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LESPEDEZA SAVING LOUSIANA FARMING- 
The following facts refer to Japan 
clover grown in the cotton States. Do 
not get any idea that the plant is as 
well suited to other sections. Lespe- 
deza striata or Japan clover is chang¬ 
ing the history of Louisiana and other 
States perhaps more than anything 
which has come into notice since the 
Civil War. A society of 
growers has been organized 
information about the plant 
markets for the hay. The 
February 10, 
Lespedeza 
to spread 
and find 
Louisiana 
giving 
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and charming flowers. Work in the garden 
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THE LIVIN8STON SEED CO. 
467 High St. Columbua, Ohio 
Station has issued bulletins 
information about it. 
Prof. Dodson of the Experiment Sta¬ 
tion says the plant was introduced to 
South Carolina or Georgia about 1846. 
It did not attract much attention until 
it reached Alabama, Mississippi and 
Louisiana. The belief is that it was 
spread largely during the Civil War, the 
seeds probably carried about by horses 
who had fed on the hay. It grows well 
on the banks of gullies and hillsides 
and the seed is washed down into 
streams and carried in this way to new 
localities. The plant now grows wild 
over all that portion of the country 
south of Pennsylvania and central Illi¬ 
nois, and east of middle Texas. It may 
give some grazing in all this territory, 
but for a profitable hay crop it is at its 
best in the old cotton States. That is 
why it means so much to this territory. 
The plant is an annual maturing seed 
from late August until frost in Louisi¬ 
ana. Growth is slow until the middle of 
June, after which the plant comes on 
rapidly. It grows on all sorts of soils, 
but does best on good land. When 
grown as a hay crop it is seeded every 
year, but when grown for seed it re¬ 
seeds itself and is thus grown for sev¬ 
eral years in succession. The hay is 
considered excellent as compared with 
other clovers and Alfalfa. In Louisiana 
even the damaged hay or the straw from 
the seed may be cut up and mixed with 
waste molasses and makes good feed. 
It does not cause bloat and has few 
insect enemies. No hay crop seems to 
allow such a wide period of harvesting, 
as it may be cut from August to October 
in Louisiana. The seed grows in a one 
seeded pod in the axils of the leaves. 
This seed shells quite readily and “seed 
pans” are used on the mowers. These 
pans extend about four feet back of 
the cutter bar covered by sieves to keep 
out chaff. As the mower passes on the 
seeds shaken from the plants fall into 
this pan. 
We cannot realize what this plant 
means to Louisiana until we realize how 
the cotton boll-weevil demoralized busi¬ 
ness. From banker to laborer all classes 
were thrown out of business by this 
insect. As a result some of the finest 
farming land in the South started back 
to weeds and saplings. Lespedeza is 
bringing it back. Mr. A. L. Smith in 
the bulletin we have mentioned tells how 
it is done. In September and October 
the land is well plowed and disked. Then 
two bushels to the acre of Winter oats 
are seeded. When these oats are up and 
well rooted hogs are turned in to graze 
through the Winter. Mr. Smith says 
he kept 400 hogs on one 250 acre field of 
oats and in many cases five to six hogs 
can be kept on an acre. In March the 
hogs are taken off and one bushel per 
acre of Lespedeza seed is then seeded 
right in the oats. The oats are cut 
in June ami the Lespedeza comes 
on and gives about two tons of hay 
per acre in August or September! This 
means about 30 bushels of oats and two 
tons of hay per acre—worth in Louisiana 
from the oats. All this on land that has 
been selling at $15 per acre. 
Thus this plant is changing the history 
of Louisiana from cotton and sugar to 
meat and hay making. There is prob¬ 
ably no other plant that could do it. 
What Alfalfa is to the western deserts 
Lespedeza is to Louisiana. 
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Desk 26 
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„ “French Peas.” 
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find the answer; a few years ago I bought 
at a grocery store iu Towanda a peck of 
“Alaska” peas for seed. They had not 
grown many weeks till I saw something was 
wrong with my Alaska peas. They grew 
about three feet high, had purple blossoms 
and fair-sized pods. I went to the dealer 
about it and on looking the matter up he 
found that the clerk had got my seed from 
the wrong bag, bad given me “French 
peas,” a ripe dried pea that is sold for a 
soup pea. I let them grow. They proved 
to be a very late sort, producing small 
bright green peas quite profusely. The hens 
harvested them for me. Perhaps the peas 
in poultry food are waste or pickings from 
these soup peas. p. j. u. 
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