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Identifier: georgiahistorica00geor (find matches)
Title: Georgia, historical and industrial
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture Stevens, O. B. (Obediah B.) Wright, R. F. (Robert F.)
Subjects: Georgia -- History Georgia -- Economic conditions
Publisher: Atlanta, Ga. : G.W. Harrison, State Printer
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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the first pods begin to turn yellow, andwhile the leaves are yet green and the stems tender. If cut after all thepeas have thoroughly ripened, the stalks will be hard and the leaves willfall off. They should be cut in clear weather and after the dew is off.There are many varieties of the pea. Those commonly used in Georgiaare the whippoorwill, the black clay, the red clay and the unknown.There is no better soil renovator than the cow-pea. The most worn-outsoil can be brought to a condition of profitable production by planting asuccession of cow-peas upon it. Valuable as is the pea-vine for food, its chief excellence is this propertyof restoring exhausted soils. It surpasses, perhaps, all other leguminousplants in producing maximum results in a minimum of time. In Geor-gia cow-peas are planted in the late spring or early and middle summer,and the crops of vines are either harveeted for hay or buried for fertil-izing in the early fall. The more economical plan is to har^^est the crop co
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/ GEORGIA:^HISTORICAL AXD IXDUSTRIAL. 225 for hay, then turn under the stubble and the roots, which are said tocontain the greater part of the elements so essential for the renovationof the soil. The vetch is found in two varieties, the winter and summer vetch.The latter is of very little use to us in Georgia, because it will not forsummer soiling yield as large an amount of green forage as com. Sincethe winter vetch is ready for the first cutting during the first warm spellin February, it is very useful for soiling early in the spring. The seedshould be sown early in August, allowing one bushel to the acre. Whereland has been well manured, the vetch or tare yields a large amount ofearly cut food, or it may be made into nutritious hay, or may be used asa winter pasture. Eight varieties of millet have been cultivated in this country. It isused for soiling purposes, for hay and for its seed. More than fifty bush-els of seed to the acre have been raised on rich land. The hay made fromit

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