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pound, and 40 to 100 bolls grow on each 
stalk. 
King’s Early Improved Cotton.—This 
short staple Cotton has wonderfully in- 
creased in popularity; it is extra early, 
wonderfully prolific, long limbed, seed 
small, lint 36 to 40 per cent. ; 
Hawkins’ Extra Prolific Cotton.—Earli- 
est, most prolific, easiest picked, most 
Superior lint and finest staple, tall 
grower, long tap root, resisting drought, 
from two to four limbs near the surface 
branching, two short limbs together all 
the way up to the top, all literally cov- 
ered with bolls, large boll, small seed, 
lightly grey or dark green, yielding 
from 39 to 41 per cent. 
World’s Wonder Cotton.—Hxceedingly 
prolific, semi-cluster and heavily fruited 
with small bolls. The plant is exceed- 
ingly tall, well shaped with long base 
limbs and exceedingly short upper limbs 
—in fact, there are very few, if any, limbs 
toward the apex of the plant. Bolls are 
small, 92 averaging one pound of seed 
cotton. The bolls are abruptly pointed 
and more frequently contain 5 locks 
than 4 locks. Seed are fuzzy, mostly 
brownish white and greenish white. 
is an early cotton. 
Special prices on large quantities of 
any of the above Cotton Seed, 
Steckler’s White Mammoth Peanuts.— 
This is the largest Peanut ever intro- 
hm 
_On new ground, drop the goober 
duced. The pods measure on an average 
2% inches in length and 1% inches in 
diameter. Thick shelled. and deeply 
ridged. The kernels are of light color, 
1% inches long and % inch in diameter, 
which would easily be mistaken for small 
pecans. Although of wonderful size, its 
bearing qualities are still more wonder- 
ful. It is known to yield on an average 
one gallon of peanuts to one kernel 
planted, making it the most prolific and 
largest peanut known. 1% pound, post- 
paid, 25¢c.; 1 peck, measured, $1.75; % 
bushel, measured, $3.00; 1 bushel, meas- 
ured, $5.00. 
Spanish Peanuts.—Can be cultivated 
entirely with a plow, and are easily 
gathered, as all the peas hang close to 
the roots. The 
make a good hay. The fruit is smaller 
than the Virginia or Tennessee, but the 
plants yield heavier. A good feed for 
fattening hogs. Price, per pound, 20 
cents; by mail, prepaid, 30c.; per peck, 
75c.; per bushel, $2.50. 
Peanuts or Goobers.—Goobers seem to 
do best on a fairly dry, light, sandy soil. 
They are’pre-eminently the “hog feed’ 
for sand hill and high pine land, though 
they will do well on. most any land. 
Plant in rows three and one-half or four 
feet apart, and about ten inches apart in 
the rows, at any time from March Ist to, 
June ist, when the ground is moist 
enough for planting corn. Cultivate the 
same as Spanish Peanuts, which they re- — 
semble in growth. Let the hogs into 
them when the leaves turn quite yellow. 
in 
every other furrow as you break the land, 
and.they will make a good crop without 
cultivation. 
Have also the White Virginia and Red 
Tennessee Peanuts in stock. They are 
larger in size than the. Spanish kinds. 
They are of a spreading habit and are 
cultivated in ridges like sweet potatoes. 
| Price of White Virginia is 10 cents per 
pound. Price of Red Tennessee 
is 16 
' cents per pound; if by mail, 9 cents extra. 
Amount of Peanuts Required to Plant 
an Acre.—Planting Peanuts in three feet 
rows twenty to twenty-four inches in 
drill, requires about a bushel per acre; 
this is varied by circumstances. Some 
double drop or put two in a place and 
use more but one bushel per acre is 
about the correct amount. 
White Virginia, Red Tennessee and 
Spanish Peanuts are usually planted in 
the hull. Mammoth Peanuts are usually 
shelled to be planted. i 
‘For a Sure Crop Frotscher’s Superior Large Late Flat Dutch Cabbage. 
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