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As forage crops, both cowpeas and soy beans are 

 nutritious foods for live stock. 



The vetches are slender climbing plants which are 

 grown to plow under as a green manure, and as pasture 

 and hay plants. 



Peas, beans, and lentils have been grown for cen- 

 turies for food for man. Peas and beans are common 



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garden crops and in some sections are grown as field 

 crops for market purposes. The pea vines are cut 

 and hauled to the canning factories, where there are 

 threshing machines which thresh out the green peas 

 and separate them into different sizes for canning. 

 The vines are used for forage. The beans are planted 

 in rows or hills like corn, and harvested with a bean 

 cutter, or pulled by hand, and are threshed like other 

 seeds by tramping or pounding or by bean threshers. 

 The bean straw is used as forage for sheep and cows, 



