Thirty-fourth Annual Convention. 2'''- 



It must be remembered that no account is taken of the vahie 

 of the vines on the plots grazed. The yield of cowpea vines was 

 apparently as heavy on plots 4 and 5 as on plots 2 and 3, and it is 

 fair to assume that the hay of plots 2 and 4 and 3 and 5 possessed 

 equal value. In one case, however, the cost of cutting and hous- 

 ing was saved by having the vines gathered by the cattle, and it 

 is fair to estimate the total value of the crops grown on plots 4 

 and 5 at from 10 to 20 per cent more than appears in the table. 

 The plots sown to cowpeas in 1901 and grazed produced in 1902, 

 5.45 more bushels of com than the plots from which hay was 

 harvested. Since the cattle were excluded from the field in wet 

 weather (thus reducing the injury from trampling to a mini- 

 mum), it is probable that the 5.45 bushels of increased yield 

 from the grazed plots resulted from the droppings of the cattle, 

 since they spent the greater part of their time on the plots from 

 which the pea vines were not harvested. When records have 

 been made of the yields of shelled peas planted in corn there has 

 been from 50 per cent to 200 per cent increase in favor of plant- 

 ing in drills as compared with sowing broadcast, with compar- 

 isons of the same varieties of cowpeas. Some varieties sown 

 broadcast in corn have yielded no peas. The yield of hay has 

 rarely been as great from broadcast sowings as from drill culture, 

 notwithstanding the deduction of the weight of peas and hulls 

 from the drilled plots. 



Referring to the results tabulated above, it will be seen that 

 the total value of the two years' crops on plots 2 and 4 with 

 drilled cowpeas is $50.99 per acre, and of plots 1 and 6, upon 

 which no cowpeas were sown is $23.80 per acre. This is an in- 

 crease of 113.8 per cent in value of crops grown the two years. 

 The plots upon which the cowpeas were broadcasted gave an 

 increase in value of 92.1 per cent per acre. These two estimates 

 do not take into consideration the value of the vines grazed by 

 the stock A comparison of the value of the two years' crops 

 produced on plots 1 and 2 shows an increase in value of 143.2 

 per cent per acre from drilling cowpeas over corn with no cow- 

 peas. The corn used in these tests was the ordinary white dent 

 usually grown in this locality. The variety of cowpeas sown was 

 Warren's Extra Early, a variety particularly suited to late plant- 

 ing. This variety is the best general purpose pea tested by the 

 Station for a period of years. The New Era planted in corn at 



