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KINGSTON. 



The Kingston sov bean was received from the Rhode Island Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station in 1903 as "Japanese Xo. 15." It was 

 obtained by them from Prof. "W. P. Brooks, of the Massachusetts 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, who brought a number of soy-bean 

 varieties from Japan in 1SS9, and is probably the variety which he 

 named "Medium Black.'' It has never been secured ffom any other 

 source. In aU probability this is the variety gro'^m at the Rhode 

 Island Agricultural Experiment Station in 1893 "' as "'Medium 

 Black." 



SAMAROW. 



The Samarow has not occurred in any of our Asiatic importations. 

 It is advertised under the name of ''Green Samarow" by several 

 European seedsmen. Messrs. J. M. Thorburn & Co., who first intro- 

 duced it into the United States about 1901, inform us that their seed 

 was from Italy. The "Green Samarow," S. P. I. No. 22320, from 

 Haage & Schmidt, Erfurt, Germany, proved to be Guelph. 



EDA. 



The Eda is the brown-seeded variety introduced from Japan and 

 grown by the Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station in 1890 under 

 the name Yamagata CTia-daidzu. The identification of Chadaidzu 

 rests on the fact that the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment 

 Station secured all of the varieties from Kansas in 1892. The De- 

 partment of Agriculture obtained all of these varieties from Rhode 

 Island in 1903, including but one brown-seeded variety under the 

 name "Brown Eda Mame." 



OGEMAW, OR OGEMA. 



The Ogemaw, or Ogema, variety was first introduced by Mr. E. E. 

 Evans, of West Branch, Mich., in 1902, as "Evans's Crossbred No. 9." 

 Mr. Evans writes that he originated this as a cross between his No. 

 6, Early Black, and the Dwarf Bro\Mi. All of the several lots of this 

 variety grown in our trials, namely. Agrostology Nos. 13502, 17258, 

 and 17259, trace back to this origin, and it has been obtamed from 

 no foreign source. Nos. 21755, from France, and 25212, from Bre- 

 men, Germany, are very similar, however. 



"Annual Report, Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station, 1893, p. 191. 

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