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Any kind of green manure crop that bears pods is good.
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Instead, sow a quick-growing cover-crop of green manure such as mustard or phacelia.
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Among the non-leguminous green manure plants are rye, wheat, oats, mustard, rape, buckwheat.
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To accomplish this, correct green manure species selection is essential.
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You can find out more about growing green manure and cover crops in Chapter 16.
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Of the uncultivated hill lands, some 2500 acres contribute green manure for fertilization of fields.
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Properly cultivated and used either as a stock feed or as green manure, it is very valuable.
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After harvesting or digging in a green manure, don't plant a new crop for a couple of weeks.
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Or material for green manure may be cut on grave, mountain or hill lands, as described under Fig.
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However, it should be remembered that green manure makes a good home for the growth of scab germs.
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You don't get quite the same benefit from the green manure when you pasture as when you plow under.
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By using the legumes for our green manure crops we may supply the soil with nitrogen taken from the air.
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Aside from its value as a green manure crop the cowpea is useful as food for man and the farm animals.
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To-day I have those three fields sown with Canada peas, and in the spring they shall be ploughed under for green manure.
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It now remains to point out another important function-thatof a green manure crop adding humus and plant food to the soil.
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The clover, which absorbs atmospheric nitrogen, was planted between crop rows and plowed under as soil-replenishing " green manure" in spring.
