122 



HAY PRODUCED IN TENNESSEE. 



1870 116,582 tons 



1880 180,698 tons 



1890 630,417 tons 



The extraordinary increase during the past ten years in the acreage 

 sown in cowpeas is one of the most favorable signs in southern agricul- 

 ture. It will be one of the marked changes that will appear in the report 

 of the twelfth census. Throughout the State of Tennessee this increase 

 has been within the present decade fully 500 per cent. The haulm of the 

 pea is now largely employed for the feeding of cattle and sheep during 

 the winter months. Those varieties of peas that produce seed not subject 

 to early decay from humidity are left ungathered, and they form no in- 



P.\STURE, Camden, Benton County, Tenn. 



considerable item in reducing the expense of fattening swine and of 

 carrying stock through the stress of winter. This change was one greatly 

 needed, for, in addition to furnishing nutritious food for stock, the pea 

 crop is a good fertilizer. Nor is the pea crop subject to the disastrous 

 failures of the clover crop, though yielding a forage and a fruitage equally 

 as valuable to the farmers of the South. 



PASTURES— Much land that is totally unfit for meadows may 

 profitably be laid down in pasture. Such lands as are too rough for cul- 

 tivation often make the very best pastures. The utilization of the ri>ugh 

 limestone lands of Southwestern Virginia for making pastures has made 



