What time do you sow rape and vetch and are they good for chickens?
Vetch requires a longer season than ordinary oat or barley hay crop to make a larger growth, consequently an early sowing is desirable.
I would try to grow either peas or vetch and plow under in February or March and then set trees or vines on the land.
A half a bushel of vetch seed is mixed with a bushel of oats and this is enough to plant an acre.
In mowing for hay purposes it is desirable to raise the vetch off the ground to facilitate the action of the mower.
If the vetch is to be fed green, rye is a good grain, but not good for hay purposes because of the hardness of the stem.
How many pounds of vetch seed should be sown to the acre?
When is the best time to sow vetch for hay, and what is the best variety?
In feeding a combined vetch and barley hay, the ration is balanced; the feeding of grain would not be necessary, except in case of hard work under the same conditions grain is usually fed to horses and in about the same amounts.
Some growers, however, prefer a bushel of vetch as that makes the stand much heavier.
Vetch falls to the ground so badly that it is very difficult to cut hay from it unless some grain is planted to hold it up.
In using vetch for horse fodder, how much barley should be fed with it per day for a driving horse?
Is vetch sown and harvested at about the same time as other crops?
Vetch makes excellent stock feed whether used as hay or as pasturage.
Mr. William Vetch was born in the shire of Clydesdale, at Roberton seven miles from Lanerk, an.
Accordingly, after the Galloway forces had taken Sir James, Mr. Vetchand major Lermont went west and joined them on a hill above Galston.
After this, Mr. Vetchwas obliged to abscond, and so he went off for Newcastle, where he continued some time.
Mr. Vetch declared his ignorance of this, and so they parted.
After this, Mr. Vetch being wearied with such toil and confinement, went with a Nottingham merchant to Yorkshire, and staid some time in a town called Southeave.
Mr. Vetch never had more satisfaction of his ministerial work (as he himself says) than in that place.
Mr. Vetch went with him; but he refused to settle with them, till he had handsomely ended with the commission of the church, to whom the matter was referred.
After staying some time in London, Argyle set off to join with Monmouth in Holland, and Mr. Vetch returned to his house in Stanton-hall.
In shady grassy or bushy places we may see the Crimson Vetch or Grass Vetchling (Lathyrus Nissolia) which, although not common, is rather frequent in the midland and southern counties of England.
In the thickets of most parts of Britain, but more especially those of the eastern counties, we may often meet with the Sweet Milk Vetch (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of the same order.
One is the Tuberous Everlasting Pea or Tuberous Bitter Vetch (L.
This expedition, together with a French raid upon Haverfield on the Merrimac, had the effect of stirring Massachusetts to more grandiose schemes, and in 1708 Samuel Vetch was sent to England to ask for the assistance of regular troops.
The first-hand knowledge that Vetch possessed seems to have had considerable influence at the English Court; and as Marlborough's victories had been so decisive in Europe, it was thought that something might be done in America.
Vetch had the common sense to see that this glorious object could only be accomplished by a united and aggressive action against France.
This Tufted Vetch is one of these climbing plants which are not strong enough to stand alone; so these tendrils curl themselves round the twigs of the hedges, and this helps the plant to rise high above the ground.
At the end of a month they were no nearer a settlement than at the beginning, and distrust of each other was becoming evident.
The wild vetch or pea grew at Fort Liard, but not to any great extent.
The wild pea or vetch grows all through Peace river valley, but was particularly noticed on the plateau above Fort St. John (in British Columbia) in latitude 56°.
Occasionally a change from oats to barley, and clover to vetch should be made and once in four or five years rape or cow-horn turnip should be worked into the rotation.
A half-bushel of oats or barley plus twenty pounds of winter vetch or twelve pounds of red clover is possibly the most satisfactory of all cover-crops for this fruit in New York.
If this wun’t vetch Measter Ragless, arl I can zay is her bain’t a dog.
I could tull ’e purty smart how to vetch old Ragless, and kape ’un so long as you was mainded.
That be vaine manners after arl as I dooed, to vetch ’un here for you to carr’ on with!
Defn: An alkaloid ex tracted from the seeds of the vetch (Vicia sativa) as a white crystalline substance.
A kind of vetch or tare, common in the United States (Lathyrus Americana, and other similar species).
A few days later some soft vetch or tender grass may be given them before they go out to pasture and after they come in.
Feed clover until it is dry, then feed vetch and then panic grass, and after the panic grass feed elm leaves.
On the other hand, lupines, field beans and vetch manure corn land.
Pupius Piso, wild boars and roe bucks assemble at the sound of the trumpet to be fed at regular hours, when from a platform, the keeper scatters mast to the wild boars and vetch or some such forage to the roe bucks.
Stack the straw of wheat, barley, beans, vetchand lupine, indeed all the grain straws, but pick out and house the best of it.
By reason of his former mission to Canada, Colonel Vetch had been commanded to accompany the fleet, and his Journal of a Voyage Designed to Quebec furnishes the mournful details of this ill-fated enterprise.
Samuel Vetch commanded the provincials--the same who had boasted of his knowledge of the Canadian coasts; but he was no sailor, and the pilots with the fleet had little serious knowledge of the St. Lawrence after all.
To the charge of this bold venture Samuel Vetch was appointed, an energetic, astute and ambitious agent for his party, who boasted he knew the St. Lawrence and its shores better than the Canadians themselves.
There had been old dealings between Vetch and de Ramezay.
It was the object of Vetch in visiting Montreal to be repaid this advance, but de Ramezay professed himself not in the condition to give it back, without the approval of the minister.
It may be remembered that in 1705 Captain Vetch and Samuel Hill, together with the governor's young son William, went to Quebec to procure an exchange of prisoners.
Nicholson advanced between the ranks, with Vetchon one hand and Hobby on the other, followed by all the field-officers.
These were accepted, and he sailed for America commissioned to command the enterprise against Port Royal, with Vetch as adjutant-general.
Vetch wrote again: "I shall only presume to acquaint your Lordship how vastly uneasy all her Majesty's loyall subjects here on this continent are.
The Assembly was in session, and being summoned to the council-chamber, the members were addressed by Vetch and Nicholson with excellent effect.
Acadia seemed forgotten by the ministry, till Vetch heard at last that Nicholson was appointed to succeed him.
William Vetch died at sea, and Samuel repaired to New York, where he married a daughter of Robert Livingston, one of the chief men of the colony, and engaged largely in the Canadian trade.
He fell ill at Boston, where he was treated with much kindness, and on his recovery was sent home by sea, along with Captain Vetch and Samuel Hill, charged to open a fresh negotiation.
Vetch carried a letter from Dudley to Vaudreuil, proposing a treaty of neutrality between their respective colonies, and Vaudreuil seems to have welcomed the proposal.
The hairy or winter vetch lives through the hard freezing winters.
Vetch is an excellent cover and green manure crop, forming a thick, close mat of herbage which makes a good cover for the soil.
Repeat 1915 treatment and if trees are not growing too fast, sow clover or hairy vetch as a cover crop.
The oat andvetch hay provides a much more satisfactory ration for horses and mules than corn or leguminous hay.
There is no better hay than oats and vetch cut in the dough stage.
Luckily, that evening Greenhill espies a hut, but, not trusting to the friendship of the occupant, they wait until he quits it in the morning, and then send Vetch to forage.
The next day Gabbett and Vetch swim across, and Vetch directs Gabbett to cut a long sapling, which, being stretched across the water, is seized by Greenhill and the Moocher, who are dragged over.
Vetch felt his strength deserting him, and his brain overpowered by fatigue.
Vetch feels with dismay that he is the weakest of the party, but has some sort of ludicro-horrible consolation in remembering that he is also the leanest.
Vetch comprehended the devilish scheme of the monster who had entrapped five of his fellow-beings to aid him by their deaths to his own safety, and held aloof.
Vetch thinks Gabbett's eyes have a wolfish glare in them, and instinctively draws off from him.
Vetch gives it to him, and in half an hour afterwards Cornelius is missing.
The leading spirits were Vetchand Gabbett, who, with profound reverence, requested the "Dandy" to join.
Vetch suggests that Oyster Bay cannot be far to the eastward--the line of ocean is deceitfully close--and though such a proceeding will take them out of their course, they resolve to make for it.
Vetch divides the provisions, and they travel all that day until dark night.
Gabbett's only reply to this question was a ferocious grunt, and a sudden elevation of his clenched fist, which caused Mr. Vetch to retreat precipitately.
We can bring in that vetch stack any time,' they said.
