. Productive agriculture . how many bushels can be produced on acres? Whatare these worth at $ per bushel? CHAPTER VICOWPEAS History of Cowpeas. — Cowpeas have been grown in Chinaand India for over two thousand years. About the middle ofthe sixteenth century they were introducedinto Europe, and came into America by wayof the West Indies the latter part of theseventeenth century. They were probablyfirst brought to the United States in theearly part of the eighteenth century. Cow-peas are grown extensively except where theclimate is cold and the soil wet during thesummer. Altliough cow
. Productive agriculture . how many bushels can be produced on acres? Whatare these worth at $ per bushel? CHAPTER VICOWPEAS History of Cowpeas. — Cowpeas have been grown in Chinaand India for over two thousand years. About the middle ofthe sixteenth century they were introducedinto Europe, and came into America by wayof the West Indies the latter part of theseventeenth century. They were probablyfirst brought to the United States in theearly part of the eighteenth century. Cow-peas are grown extensively except where theclimate is cold and the soil wet during thesummer. Altliough cowpeas are a warm-temperature loving plant, they are grown toa considerable extent in New York, Ohio,Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and Iowa. The Cowpea Plant. — The cowpea is anannual legume. It varies in its growth froman almost erect upright plant to a trailingvine. The hay is sometimes difficult tohandle because the long vines hang author has measured vines of cowpeasthat were over eleven feet long. The seed. Fig. 36. — The rootsof the cowpea, showingthe nodules in which thebacteria live that gatherfree nitrogen from theair. Note to the Teacher: The materials needed to do the Laboratory Ex-ercises suggested at the close of this chapter are:The seeds of three or four varieties of cowpeas. COWPEAS 89 pods are long and contain from 6 to 18 seeds. The leaves havethree leaflets and look very much like those of the garden roots are more extensive than those of the soybean, havinga long, deep-penetrating taproot, and an abundance of lateralroots. Cowpeas grow on a depleted soil as well as, or better
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