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are on an average larger than the other Field Peas. 
white, they are generally planied between corn, so that they can run upon it. 
they are considered the very best variety for cooking. 
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, 
pushy: and under ordinary conditions do 
not need support, very prolific and grow 
larger than ordinary Cow or Fielc Peas; 
very compact in pods; peas are flattened 
from being so close in pods. 
Red Su_ar Crowder. Same as White 
except in color. 
Speckled Sugar Crowder. 
White except in color. 
Canada Field. For sowing broadcast 
as a fertilizer; used as common Cow 
Peas. 
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 gray in color; ro- 
bust growth, but of dwarfish habit; con- 
sidered by some equal to other varieties 
Same as 
of peas; this, however, is a matter of 
taste. 
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. 
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. 
Lady Peas are small and 
Dry, 
The Clay and Unknown 
Red Ripper. This Pea is pink in color 
and very small in size, but is a vigorous 
grower and good bearer; is considered 
« good plantation variety and is usually 
planted in corn and cane. 
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 will grow well on high or 
low land and is claimed by people of 
the Northern part of this State to be 
without an equal. 
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. 
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 Whippoorwill—an- 
other 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 pro- 
duce more seed than Whippoorwill and 
where known are used exclusively. 
FERTILIZING BEANS. 
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Improved Velvet Bean. The Improved 
Velvet Bean, or more properly, “Pea,” 
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(as it belongs to the Cow Pea family) is : 
a climbing plant growing to forty and | 
fifty feet, and branches literally covered | 
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. 
with foliage. 
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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 
United States. It grows to perfection 
| only in a tropical or semi-tropical climate. 
In its native country, Japan, the seed is. 
an important huma« food product, but in 
the United States its principal use at 
present is as forage plant for farm live 
stock and as a soil renovator. It is an 
upright, leafy branching plant, growing 
three or four feet high. The land should 
be prepared by plowing and harrowing in 
the early spring. Best success is at- 
tained by planting in drills, rows to be 
from 2% to 3 feet apart and the hills in 
the row 18 to 20 inches apart. 
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