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Plant Cowpeas on the Farm.
Cowpea seed are cheap this
year, compared to other years, ami
farmers should plant them at
every opportunity up to the first
of August, for they will make
vines and enrich the soil up to
that date. It is never too late to
plant them if you have the seed
and the weather is right for germ
ination. The following from an ex
change just at this time is excep
tionally timely:
When the weather has become
settled and warm it is time to
plant cowpeas, and no crop will
be of greater benefit to the soil
while at the same time furnishing
the best of feed.
Where sown for bay they should
be broadcafet|d at the rate of a
bushel to the acre, using a culti
vator to cover them, then harrow
ing till the ground is smooth. A
better way to get an even 6tand is
to drill with a wheat drill, or if u
drill cannot had, double row with
acorn planter, first preparing the
' ground as for other grain crops.
Cowpea hay ha 3 about the same
feeding value as alfalfa hay, and
will make from one to two tons to
to the acre, though greater yields
are not impossible, Instances have
been known where four tons have
been made to the acre.
There is no part of the farm
that should not have a crop of
cowpeas on it once in two years at
least, and it would be better if
cowpeas could be grown every
year. This can be done by plant
ing them on the ground from
which wheat or oats have been re
moved or by planting them ill
corn at the last cultivation.
In this way the cowpeas become
an “extra” crop which if pastured
off will leave most of the food
elements drawn from the earth
and air tight in the field to feed
the succeeding crop. This plan of
using cowpeas to enrich the soil
Pi)d feed the animals on the farm
has the sanction of the best farm
ers as well as of agricultural col
leges, and the only complaint the
former makes is that they never
get enough peas.
The writer first tried peas rn a
plot of clay upland that, bake after
every rain, so that it seemed un
wise to broad ca6t and the seed
was planted in rows “laid out”
with a single shovel making the
rows about BO inches apart. Hav
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ing lizard that peas were very fond
of potash all the wood ashes avail
able uspd as far as they
would go, and the way the cow
peas grew was remarkable —on the
part lvcHjving the ashes.
The other part didn’t do as well
and thereafter we used commer
| cial potash, as the heavier the
growth of the peas the more feed
and the more they are worth as
fertilizer, the extra growth in our
estimation making up for the
price of fertilizer many times
' over.
, Where wheat is to follow peas
I it pays well to apply the fertilizer,
r whether the vines are cut for hay
1 or pastured, for any phosphoric
acid or potash rot needed by the
peas will be taken up by the
wheat, besides all the nitrogen
contained in the root tubercles
furnish food for the wheat crop.
A good mixture is 200 pounds of
acid phosphate, or of bone, with
100 pounds of muriate of potash
per acre.
Sown in corn, too, it 1b well if
potash and phosphoric acid were
applied either at time of planting
the peas, as double cropping has
a tendency to exhaust the plant
food and enough to mature two
crops in one season may not be
liberated by nature, particularly
should the season be somewhat
dry, as one can buy muriate of
potash and acid phosphate and do
the mixing at heme the expense
of fertilizer need .lot be burden
some.
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black head and answers to name
of Vick. Seen in Lyons May 29]
Reward for return of dog or in
formation leading to her return.
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Zone.
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