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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



C0WPEL4.S. 



Chinese Red. No. 979 



Down's Early, No. 1090... 



Unknown 



Sliennan'.s Northern Prolific 



Iron 



Taylor 



AVliippoorwill 



Black F.arly 



New .Era 



Browneye 



Blackeye 



SOY BEANS. 



Early Black, Michieran s:rown 



Medium Green, Michisran grown. . . 



Oeemaw, Michigan grown 



Ito San. Michigan grown 



9413, Department of Agriculture... 



9410, Department of Agriculture.. 



9411, Department of Agriculture.. 

 8423, Department of Agriculture.. 

 ^407, Department of Agriculture.. 

 9409. Department of Agriculture.. 



Extra Early Black 



Medium Green 



Ito San 



Yellow 



Wood's 



Medium Green, Selected, 3 ft. rows 

 9409, 3 ft. rows 



The season was very wet and cool, greatly hindering the germination and 

 growth. They were cultivated and hoed late in June and in early July. By the 

 latter part of July the soy beans were in bloom and too large to cultivate. Other 

 notes follow: 



August 18. The Chinese red cowpeas, No. 979, were 12 niches high and carried 

 buds nearly ready to blossom. All other varieties of cowpeas carried buds and 

 measured in height as follows: Down's E*-ly, 8 inches; Unknown, 8 inches; 

 Northern Prolific, 8 inches; Iron, 14 inches; Taylor, 9 inches; Whippoorwill, 

 13 inches; Black Early, 13 inches; New Era, 10 inches; Browneye, 10 inches; 

 Blackeye, 15 inches. 



Of these varieties the Iron began to show considerable superiority by the 

 middle of August, the Blackeye appeared to be next in quantity of foliage and in 

 general thrift. Part of the seed, although showing no less a per cent of germina- 

 tion seemed to have been improperly stored or injured in some other way, 

 making the stand of that variety defective. This statement is true of the Taylor, 

 the Down's Early, the Unknown and the Northern Prolific. 



On the 18th of August the height of the soys and the condition of bloom was 

 as follows: Early Black, 30 inches and past bloom, the pods already carrying 

 immature seeds; Medium Green, 36 inches in full bloom; Ogemaw, 32 inches, well 

 podded, two to three beans in a pod; Ito San, 28 inches, in bloom and podded; 

 5^413, 27 inches, in bloom, poor stand; 9410. 30 inches, just coming into bloom, 

 I)oor stand; 9411, 10 inches, just going out of bloom, very small, stand very poor; 

 9407, 28 inches, in full bloom; 9409, 24 inches, coming into bloom; Extra Early 

 Black, 24 inches, past bloom, well supplied with pods; Medium Green, 36 inches, 

 in bloom; Ito San, 30 inches, in bloom with small pods; Yellow, 22 inches, not yet* 

 in bloom; Wood's 24 inches, not yet in bloom. 



On the 14th of September the Early Black was loaded with pods which were 

 ripening. The leaves were dropping off. The Medium Green pods were filling 

 well, the stalks green and vigorous. On the same date the Ogemaw had ripened 

 its seed fully, the beans were hard and nearly all of the leaves dropped away 



