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any case cat the oats for hay when in the milk, running the mower 

 higher than it would be set in ordinary mowing. If the weeds spring 

 up latter in the season, mow again, this time setting the cutter-bar 5 

 or 6 inches high — allowing the weeds and clover tops to remain on the 

 ground as a mulch and manure. 



GROWING CRIMSON CLOVER. 



If the orchard is grown in corn it will be safer to seed to crimson 

 <?lover immediately after ihe last cultivation of the corn, at the rate of 

 about 16 pounds per acre. If the soil is dry it would be well to run a 

 light one-horse harrow between the rows to cover the seed. Should 

 you fail to secure a satisfactory stand from this seeding, it may be re- 

 peated as late as September 15, although the chances of getting a 

 stand at this late date in the average season, are less than from early 

 mowing. It will need no farther attention until it is ready to be turned 

 under the following spring. 



GROWING SOUTHERN COW-PEAS. 



It is safe to say that cow-peas may be grown anywhere in Missouri 

 «outh of the summit of the Ozark mountains. Very satisfactory crops 

 are grown on the very summit. Even as far north as Central Missouri, 

 on the Experiment Station in Boone county, a crop of three tons of 

 field-cured hay was secured this year in a fourteen-year-old orchard. 

 In South Missouri it is believed that they will prove to be a more 

 satisfactory green manure crop than either red or crimson clover, inas- 

 much as there is less risk in securing a stand, and the dry, hot weather 

 of mid-summer will not kill the young plants. It has already been 

 shown that a large amount of the needed plant food is furnished by 

 this crop. 



The peas should be sown at the rate of from ] to 1^ bushels per acre 

 on wellprepared seed bed, either broadcast and covered with a harrow or 

 corn cultivator to a depth of two or three inches, as early in the spring 

 as all danger of frost is past. On well cleared land a good plan is to use 

 a wheat drill, stopping each alternate hoe, having the plants in rows 

 16 inches apart. When sown in this -way they may be cultivated shal- 

 low and level once or twice if the weeds become troublesome. 



In the southern part of the State, two crops may be grown in one 

 season, if the Whippoorwill variety is used. The first crop will be prac- 

 tically matured by July 10, when they should be plowed under and the 

 land reseeded as above described. In specially favorable seasons, the 

 second crop will mature in the extreme southern portion of the State 

 in time to be plowed under for seeding to crimson clover. It will be 



