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Net return 

 from 1 acre. 



"With milch cows in 1900 grazing on corn stalks and 

 drilled cowpeas between corn rows (Ala. Bui. 114); 

 butter at 20c. and beef on foot at 2 l-2c per lb $4.47 



AVith milch cows in 1901 grazing on corn stalks and 

 drilled cowpeas between corn rows (only butter con- 

 sidered ) $5.28 



With shoats sold at 3 cents per pound, grazed in 1897 on 



cowpeas yielding about 13 bush, per acre (Ala. Bui. 93) $10.65 



With shoats in 1900, sold at 4c per lb. grazed on ripe 



drilled cowpeas ( about 10 bus. per acre) $4.90 



When the cows grazed on parts of the corn and pea 

 field where the peas were few or small and overripe 

 the value of the pasturage on an acre fell far below the 

 figures given above for 1901. 



We have successfully preserved peavines in the silo, 

 and at all stages of growth from early bloom until first 

 pods €olor. They should be run through a silage cutter, 

 and the silo heavily weighted. If the vines are put in 

 without cutting the silage is often inferior and always 

 difficult to remove. Special care in packing and weight- 

 ing uncut peavines is necessary. 



Methods of Harvesting Cowpea Seed. 



Picking cowpeas is slow and expensive work. 

 The charge for picking is frequently half the 

 crop. If picking cannot be done promptly the 

 crop is frequently ruined by mildew or rot of 

 pods and seed. Hence some more rapid method is 

 desirable. Possible methods are (1) cutting ihe vines 

 with scythe or reaper when most of the pods are ripe, 

 and later running the product through the threshing ma- 

 chine or beating the peas out by the slow process of 

 fiailing; (2) pulling the vines when the crop is thor- 

 oughly mature and beating out the seed with a flail ; 

 and ( 3 ) the use of a pea\ine picking machine 



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