Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1899-09-19
COW PEAS
AS Crop and Fertilizer in the
z South.

4 49, 80 ~,
Ii the south, peas are to the sol
what clover is to it in Meade
Breckenridge and adjoining coun-
ties. Moreover it is a greater air
plant-placing in the soil more
oxygen and nitrogen than the COM
aSa seed clover. The roots grow
ing so much deeper make the soul
much lighter, thereby placing more
life which means better crops, and
shaping crops in condition to
withstand greater drought.
To get from IL to ? tons of hay
per acre, or a fertilizer for corn
which is to be followed by wheat,
SOW one bushel per acre broadcast
in front of the pillow when laying the
corn by, or follow pillow with a one
horse wheat drill. Either is very
effective.
After cutting the corn use the
Disc Wheat Drill in drilling your
wheat, thereby leaving the pea
roots undisturbed in the ground to
decay. The vine will protect your
wheat during the winter and the
matured peas can be either gath
cred off the vine or left to decay on
the ground. This mode is more
productive than the use OF phos-
pilates or cotton seed.
AS to the varieties sown in the
South, there are three; the whip-o-
will, the clay and unknown. The
clay is white, grows a very long
vine and produces few peas. The
h8Eaown is a medium vine about
four to five feet long with very
heavy foliage. 1t is considered the
best for hay. The whips, as it is
commonly called, grows about IN
feet, has better filled pods and Ion
ger roots than the other. 1t is con-
sidered the most profitable OF the
three for hay, seed and fertilizer.
: To grow for seed, it should be
ldfsfled in rows about two feet apart
and the seed planted any time be-
tween May 18th and June LIST. 1t
should be cultivated two or three
times, or even more if the ground
REQUIRES it. When gathered you
can thresh or beat out according to
the quantity. The price ranges
from75c to 81. At present the price
is 81 IS.
Another method is to broad cast
or drill about the LIST OF May, get
about one fourth ripe, turn in your
hogs and feed down. Then follow
nv wheat in fall, or wheat land af-
ter cutting your wheat. Disc the
the ground twice, sow your peas
let them decay on ground, SOW in
oats and clover in the spring, there
by never failing to get a good set OF
clover or grass on very poor soil.
Whilst the commercial phosphates
will produce the wheat on the clay
subsoil land, did you ever stop to
think what it is doing for your land!
Look at your farm and you can
very readily answer. Before you
ever used phosphates, the ground
after a wheat crop, was covered
with rag weeds as high as your
head. Look at them to-day, bear
ing nothing but the bare stuoole OF
the wheat straw. The reason Tor
this is that the phosphates draw
from instead of adding to the soil,
thus making your land poorer ana
poorer each year.
Then why do you continue TO I'M
poverish your land, when you can
grow a profitable crop, and at the
same time improve it, and in a few
years have it in a high state OF
cultivation!
Allow me to congratulate the
farmers of Meade and Breckenridge
on the interest taken in their Insti-
tute. 1t has proven very beneficial
In every section ofthe United States,
where interest was takeu in it.
preclxenridpe News.
TRUSTS FLOURISH