Sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure.
1Going southward, the cowpea has the advantage, and northward the clover gains.
2The genetic diversity indices indicated substantial diversity in Ethiopian cowpea landraces.
3Suppose the yield is two tons per acre of cowpea hay!
4Once cowpea seeds have enough moisture to take root, the plants can survive drought.
5Some farmers use the cowpea crop only as a soil-enricher.
6Clover, alfalfa, lucern, cowpea, soy bean, snap bean, vetch and similar plants are legumes.
7Researchers are trying to map the genes found in cowpea to produce improved drought-resistant varieties.
8The cowpea trails on the ground, and carries its bacteria more successfully than the soybean.
9Few plants equal the cowpea in repaying careful preparation.
10The fertilizer requirement is like that of the cowpea.
11The cowpea seeded at the last cultivation of corn in the Great Kanawha Valley, W. Va.
12The cowpea will grow in almost any soil.
13There is an average of about forty-seven pounds of nitrogen in each ton of cowpea vines.
14In addition each ton of cowpea vines contains ten pounds of phosphoric acid and twenty-nine pounds of potash.
15The cowpea is an annual plant.
16The cowpea is a warm-weather legume.