No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 247 



PROF. MASSEY: No, in North Carolina I sowed anywhere from 

 the latter part of May to the middle of August; here you can sow 

 ftoni the middle of June up to July, I should say, 



QUESTION: Would these be very much superior to the Canada 

 field pea? 



PROF. MASSEY: Oh yes, we have tried the Canada field pea in 

 the South; it is certainly uusuited to climate conditions there. 



QUESTION: Where can I get the New Era cow pea? 



PROF. MASSEY: You can get it in Philadelphia; I don't know 

 whether my friend Moore has it or not. You can get it of Mr. C. W. 

 Wood & Sons, of Ri.chmond, Va., I know. 



MR. BEARDSLEE: Will it flourish well in the northern half of 

 Pennsylvania? 



PROF. MASSEY: Except on special soils, I very much doubt it. 

 If you get a warm sandy soil, it might. Now I had a photograph sent 

 me the other day of a very successful field of cow peas grown in 

 Wisconsin. I met a lady dairyman in southern Vermont who said 

 she couldn't get along without it. 



MR. HALLOWELL: Is green rye to height of three feet advisable 

 to plaw down in order to increase fertility? Or, shall I take off 

 same after-blossom and apply commercial fertilizer to produce corn 

 for silo filling? 



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PROF. MASSEY: I would plow the rye under for a cultivated 

 crop. Now in the South we have found that it never does to plow 

 under a green crop in hot weather. In the spring of the year we 

 can plow under there a green crop for a cultivated crop like corn very 

 successfully. 



QUESTION: What time of the year and to what crop do you ap- 

 ply lime to correct soil acidity? How many bushels per acre do 

 you apply? 



PROF. MASSEY: Apply it to the corn crop which they are go- 

 ing to follow with wheat and clover. Ordinarily if my land was 

 adapted to give me a good stand of clover, I would try it on clover 

 the second spring. 



QUESTION: Do you recommend feeding this to stock? 



PROF. MASSEY: Ordinarily, I would turn it down, I think. 



. QUESTION: Where we do not have the humus had we not better 

 use the acid pliosphate and apply lime? 



PROF. MASSEY: Yes, I suppose you had better apply the dis- 

 solved rock in that case; but if you will use it with your stable 

 manure and abandon all this pulverized float, it will become very 

 available, and not only that, but it will save manure to a great ex- 

 tent. 



