DIGITAL ARCHIVE of SLAVERY to FREEDOM at MONTICELLO   (beta)

Vetch.

if for fodder it is sown about the Autumnal equinox. 2. Dickson 212.

Young’s average crop of hay is 43  to the acre. the seed 12. bush. 3. Exp. agr. pa. 21. 27.

he thinks it best that the manure designed for wheat should be laid on the spring vetch, and the wheat sowed on the stubble in autumn. pa. 32. it would seem best to let clover precede wheat in the strong fields and vetches in the weak ones.