Land slightly deficient in humus can be put in condition for growing melons by plowing under a clover sod, or a crop ofcowpeas or rye, or a coat of manure applied broadcast.
Cowpeas may be of great service in bringing new land into shape for planting to onions.
During the time it is not occupied by cucumbers or lettuce, cowpeas are frequently grown upon the area and turned under prior to planting a fall crop of lettuce.
For green manure nothing is better thancowpeas as a summer crop and crimson clover as a winter crop.
Suppose the oats be made into oat hay and be fed on the farm and the cowpeas be turned under.
Cowpeas will grow on almost any land that is not too wet.
Assuming that the cowpeas take half their nitrogen from the air.
Experiments at the Louisiana Experiment Station show that one acre of cowpeasyielding 3,970.
The cotton is grown for market, the corn partly to sell, partly to feed, the oats to feed and the cowpeas to plow under.
The oats will be able to get a full ration after the corn, and the cowpeas will readily take care of themselves on the score of plant food and will put the soil in fine condition for cotton again.
If your alfalfa stand is bad enough to need re-sowing anyway, you may get a good catch crop of cowpeas by doing as you propose.
Are "horse beans" a leguminous crop and how does their feeding value for hogs compare to cowpeas and Canadian field peas?
Do not wait to put under the winter growth until it is safe to put on the cowpeas, for, if you do, you will lose so much moisture that the cowpeas will not amount to much.
Cowpeas can be sown in furrows three feet apart and cultivated, using about 40 pounds of seed to the acre, or they may be broadcasted, which takes about twice as much seed.
I planted cowpeas between peach trees which I have kept irrigated; when should they be plowed under?
On clear land moderately retentive much more is being done in summer growth of cowpeas without irrigation than expected.
Both common field peas and cowpeas do not possess this element, and if you can grow them they will serve as a substitute for the other legumes, such as alfalfa.
You can plant cowpeas all summer on land which is moist enough by natural moisture or irrigation to promote growth.
The beans are edible and the whole plant available for stock feeding, but there is no doubt but that the growth of some of the cowpeas would be preferable as a summer field crop for hog pasture.
A shallow, worn-out soil should not be used for corn, but for cowpeas or rye.
Cowpeas should never be planted until all danger of frost is past.
The custom of planting cowpeas between the rows at the last working of corn is a good one, and wherever the climate permits this custom should be followed.
When cowpeas are grown for their pods to ripen, the seeds should be planted in rows about a yard apart.
One may secure a good seed-bed after cotton and corn as well as after cowpeas and other legumes.
When cowpeas are planted for hay the seeds should be drilled or broadcasted.
Cowpeas are to be preferred, since they also enrich the soil by the nitrogen that the root-tubercles gather.
Cowpeas replace the lost soil-elements and keep down weeds, grasses, and red rice.
A method that is very effective is to smother the weeds by a dense growth of some other plant, for example, cowpeas or buckwheat.
Cowpeas were formerly gathered by hand, but such a method is of course slow and expensive.
Cover crops of cowpeas or clovers should not be planted.
Crops of favorable host plants such as cowpeas and soybeans should not be planted in or adjacent to nut orchards subject to attack by these sucking bugs.
Cowpeas baked with salt pork or bacon make an excellent dish resembling pork and beans, but of distinctive flavor.
Cowpeas boiled with ham or with bacon are also well-known and palatable dishes.
In the Southern States, where cowpeas are a common crop, they are cooked in the same way as dried beans.
You may remember, Mr. Thornton, that more soil nitrogen is made available for cowpeas during the summer weather than for clover during the cooler fall and spring?
The cowpeas and corn fodder usually kept one or more cows through the winter when they could not secure a living in the brush.
Tobacco, corn, wheat andcowpeas were the principal crops.
You see the cowpeas grow during the same months as corn and on land prepared in about the same manner.
I thought it helped the corn and wheat a little, and it showed right to the line where I put cowpeas on the land, but I don't think it paid, and it's mighty disagreeable stuff to handle.
I can see that clover would be much better than cowpeas if we could grow it; but, as I said, it's played out here.
Second year--Part oats or barley, partcowpeas or soy beans.
Oh, yes, clover will grow very well, indeed, but cowpeas is a much better crop than clover.
It takes mighty good land to grow clover; but cowpeas are better for us.
And when corn is grown, sow cowpeas at the last working of the crop, to enrich the soil.
The better treatment, and the safer one to follow in old orchards, is to cultivate the ground in spring and sow down in cowpeas or some other legume.
Corn is probably the best crop to grow on new land, and at the last working cowpeas should be sowed.
This is frequently the cause of failure in growing alfalfa, soybeans, cowpeas and less well known members of the legume family.
There, inoculation is not necessary for these crops, but it probably should be practiced if other legumes such as alfalfa, cowpeas or soybeans are to be grown on land for the first time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowpeas" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
