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Studies of Soybeans and Other Green Manure Crops for Sugarcane Plantations 1
Author(s) -
Arceneaux George,
McKaig Nelson,
Stokes I. E.
Publication year - 1932
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1932.00021962002400050003x
Subject(s) - division (mathematics) , agriculture , george (robot) , sugar , sugar industry , agronomy , mathematics , geography , chemistry , computer science , biology , archaeology , arithmetic , artificial intelligence , biochemistry
The handling of leguminous crops extensively planted for green manure in rotation with sugarcane presents important agronomic problems very closely associated with sugarcane culture. In Louisiana it is customary to grow a legume crop, usually soybeans either alone or interplan.ted with corn, during the year intervening between the last ratoon crop of sugarcane and the succeeding plant cane crop. In some instances the stubble land is planted to corn and legumes l[or two consecutive years. In either case the legume crop is usually removed for hay. However, the policy of plowing under the entire legume crop grown in rotation with sugarcane has been adopted on numbers of plantations. Preliminary field studies on legumes were conducted at the U. S. Dept. of Agriculture’s Sugar Plant Field Station near Houma, La., during I93o, for the purpose of comparing the relative green-manuring value of several leguminous plants under conditions more or less typical of the section of Louisiana where sugarcane is extensively cultivated, and determining the most cadvantageous method of hand. ling the soybean green manure crop under such conditions. The results given represent a single season’s work only, but it is believed tha~ the data are sufficiently valuable to justify publication’at the present time. EXPERIMENTAL METHODS