GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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CULTURE. — There are a great many varieties of Cow Peas, different in color 

 and growth. They are planted mostly for fertilizing purposes and are sown broad- 

 cast; when in a good stand, and of sufficient height, they are plowed under. The 

 Clay Pea is the most popular. They 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, makes 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. 



White Sugar Crowder or Forty Day. 



These are largely used in the Southern 

 States for early Peas. They grow upright, 

 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. 



Canada Field. For sowing broadcast 

 as a fertilizer; used as common Cow 

 Peas. 



Lady. These are small, round and 

 pure white, and are generally planted be- 

 tween corn. A delicate vegetable. 



Black-Eyed Field. A long white pea 

 with a large black eye, from which it 

 derives its name, and belongs properly to 

 the Cow Pea family. 



. Whippoorwill. Dark gray in color; ro- 

 bust growth, but of dwarfish habit; con- 

 sidered by some equal to other varieties 

 of peas; this, however, is a matter of 

 taste. 



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. 



Unknown Cow. This pea is a cross be- 

 tween Clay and Crowder Peas, making it 

 a very desirable variety for both fertiliz- 

 ing purposes and eating peas; in color 

 almost same as that of Clay and a little 

 larger in size than the Clay Peas. 



Wonderful. Similar to the Unknown 

 in every respect, including habit of 

 growth, color, etc. It is considered by 

 those accustomed to all varieties to be 

 somewhat superior to the Unknown. 



Steckler's Improved Wild Louisiana 

 Cow. This Cow Pea is a native of Louisi- 

 ana, seed is very small, about one-half 

 the size of the Clay, consequently will 

 go twice the distance of the others in 

 planting. It win grow well on high or 

 low land and is claimed by people of 

 the Northern '^art of this State to be 

 without an equal. 



Clay Cow. This is one of the best peas 

 for our Southern co -ntry, being a vigor- 

 ous grower and an abundant bearer; very 

 large foliage, which keeps the ground 

 moist, giving proper nourishment to the 

 soil. Begins to bear about two months 

 after being planted. 



New Era Cow. This Pea is fully two 

 weeks earlier than the popular Whip- 

 poorwill variety; a very great ad- 

 vantage to the farmer. In size it is one- 

 third smaller than the Whipporwill — an- 

 other great advantage. Ii is a so-called 

 third smaller than the Whippoorwill — an- 

 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 pro- 

 duce more seed than Whippoorwill and 

 where known are used exclusively. 



FERTILIZING BFANS 



For Price List See Red Pages in Back of Book. 



Improved Velvet Bean. The Improved 

 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, cultivated once 

 or twice to give vines 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 of leaves is 

 often six to eight inches deep. 



Soy or Soja Bean — (Glycerine Hispida) 

 — Is a legume, and while it has long been 

 a staple crop in Japan, it has but some- 

 what recently been cultivated in the 



Steckler's Prepared Mocking Bird Food has no Equal. 



