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of clover hay and corn fodder gave very much better results than the 

 sorghum. Now I agree with you without hesitation that a ton of sor- 

 ghum will feed further than will a ton of corn fodder, but instead of 

 putting your land in sorghum if you had put it in cow peas or clover 

 and combined the corn fodder, with them you would get better gains 

 than with the sorghum. 



^Ir. England : I had some experience in the summer. In one 

 weeks' time while I was cutting my cow peas my cows gained on grass 

 and the cow peas two gallons a day. They did not care for the cane 

 until after it was cured, then they ate it. 



I would like to ask Prof. Waters about curing cow peas. 



Prof. Waters : The curing of cow peas is a serious proposition. 

 It would not be if we were curing them in midsummer, in July when 

 we cure timothy hay, and when the ground is dry and the weather hot, 

 but in the fall of the year it is more difficult to handle them on a large 

 scale, and yet in the ordinary season we have been able to cure them 

 well enough so that they will make very valuable feed, without any 

 undue handling or any unnecessary expense. We mow them down, 

 practically, regardless of the weather and allow them to cure in the 

 swath as much as we can without serious sunburn or injury from rain 

 and then throw them into rather large shocks. Make them tapering, 

 rather tall and finish curing in the shock. If it rains and a few shocks 

 heat, we open them. Ordinarily we will not have much heating. If it 

 rains the next day after cutting, run the tedder over them while they 

 are yet wet, and if it rains the next day, repeat the operation and tedder 

 them every time while wet. The less handling, the better. You may 

 over handle cow peas and have nothing left of them except to leave 

 them in the field as fertilizers and have a good deal of unnecessary labor. 

 The peas will stand a large amount of rain and look black and still be 

 exceedingly palatable and useful as feed. I verify that statement made 

 to Mr. Erwin. 



"WHERE ARE WE AT?" 



(W. W. Marple, St. Joseph.) 



In this great State of 'Missouri it is said people won't milk, 

 for two reasons, because they don't have to and because they don't want 

 to. After having been told for years that the task of interesting the 

 Missouri people in the question of dairying was a hopeless one, after 

 being told from time immemorial that among the principal products of 

 the Missouri farm, milk would never be mentioned ; to find ourselves 



