The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-27
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I saw an article on pea culture" in
your paper Of tho 18th inst. which I great
y enjoyed, says farmer in the Dallas
News. l have had considerable expert
ence with tho cow pea. They are the best
rcnovator Of wornout land extant for the
south, filling tho place OF red clover. Like
Mr.. Wellborn, have seen a wonderful diff
ference in the yield Of land that had been
planted to peas in comparison to The same
quantity of land that had not For the
best results let the peas mature, gather
them, and when the vines die, pillow under.
This would be best done as soon as the
vines die or are killed. provided YOU wishc
to SOW small Srain on the land. but if
not, and the land would be injured by fall
blowing, Il would be beet to welt until
about February. but It ought TO be plowo1
under as early as possible. so that the
vines would decay as much as possible be-
fore time to plant a crop that is to be
worked
Narieties-I have planted many varie-
ties and find for general purposes that the
Wonderful syn Unknown Quadroom is
the best that have planted. II stands up
very high. putting out vines at almost
every point. is a good runner, climbs but
little, can be planted in corn or rich land
and Will give hardly any trouble in gather
ing, very unlike the Red Ripe and clay
pea, which run all over everything IN
reach. The Wonderful should not be
planted before the LIST Of May, and can be
planted until the LIST of July. II Is late
pea 1t commences TO make peas about
the last OF August here. In north Louisi-
ana. and In few weeks IT Is literally COW
Erred with peas. 1t has a very long, fun
pod, is easy TO gather ard easy to thresh
out, and is a good keeper, almost equal
to Red Ripe IN the field 1t,is. superior for
hay for the reason that II grows up so
high and makes so much vine, and this Is
also quite an item as regards renoYating
of land.
1t makes very dense shade and shades
the ground at the time Il needs it most.
viz. August and September. A Florida
scotsman claims that the Unknown and
the Wonderful are not the same, but ! sent
to him for seed of the Wonderful and the
department of agriculture at Washington
sent me the Unknown and also had been
planting them for years. l planted them
near each other. so that l could see the
difference. believing them the same. ]
could see no difference, and sent samples
of both to the scotsman and asked him
which was the Wonderful and which was
the Unknown, but he failed to say.
As to keeping hay. BIZ Arp may be right.
I have never tried his way, that is the
rain part, but If they are let dry before
housing they will keep. A good way to keep
them is to let them dry day or two after
being cut and stack or house. Use a thick
layer of very dry hay on oat or wheat
straw, then peavfnes, straw again, then
peavines, and so on until you get all stack
ed, and you will not only have peavine hay,
but the straw will be eaten with almost the
same avidity by all stock. When the pea
vines go through the sweat chat would
ruin them If no straw was with them) they
give the straw the peavine flavor also. So
you see that the hay pile is increasing In
quality and quantity also.