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it to make a most luxuriant and satisfactory growth. 
In fact, it is probably destined to fill the office in 
the southern states that the red clover does in the 
north, and, if properly used, can, no doubt, be made 
the means of filling the burned-out soils of the 
south with fresh life and vigor. It is killed by the 
earliest frost, and is, therefore, not advisable at the 
north, unless sown early or upon land which is in 
good condition, so that it may obtain a quick start. 
Experiments with this plant have been made at the 
Cornell Station,* with the following results: ‘Six- 
teen varictics were grown at the Station this year 
[1893] for the purpose of ascertaining which ones 
will mature in this latitude; and over half an acre 
was sown to the Black pea, which Professor Massey, 
of North Carolina, thought likely to prove the best 
variety for our purpose. These black peas were 
obtained of L. R. Wyatt, Raleigh, N. C., and were 
sown June 20. The land was clay, and variable in 
contour, comprising two dryish knolls, with a moist 
vale lying letween them. The peas were slow in 
starting, owing to the hard soil, but they made a 
fair growth in August and early September. In the 
vale, the plants grew nearly two feet high and cov- 
ered the ground well, but on the knolls the soil 
was not covered. The plants had just begun to 
flower when they were killed by the first frost. 
The leaves fell off, and the bare, stiff stems now 
afford very little protection to the soil. 
* Bull. 61, Cornell Exo. Sta., 334. 
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