196 ELEMENTARY TREATISE ON STOCK FEEDS AND FEEDING 



Harvesting Corn and Cowpeas. — "If cowpeas are planted at the 

 same time as the corn and in the rows with it, they will usually 

 make a fair growth. Since the vines will run up the corn 

 stalks, the entire crop can be cut with the binder the same as 

 corn alone, making practically no extra work in filling the silo. 

 The only difficulty in harvesting corn and cowpeas with the 

 corn binder is that, if the corn is missing for a rod in the row, 



Fig. 14.— Corn and cowpeas. 



there is nothing to carry the peas back into the binder and it is 

 likely to clog. Where there is a fairly uniform stand of corn, 

 all can be readily bound together. As the stalks of soy beans 

 are much stiffer than those of cowpeas, no difficulty is experi- 

 enced in cutting them with corn." 



Weight of Silage. — The following table gives the weight of 

 corn silage at different depths two days after filling.^ 



1 Bui 59, Wisconsin Exp. Station. 



