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twenty-four to thirty inches and may be cut for hay. 

 Each year a new crop grows from the seed which fell 

 to the ground from the preceding year's plants so that 

 the land may seem to remain in the same crop per- 

 manently. 



Japan clover may be mixed with Bermuda grass, making 

 an excellent pasture, corresponding in a way to the white 

 clover and blue grass pastures of the North. Its growth 

 is checked by the heat 

 of midsummer and it 

 is killed by the frosts 

 of mnter. It follows 

 that its chief value 

 is for spring and fall 

 pasture. 



Cowpeas and Soy 

 Beans. — These crops 

 are adapted to the 

 warmer parts of the 

 Corn Belt, though soy 

 beans 'will succeed 

 somewhat farther 

 north than will cow- 

 peas. Both are grown 

 quite extensiveljf in 

 the South. 



They may be sown broadcast in corn at the last cultiva- 

 tion or drilled between the rows afterwards ; or they may 

 be planted in stubble ground after the small grain is re- 

 moved. They require a well-prepared seed bed, should be 

 covered as a rule to a depth of about two inches, and can 

 not be sown until the soil has become thoroughly warmed 

 up in the late spring. If sown broadcast, from six to 

 eight pecks of seed per acre are used ; but if they are 



Fig. 119. 



Count:iy Iowa Stale ColUi 



- Soy beans in field. 



