It is not putting itlie matter too strongly to say that 

 :80 per cent, of the acreage of corn in this State should 

 haye coAypeas between the rows and that at least 80 

 per cent, of the area from which small grain is cut in 

 May and June should be planted in cowpeas. 



On sandy upland where the corn rows are fiye feet 

 apart we prefer to plant the cowpeas in a single drill 

 lialf way between the lines of corn and to plant at the 

 next to the last cultiyation, so that the last cultiyation 

 seryes also to giye the cowpeas a start. On good bot- 

 tom land, well supplied with moisture, we prefer to 

 cow cowpeas broadcast in corn, and this, of course, can 

 l)e done only at the time of the last cultiyation. 



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On rich land care should be taken that the sowing of 

 cowpeas, especially of the running yarieties, does not 

 take place so early that the corn will be oyer run by the 

 yines. Ayoidance of this trouble lies either in late 

 planting or in the use of the bunch yarieties. 



In drilling cowpeas between the corn rows we obtain 

 a more uniform start by employing the plantei' than by 

 •dropping the seed by hand in the first or center scrape 

 furrow and coyerino* with the two sidinoj furrows of 

 the scrape run next to the corn. 



We haye employed numerous methods of planting cow- 

 peas after small grain. Since work is pressing at this 

 season and the soil sufficiently moist for plowing only 

 for relatiyely brief periods, our usual policy is to plant 

 the seed without waiting to make thorough preparation. 



There is room for considerable ingenuity in determin- 

 ing the best method of completing the preparation and 

 giying the first cultiyation. One of the most important 

 aims to be kept in yiew in this is to keep the land 

 nearly ley el so that the plants may better resist drought 

 and so that a mower may be eonyeniently used. After 

 the first cultiyation, when this seryes also as a partial 



