1898 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
203 
Hope Farm Notes. 
(CONTINUED.) 
and make a good Winter mulch which 
can be easily worked under in the Spring. 
This is what some of our Delaware and 
Maryland friends think of the plan : 
I have never tried cow peas among small 
fruits, but I don’t see why your plan is not a good 
one. I shall, doubtless, try it this year. We 
precede strawberries by cow peas with good re¬ 
sults. Crimson clover, if continued for years, 
causes too much growth of cane and not enough 
fruit, and Mr. J. J. Rosa, of Milford, has 
abandoned its use in that connection. The cow 
peas would make a fair growth by frost, give 
some peas, and the vines would leave land clean 
and keep down weeds. chas. wrioht. 
We have not tried cow peas in raspberries and 
blackberries. It would be late planting, but if 
done at the earliest possible time, would give 
considerable growth, and do much good, provided 
the ground is reasonably free from seeds of 
late-season weeds. Probably, you could till them 
once or twice after planting. I would say that 
the experiment is worth trying, especially in 
the case of The R. N.-Y., whose experiments 
are expected to be valuable to so many. 
E. H. BANCROFT. 
We planted cow peas between a few rows of 
Miller raspberries, on August 1 last. We put off 
planting until late, so as to get the weeds well 
under. The growth of peas was quite heavy, 
completely covering the ground, and almost hid¬ 
ing the raspberry plants. At this time, we can 
see no difference between these rows of raspber¬ 
ries and the remaining rows of the patch, but we 
certainly believe that the effect must be highly 
beneficial. The pea vines are now dead, and so 
nearly rotten as not to interfere with the early 
working of the berries. Part of them we do not 
intend to work at all this Spring, as we wish to 
let them grow all the plants they will, and we 
think that we will not be troubled with any early 
weeds, as the ground was so thoroughly shaded 
last Fall that none could start. This is our first 
experiment in this line among raspberry plants. 
Several years ago, we tried planting cow peas 
among strawberries, but the growth of the peas 
seemed to weaken the strawberries. We could 
see no such efTeet on the raspberries. 
A. W. SLAYMAKER. 
I have never used cow peas among berry plants. 
A serious objection, with me, to the use of cow 
peas for turning under, is the fact that it takes 
too long to grow them. Practically, you are 
without the use of the land upon which they are 
grown, a whole year. Years ago, I sowed them 
in orchards, for turning under, to catch nitrogen, 
but experience demonstrated that I could get 
this article at less expense in commercial ma¬ 
nures. I would greatly prefer Crimson clover 
green on the ground, to the pea vine dead through 
the Winter. What is to hinder the early working 
of the soil where Crimson clover has been sown ? 
A neighbor nurseryman and myself have experi¬ 
mented considerably with these peas as soil im¬ 
provers, and the more we experiment with them, 
the less we prize them. Where the use of the 
land is no object, and where neither time nor 
taxes enter as factors in economical husbandry, 
cow peas are worthy of consideration. It looks 
to me like “ advancing backwards ” to substitute 
cow peas for Crimson clover for any purpose in 
the modern practice of enlightened and progress¬ 
ive agriculture. j. w. kerb. 
I have never tried this plan, but feel sure that 
the results would be most satisfactory. Instead 
of drilling in rows, I would sow broadcast, and 
cover with cultivator or one-horse plow. 
E. O. PACKARD. 
Since writing' the above, we have re¬ 
ceived the following note. It is inter¬ 
esting as showing how far north the cow 
pea will mature seed : 
Cow Peas at the North. 
I noticed Mr. Garrahan’s comments in The 
R. N.-Y. of March 5, on the cow pea north of lati¬ 
tude 40. We have raised cow peas in latitude 
43%, three seasons in succession, ripening seed 
each year. After trying a handful of peas from 
Florida, in 1895, and maturing well-developed 
seeds, we repeated the experiment in 1896, meet¬ 
ing like success. Finding the plant, also, wonder¬ 
ful in its production of nitrogenous vegetable 
matter, much needed on our run-down fields, in 
1897 we sowed 13 acres broadcast as seemingly 
the most valuable soil renovator within out¬ 
reach. Again the vines grew, the seeds matured, 
and we were more than satisfied with our experi¬ 
ment. Our soil is a sand and gravel loam, vary¬ 
ing from good to light, but all run out of humus, 
washed out of nitrogen, and without very great 
stores of potash or phosphoric acid in the sub¬ 
soil. We had tried clover in 1893 and 1894, at the 
beginning of our farm experience, without any 
success whatever, and resorted to the cow pea in 
the hope of getting nitrogen aDd humus cheaper 
than by hauling stable fertilizer four miles. We 
think that we have succeeded, for even on our 
lightest soil, and at the poorest spots where the 
growth was light, the ground is now tolerably 
well filled with nitrogenous matter, and inocu¬ 
lated with nitrifying ferments. 
’ It is our intention to grow the plant again this 
year, both broadcast for the benefit of the soil, 
and otherwise for seed, looking for the gradual 
better adaptation of the plant to our climate. 
One result of our experiments thus far has been 
the conviction that, wherever the plant can be 
grown at all, whether it be cut down by frost half 
grown or reach maturity, it is not second to any 
other plant .as a soil renovator. As to its value 
for other purposes, we have had no experience. 
It has been too greatly needed and too highly 
prized for our one supreme want, for us to care 
whether our animals liked it or not. a. k. n. 
Traverse City, Mich. 
Now there you have the facts about cow 
peas as we have observed them. Don't 
expect too much from them, and give 
them a fair chance. The Soja bean and 
the Velvet bean may be better in some 
sections, for all I know. We shall try to 
find out this year. ir. w. c. 
A LITTLE HEN TALK. 
A Canadian Record. —Although a Canadian, I 
am an interested reader of The R. N.-Y., and am 
also somewhat of an experimenter in a small 
way. I notice in the Hope Farm Notes some 
good egg records, and I do not claim that my hens 
do much better in that line than those of Hope 
Farm itself; but I claim that, in hatching chicks, 
I have beaten anything that I have noticed lately. 
I invariably set 13 eggs under a hen, and on Feb- 
ruai-y 5, the first hen I set brought out 10 good 
strong chicks from 12 eggs, as one was broken 
the first week of the hatch. I thought this pretty 
good, but before the next week was up, hen No. 2 
brought out 12 chicks from 13 eggs set, and about 
a week later, hen No. 3 brought out 11 chicks from 
13 eggs, making in all 33 chicks from 39 eggs set 
under three hens. This is much better luck than 
I sometimes have in early Summer and warm 
weather. The climate here is pretty severe, and 
during one whole week of the hatch of those three 
hens, the thermometer scarcely got above zero, 
and often was 10 degrees or more below, and in 
the henhouse itself it often froze quite hard. I 
have good, hardy, vigorous young stock, and feed 
them well all the time, but feed no meat or bone 
at any time scarcely. I use B. V. Rocks and Black 
Minorcas, and cross them back and forth every 
year, but do not use cocks of my own raising. 
Wyebridge, Can. a. l. 
Good Connecticut Birds. —I have been very 
much interested in your Hope Farm Notes, as we 
are getting both sides of the egg question. In 
The R. N.-Y. of February 5, C. E., from N. H., 
writes that he has got but three eggs from his 26 
scrub hens since November 16; that’s a case of 
loss. Now here’s a case of profit: My sister has 
27 scrub pullets that have laid from December 1 
to February 10 (about the same time that C. E. 
got three eggs), 678 eggs—5614 dozens; average 
selling price, 34 cents per dozen, #19.21; cost of 
food, #4.10; net profit, #15.11. In the month of 
January, the pullets laid 348 eggs. Who can beat 
this? The White Leghorn breed largely predom¬ 
inates, with Plymouth Rock blood. The pullets 
were hatched in late April and early May, have 
never been confined, but have a free run, and all 
this Winter, when there was not much snow, have 
been out of the henhouse. They seem to be just 
as busy looking after egg material as in Sum¬ 
mer. There is one thing about these pullets that 
I wish to mention, and that is that they are thor¬ 
oughly domesticated. Whenever my sister goes 
into the yard, instead of flying over into the 10- 
acre lot or over the barn, the pullets flock around 
her, and she begins to talk to them, and they 
sing, talk back as much as to say, “ Now just 
give us a kernel or two of that white wheat, a 
little cracked corn (have it warm in cold weather), 
and plenty of sour milk (don’t forget that), and 
we will keep right on shelling out the eggs for 
you.” I think that being on such familiar terms 
with her hens, has a great deal to do with their 
doing so well. The henhouse is kept clean, and 
a good dust box, plenty of exercise, good food, 
good care, with a little animal meal, have done 
the business. Sister has a Brown Leghcrn hen 
that has laid all Winter, and very large eggs, 
one dozen weighing 1% pound. Pretty good, that! 
Manchester, Conn. h. w. b. 
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