GARDEN MANUAL FOIL THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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Steckler's White Mammoth Peanuts. — 



This is the largest Peanut ever intro- 

 duced. The pods measure on an average 

 2y 2 inches in length and 1*4 inches in 

 diameter. Thick shelled and deeply 

 ridged. The kernels are of light color, 

 1% inches long and y 2 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. 40c. per quart. 



Spanish Peanuts. — Can be cultivated 

 entirely with a plow, and are easily 

 gathered, as all the peas hang close to 

 the roots. The stems when harvested 

 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, 15 

 cents; by mail, prepaid, 25c; per peck, 

 65c; per bushel, $2.25. 



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 1st to 



June 1st, 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. 

 On new ground, drop the goober in 

 every other furrow as you break the land, 

 and they will make a good crop without 

 cultivation. Goobers never make "pops" 

 on any kind of soil. The seed we offer 

 was grown on sand hill land in Polk 

 County, and is from a crop that yielded 

 fifty measured bushels of seed per acre. 



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 10 

 cents per pound; if by mail, 9 cents extra 

 must be added. 



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. 



Jerusalem Artichoke. — This tuber is 

 well known and requires no further de- 

 scription. It is used for the table, also 

 for stock feed. It does better in a rich 

 loam, and should be planted and culti- 

 vated like potatoes. They yield very 

 heavily. Price per bushel, $2.50; per 

 gallon, 35c; $5.00 per barrel. 



Frotscher's Lone Star Water Melon, the Southern Favorite. 



