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Definition of Cowpeas
1. cowpea [n] - See also: cowpea
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowpeas
Literary usage of Cowpeas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"4-course : 1, Corn, with cowpeas, soybeans or clover as a catch-crop, ...
Some multiple cropping is done, as : Rape in corn ; cowpeas after rye or wheat ..."
2. Forage Plants and Their Culture by Charles Vancouver Piper (1914)
"CHAPTER XXI cowpeas THE cowpea is really not a pea at all but a bean, being indeed
the ... Cultivated varieties of cowpeas occur through Africa and over the ..."
3. Pork-production by William Wesley Smith, Robert Alexander Craig (1920)
"cowpeas AND SOYBEANS The seeds of cowpea and soybean are rich in protein and ...
Soybean seed usually contains more than 30 per cent protein, and cowpeas ..."
4. Productive Agriculture: By John H. Gehrs by John Henry Gehrs (1917)
"cowpeas have been grown in China and India for over two thousand years. ...
Although cowpeas are a warm- temperature loving plant, they are grown to a ..."
5. Productive Soils: The Fundamentals of Successful Soil Management and by Wilbert Walter Weir (1920)
"Cotton (vetch for winter cover crop or cowpeas). 2. Corn with cowpeas between rows.
3. Peanuts. For the third year in this rotation (E) oats and vetch may ..."
6. Successful Farming; a Ready Reference on All Phases of Agriculture for by Frank Duane Gardner (1916)
"cowpeas should not be seeded until the soil is thoroughly warm. ... The seed-bed
for cowpeas should be prepared the same as for corn. ..."
7. Meadows and Pastures by Joseph Elwyn Wing (1911)
"Mooers found at the Tennessee station that where cowpeas and wheat alternated in
rota- cowpeas in a Southern Field. tion, and the peas were removed from the ..."
8. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"The Maryland Station l compared the yield of wheat, hay, and maize when grown on
soils treated as follows: no lime; cowpeas and no lime; cowpeas and lime. ..."
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