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A : — You can't get a seed crop. Castor beans, clover sugar 

 beans all belong to the luguminous family. A man can plant 

 Castor beans on rich land and you get great big bunches and no 

 bean. You are liable to get a bean that is 18 inches long. 



Q : — I have succeeded in getting a heavy crop. 



A: — That's what I say, the richer the land the better the 

 crop. 



O : — When the cow peas are planted, they spread out on 

 the ground and waste in the harvesting. Wouldn't it be better 

 to sow broadcast on that account ? 



A : — Well yes. 



Q : — Couldn't they bear seed in a dry year if sown broad- 

 cast? 



A : — Yes, it is only getting them in. 



Mr. Lindley: — Last year and year before last McNeil who 

 sowed cow peas in the corn, when about this high (indicating 

 with hand) took a corn drill and drilled it in 

 and raised quite a crop of cow peas in the corn. He made 

 corn and pea hay and is now feeding it to sheep. As the result 

 of mixing the peas with the corn, he has the best yield of corn in 

 this section of the country, down south here. It will pay every 

 farmer in this county I believe to sow every acre of land he puts 

 in corn with cow peas. 



Mr. Grube : — Select a hardy variety of pea. The black pea 

 has proven itself to be a hardy pea. 



Mr. Newman : — Will you plant it with the corn ? 



A : — Yes sir, the same time. Then I would rather have one 

 gallon seed to the acre at that time than what three pecks of seed 

 would make in ordinary average years planted at laying by time. 



Mr. Lindley : — This year I took a field and planted half a 

 bushel to the acre, three pecks to the acre and a bushel to the 

 acre and made twice as many peas to the bushel to the acre 

 without corn. Another thing about sowing peas. We have sown 

 from 100 to 140 acres of peas the last three years and it is this, 

 never broadcast a pea in the world. If wet weather run drill 

 very shallow. If dry, a little deeper and I would use common 



