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following crop. But this first cow-pea crop may not be 

 what you like to see ; it may lack vigor and aggressive- 

 ness. But just wait, and the next year repeat the work 

 use the same crop over again. Now you will see a differ- 

 ence, for the bacteria have increased sufficiently to meet 

 all the demands. Now you get your reward ! Now you 

 become a friend of the cow pea ! And the same is true 

 of all other legumes of the clovers, of the soy bean, of 

 the vetches, of the alfalfa. 



You should use these legumes in every kind of rota- 

 tion a legume every year if possible, and cow peas in 



GROW LEGUMES CONSTANTLY 



every crop of corn, using the last cultivation of the crop 

 as the seeding time for the cow peas. This is a practical 

 way to do this, so practical that thousands of farmers in 

 all parts of the country have adopted it. The author 

 harvested thirty-six bushels of corn and twelve bushels 

 of cow peas from a field a few years before abandoned 

 and forsaken because of its worn-out condition, which has 



