. Five oriental species of beans . dia wasstated to be about 7 bushels per acre in 1912. The urd is utilized as a green-manure crop in Trinidad under thename of woolly pyrol, and wherever Hindoo laborers are numerousin the West Indies they cultivate this plant for food. In warm, moist weather the urd is much subject to mildew (Ery-siphe polygoni). It is also affected by both the leaf-spots thatattack the mung and the cowpea. The habit of the urd is such that it can not be as easily harvestedfor hay or seed as the mung. It is difficult to see wherein it cancompete as a forage crop under America
. Five oriental species of beans . dia wasstated to be about 7 bushels per acre in 1912. The urd is utilized as a green-manure crop in Trinidad under thename of woolly pyrol, and wherever Hindoo laborers are numerousin the West Indies they cultivate this plant for food. In warm, moist weather the urd is much subject to mildew (Ery-siphe polygoni). It is also affected by both the leaf-spots thatattack the mung and the cowpea. The habit of the urd is such that it can not be as easily harvestedfor hay or seed as the mung. It is difficult to see wherein it cancompete as a forage crop under American conditions with either thecowpea or the soy bean. As human food the seeds seem far lessdesirable than other species. INTRODUCTION. One variety of the urd, erroneously named DolicJios cultratus, wasgrown in Louisiana in 1898 (Dodson and Stubbs, 1898, p. 37). Itwas early enough to mature and shatter its seeds by September 1,so that when it was plowed under a good second crop was produced. 119, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate Full-Grown Pods and a Branch with Leaves and Flowers of the Urd. 119, U. S. Dept. cf Agricultur Plate VII.
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