. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. AND IIAKIMI TESTS OF WHEAT. WILD VETCH Wild vetch (Vicia angustifolia) is a narrow-leaved species, closely related to common vetch, and is an annual weed growing about 1 to 2 feet high in fields and waste places. The seed is nearly round, black or dark brown in color, and, as a rule, fully as large as corn-cockle seed. For this reason it is difficult to separate it from wheat, and when present in appreciable quantities it lowers the grade and reduces the price given for the wheat. Although this weed is neither
. Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture. Agriculture; Agriculture. AND IIAKIMI TESTS OF WHEAT. WILD VETCH Wild vetch (Vicia angustifolia) is a narrow-leaved species, closely related to common vetch, and is an annual weed growing about 1 to 2 feet high in fields and waste places. The seed is nearly round, black or dark brown in color, and, as a rule, fully as large as corn-cockle seed. For this reason it is difficult to separate it from wheat, and when present in appreciable quantities it lowers the grade and reduces the price given for the wheat. Although this weed is neither so prevalent nor so abundant as corn cockle, yet in some localities, especially in sections producing spring wheat, it is found in such amounts as to be a pest. The species of wild-vetch seed found in the wheat samples secured at country points consisted largely of the narrow-leaved vetch and to a lesser extent the hairy-pod vetch (Vicia Mrsutd). The latter species has short pods covered with fine, short hairs (hence the **»*gSter *""~. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original United States. Dept. of Agriculture. [Washington, D. C. ?] : The Dept. : Supt. of Docs. , G. P. O.
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