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Show GROWING COWPEA IN COMBINATION Greater Variety and Larger Yield of Feed Is Obtained and Easier to Cure. CORN USED QUITE GENERALLY Excellent Mixture for Silage and Is Being Extensively Used on Dairy Farms Sorghums and Kafirs Also Favored. (Prepared by tha United Statea Department of Agriculture.) Although the cowpea can be satisfactorily satis-factorily grown alone, It Is more advantageously ad-vantageously grown for hay In combination com-bination with other crops. When grown In this manner, not only Is a greater variety and larger yield of feed obtained, ob-tained, but the mixed hay Is much more easily cured and handled. Corn Is used quite generally with cowpeas, but only to a slight extent for hay. The crop most widely used with cow- s . l , Z . v .-." Cowpeas Growing With Sorghum. peas for hay Is sorghum, both sweet sorghums and kafirs, although other crops, such as Sudan grass, Johnson grass, soy beans and millet, are used. Cowpeas and Corn. The cowpea is an excellent crop to grow with corn for silage, and It Is being used extensively for this purpose pur-pose on many dairy farms, especially in the northern part of the cowpea area. If grown with corn for other than silage purposes, cowpeas are allowed to ripen a fair percentage of pods, which are gathered for seed and the remainder pastured. This method not only gives a crop of corn but also sufficient cowpea seed for sowing the next season, and the residue makes either a hay crop or a fair amount of grazing for stock. In many parts of the South, especially In, the sugarcane sugar-cane districts of Louisiana, cowpeas Instead of being pastured are harvested harvest-ed for hay after the corn has been gathered. Cowpeas and Sorghum. Cowpeas grown In combination with sorghum make an excellent hay or silnge crop. As a hay crop this mixture mix-ture Is more easily cured than cowpeas cow-peas alone, constitutes a well-balanced ration, and is relished by all kinds of farm stock. Both the sweet sorghums and the kafirs are used. The Amber sorghum Is most generally favored. |
