Forage Crops For The Coeorado Plains 23 
little cultivation. On old lands they will need sufficient cultivation 
to keep the weed crop down. 
The keeping quality of the melons is good, if kept from freezing. 
Thus they may be fed out in the fall as desired, if properly protected 
from being frozen by straw or other covering. 
PEAS 
Field Peas or Canada Field Peas are exceedingly well adapted 
to the high lands of the Platte-Arkansas Divide. They are not well 
adapted to the relatively lower altitudes of the eastern and south¬ 
eastern parts of the State. It is possible to grow them, but they are 
not sufficiently profitable to pay for cultivating them under nonnial 
conditions except in the Divide territory. 
They should be seeded usually on well prepared land at the rate 
of 30 to 45 pounds per acre, using preferably a disk drill having a 
revolving cup type of feed in order not to crush the seed. Planting 
should be done just as early in the spring as weather and soil con¬ 
ditions will permit, as peas develop best in the cool of the year. Peas 
will do better at an altitude of 6500 to 8500 feet than they will at 
lower altitudes, because they develop better in the cool weather of 
the season. It is this feature which makes them adapted to the 
Divide, and poorly adapted to the other portions of the Colorado 
Plains. 
VETCH 
Vetch has been recommended, but in the experimental work 
carried on thus far it has not given sufficient returns to pay at all. 
At the present we cannot recommend Vetch for Colorado Plains 
planting. 
PEANUTS 
Peanuts is another crop which has been discussed a good deal 
and recommended by some for our territory. Peanuts is another 
hot weather crop. In Texas and Oklahoma and other southern 
vStates they do exceedingly well, but so far as experiments show, they 
do not give sufficient promise in our cool climate, with our short 
growing seasons, to warrant recommending them for much of our 
territory. They can be grown and occasionally matured as far in 
the State as Hugo. They do a good deal better in the extreme south¬ 
eastern part of the State, but even here are not yet well enough 
adapted to be unqualifiedly recommended. 
BROOM CORN 
Broom Corn is very well adapted to the southeastern portions 
of the State and as far west as two tiers of counties from the eastern 
border. This crop should not be grown in preference to other 
sorghums for a forage crop, but in some localities Broom Corn is 
grown for a cash crop. In such localities if the fodder is harvested 
it will make a very useful and valuable feed. Except to be used in this 
vvay it can not be recommended because it is not so valuable as other 
adapted sorghums as an exclusive forage crop. Where it is grown 
