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stem and leaves. The spring vetch is a more delicate plant and grows more rapidly and luxuriantly than the winter variety. The name vetch is applied to other species of the genus Vicia. Vicia orobus, See also:

BITTER, KARL THEODORE FRANCIS (1867– )

bitter vetch, and V. sylvatica, See also:

wood vetch, are See also:

BRITISH

British See also:

PLANTS

plants. Another British plant, Hippocrepis, is known as horseshoe vetch from the fact of its pod breaking into several horseshoe-shaped See also:

JOINTS

joints. Anthyllis vulneraria is See also:

KIDNEY

kidney-vetch, a herb with heads of usually yellow flowers, found on dry See also:

banks. Astragalus is another genus of See also:

LEGUMINOSAE

Leguminosae, and is known as See also:

MILK (0. Eng. meoluc; from a common Indo-European root, cf. Lat. mulgere, Gr. ?t dXyetv)

milk-vetch. Vetches are a very valuable See also:

FORAGE

forage See also:

CROP (a word common. in various forms, such as Germ. Kropf, to many Teutonic languages for a swelling, excrescence, round head or top of anything; it appears also in Romanic languages derived from Teutonic, in Fr. as troupe, whence the English " crupper "

crop. Being indigenous to See also:

BRITAIN (Gr. Hperavuml vi7vot, Bperravia; Lat. Britannia, rarely Britannia)

Britain, and not fastidious in regard to See also:

SOIL

soil, they can be cultivated successfully under a See also:

GREAT

great diversity of circumstances, and are well adapted for poor soils. By combining the winter and spring varieties, and making several sowings of each in its See also:

SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season at intervals of two or three See also:

WEEKS, EDWIN LORD (1849-1903)

weeks, it is practicable to have them See also:

fit for use from May till See also:

OCTOBER

October, and thus to carry out a See also:

SYSTEM

system of soiling by means of vetches alone.

But it is usually more expedient to use them in See also:

COMBINATION (Lat. combinare, to combine)

combination with grass and See also:

CLOVER

clover, beginning with the first cutting of the latter in May, taking the winter vetches in See also:

JUNE

June, recurring to the See also:

ITALIAN

Italian ryegrass or clover as the second cutting is ready, and afterwards bringing the spring vetches into use. Each crop can thus be used when in its best See also:

state for See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle See also:

food, and so as gratefully to vary their See also:

DIETARY

dietary.

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