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about two bushels of wheat per acre. This rate of seeding 

 drops the peas about two to four inches apart in the row and 

 requires ten to twelve quarts of peas to seed an acre. The 

 peas should be planted two to three inches deep in mellow soil. 



The usual practice is to surface-plant cow-peas. They may, 

 however, be successfully planted in furrows, either by listing 

 or preferably by the use of the furrow-opener on the corn- 

 planter. At this Station the usual plan is to plant with the 

 furrow-openers. There may be advantage from furrow plant- 

 ing by getting the peas deeper in dry soil. In early cultivation 

 the weeds are more readily destroyed by covering them as the 

 furrow is filled. If cow-peas are listed care should be taken 

 not to list over four or five inches deep. The plants start 

 slowly in a deep-listed furrow and usually make a poor stand 

 and a dwarf growth. 



When the cow-peas are planted for hay or green manuring, 

 the best method is to sow broadcast or in drills six to eight 

 inches apart. For planting in this manner the grain-drill will 

 prove the most satisfactory implement, and should be set to 

 sow about six pecks of wheat per acre, which will sow the peas 

 at the rate of a bushel to one and a half bushels per acre. 

 Planting in close drills does not require later inter-culture. 

 The peas do not vine so much, grow more upright, are easy to 

 harvest with the mower, and make a less woody hay. 



When planted for ensilage with corn the most successful 

 method is that of planting the corn and cow-peas at one opera- 

 tion. The common two-row corn-planter, with the sixteen- 

 cell edge-drop plate, in which the notches have been filed out 

 to make the cells as large as possible, may be used. The cow- 

 peas and corn should be mixed about half and half by weight 

 and the planter set with the drill attachment to plant as 

 thickly as possible. This gives the proper stand of the combi- 

 nation crop, corn averaging about eighteen inches apart and 

 cow-peas four to six inches apart in the drill-rows. If the corn 

 is planted much thicker than suggested a rank growth of stalk 

 is apt to smother the cow-peas, while if the corn is too thin the 



