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Twenty-Seventh Annual Report 



A winter legume is highly desirable in this region for soil building 

 purposes, and more work should be done along the line of testing out 

 either field peas or some other legume that could be used as a green 

 manuring crop. 



Tepary beans: Seven acres of Tepary beans were planted July 

 17. The beans were harvested October 5 and gave a yield of 752 

 pounds of reoleaned beans per acre. After the beans were harvested 



Fig. 5. Tepary beans on a windy day at the Sulphur Spring Valley Dry Farm. 



Yield, 752 pounds per acre. 



the soil was left in excellent condition. All that was then necessary for 

 the planting of small grains in this field was double discing and drilling. 

 Pink beans: Two acres of pink beans were planted on July 19, on 

 land of the same character as the field of Tepary beans and received 

 the same treatment in every respect as the above crop. Pink beans 

 harvested October 22 yielded 208 pounds of recleaned beans per acre. 

 Cowpeas: Two varieties of cowpeas, Whippoorwill and Black- 

 eyed, were planted July 19. The yields for the two varieties were 51 

 pounds of Whippoorwill peas per acre and 335 pounds of Black-eyed 

 peas per acre. The Whippoorwill peas made much heavier growth of 

 vme, but did not wholly mature its full crop of seeds. The Black-eyed 

 pease were earlier and yielded a mature crop, but the vines were not 

 so luxuriant. The Whippoorwill peas promised to be the best variety 



