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last year, which was only 10 to 20 inches. In Upper Michigan it has been reported to 

 have an average height of 38 inches, which is well toward the other extreme. It is 

 likely that further trials will prove the Ogemaw identical with the next variety, Eda, 

 except perhaps in time of ripening. 



The Ogemaw soy bean has stems of medium size, one-fourth to three-eighths inch 

 in diameter at the base, freely branching, with short and usually appressed branches 

 2 to 4 inches long, thickly set with brown pods, 1^ to 2 inches long, three-eighths to 

 one-half incli wide, 2 to 3 seeded, usually becoming brown before the seeds are ripe, 

 and with an unfortunate tendency to shatter easily, even before fully mature. The 

 seeds are large and plump, round or very broadly elliptical in outline, 8 to 9 mm. long, 

 7 to 9 mm. wide, somewhat flattened in cross section. In color they are a deep brown 

 when mature. Before maturity they are light brown. A sample is likely to contain seeds 

 in various stages of ripeness, and hence to present all shades of brown in color, some- 

 times on a single seed. Stored seed becomes darker with age. Mature seeds are com- 

 monly quite shiny. The Ogemaw is one of our very earliest varieties, ripening in from 

 eighty-two to one hundred days, with the average somewhere about eighty-eight to 

 ninety days. It has not shown itself a specially heavy yielder of seed, due partly to 

 the early dehiscence of the pods and shattering of the seeds. 



Numbers and sources of lots groim.—Agrost. No. 1992, "Ogemaw," E. E. Evans, 

 Mich.; Agrogt No. 2031, "Crossbred No. 6," Ark. Agric. Expt. Station; S. P. I. No. 

 13502,' Agrost. No. 1992; S. P. I. No. 17258, grown from Agrost. No. 1992; S. P. I. 

 No. 17259, grown from Agrost. No. 2031. 



EDA. 



The Eda variety is veiy similar to the Ogemaw and is likely to prove identical with 

 it when the Ogemaw has l)ecome more fully acclimated and has regained its normal 

 size. The Eda differs from the Ogemaw variety chiefly in its greater height, longer 

 branches, and in being a week or so later in maturing. In short, it is a larger and more 

 vigorous plant, which the Ogemaw is likely to equal in another trial with home-grown 



seed. 



The Eda is a medium-sized, well-branched plant, from 16 to 30 inches high, branches 

 6 to 12, more numerous than in any other small variety, the lower ones 6 to 10 inches 

 long, erect appressed, and therefore not giving the plant a bushy appearance. Stems 

 and branches podded well, but not too close to the ground: pods 1^ to 1| inches long,- 

 three-eighths to one-half inch wide. Fairly early, maturing in from one hundred to 

 one hundred and ten days. The seeds are almost identical with those of Ogemaw, 

 round or broadly elliptical, 7 to 9 or 10 mm, long by 7 to 9 mm. broad, deep brown, 

 shiny, but usually covered with more or less powdeiy bloom, which gives them a 

 dull appearance. 



The plat of this variety grown at the Tennessee Experiment Station in 1905 had 

 foliage of a most striking and peculiar coppery-green color not obser^^ed in any other 



plat. 



The name, Eda, is a part of the longer name under which this variety was received. 



Numbers and sources of tots grown.— Agrost. ^o. 1185, "Brown Eda Mame," R. I. 

 Agric. Expt. Station; S. P. I. No. 17257, grown from Agrost. No. 1185-1, 



BAIRD. 



The seed of this variety was mixed with the original and only importation of the 

 Brownie variety, described later. In all the brown varieties, except the Brownie, 

 the seeds are deep brown when ripe, but light brown when nearing maturity. For 

 this reason the light brown seeds of the Brownie and the deep brown seeds of the 

 Baird varieties were thought to represent the immature and mature seeds, respectively, 

 of a single variety, which was called Brownie. 



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