NAMES APPLIED TO VAKIETIES OF COWPEAS. 



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unknown to the oldest settlers here. Until recent years this pea was grown 

 only in small plots for table use, and think this is the reason it does not do 

 so well broadcast. 



Small Black. — Under this name agronomic notes occur in Ruffin's Essays and 

 Notes on Agriculture, 1855 (p. 355), in Bulletin 118, Alabama Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, 1902 ; in Annual Report, New Jersey Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 1905 (p. 370) ; and in Bulletin of the North Carolina Department of 

 Agriculture, 1910 (vol. 31, no. 6). 



Small Blackeye. — Descriptive notes in Bulletin 84, Mississippi Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, 1904, as follows : " Bunch variety, small seed, medium 

 bearer, very early." Agronomic notes also occur in Bulletin of the North 

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



Small Lady. — Described in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Station, 1894 

 (p. 183), as follows: 



Recumbent, trails at ends of vines; leaf and stalk small, but vigorous; 

 pure white blossom; form, crowder; pod, very small, yellow; pea, very 

 small, round, and white; may be a retrograded Sugar Crowder, though 

 smaller and much earlier ; yield of vines heavy, but of peas light. 



Descriptive notes also occur in Bulletin 34, Texas Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 1895, and in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 1896. Agronomic notes appear in Bulletin of the North Carolina Department 

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



Small Red. — Descriptive notes appear in Bulletin 34, Texas Agricultural 

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



Small Red, or Tory. — Vine of medium growth, running low and near the 

 ground ; first ripe September 8 ; pods, long, well filled, with small, red peas ; 

 yield per acre, 16 bushels ; sown May 11. 



Descriptive notes occur also in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, 1896. 



Small White. — Described in Bulletin 40 (ser. 2), Louisiana Experiment Sta- 

 tion. 1896 (p. 1459), as follows: "Very late, small, white pea, with small yield 

 of vines and berries." Agronomic notes also occur in Bulletins (ser. 2) Loui- 

 siana Experiment Station 62 (1900) and 72 (1902). Descriptive and agronomic 

 notes appear in Bulletin 40, Mississippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1896. 

 Under the same name a variety is mentioned in Romans's Natural History of 

 East and West Florida, published in 1775. 



Small White India. — Agronomic notes under this name are published in Bul- 

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



Smallpox— See 24185. 



Smiley. — A synonym of Iron. The name is thus published by Orton in an 

 unnumbered pamphlet on the Iron cowpea, issued by the U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture, January 16, 1904. 



Smith. — Agronomic notes under this name are published in Bulletin 40, Mis- 

 sissippi Agricultural Experiment Station, 1896. 



Smith's No. 4- — Agronomic notes under this name are published in Bulletin 

 62 (ser. 2), Louisiana Experiment Station, 1900. This and other varieties bear- 

 ing the name Smith were originally obtained from Mr. Pinckney Smith, of 

 Duncan, S. C, who had in his collection about 40 different varieties in the 

 year 1900. 



Smith's No. 7. — Described as follows in Bulletin 26, Georgia Experiment Sta- 

 tion, 1894 (p. 183) : 



Recumbent ; medium-sized leaf and stalk ; dark green and vigorous ; does 

 not trail at ends of vines; pure white bloom; form, kidney; pod, small, 

 yellow; pea, medium. Originated by Pinckney Smith, Duncan, S. C. 



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