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dish and, like garden peas and garden beans, are rich in 

 protein. 



The usual ways of planting cowpeas are broadcasting, seed- 

 ing in rows about thirty-six inches apart, and sowing with other 

 seeds such as corn, sorghum, or millet. When the crop is to 



be turned under for 

 green-manure the seeds 

 are generally broad- 

 casted. When sown 

 with corn they may be 

 drilled in when the corn 

 is planted or their plant- 

 ing may be delayed until 

 after the last cultivation 

 of corn when they may 

 be broadcasted or a row 

 drilled in next to the 

 corn. When sown with 

 sorghum or millet they 

 are broadcasted with 

 the seeds of these plants 

 and the whole crop 

 harvested for hay. The 

 mixed planting makes 

 a hay crop easier to cure 

 than when the cowpeas 



FIG. 84. Soybeans. 



are sown alone. 



Soybeans. The soybean (Fig. 84) is an erect-growing, bushy 

 plant that reaches a height varying usually from two to three 

 and one-half feet. These plants are valuable for forage and 

 for green-manure and the seeds are used for human food. They 

 are hot-weather plants like cowpeas, but can be grown about 

 three hundred miles farther north. They do well in a humid 

 climate, but they also have drought-resistant qualities that 

 make them useful in regions having hot, dry summers. In 



