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Show Rye for Early Pasture Should Be Sown in Fall If early spring pasture is wanted for hogs, sow rye this fall, says the Indiana farmers' Guide. Some vetch can be used with it to advantage. If sown as soon as I be land can be prepared pre-pared after the wheat, oats or corn are out of the way. it will ,-ome on early next spring. A bushel and a half of seed is enough for early sowiiiL', but 2 bushels per acre should be used la'er. If veieb is used with rye. from "0 to 40 pounds of rye and 15 to 20 pounds of vetch are about the right amounts. Smell fields of such crops furnish a great nv.ii of pasture at little expense and leave the soil in better condition than if they bad not been grown. The vetch is a legunve which adds nitrogen and the line ri...:-: ..f the rye protect the soil against washing which is mure serious bet ween growing seasons than most people realize. Next spring the rye can be turned under as a green manuring crop before corn planting time. |