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J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 
It is extra early, 
limbed, seed 
$1.75 per 
increased in popularity. 
wonderfully prolific, long 
small, lint 36 to 40 per cent. 
bushel of 30 pounds. 
ALLEN’S IMPROVED COTTON.—(Long 
Staple.)—Runs full 1% to 1%. Consid- 
ered by the mills as the most desirable 
cotton raised in the United States, Sea 
Island excepted. Plants tall, branching 
pyramidal. Seeds, fuzzy, white, small, 
80 to 90 to pound. Fairly late. $2.00 per 
bushel of 30 pounds. 
BANK ACCOUNT COTTON. — (Short 
Staple.}—Early; for boll weevil lands. It 
is one of the newly named cottons, and of 
the same type as Money Maker, which in 
turn is sometimes called ‘Little Green 
Seed.”’ It is about one week later than 
Kine’s or Simpkins. Seed are quite small, 
many of them being green. Its form is 
like King’s and Toole; shy in foliage; can 
be planted closely; 40 to 43 per cent. at the 
gin; it fruits from the ground up to the 
top. We know one party this season who 
made 150 bales on 169 acres. While some 
very extravagant claims have been made 
in certain quarters for this newly named 
cotton, it is in all truth one of our best 
types to-day. The special object in it, 
aside from its earliness and prolificness, 
was to breed into it the larger portion of 
green seed and to lessen the white, fuzzy, 
and the smooth black seed. Pricewwt 
bushel, $1.75; 5 to 10 bushels, at $1.60 per 
bushel, 30 pounds to bushel. 
MORTGAGE LIFTER.—(Short Staple). 
Big boll type. Thirteen per cent. open by 
September ist. A Georgia cotton. Much 
advertised in North Carolina. <A highly 
prolific cotton close kin to Jones’ Improved 
Big Boll. Practically same, too, as Wyche 
Five Locked. Plant strong, 46 bolls to 
pound. Seeds large, fuzzy, brownish-gray. 
Lint about — 15.16. No better big boll 
cotton grown. Price, 1 bushel, $1.75; 5 to 
10 bushels, at $1.60 per bushel, 30 pounds 
to bushel. 
Special prices on large quantities of any 
of the above Cotton Seed. 
PEANUTS. 
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 3% or 4 feet apart, and 
about 10 inches apart in the rows, at any 
time from March 1 to June 1, when the 
ground is moist enough for planting corn. 
Cultivate the same as Spanish Peanuts, 
which they resemble in growth. Let the 
hogs into them when the leaves turn quite 
yellow. On new ground, drop the goober 
or peanut 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 10c. per pound. 
Price of Red Tennessee is 15c. per pound. 
If by mail, 9c. extra. 
SPANISH PEANUTS.—As a money 
making crop, aS a crop that replenishes 
the soil, and as a crop that may follow 
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others on the same land with safety, the 
Peanut has proved its worth to the South 
and particularly to the lands of Missis- 
sippi and Louisiana, where the boll weevil 
has made the production of cotton more 
or less of a venture. . 
Peanuts are a benefit in many ways to the 
farmer. They not only produce enough 
tubers to pay a handsome profit to the 
srower, but they enrich the soil. And not 
only that, but they provide enough hay 
from the vine to pay for the cost of grow- 
ing them, including seed and cultivation, 
so that the nut crop itself is clear profit. 
Spanish Peanuts ean be cultivated en- 
tirely with a plow, and are easily gath- 
ered, as all the peas hang close to the 
roots. The fruit is smaller than the Vir- 
ginia or Tennessee, but the plants yield 
heavier. Price, per pound, 15c.; by mail 
prepaid, 25c.; per peck, 60c.; per bushel, 
$2.00, measured bushel. 
The average yield of Spanish Peanuts 
for the year 1913 in Louisiana, Mississippi 
and Arkansas was about 30 bushels to the 
acre. 
White Mammoth Peanuts. 
Steckler’s 
STECKLER’S WHITE MAMMOTH PEA- 
NUTS.—This is the largest peanut ever 
introduced. The pods measure on an aver- 
age 2% inches in length and 1% inches in 
diameter. Thick shelled and deeply ridged. 
The kernels are of light color, 14% inches 
long and ¥% inch in diameter, which would 
easily be mistaken for pecans. Al- 
though of wonderful size, its bearing quali- 
ties are still more wonderful. It is known 
to yield on an average of 1 gallon of pea- 
nuts to one kernel planted, making it the 
most prolific and largest peanut known. 
75c. per pound, postpaid; 1 peck, measured, 
$1.75; % bushel, measured, $3.00; 1 bushel, 
measured, $5.00. 
AMOUNT OF PEANUTS REQUIRED TO 
PLANT AN ACRE.—Planting peanuts in 3 
feet rows, 20 to 24 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. 
Plant Steckler’s Mammoth White Peanuts, 
