GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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Price List. 



Trial Package $ 50 



One Acre Package 1 50 



Five Acre Package 5 00 



Twenty Acre Package 18 00 



Fifty Acre Package 40 GO 



Special Garden Packages. 



Sweet Peas $ 25 



Garden Beans 25 



Garden Peas ' 25 



Write for special Circular on Nitro- 

 Culture. 



Red Clover. 



Japan Clover. 



White Dutch Clover. 



Red Clover. Should be sown either 

 during fall or early in spring. Ten to 

 fifteen pounds to an acre. 



White Dutch Clover. A grass sown for 

 pasturing at the rate of five to eight 

 pounds to the acre. Should be sown in 

 fall and early spring. 



Japan Clover. (Lespedeza Striata). 

 A legume. Southern seed. Grows any- 

 where; is tenacious in any soil; lasts 

 always; well known now in the South. 

 Sow in spring in permanent pastures by 

 scarifying surface with disc harrow. It 

 may be classed among the most valuable 

 hay and pasture plants of the Southern 

 States; is eaten greedily by stock — June 

 until frost. In some soils it grows 20 

 inches high; is mowed; two tons to acre; 

 rich soil grows 30 inches; appears In 

 May; can plant in Spring 25 lbs. per 

 acre alone, or Fall with rye and oats. 

 This clover is spreading by natural 

 means rapidly through whole South. 



Ethel, La., Oct. 24th, 1908. 

 J, Steckler Seed Co., Ltd., New Orleans: 



iDear Sirs: — You ask me to give you 

 my opinion of Lespedeza Striata, as a 

 hay crop. This I will gladly do, as I 

 look upon this visitor from some far off 

 Eastern land, as the greatest blessing 

 that could come to the South, 



It was said, more than two thousand 

 years ago, that "All flesh is grass," and 



it is reasonable to conclude that the best 

 grass will make the best flesh. 



The cotton belt is face to face with a 

 very grave crisis, and how best to meet 

 this crisis is a question of paramount 

 importance to us of the South. The boll 

 weevil is here, and in all probability here 

 to stay. What are we going to do about 

 it? The immense sums of money that 

 have anually flowed into this country in 

 payment for our cotton and cotton seed 

 will in the near future be very much 

 lessened. Where is that difference to 

 come from? Only one rational rdethod 

 of meeting this loss presents itself, and 

 that method is the diversification of 

 crops. 



Heretofore the most of the money re- 

 ceived for our cotton, etc., has gone to 

 the West to pay for the meat, meal, corn, 

 oats, mules and hay which we have 

 needed to make cotton, and have failed 

 to raise ourselves. In the future these 

 necessities must be produced by our 

 people upon their own farms, and the 

 cotton grown must be as a surplus crop. 

 This is a real condition and not a mere 

 theory. The South must henceforth be 

 self-sustaining or it must face a condition 

 of actual want. 



Can the South raise its own hogs, 

 horses, mules, sheep and cows? This 

 was done during the four years of the 

 Civil War^, and undoubtedly can be done 



Plant all varieties of Peanuts and all varieties of Field Corn. 



