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growtli must be relied on, there is some uncertainty a.^ 

 to the stand and as to the grass growing to sufficient 

 height on the poorer spots. 



We have found German millet useful in this respect, 

 for fair and good soils. This grass makes it 

 necessary to choose an early yariety of cowpeas^ 

 to sow it Ayith, else the millet will be ready 

 for the mower while the peas are entirely too 

 immature. Whipporwill cowpeas and German millet 

 make a fairly satisfactory combination, and the quali- 

 ties of the New Era lead us to the hope that it will 

 make a still more desirable combination with German 

 millet. The usuar quantity of millet seed is one peck,. 

 mth a bushel of peas, per acre. 



Possibly the later yarieties mii>ht also be suitable for 

 sowing with German millet, if the seed of the latter 

 could be put in the ground a few weeks after the peas 

 had germinated. 



In one case we tried this, drilling a row of millet 

 within six inches of the pea roAy. The millet was sown 

 IT days after the peas were planted and yet it ripened 

 before the Wonderful coAypeas were ready for haying.- 

 This was also true in the ease of Japanese millet, and 

 with two millets which were untrue to name, and w^hick 

 seemed to be Hunoarian millet and common fox tail 

 millet, the latter yery much like German millet. Appar- 

 ently the millets did not add to the yield of hay. but 

 in the same test the yield of hay Ayas materially increased 

 when Amber sorghum and Wonderful peas Ayere drilled 

 together May 14. These tAyo plants Ayere ready for 

 moAying at the same date. 



In the followinii,- table are oiA^en the A'ields of haA' af- 

 foixled by cowpeas alone and in yarious combination;?, 

 all such mixtures being soAyn broadcast June 24, 1898, 

 the peas, sorghum and corn at the rate of 64 pounds, the 

 millet at the rate of 16 pounds per acre. The soil y\ as a 

 light sandy upland and no nitrogenous fertilizers Ayere 

 tised. 



