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FARM SPIES 



tors. So the people planted rye and vetch in the 

 cotton lands in the fall. Some planted oats and 

 vetch, or clover. Some farmers would plow this 

 under in the spring to add green manure to the soil ; 



(Photo by Harper, S. C. Exp. Sta.) 

 FIG. 9. "And cowpeas for the summer." Cowpeas in the foreground. 



others let it grow in the spring and later cut it for 

 hay or grain. Some of the land where the winter 

 cover-crops were plowed under was planted in 

 corn, and the corn was followed by cowpeas at the 



