OTHER LEGUMINOUS PLANTS. ICQ 



should be used. The more weedy the soil and the 

 more rapidly the moisture escapes from it by surface 

 evaporation, the greater will be the benefit from 

 using the harrow. Harrowing has been found 

 particularly helpful to this crop when grown on 

 certain of the soils of the prairie. If the harrow is 

 used but once, it should be so used before the peas 

 have reached the surface. When the peas have been 

 sown and then covered with the plow, and the oats or 

 other factor of the mixed crop is sown later, the grain 

 thus sown may be very conveniently covered with 

 the harrow while the first harrowing is being given 

 to the pea crop. A second harrowing is seldom given, 

 but when it is it should be deferred until the plants 

 have become well rooted, and much care must be 

 exercised in doing the work, or the harrow will bury 

 too much of the grain. 



Feeding.-^Pe3.s grown alone may be fed as 

 soiling food to swine from the appearance of the first 

 bloom, but the highest feeding value is not obtained 

 from the crop until a considerably later period. 

 When fed in combination with oats or other grain 

 to cows in milk, the feeding may begin when the peas 

 are in full bloom or when the oats or other grain 

 comes into head. The season of feeding may be 

 continued until the crop is nearly ripe. 



The scythe or the mower should be used in cut- 

 ting the crop, according as the quantity to be fed is 

 little or much. And the method of feeding to be 

 adopted is practically the same as in medium red 

 clover. 



The crop is easily handled, more so than such 

 soiling crops as corn or cowpeas, since it can be so 



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