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the field nearly as much as though the entire crop were 

 plowed under as a green manure. The meat and milk 

 produced represent clear profit. The crop does not bear 

 continuous grazing, still it gives abundant feed for a 

 month or six weeks, and b}^ arranging a succession of 

 fields, good pasture may be provided during several 



POD OF COWPEA. 



months. More actual feetl is produced with less waste 

 per acre when the vines are cut or pulled for soiling, for 

 which cowpeas are a standard crop in the southern states 

 wherever soiling is practiced. Bulletin No. 100 of the 

 Mississippi station says that tliere cowpeas for hog 

 pasture, without grain, have given better results than 

 any other crop. In one test the crop was grown on thin 

 hill land, where one acre of cowpeas produced 350 



