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STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 



FIELD or COW PEAS. 



Canada Field. 



White, Red and Speckled Sugar Crowder or 



Forty Day. 

 Lady Peas. 

 Black-Eyed Field. 

 Wldppoorwill. 



Clay Cowpeas. 



Wonderful Peas. 



Red Rippers. 



Unknown Cowpeas. 



Stecklers Improved Louisiana Wild Cowpeas. 



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 broadcast; when in a good stand, 

 and of sufficient height, they are plowed under. The Clay Pea is the 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, 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, 

 white, with a black eye, 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. 



Canada Field. For sowing broadcast as 

 a fertilizer; used as common Cow Peas. 



White, Red and Speckled Sugar Crow- 

 der 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. 

 These Peas are planted early in the spring 

 by market gardeners here and sold in bunches 

 as early Peas. 



Lady Peas. These are small, round and 

 pure white, and are generally planted between 

 corn. A delicate vegetable. 



Black-Eyed Field. A long white pea 

 with a large black eye, from which it 

 derives it name, and belongs properly to the 

 Cow Pea family. 



Whippoorwill. Dark gray in color; robust 

 growth, but of dwarfish habit; considered by 

 some equal to other varieties of peas; this 

 however is a matter of taste. 



Clay Cowpeas. This is one of the best 

 peas for our Southern country, being a vigor- 

 ous grower and an abundant bearer; very 



large foliage, which keeps the ground moist, 

 giving proper nourishment to the soil. Be- 

 gins to bear about two months after being 

 planted. 



Wonderful Peas. Similar to the Unknown 

 in every respect, including habit of growth, 

 color, etc. It is considered by those accus- 

 tomed to all varieties to be somewhat superior 

 to the Unknown. 



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 Cowpeas. 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 the 

 same as that of Clay and a little larger in 

 size than the Clay Peas. 



Stecklers Improved Wild Louisiana 

 Cowpea. This Cowpea is a native of Louis- 

 iana, 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. 



FERTILIZING BEANS. 



Improved Velvet Bean. The Improved 

 Velvet Bean, or more properly, t# Pea," (as it 

 belongs to the Cow Pea family) is a climb- 

 ing 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— (Glyerine Hispida.) — 

 Is a legume, and while it has long been a 

 staple crop in Japan, it has but somewhat 

 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 human 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 attained 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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