Seed annual . 4-Yb. 20c; lb. 35c; 3 lbs.$ By express, 4 lbs. 75c; 10 lbs. or over, 15c. per Peas, Canada Field < 60 lbs. to\Bushel. ) Beareless Barley. Buckwheat Cow or Southern Peas &ZfJ£Z£ cheaper means of improving and increasing the productiveness of oursoils than by sowing the Cow Pea. It makes enormous growth,enabling the farmer to put plenty of nitrogenous vegetable matterinto the soil at a small cost, and so very largely enables him to dispensewith the use of nitrogenous commercial fertilizers, and has the powerto extract the costly nitrogen from the atmosphere and stor
Seed annual . 4-Yb. 20c; lb. 35c; 3 lbs.$ By express, 4 lbs. 75c; 10 lbs. or over, 15c. per Peas, Canada Field < 60 lbs. to\Bushel. ) Beareless Barley. Buckwheat Cow or Southern Peas &ZfJ£Z£ cheaper means of improving and increasing the productiveness of oursoils than by sowing the Cow Pea. It makes enormous growth,enabling the farmer to put plenty of nitrogenous vegetable matterinto the soil at a small cost, and so very largely enables him to dispensewith the use of nitrogenous commercial fertilizers, and has the powerto extract the costly nitrogen from the atmosphere and store the samein the vines and roots, so that if the crop is cut off the land is stillenriched and the condition improved. From 5 to 9 tons of green fod-der per acre have been produced by the Cow Peas. To grow for haythey are most valuable. The bacon made from hogs fed on the drypeas is much sweeter and more solid, and the fat will not run out incooking nearly so much as when fed on corn. For ensilage they areunsurpassed. When it is desired to t urn the whole crop under as a soilimprover, it is be
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