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Wliere having is not practicable and ]3icking too ex- 

 pensive except for seed, the vines should be grazed 

 while the leaves are still retained. 



Cows pastured on corn stalks and drilled cowpeas be- 

 tween the corn rows afforded butter and increased live 

 weight Avorth in 1900 ^A7 per acre grazed over; the 

 next year the returns in butter alone from cowpeas 

 drilled between the corn rows was |5.28 per acre. 



As an economical method of har^^esting the grain of 

 cowpeas the use of a scythe or reaper is practicable for 

 the bunch varieties, the entire mass being thoroughly 

 €ured. 



In curing peavine hay no rule as to the number of 

 hours of exposure in swath, in window, or in cocks can 

 be blindly followed, as the method must vary with the 

 luxuriance and succulence of the vines and the condi- 

 tion of the weather. The aim should be to retain all 

 the leaves, which requires that the exposure of the un- 

 raked hay be as short as practicable and that part of 

 the curing be effected while the partially cured material 

 is in windrows or cocks. 



Hay caps make haying with cowpeas less risky, and 

 when they are repeatedly used in curing hay from a 

 succession of plantings, they soon repay their first 



€OSt. 



With different varieties from 51 to 75 per cent, of the 

 weight of the entire plant was obtained in the hay, the 

 remainder being in roots, stubble, and fallen leaves. 



The leaves averaged 30 per cent, of the weight of the 

 hav. 



Analyses made of leaves, pods and blooms, fine 

 «tems, coarse stems, fallen leaves, roots and stubble, 

 showed that the leaves were at least twice as rich in 

 protein (or muscle-forming material) as the other por- 

 tions of the plant. 



