VAEIETIES INTRODUCED INTO THE UNITED STATES. 27 



accounts the Mammoth may well be the "white-seeded" soja bean 

 obtained by the Perry expedition. The "red-seeded soja bean" was 

 perhaps, the Adsuki bean {Pliaseolus angularis), as no red-seeded 

 soy bean is known. 



Prof. G. H. Cook, of New Brunswick, N. J., obtained seed of the 

 soy bean at the Bavarian Agricultural Station in 1878. In the same 

 year Mr. James Neilson^ obtained seeds of several varieties at Vienna, 

 Austria. Both of these gentlemen planted the seeds and gathered 

 crops of the different varieties in 1879. These varieties were without 

 doubt those grown and distributed through Europe by Professor 

 Haberlandt, of Vienna. 



A yellow-seeded soy bean was grown at the North Carolina Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station in 1882 and reported on in some detail. 

 The source of the variety is not given, but by imphcation it is the 

 same as the variety stated to be grown by a number of persons in 

 the State, and is probably the Mammoth.'' 



Two varieties, one black seeded, the other with white seeds, were 

 grown at the Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station in 1888.'= 



In 1890 Prof. C. C. Georgeson secured three lots of soy beans from 

 Japan which were grown at the Kansas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station in 1890 and subsequently .<^ 



Prof. W. P. Brooks, of Amherst, Mass., brought with him from 

 Japan in 1889 a number of soy-bean varieties, including the Medium 

 Green or Guelph, and the Ito San. It is quite certain that other 

 importations of soy beans from Asia were made by others, but no 

 definite records have been found. 



Since 1890 most of the agricultural experiment stations have 

 experimented with soy beans and many bulletins have been pub- 

 lished dealing wholly or partly with the crop. 



VARIETIES INTRODUCED INTO THE UNITED STATES INDEPEND- 

 ENTLY OF THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OR PREVIOUS 

 TO 1898. 



ENUMERATION. 



Previous to the numerous introductions by the United States 

 Department of Agriculture beginning in 1808, there were not more 

 than eight varieties of soy beans grown in the United States, namely, 

 Ito San, Mammoth, and Butterball, with yellow seeds; Buckshot 

 and Kingston, with black seeds; Guelph or Medium Green, with 

 green seeds; and Eda and Ogemaw, with brown seeds. 



a Rural New Yorker, 1882, p. 9. 



b Annual Report of the North Carolina Experiment Station, 1882, pp. 1 16-127. 

 c Annual Report of the Massachusetts Experiment Station, 1889, pp. 140-141. 

 d Bulletin 19, Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station, p. 200. 

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