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The Chinese bean, recommended by some seedsmen as a forage crop, 
was planted June 3, vegetated June 15, bloomed Angust 12, and was 
ripe September 15, ‘This plant is not sufficiently leafy for forage, but 
is very prolific of narrow long pods filled with small compressed “beans. 
It seems botanically to be a species of Vigna. 
The Soja bean, Soja hispida, was procured of a seedsman and 
planted on June 3, but not a bean germinated. ‘Through Mr. Saze, a 
Japanese student at Cornell University, we procured a few beans and 
planted three rows of ten feet long, the seed six inches apart in the 
three feet drills. Planted June 9; these vegetated on June 19, blossomed 
August 13, and were called ripe September 25, although the pods were 
not yet turned brown. We noted that when vegetation took place the 
cotyledons, instead of withering as do those of common beans, de- 
veloped into leaves. Blooming disclosed a very minute white flower. 
On August 31 we remarked upon the great vigor of the plant, the 
tallest plant then being three feet, the shortest two feet three inches, 
the foliage abundant and dense. Pods very abundant, hairy, as is the 
plant, and containing two beans each. Of excellent promise as a forage 
plant, even if the beans are not acceptable to our palate. Planted 
upon unmanured soil, and receiving no pampering care, the possibility 
that this plant may develop into use seems good. <A further trial on 
a larger scale is necessary, however, to justify positive conclusions. 
Having heard much of the cow pea of the South, it seemed to us 
advisable to give this plant a fair trial. A bushel of mixed seed was 
procured from the South, and eight varieties were hand-picked there- 
from, which we distinguished as below : 
Seed 
Planted. Vegetated. Bloomed. Seed ripe. gathered 
1. Green-eyed white, June 3, June 13.° Sept. 4. Oct. 21. Oct. 21 
2. Black-eyed white, June 3. June 13. Aug. 31. Oct.21. Oct. 21 
3. Brown-eyed white, June 8. June ld. Sept. 6. Oct. 21. Oct. 21 
AMElacs. . it seese rise June 5. June ld. Sept. 4. Oct. 21. Oct. 21 
5. Light speckled... June 5d. Junel4. Aug. 138, Oct. 21. Oct. 21 
6. Dark speckled... June 5d. Junel4. Aug. 9. Sepf. 4. Oct. 4 
Ted. . sagt: deeds June 5. Junel4. Aug, 9. Oct. 21. Oct. 21 
8. Black and white.. June 5. Junel5. Aug. 9. ....... Oct. 4 
Prof.Gulley, of Mississippi, to whom we showed our seed, identified 
the No. 7, red, as the Red Clay Cow Pea; No. 2, the black-eyed white, 
as the Crowder Pea of the South. ‘These seed were filled with weevils, 
as we discovered later in the season, frequently two weevils to a pea. 
The pods upon all the varieties ripened up very unevenly, so that it 
was difficult to note the ripening. 
On August 31, the green-eyed white cow pea, upright in growth, 
very leafy, and very much foliage, it ripened only a few pods. The 
black-eyed white, but little foliage and quite prolific of pod. The 
brown-eyed white has much foliage and is of a spreading growth, it 
ripened but a few pods. The black is less leafy, and quite prolific, 
averaging well for leaf and seed. The light speckled has moderate 
foliage and ripened many of its pods.. The dark speckled has moderate 
foliage and is prolific of seed. The red is rather upright in growth, 
and very leafy, it ripened but few pods. ‘The black and white enor- 
mously prolific of pods. 
