LABOR REQUIREMENTS OF ARKANSAS CROPS. 
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FALL OATS AND COWPEAS V. FALL OATS AND LESPEDEZA. 
One of the great advantages of lespedeza as a hay crop, following 
small grain, and harvested the same year it is sowed, is shown in the 
fall oats-lespedeza chart in comparison with the fall oats-cowpeas 
chart that precedes it. (Figs. 27 and 28.) Lespedeza requires no 
work in June, when small grain is harvested and when farmers are 
busy with cotton and corn. It is sowed in March as red clover is 
sowed on a nurse crop and matures in September and October. A 
lespedeza meadow may be continued a number of years, because it 
reseeds itself from the prostrate branches that ordinarily escape the 
mowing machine. 
The elimination of conflict of labor in June by using lespedeza 
instead of small grains permits farmers to cultivate more land with 
the same equipment and thus get a larger income with little added 
expense. 
Fig. 27.— Labor on 10 acres of 
fall oats followed by cowpeas, 
Pulaski County. 
Conditions. — This chart is a 
combination of the charts shown 
in Figure 19 for fall oats and in 
Figure 25 for late cowpeas. The- 
work on oats is shown in solid 
black; that on cowpeas is shown 
by the shaded area; yield, 30 
bushels of oats per acre and 1 
ton of cowpea hay. 
OATS. 
Man days . . 
Horse days. 
Prepare 
and plant 
Harvest. 
Shock- 
thresh. 
Total. 
Before 
harvest. 
Harvest. 
COWPEAS. 
Man days... 
Horse days. 
j Prepare 
and plant 
Harvest . 
Total. 
Before 
harvest. 
Harvest. 
Total on both crops 38 man days and 67 horse days. 
