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