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most popular. There are several varieties called crowders, which do not grow as tall as 

 the others, but produce a great many pods, which are used green the same as snap 

 beans, and, if dried, like dried beans, make a very good dish. The crowders are of an 

 oblong shape, almost pointed at one end; they are on an average larger than the other 

 Field Peas. Lady Peas are small and white; they are generally planted between corn so 

 that they can run upon it. Dry, they are considered the very best variety for cooking. 

 The Clay and Unknown Peas produce the most vines. 



AUSTRALIAN WEIPPOOEWILL. — This 

 is the largest of all the varieties of Cow 

 Peas. Vines, pods and peas are the largest 

 of all sorts. They are early, maturing 

 closely after the Tennessee Clay Crowder, 

 which variety it threatens to equal, if not 

 excel. As many as twenty-two large seeds 

 have been found in a single pod. The seeds 

 are of a grayish color and for cooking pur- 

 poses are unsurpassed. This variety is 

 also a crowder, the seed growing so com- 

 pact as to almost crowd each other out of 

 the pods. This is a great variety for soil 

 improvement as well as for making great 

 crops of hay for stock. It is the best of 

 all varieties to sow for turning under for 

 green manure or for soil improvement. 

 Roots deep and withstands dry, hot weather. 



TENNESSEE CLAY CROWDER. — The 



earliest and surest cropper of the Cow Pea 

 family. For several seasons this variety 

 has made good crops of seed in Louisiana 

 where others have failed. We have had it 

 grown from the lowlands of Louisiana to 

 Minnesota and Colorado, where it made a 

 fine crop of seed eight thousand feet above 

 sea level. The vines are strong growers. 

 Pods large and well filled with peas of 

 very large size. The peas grow so thickly 

 in the pod that they grow into each other; 

 hence the name Crowder. This is one of 

 our best varieties for table use; in fact, is 

 used by many in preference to all others. 

 Can be planted late in season as a catch 

 crop after other crops are harvested. 



V7HITE SUGAR CROWDER OR PORTT 

 DAY. — These are largely used in the South- 

 ern States for early Peas. They grow up- 

 right, bushy, and under ordinary conditions 

 do not need support; very prolific and grow 

 larger than ordinary Cow or Field Peas; 

 very compact in pods; peas are flattened 

 from being so close in pods. 



RED SUGAR CROWDER. — Same as 

 White, except in color. 



SPECKLED SUGAR CROWDER. — Same 

 as White, except in color. 



CLAY COW. — This is one of the best peas 

 for our Southern country, being a vigor- 

 ous grower and an abundant bearer, very 

 moist, giving proper nourishment to the 

 soil. Begins to bear about two months 

 after being planted. 



WHIPPOORWILL. — Dark grey in color; 

 robust growth, but of dwarfish habit; con- 

 sidered by some equal to other varieties of 

 peas; this, however, is a matter of taste. 



CANADA FIELD PEAS.— A strong, vigor- 

 ous pea often planted for green manure to 

 plow under in the spring. Makes an ex- 

 cellent winter growth when sown in the 

 fall; very useful for fodder. Sow 100 to 156 

 pounds per acre broadcast. 



WONDERPUL. — Similar to the Unknown 



in every respect, including habit of growth, 



i color, etc. It is considered by those accus- 



I tomed to all varieties to be somewhat su- 



I perior to the Unknown. 



UNKNOWN COW. — This pea is a cross 

 between Clay and Crowder Peas, making it 

 a very desirable variety for both fertilizing 

 purposes and eating peas; in color almost 

 same as that of Clay and a little larger in 

 size than the Clay Peas. 



RED RIPPER. — This pea is pink in color 

 and very small in size, but is a vigorous 

 grower and good bearer; is considered a 

 good plantation variety and is usually 

 planted in corn and cane. 



STECKLER'S IMPROVED WILD 

 LOUISIANA COW. — The Cow Pea is a na- 

 tive of Louisiana, seed is very small, about 

 one-half the size of the Clay, consequently 

 will go twice the distance of the others in 

 planting. It will grow well on high or low 

 land, and is claimed by people of the north- 

 ern part of this State to be without an 

 equal. 



LADY. — These are small, round and pure 

 white, and are generally planted between 

 corn. A delicate vegetable. 



NEW ERA COW. — This pea is fully two 

 weeks earlier than the popular Whippoor- 

 will variety, a very great advantage to the 

 farmer. In size it is one-third smaller than 

 the Whippoorwill — another great advantage. 

 It is a so-called bunch pea, similar to the 

 Whippoorwill in growth. In sections of 

 Illinois and Missouri, the New Era Pea is 

 planted after the wheat crop has been cut, 

 and matures early enough in the fall to 

 harvest in time to sow Winter Wheat on 

 the same field. This cannot be said of any 

 other variety of Cow Pea. They produce 

 more seed than Whippoorwill, and where 

 known are used exclusively. 



BLACK-EYED FIELD. — A long white pea 

 with a large black eye, from which it de- 

 rives its name, and belongs properly to the 

 Cow Pea family. 



MIXED. — A mixture of the above va- 

 rieties. 



FERTILIZING BEANS. 



For Price List See Red Pages • in Back of Book. 



IMPROVED VELVET BEAN.— The Im- 

 proved Velvet Bean, or, more properly, 

 "Pea." (as it belongs to the Cow Pea 

 family), is a climbing plant growing to 

 forty and fifty feet, and branches literally 

 covered with foliage. It is a nitrogenous 

 plant, enriching the ground so much that 

 orange growers in Florida plant the Velvet 



Bean in their groves for fertilizer as well 

 as forage. Plant in rows four feet apart 

 and one foot in the rows, two or three beans 

 in a place, as soon as danger of frost is 

 past; cultivate once or twice to give vin^s 

 a start of weeds and grass. They grow 

 very rapidly, and in two months the under 

 leaves begin to drop, and by fall the mulch 



Plant all varieties of Peanuts and all varieties of Field Corn. 



