144 J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 
kind of grain you are going to store, how 
you want to use it. On Silos let us know 
whether you want Feed Shed Trough and 
Cover or not, the tons of silage you want 
to store or number of cattle you want to 
feed. 
We are agents for ‘“Harry’s” Portable 
Galvanized Iron Grain Storage Tanks and 
Silos. Store your Seed and Grain in these 
tanks and save the loss from weevils, rats 
and fire. All sizes from 5 bushels to 15,000 
bushels. Store your green. stuff in 
“Harry’s’” Silos and feed your cattle in the 
Winter with the cheapest and best feed 
possible to raise. 
DASHEEN ROOTS. 
A vegetable from the tropics, related to 
the ornamental Caladium or Elephant Ear. 
Its tubers are similar to the potato in com- 
position, but considerably richer in starch 
and protein. The flavor of the cooked 
tubers is slightly suggestive of boiled 
chestnuts. Dasheens are baked, or other- 
wise cooked, like potatoes. The leaves 
make an excellent substitute for spinach 
or other greens. On account of their 
acidity they should never be tasted raw. 
To cook, first boil for 10 to 15 minutes in 
water with a good pinch of soda; then, 
after changing \ater twice, boil for at 
least 45 minutes in water seasoned with 
salt. 
Where the frostless season is less than 5 
months, the tubers should be started in 
sand, under glass, a month before setting 
out. Harvesting should be done before 
frost and the tubers allowed to dry in the 
shade for several days before storing. 
A liberal amount of well-rotted stable 
manure should be mixed with the soil, if 
available, and where the soil is very sandy 
TS well to add a fertilizer rich in potash. 
Planting should be done as early in the 
Spring as conditions of soil and climate 
will permit. In Florida it may be done 
as early as the middle of February if it 
is not too dry and other conditions are 
favorable. 
The tubers should be planted about two 
inches deep in hills three feet apart, or at 
the same distance, on continuous ridges 
three and one-haif feet apart. The plants 
should be kept free from weeds while 
small; they require little or no cultivation 
after becoming large enough to shade the 
ground. Price, 25c. per bulb; $2.50 per 
dozen. 
RHODE’S GRASS. (Chloris Gayana.) 
Rhode’s Grass is a native of Central and 
Southern Africa, where it is regarded as 
one of the best species for-pastures on 
dry soil. It is a perennial, growing from 
3 to 4 feet high, with a large number of 
very long, narrow, and tender leaves, and 
with rather few branching seed spikes or 
slender branching stems. It is propagated 
by both seed and roots. When seed is 
used it should be sown at corn-planting 
time at the rate of about 10 pounds per 
acre on a soil having a fine, mellow sur- 
face, and then given a light harrowing. 
As the seed is produced only in small quan- 
tities and as it continues to be developed 
and matured through the entire season, 
little can be gathered at any one time. 
While the principal value of Rhodes Grass 
is for grazing, it is also used for hay, 
giving two or three cuttings of about 1 
ton each to the acre, and the hay being 
of excellent quality. It bears severe 
.drouth and moderate frost without injury, 
but is easily killed by plowing late in the 
season. Price, $1.00 per pound, postpaid. 
MALINER EREN HORSE RADISH. 
In describing this Radish will say that 
cuttings planted in April will produce fine 
large radish for grating the first of the 
following October, about five months from 
planting. It is as white as snow; free 
from disease; grows to enormous size when 
left in the ground till Spring. Yields of 
four tons to the acre are recorded; grows 
on any kind of soil from the heaviest to 
the sandiest, and stands the dry weather 
as well as potatoes or any other vegetable. 
Simply make up the soil the same as if 
you were going to plant strawberries and 
put the cutting in which has the lower end 
made planting down and let the top of 
cutting be about one inch below the sur- 
face; cultivate same as corn, cabbage or 
any other garden crop. Every root will 
grow and in about two weeks after set- 
ting it will show above ground and will 
soon shade the ground so that weeds will 
not bother them much. It requires about 
10,000 to plant an acre. It sells readily in 
any market at from 5c. to 10c. per pound 
and to the pickling houses at about $100 
per ton. Price, per dozen, 25c.; $2.50 per 
100. 3 
Texas, January, 1913. 
I received your catalogue, also the seed, 
which is entirely satisfactory. Every 
package of seed came O. K., and I am well 
pleased. W. M. STEVENSON. 
The Most Complete Seed Store in the South. 
