GARDEN MANUAL FOR THH) SOUTHERN STATES. 



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Winter and Spring Wheat. This 

 Wkeat is beyond question the hardest and 

 and best milling wheat known. Othor fa- 

 T^wrable feitures are earliness, vigor of 

 jffowth, productiveness, purity and healthi- 

 ness. Adapted to all States where spring 

 wheat can be grown. Used in this country 

 to* grazing and green feed. loc. perlb., 

 $175 per bushel. 



Dwarf or Cavendish Banana — 

 ( aiusa Cavendish.) — An extra fine sort; 

 ^warf, but very strong and robust, attain- 

 ing a height of only 6 to 8 feet. The mag- 

 nificent leaves look as though sprinkled 

 with blood. Yield of fruit enormous, some- 

 titties as many as 2oo or 300 in a bunch; 

 7|<i. per plant. 



Orinoco Banana— (Musa paradisiaca, 

 v«r. sapientum)— A grand sort for bedding 

 a«t; grows very large, producing a mag- 

 nificent effect. Very hardy, and should be 

 g,rown everywhere as an ornamental plant; 

 75c. per plant. 



Hart's Choice— (Musa Orientum)— Of 

 medium height, stalk and midrib tinged 

 with red. Bears early, and is very hardy 

 f9t a Banana. Fruit unsurpassed in flavor, 

 75c. per plant. 



Fennel Florence or Naples— (Fe- 

 Houil de Florence, Finocchio di Napoli) — 

 Culture. — Sow in spring, in rows 16 to 20 

 laches apart. Thin out so as to have the 

 seedlings 5 to 6 inches apart, and v.ater as 

 plentifully as possible. The plant is usually 

 e^teu boiled. In flavor it resembles Celery, 

 bttt with a sweet taste and a more delicate 

 o^or; 5c. and loc papers; % lb. 60c.; per 

 pound I2.00. 



MRECTIONS FOR PLANTING CASAVA 

 ROOT. 



O&savd should be planted in 4 feet rows, 

 4 feet in the drill, about 2500 to 3000 plants 

 to the acre. The ground should be drained, 

 thoroughly pulverized and covered, or 

 kiiocked off lightly w ith a board if the 

 season is wet; if the ground and season are 

 very dry better run a very light roller over 

 the seed bed. Plant March ist to I5tb, it 

 continues to come up until the middle of 

 Ji4ne. Bed a peck or so of the seed pieces, 

 but like we do sweet potatoes, and afier 

 t44ey are sprouted take them up and trans- 

 plant them after the first of June to the 

 missing places in your field. By doing this 

 you can get a perfect stand. 



J. Steckler Sekd Co., Ltd. : 



DearSirs— My knowledge of Casava is derived 

 fi^Dm only a few years observation. This is the 

 fdtirth season of my planting. I -sent to South 

 Florida for a little of the cane, and I have con- 

 tijaued to raise it. It yields largely of a good 

 anarch. I have had puddingg, pies and custards 

 Made of it for my table, by grating it as is done 

 >^Ith sweet potatoes. I grow it solely for my hogs 

 apd cattle and horses too. I throw it to ray hogs 

 ia- quantities more than they can eat sometimes. 

 Aft animals and fowls are very fond of it. My 



horses and cows will quit corn and hay and fodder 

 for the Oasava root. There is something in the 

 Casava which makes stock eat it with more aviditf 

 and fondness than they d<» sweet potatoes. It is 

 better for foddering hogs than sweet potatoes. I 

 regard it as a valuable food crop for the stock 

 raiser for these reasons: First, you can raise 

 twice, perhaps three times as much on an acre. 

 Second, if on fairly well drained soil you need not 

 dig it, or house it; it keeps sound and sweet 

 through the winter in the ground and you can dig 

 it or pull it up as you need to feed it. I believe 

 that on good, well drained soil, the root would 

 coDtinue sound and keep all right, right througk 

 the summer. 



The cultivation of Casava costs about the same 

 as the cultivation of corn. Now the great draw- 

 back with us In raising Casava is in saving the 

 seed. The first year I lost nearly all my &ee4, 

 100,000 feet. The next year I had only about 

 10,000 feet. This year it seems to keep better, but 

 I cannot tell just how sound it is until June, after 

 all of it is up. I suppose we will be able to save it 

 with more experience. 



I regard it a very valuable plant for the light soil 

 of our coast country for feeding to hogs and cows. 

 If we will build up our thin soil with velvet beang 

 and cow peas and follow with Casava, if the land 

 has some fertility, we can discard our razor-backs 

 and scrub cows and raise our own hams and Jer- 

 sey butter. Yours truly, 



James M, Dawsox. 



Price, 5c. per foot, $.3.00 per hundred feet. 



J. Steckler Seed Co., Ltd.: 



Dear Sirs— Casava is a tropical plant. It ha« 

 served an the chief article of diet for the aborig- 

 ines of the West Indian Islands, Central and 

 South America. The plant grows luxuriantly to 

 the height of five or six feet, with many branches 

 of dark green and reddish leaf; the main stock is 

 covered with nodes from which the next genera- 

 tion of plants is obtained, as is the case with 

 sugar cane 



Casava has been cultivated in Florida for sev- 

 eral years now with highly satisfactory results, 

 both for starch purposes and slock feeding. It 

 thrives as far north as Macon. Ga., and might be 

 grown to advantage on a large part of the Caro- 

 linas, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas; 

 but being sensitive to frost as much as the tomato 

 plant is, Casava will get its full development in 

 sections where the spring frost ceases with the 

 middle of March and killing frost does not occur 

 until after the middle of October. 



For .^tock feed Casava possesses a larger amount 

 of fat forming material than is found in any other 

 staple crop, but to secure the best results from 

 feeding small quantities of cotton seed meal, cow 

 peas or velvet beans should be mixed with it. 

 Farmers that will grow Casava can fatten all of 

 the meat they have and can have more meat and 

 more butter and richer than any they can [)08sibly 

 get from any other feed For the supply of starck 

 the world has depended thus far upon potatoes 

 and corn aa a raw material, but Casava proves to- 

 day to be the cheapest source of supply, costing 

 only about one-fourth as much as potatoes and 

 corn. 



Respectfully. 



C. Menelas, Brookhaven, Miss. 



Beimuda Grass Sod. — To enable our 

 customers who are making summer lawn.«5, 

 we have this year provided a large supply 

 of Bermuda Grass sod which etiables lawns 

 to be in growth in one-third of the time 

 that it would take by planting the seed, as 

 seed takes about ninety days to show any 

 stand, whereas sodding in thirty days will 

 show its C4rpet. This we offer at $3.00 per 

 flour barrel. 



Steckler's Hare Slobber Cure should be used by every Breeder. 



