LEGUMES FOR SEED 



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Frame for curing cowpea hay. The frame con- 

 sists of a series of open shelves one above the 

 other. Rails or poles placed 1 2 inches apart 

 form the shelves; the horizontal supports are 

 far enough apart to make the shelves 2 feet 

 apart. Upright posts with one end securely in 

 the ground carry the horizontal supports. The 

 diagonal braces are 1x4 inches. 



324. Production and Yield. From the census it appears that 

 in 1899 about six million bushels of seed were raised with an 

 average yield of about 

 eight bushels per acre. At 

 the Alabama Station 28 

 varieties ranged, during 

 four years, from 7 to 23 

 bushels of seed, and 17 

 varieties, during three 

 years, ranged from three- 

 fourths to two tons of hay 

 per acre. In a series of 

 fertilizer tests the yield of 

 seed per acre was about 

 16 bushels. 1 Twenty-one 

 of the 46 best varieties of 

 cowpeas tested at the Georgia Station yielded green vines 

 ranging from 9 to 12 tons per acre, and seed varying from 25 

 to 42 bushels per acre. 



At the Arkansas Station with the rows 3.5 feet apart, the 

 yield of peas ranged from 40 bushels to nothing, while the yield 

 of hay ranged from 8,700 to 700 pounds, not including the peas. 

 Where 8,700 pounds of hay were produced the yield of peas 

 was in addition 2.1 bushels (Whippoorwill), while where the 

 700 pounds of hay were produced the yield of peas in addition 

 was 22.3 bushels (New Era). 2 During five years varieties well 

 suited to the production of hay have yielded well above two 

 tons per acre, not including peas and hulls, and when the peas 

 were harvested with the vines the average has been approx- 

 imately three tons per acre." At the Illinois Station the best 

 ten varieties averaged 26 bushels of peas to the acre.* 



1 Alabama Sta. Bui. No. 118 (1902), pp. 13, 18, 20. 



2 Arkansas Sta. Bui. No. 77 (1903), p. 29. 



3 Arkansas Sta. Bui. No. 80 (1903), p. 70. 

 * Illinois Sta. Circ. No. 69 (1903), p. 5. 



