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The Soybean

Categories: OTHER LEGUMES AND CEREAL CATCH CROPS

The soybean is gaining a place among the valuable legumes

of the United States, and the acreage is increasing as its merits

become known to all. Its northern limits of profitable production are

much farther north than those of the cowpea, and approach those of

corn. In the south it is gaining friends. Some of the advantages of the

soybean over the cowpea, as found by the Tennessee station, may be

stated as follows:



1. Greater seed production in case of fertile soils.



2. Less sensitiveness to cold in spring and fall.



3. Greater feeding value of the seed.



On the other hand, a stand of cowpea plants is surer in the case of

soils that crust, and germination runs higher. Its climbing habit makes

it better suited for growing with corn for forage. A less amount of

leaves is lost in curing.



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