10 



brtMkln.i::, nnlv the lircl scriijM* or oIIkm- shnllow-workinj^' 

 implcniciil should he used. 



T1i(Mil:1i (h'illctl cowik'jis oh iIk' IvxiMM-iincnt Station 

 lanii w lifii «;i'o\\ in^- aloiif are iisuallv hued once, yet we 

 ai-«' inclined to think tin's is often an avoidable and nn- 

 pi-oliiahle (tperalion. 



^\'illl cowpeas intended for hay, jiastura.iie or fertil- 

 izei', it is, of rourse, even less necessary than where 

 the jirime objecit is the prodnetion of seed. 



INissihlv the weeder, which we have successfidlv nsed 

 on other crojjs, and which others have run over C()W])e!as 

 withont injury, niay jjrove a ]>artial snbstitnte for the 

 hoe. It should b(^ employed when grass and weeds 

 are extreme! v small. 



We have made no test to ascertain the best amonnt of 

 seed, which will donbtless varv somewhat with different 

 varieties. The nsnal amonnt is one to one and one-half 

 bnsliel when sown broadcast and abont half a l)nsliel 

 per acre when planting is in drills far enongh apart 

 ito permit' cnltivation. 



The grain drill, with all tnbes open or with part of 

 them stoi)ped, is sometimes nsed in planting cow^x^as. 



SUBSOILING. 



Two tests of the effect of snbsoiling for cowpeas have 

 been made on reddish loam soil, in the s<ime field as 

 that nsed for similar ex[>eriments with corn and cotton. 

 In both cases tin* variety Wonderful was employed. 

 The peas were in drills and were cnltiA'ated several 

 times. 



In 1897 cowpeas were plantinl on a plot that had been 

 imperfectly snbsoiled in Febrnary, 1896, by nsing a 

 scooter rnn to a depth of fonr inches in the bottom of 

 the furrow made by a one-hoi*se tnrn plow. This opera- 

 tion was not repeated in 1897. 



