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CROPPING SYSTEMS FOR THE BLACK LANDS OF TEXAS. 



In addition to having one field in legumes, as shown in the diagram, 

 it is planned to grow cowpeas and soy beans in alternating rows with 



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Fig. 11.— Guar 3 to 5 feet high, grown in 1910 near San Saba, Tex., with praetieally no rain from planting, 



April 22, to maturity. 



Fig. 12.— Sweet clover growing along a railway near Sherman, Tex. It is found growing wild in many 

 places in the black lands between Red River and Temple, Tex. 



corn, milo, and sorghum and to plant sweet clover with oats, cutting 

 both for hay in case the clover is largo enough when the oats are 

 ready: but in case the sweet clover is too small, the oat crop will be 



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