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AGRICULTURAL VARIETIES OF THE COWPEA, ETC. 



more or less purplish tinged, 5 to 8 inches long, turgid, the first 

 maturing in about 85 days : seeds buff-pink, erowder form, strongly 

 keeled, about 7 by 8 mm. This variety has been grown for six 

 seasons at Arlington Farm, as well as at Chillieothe, Tex.. Audu- 

 bon Park, La., and elsewhere. It is not a first-rate variety, though 

 on account of its earliness considerably grown in Illinois, Indiana, 

 and Michigan. Like most erowder cowpeas the pods are close to 

 the ground. This variety was first extensively introduced by Mr. 

 E. E. Evans in 1901. He writes concerning its history : 



I have diligently searched for many years in an attempt to fix 

 the origin of this variety, but so far without result. It has been 

 grown in this State (Michigan) about 20 years, but it was grown 

 in Illinois prior to this. I first obtained my seed from a man 

 named Wood, or Woods, near Kalamazoo. This man had named 

 it Michigan Favorite. 



Other numbers of this variety, all tracing to the same source, are : 

 11344, 13473, 16S12, 17402. and 17406. It has been widely dis- 

 seminated and tested in all parts of the cowpea region. Northward 

 it is held in considerable esteem, and southward is often grown 

 for table use, especially in Texas. 



13473. Michigan Favorite. From same source as preceding. 



13474. Michigan Favorite. Progeny of 11344, grown at Wakonda, S. Dak., by 



Mr. Han Abild. Received March, 1905. 



13475. Whippoorwill. From T. W. Wood & Sons, Richmond. Va.. March. 1902. 



See 17349. 



13476. Taylor. From Alabama Agricultural Experiment Station. March. 1902. 



See 17342. 



13477. Xew Era. From T. AY. Wood & Sons. Richmond. Va., April, 1904. See 



210SS. 



14499. From T. W. Wood & Sons. Richmond, Va.. June. 1905. as Wonderful. 

 No available data on this lot. 



16166. From Italian exhibit. Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904. labeled 



" Cosenza." Seeds plump, rhomboid. 6 by 10 mm., transversely 

 wrinkled, white with a medium black eye, indistinguishable from 

 2754S. They would not germinate in 1906. 



16167. From Reggio, Calabria, through the Italian exhibit, Louisiana Purchase 



Exposition, 1904. Low, half busby, moderately vigorous, the row 

 mass 14 inches high, 2 feet broad: trailing branches rather few. 

 about 4 feet long: leaflets of medium size and color, immune to 

 rust, much affected by red leaf-spot, shed early: flowers white: 

 not prolific: pods fairly well filled, moderately high, straw col- 

 ored. 5 to 10 inches long, the first maturing in about SO days: 

 seeds white with a small brownish eye. smooth or transversely 

 wrinkled, subreniform. about 6 by 10 mm. : iris dark brown. This 

 is one of the earliest varieties of browneye included in the trials. 

 In the three seasons grown, there has been a decided change in 

 the color of the seed. In the original seeds the eye was very 

 large, dark reddish brown, perhaps due to age. the edge uneven 

 and breaking into fine spots on the chalazal end. The progeny 

 in 190S showed a few seeds of this character, but most of them 

 had only a small tan-brown eye. which was sharply delimited : 

 in about one-tenth of the seeds the eye was black (16167AL In 

 the crop of 1909 the eye is brown in some seeds, black in others. 



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