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AGRICULTURAL VARIETIES OF THE COWPEA, ETC. 



Brown Crowder. — See 17370. Agronomic notes occur in Bulletin 80. Arkan- 

 sas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1903: and in Bulletin 81, Delaware College 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, 1908. 



Browneye Croicder. — See 17348. Agronomic notes occur in Bulletin lis. Ala- 

 bama Agricultural Experiment Station. 1902; and in Bulletin of the North 

 Carolina Department of Agriculture (vol. 31, no. 6), 1910. 



Browneyed Sugar. — Appears by name only in the 1896 catalogue of the N. L. 

 Willet Seed Co., Augusta, Ga. 



Buckmoran. — Mentioned with agronomic, but without descriptive notes in 

 Bulletin 02, series 2, Louisiana Experiment Station, 1900 (p. 466). 



Buckshot. — Mentioned by name only in the 1908 catalogue of the X. L. Willet 

 Seed Co., Augusta, Ga. 



Buff. — The following descriptive notes are found in Ruffin's Essays and 

 Notes on Agriculture, 1855 (p. 351). 



The buff-colored pea, usually called either the cow or clay pea, has seeds 

 of a uniform pale-buff color, except the eye, which is in a small spot of 

 pale green. The buff tint is more or less deep in different crops, but is 

 very uniform through any one, raised from seed of one appearance. This 

 kind is understood to be productive in grain, and I know it to be so in 

 general growth (or of vine and leaf). It is too late in ripening for my 

 locality, 1 so that in the series of years when I cultivated this kind prin- 

 cipally, and preferred it as the best vine bearer. I could not save seed ex- 

 cept insufficiently, and at more than usual cost of labor. It will not bear 

 much exposure to wet weather after ripening without rotting. * * * 

 Mr. J. Cotton, of Halifax. N. C, an experienced and judicious pea farmer, 

 says that two very different buff-colored peas are usually confounded as 

 one. The tender pea (1) described above he calls the cowpea. and as the 

 claypea he raises a kind much more productive in grain, and of which the 

 ripe peas will lie on the ground all winter without rotting. This last is a 

 late kind — and he has made it earlier, and without any loss in its produc- 

 tion, as he thinks, by every year saving the earliest ripened pods only for 

 planting. 



Buroudi. — See Barbati. 



Bush Conch. — This name appears in catalogue for 1910 of Crenshaw Bros. 

 Seed Co., Tampa, Fla.. apparently a synonym for Concn. 



Calavance or Calauencc. — A name used by early writers for the cowpea. 

 Barham (Hortus Americanus, 1794. p. 2S) used it for a variety with small, 

 white seeds, while Luuan (Hortus Jamaicensis, 1S14. p. 434) used it for a red- 

 seeded variety. Among later spellings of this name have been Calivant, Gali- 

 vant, and Gallivant, apparently applied to different varieties. 



Calico. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1S94 (p. ISO), 

 as follows : 



Recumbent ; tremendous trailer ; small leaf and stalk but dark green and 

 vigorous : extremely late ; no blossoms August IS ; form, kidney ; pod. very 

 large, yellow : pea, very large, red mottled on white ground and quite 

 pretty ; very heavy producer of both peas and vines. 



Descriptive and agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, 1896; Bulletin 21. New Mexico Agricultural Ex- 

 perimental Station, 1S97 ; and in Bulletin 46. Delaware College Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, 1900. A variety is described in Bulletin 98. Kentucky Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station. 1902 (p. 44). under the same name, but which 

 may be different. The description is as follows : 



Trails moderately : foliage gray green : planted May 3 : numerous green 

 pods August 10 : some ripe pods August 31 ; pods 6 to 7 inches long, with a 



1 In Virginia, probably near Marlboro. 



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