Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1902-05-16

or depend upon Washington City.
Don't get enough from that source
for any purpose. Don't get things we
don't like, or need, or cant consume.
Can't give time to such things Some
things take culture all the year. The
garden becomes interesting as we get
older It makes the time pass pleas
antly Don't know how long Adam
and I've occupied the Garden Of Eden,
but it was as long as they we're obed-
lent; and so long we may enjoy the
gardens. Many Of the most solemn
events of Christian belief, as related
in Scripture, transpired in the garden
the agony, the resurrection, etc.
Mr.. Adams was not much of a gar
dener, but believed 1t was intended
Sy5e should be active gardeners.
COW PEAS AND SOFA BEANS
Response by J. c. Gary:
Mr.. Chairman:-Co peas, or the
Southern stock peas, have had a great
deal of the attention Of the farmers of
this section for the last ten or twelve
years Since clover has become such an
uncertain crop, farmers In the Middle
States and as far north as the pea can
be grown, are now using it as a substi-
tute in a number of ways. They are
growE extensively both for feed and
for rcnovating land. They seem to be
a better substitute as a renOvator than
when used as feed. l have a field OF
forty acres that was fallowed and sown
in wheat in the fall Of 1897 The yield
- 1898 was nine bushels AS soon as
the wheat was threshed that field was
plowed and peas sown and we're turned
under the goth Of September, the land
narrowed and rolled with heavy roller
and wheat sown about Goth of October.
The Weld in 1899 was twelve bushels.
/ followed the same plan In 1893; the
yield was sixteen bushels; the same
again in 1900; and the yield was TWEEN
ty-one bushels. The yield on this field
was increased twelve bushels per acre
in three years.
I think by following early and SOW
ing peas to shade the land and retain
the elements of plant food; then plow-
ing the vines under, just before frost,
gets so much vegetable mould in the
soil that the fertility is not only main
tanned but increased and the yield is
better. Peas sown as late as the 25th OF
July will grow vines from ten to TWEEN
ty inches long, if there is enough mois-
ture in the soil to make the peas come
up. The better the land the greater
will be the growth of the vines and
greater the quantity Of vegetable mat
ter to be turned under to make humus.
The land is more friable; does not get
so clo6dy and retains the moisture bet
ter after a crop OF peas. When sown
broadcast or with wheat drill, SOW one
and one-half bushels to the acre; II
sown in rows, to be cultivated, one
bushel will SOW two acres, or, perhaps
two acres and a half.
Pea hay is eaten with relish by
horses. cattle, and sheep, when it has
been properly cured. Peas are sown
9for grazing or feeding down by hogs IN
the fall and as they are great rat pro-
ducer they make a valuable food for
voung hogs to be finished on on corn.
.;rbe nriee of seed Is a problem to be
met as they are high on the Market
INIT with the facility we now have for
{ threshing every farmer should save
6is cwn seed. The clay or black
neas produce more vine but 90
not hear as many pods as the whlppooI-
will see that machinery has peeh
made LOT mdhlub AuCoA Va 49,
esaid TO be wholesome and very MUIR
fious. Cow peas are closely allied 70
tbe bean family; they are not so rich
in protein as the bean, but their vines
mako a better article of hay than vines
of the bean. ..,o,oa
Mr.. c. e. Barker said his experiences :
vas only with peas and that In the
main he agreed with the paper READ,
bnt thought the hay was not good Ieeu
in hct weather He thought the peas
had contributed to the increase OF hes
sian fv in the wheat sown AFTER th men.
gad cut his peas for seed. HIS helen,
nor bad grown peas on poor spots ana
turned under the growth and Wneae
after was very fine and equal 10 tna'
on the best parts Of the field. d.
Mr.. Adams asked as to the time 10
n1ant sofa beans and Professor Gar
man thought for this county any tllne
from this on. The bean produces more
seed than the peas when grown Ia rows '.
II Is nsed for all the purposes that co"
Mr. King said where he sowed clover
after meas it failed; don't know why