and in addition SOW the remainder of the soil broadcast. promptly narrowing it in. Vetch prefers a soil with some clay and does finely on lime lands. h. deed 1t seems suitable for any soils in the State with the possible exception of very acid soils, very wet soils, and poor white sand.
 Crimson clover is best sown about the first of October in Central Alabama. To SOW crimson clover seed after Oc-