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The Canada Pea

Categories: OTHER LEGUMES AND CEREAL CATCH CROPS

Among field peas there are many varieties, but the one

chiefly grown in the United States under the general name of the Canada

pea is the Golden Vine. It makes a green forage or hay that is rich in

protein. Usually it is grown with oats, giving a hay nearly as

nutritious as that of clover. The crop is adapted to cold latitudes,

and the planting should be made as early in the spring as possible.

Fall-plowing of the land
is to be advised on this account. A good

method of seeding is to drill in six pecks of the pea seed to a depth

of four inches, and then to drill in six pecks of oats.



The crop should be cut for hay when the oats are in the milk stage. At

this time the peas are forming pods. The hay is not easily made, but is

specially valuable for dairy cows.



There is no profitable place for the Canada pea in crop-rotations

farther south than the true oat-crop belt, except as a green-forage

crop. The soybean and red clover have greater usefulness in the center

of the corn belt.



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