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The Bulletin. 



While soy beans are best adapted to the eastern part of the State 

 they also do well in the Piedmont section and in the mountains. In 

 fact they will do better in the mountains than the cow pea will, because 

 it can be planted earlier and will stand frost better than the cow pea. 

 Another advantage the soy bean has over the cow pea in the cow pea 

 wilt section is it is more resistent to wilt than the cow pea. Good 



Fig. 32.— A plant of the Mammoth variety of 

 soy bean, showing its characteristic habit of 

 growth. Height, 40 inches. 



From Farmers Bulletin, 372. 



crops of soy beans can be grown where the cow pea wilt exists, but in 

 doing so you prolong the time of getting rid of the wilt. 



Varieties. 



There are probably 40 to 50 varieties of soy beans, but we are inter- 

 ested in those now known to be best adapted to the soil and climate of 

 our State, which are Mammoth Yellow and Hollybrook. A brown 

 variety has been introduced into the eastern part of the State within 

 the past two or three years and is giving satisfaction, but I do not know 

 the name of it. The Mammoth is more largely grown in this State than 



