The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-12
AUSTRIAN WINTER
PEAS PROFITABLE
Boost Returns From Corn,
Peanut And Other Crop
Land $40 To $40 An Acre

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$40 per acr next year.
Here's how: The Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration is furnish
ing Austrian winter pea seed as a
grant-of-aid. This means that al
though the price of the seed is 5
cents per pound, the farmer does
not have to meet this cost immedi-
ately. It is deducted from the
soil building payments he will earn
for planting and turning under the
seed, and for other conservation
practices.
E. c. Blair, Extension agonomist
Of N. c. State college, says: III
handled rightly, every ere OF Aus
trian winter peas should be worth
$40 to $40 in increased crop yields
the first year, and their good effect
will continue for two or three
years."
The Triple-A has allocated three
million pounds Of Austrian winter
peas to North Carolina for distri-
button through the grant : Of : aid
plan. Already farmers in A coun-
les have placed orders for 2,183,-
700 pounds. Therefore, there isn't
much time left to take advantage
of this offer before the supply is
exhausted.
So Blair's message is directed
primarily to those farmers who
have already requested Seed. or
those who will obtain them from
local sources 1.-The pease should
be planted between September l
and October Is, the earlier the bt-
IT," the Extension agronomist
said.
Corn, Peanuts Can Follow
Austrian winter peas may be
planted after corn, cotton, tobac-
CO, peanuts, soybeans, cowpeas, or
other crops. They may be turned
under in time to plant corn, pea
nuts, soybeans, cowpeas, and in
some counties in time to plant cot
ton. It is not advisable to plow
them in for tobacco.
Thirty to 40 pounds of seed per
acre should be sown when broad
casting on land where they have
never ben grown. Twenty to 80
pounds per acre is enough when
drilling peas or when broadcasting
On land that is well inoculated. In
peanut fields, it is possible to plant
one row in each middle with a
corn planter as soon as the pea
nuts have been dug. Hogs running
i nthe field will not likely interfere
with this row, since it is not close
to the peanut row. This method
requires 10 to Is pounds of winter
pea seed per acre, dropped nj to
two inches apart.
There are several other ways
to plant Austrian winter peas: %
Broadcast in middles of a row crop
and cover with an ordinary one
horse cultivator; (2) use a one
horse drill to plant the peas in the
middles of a row crop; 90 disc
the land we'll Cor pillow it shallow,
broadcast the seed, and cover with
a section harrow or cultivator; and
"a disc or pillow the land as men
toned in No. 3 and sow the peas
with a grain drill"
The next point was especially
stressed by Blah'. 1.-THE seed must
be i~noculated unless it is grown on
land that is already inoculated.
Land inoculated for vetch or Tor
garden peas May peas) does not
winter peas. County agents will
be glad to furnish instructions for
inoculating the Seed"
It Pays to Fertilize
Continuing, the specialist said:
1T pays to fertilize Austrian win
ter peas, using 200 pounds per acre
of O-8-6 on good soil and 200 pounds
of 1876 on poor soil in the Coastal
Plain. Use 200 pounds of 0-10-4 on
good soil and 200 pounds of 4-1o-4
on poor soil in the Piedmont and
Mountains. The fertilizer applica-
ton to the next crop may then be
reduced by these amounts"
Blair says Austrian winter peas
are not worth planting unless they
are allowed to grow at least IL
inches in length before turning I'M
der. 1T is much better to let the
grow "a to 30 inches before turning.
This should be by May l in most
countless" he advised.
Finally, the a%gronomist said that
l.44.n ;oh oop he dopo in turning
finely with a disc harrow, well
weighted. Use a two-horse or
tractor pillow to turn them in. Allow
the peas two weeks to decay in the
soil before planting another crop.
This is necessary in order to get a
God stand of. the crop following
the peas.
The counties which have ordered
Austrian winter peas through the
AAA grant : of : aid plan, and the
amounts requested, e Robson,
248, 900 pounds; Columbus, 200, 800;
BERTHE. 100, 600: Cumberland, 12O,-
600; Camden, SO, 700; Johnston, 85,-
600; Bladen, 81, 500; Yadkin, 3d. 600
includes orders for Surry, Wilkes,
Catawba and Howen); Craven, TO-
500; Pender, 81, 100; Vance, go, 0OO:1
Scotland, 58,400; Perquimans, S.
300; Harnett, 56,400; Jones, $4,000;
Wayne, so, 900; Lenoir, SO, 200; Dup.
lin, S $4,000; Brunswick, $1,000;
Al, 600; Franklin, 40, 600;
Greene, 10000; Hartford, 40, 900;
Nash. 1000: Pamlico. 40. 600. Pitt