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esses straw which is short and of poor quality. The crop is usually- 

 slow in maturing, requiring about two weeks longer to ripen than 

 ordinary field peas. As the plants are usually short in growth, the 

 Egyptian peas are suitable only for very rich soil. As was the case 

 with nearly all of the leguminous plants, the Egyptian peas were a 

 partial failure in 1902, owing to the unusually cold, wet weather. 



Egyptian peas were distributed for co-operative experiments 

 throughout Ontario for four years in succession. In the average of 

 180 successfully conducted experiments, the annual yield was found 

 to be only 21.1 bushels per acre. So the Egyptain pea does not 

 seem to be suitable for the average soil of the Province. 



Cow Peas. Nearly all the varieties of Cow peas ( Vigna Sinensis) 

 require such a long season of growth that they are suited only to the 

 warm climate of the south. A few of the earlier kinds have been 

 grown in the Northern States and have been tested at our experiment 

 station at Guelph. We have as yet, however, been unable to find any 

 variety of Cow peas on which we can depend to produce ripened grain, 

 as our season is short, and it is only in exceptional years that even 

 the earliest varieties of Cow peas will mature their seed. 



Soy Beans. The Soy beans {Glycine hispida); also known under 

 the names of Soja beans, Coffee beans, Idaho peas, etc., have been cul- 

 tivated in China and Japan for a great length of time The Soy bean 

 is an annual legume ; the plants have an upright growth and are almost 

 completely covered with short hairs. The seed is generally sown at the 

 rate of about one-half bushel per acre in drills from 2 to 3 feet apart, 

 which are cultivated in a similar manner to our Canadian beans. The 

 crop is used for green fodder, or is allowed to ripen for the production 

 of grain, which is exceedingly rich, and when ground into meal is 

 considered about as valuable as cotton seed meal for feeding purposes. 



Eight varieties of Soy beans have been imported and grown in 

 our Experimental Department. Some of the varieties have proved to 

 be entirely unsuited for Ontario, owing to the long season required to 

 reach maturity. The Early Yellow Soy bean, however, has given 

 good satisfaction as a grain producer, and the Medium Green variety 

 for the production of green fodder. The average result from growing 

 the Early Yellow Soy beans for a period of seven years, has been 17 

 bushels of seed per acre. In the production of green fodder, the Early 

 Yellow variety has produced an average of 8 and the Medium Green 

 variety an average of 9.3 tons per acre for the same length of time. 



The Early Yellow Soy beans were distributed over Ontario last 

 year for co-operative experiments, and the average yield of grain as 

 produced on thirteen Ontario farms was 21.4 bushels. 



We believe it would be a decided advantage to Ontario farmers 

 to grow the Early Yellow Soy beans more generally for the produc- 

 tion of grain for feeding purposes ; and the Medium Green Soy 

 beans for placing in the silo with corn. 



