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pods occurs, the hay is seriously damaged, if not completely 

 spoiled. Mildewed hay of any kind is but poor food for 

 stock, and when eaten is only taken from necessity to ward 

 off starvation. Some planters house their pea hay in open 

 sheds, or loosely in barns, with rails so fixed as to prevent 

 compacting. Others stack in the open air around poles, 

 having limbs from two to four feet long, to keep the mass 

 of vines open to the air, and cover the top with grass. 



There is diversity of opinion as to the proper manner of 

 curing and preserving this hay, but there is none as to the 

 value of this rich food for all stock, and especially for the 

 milch cow in increasing the quantity and quality of her 

 milk. 



In attempting to renovate our soils by the aid of vegeta- 

 ble fertilizers, we should not confine ourselves to one, but 

 should utilize all which are suitable to our soil and climate. 

 The writer has some sixty or seventy acres in clover, and 

 in much of this grasses are sown. Orchard grass and Herd's 

 grass thrive well with us, whilst blue grass and timothy 

 find a congenial home in the lime lands of Middle Tennes- 

 see. In no part of the State does clover grow so well as in 

 West Tennessee. 



In considering the great advantages of the field pea to 

 the agricultural interests of our people, I do not wish to be 

 understood as disparaging other vegetable renovators of the 

 soil. The field pea certainly possesses many advantages, 

 such as its adaptability to almost any soil, and to many 

 crops grown with it at the same time, and with positive 

 benefit to the crop grown with it on the same ground. 

 Each row of corn should be flanked by a row of peas. 

 Every spot of ground in the field too poor for corn can and 

 will produce peas. There is nothing better to be sowed in 

 old plowed up broomsedge fields, and there, whilst the land 

 is being fertilized, one of the best provision crops for stock, 

 and the best of hay for milk cows in winter, is produced. 

 And a still further advantage possessed by this valuable 



