NAMES APPLIED TO VAKIETIES OF COWPEAS. 



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Kuffin, Essays and Notes on Agriculture, 1855, also describes a " Red " cowpea. 

 (See quotation under "Bass.") In recent literature descriptive or agronomic 

 notes occur as follows : 



Georgia Experiment Station, Bulletin 26, 1894. 



Louisiana Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletins (ser. 2) Nos. 40 

 (1896) and 72 (1902). 



Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 40, 1896. 



Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletins 46 (1900) 

 and 81 (1908). 



Kentucky Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 98, 1902. 

 Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station, Circular 69, 1903. 

 Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, Bulletin 130, 1904. 

 Missouri Agricultural College Experiment Station, Bulletin 73, 1906. 



It is impossible to identify any of these excepting where pedigreed seed may 

 still be available. See also notes under " Red Ripper " and " Red Crowder." 



Red-and -White Speckled. — Described in Bulletin 34, Texas Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, 1895, as follows: 



Red-and-White Speckled (Red Pod). — A red pea with white specks; vine 

 vigorous, running low and near the ground ; first ripe September 7 ; pods 

 medium length, imperfectly filled with peas of medium size; yield per acre, 

 12.5 bushels ; sown May 11. 



Red Carolina. — This name appears in the 1905 catalogue of T. W. Wood & 

 Sons, Richmond, Va., and agronomic notes have been published in Bulletin 168, 

 Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, 1907. See 17519. 



Red Cow. — See citation on page 36. 



Red Croiodcr. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 182), as follows: 



Recumbent ; lies quite flat ; leaf and stalk of moderate size, but of good 

 color and vigorous ; peas radiate in bunches horizontally and at right 

 angles to stem; blossom light purple; form, crowder; pod, very small, 

 yellow ; pea, medium, dull red ; early ; yield of vines, medium ; of peas, 

 heavy. 



Descriptive or agronomic notes also occur in the following : 



Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 40, 1896. 

 Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletin 34, 1895. 

 Delaware College Agricultural Experiment Station, Bulletins 46 (1900) 

 and 81 (1908). 



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

 See also 17361. 



Red-Eye. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 (p. 

 182), as follows: 



Trails ; leaf and stalk, medium, light green ; blossom — wings white, vexil- 

 lum purple; pod, medium, blue black; pea, medium, white with red eye; 

 early ; light yielder of both peas and vines. 



Descriptive or agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricul- 

 tural Experiment Station, 1896; in Bulletin 46, Delaware College Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, 1900; and in Bulletin 62 (ser. 2), Louisiana Experiment 

 Station, 1900. 



Red-Eyed Red Pod. — Described in Bulletin 34, Texas Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, 1895 (p. 583), as follows: 



Red-Eyed Red Pod. — A white pea with red eye ; vine made a moderate 

 growth, running low and near the ground ; first ripe September 7 ; pods 

 medium length, well filled with peas of medium size; yield per acre, 14.3 

 bushels; sown May 11. 



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