The Newport plain talk. (Newport, Tenn.) 1909-1939, 1912-06-20

1906, after a crop Of cowpeas, 1t pro- .
duced one-half bale of cotton and
thirty-four bushels of corn to the acre.
After cowpeas and an application of
800 pounds Of commercial fertilizer,
nearly ee-fourths of bale of cot
ton to the acre; and after cowpeas and
clover continuously for two years, one
bale Of cotton er acre.
This moving machine, thresher and
hay press made it possible to utilize
the cowpea grown on this farm not
only for feed and seed but also as
source of considerable revenue. The
moving machine, the thresher and the
hay press will make the cowpea one Of
the most profitable crops that can be
grown.
The following is a summary of Far
mers' Bulletin No. 372: Where inten-
sive farming is followed, the soy bean
is the best.annual legume to grow for
forage in the southern part of the
cotton belt The soy bean whether
used as hay, grain, or ensilage is a
very valuable live stock feed, Soy
bean hay is practically identical in
feeding value with alfalfa and yields
from two to three tons per acre.
Soy-bean grain is more valuable than
cotton seed meal as supplementary
feed in the production of pork, mutton,
wool, beef, milk and butter. A bushel
of soy beans is at least twice as val
liable for feed as bushel of corn.
AS the grain is hard, it is usually
desirable to grind it into meal for
feeding. This is best done by mixing
with corn before grinding to prevent
cumming the mill.
A moving machine or binder can
be used to harvest the soy bean. A
binder can be used only with the tall
varieties. The threshing can be done
with grain thresher by using blank
concaves and running the cylinder
much lower than for small grain.
The growing of soy beans after oats
and on other land and the use of now
ing machines, threshers, and hay
presses means rich land, fat stock, and
, more prosperous times.
The fact that Spanish peanuts will
produce good, crops on comparatively
poor land when we'll fortified and
cultivated should encourage us togrOw
them as a substitute for large part
of the corn and hays usually fed to all
kinds of stock. Professor Duggar at
the Auburn, Ala, station found an
acre of Spanish'peanutsonp oorgravelly
land produced 600 pounds of live
weight of hogs. This was after the
tops had been cut with a mower and
saved for hay. The growing of pea
nuts after oats will add much to the
fertility of the soil, promote the rails
ing of good livestock, and add to the
bank account.
Planting cowpeas and soy beans in
rows about 30 inches apart saves seed
and brings greater returns in yields of
seed and hay. The experiment station
results show that the increase in both
seed and hay obtained when the seed
isdriled is more than sufficient to pay
for the additional expense in drilling
and cultivatihg the crop.
Plant the cowpeaS, soy beans and
peanuts on the level and cultivate on
the level with disk harrow, spring
tooth harrow, a one or two-horSe cult.
vator or a heel sweep. We can then
cut two or three rows at one time with
our moving machines.
We should grow more oats and other
smallgrain crops, and leguminouscrops
to enrich our lands and furnish feed
for more good livestock; and use more
labor-saving machinery such as now
ing machines, hay rakes, tedders,
binders and hay presses.