Harvesting With Livestock

Categories: THE COWPEA

When the cowpea is made into hay, there is

always danger that the most of the plant-food contained in it never

will get back to the soil on account of a careless handling of the

manure. The practice of pasturing with cows and hogs is excellent. The

feed is rich, and the manure is left on the ground. There is a saving

of labor.



If the full fertilizing value is wanted for the soil, the crop should

be plowed down. The trailing varieties form a tangled mass that cannot

be handled by an ordinary breaking-plow, but a stalk-cutter, run in the

direction the plow will follow, makes plowing possible. Pasturing with

cattle and hogs sufficiently to reduce the growth so that a plow can be

used is good practice.