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Show THE COW PEA. One of Salt Lake's dailies last week advocated the use of the cow pea by Utah farmers, but the writer of the article confessed that he didn't know much about it. The confession was not necessary. Cow peas, arc as the writer said a leguminous crop and therefore a soil renovator; in other words it plays the same important role in gathering nitrogen that clover docs in Wisconsin or luccrn in Utah. Cow peas arc especially well adapted to the south and wc believe would succeed in the St. George country without question. It is more of a bean in its botanical relations 'than a pei, being closely identified with the lima beans of our gardens. Wc do not hesitate to say that luccrn lu-ccrn makes a better forage crop for Utah than cow peas and the wise farmer will leave the testing of cow peas and other untried crops to the Experiment Station until they know that they arc on safe ground. |