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J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 
ISIDORE MEYER’S NEW BEET. 
In all markets Beets of Globe form are 
in demand. Meyer’s is a perfect globe with 
smoth skin, a small tap root and very 
slender leaf stalks. The new beet is extra 
early in season; it is suitable for culture 
in frames, and is also desirable for open 
ground, where it retains its fresh table 
quality better than most beets. The flesh 
is solid, crisp and sweet. Color a fiery red, 
even more intense than Eclipse. Price, 
per ounce, 25c.; quarter pound, 90c.; pound, 
$3.00 
JAPANESE MONG BEAN. 
From that mysterious and wonderful 
country, Japan, we have procured a bean 
very similar in general appearance and 
growth to the soy bean. The bushes are 
upright but grow larger and more sprang- 
ling than the soy bean. The branches are 
not so coarse as those of the soy bean, 
which is greatly in its favor as a hay 
plant. This bean is very closely allied to 
our soy beans and may be a great im- 
provement. They have all the general ap- 
pearances of the soy bean except in pods 
Stowell’s Evergreen, a Standard Sugar Corn. 
and seed. The pods are much longer ana 
the seed much smaller. They do not ma- 
ture seed quite so early, but may after 
they become acclimated. This is one ad- 
vantage in their favor for sowing with 
cow peas, aS most of the soy beans ripen 
before the peas. This plant is a rank 
grower, a great cropper of both hay and 
seed. This is one of the greatest of our 
leguminous plants. They almost equal the 
famous cow pea. It is equally as good as 
the cow pea for hay. A combination of cow 
peas and Mong Beans would give one of 
the best hay crops in yield as well as 
in quality. Price, ™%4 pound 20c., pound 
60c. postpaid. 
BRAZILIAN FLOUR CORN. 
One of the grandest plants ever intro- 
duced into this country. It originated in 
Brazil, where it constitutes the principal 
food. This corn is especially adapted to 
the wants of our Southern States. It with- 
stands drought, makes better roasting ears 
than does either the early Adam’s or any 
of the early sugar corns. By planting 
every month it will furnish green corn all 
the season. Comes in early and remains 
late. This is a better corn to grow than 
the Mexican June. May be planted on 
stubble after grain crops are harvested and 
will, under such treatment, make a big 
crop of both grain and fodder. The grain 
makes most excellent flour, as well as 
hominy. The ears are from four to eight 
inches long and contain from eight to 
twelve rows of pearly white grain. The 
grain may be ground by any of our grist 
mills and the flour made from it makes as 
fine breakfast cakes as buckwheat. Owing 
to its heavy stooling habit it produces an 
enormous crop of fodder. It has been 
tested from Louisiana to Minnesota and 
has given satisfaction wherever tried. Be- 
sides its many other good qualities it re- 
mains green a long time, thus making it 
highly valuable for silage. Our Southern 
farmers can make big money by growing 
Brazilian Flour Corn early and shipping in 
car lots to our city markets. When well 
matured the ears are so beautiful that they 
sell on first sight. Price, 40c. per quart, 
postpaid; $1.25 per gallon. 
AUSTRALIAN WHIPPOORWILL PEAS. 
This wonderful new pea, as its name in- 
dicates, came to us from Australia. It has 
been grown in this country for the past 
six years and has given satisfaction every- 
where grown. This is the largest of all 
the varieties of cowpeas. Vines, pods and 
peas are the largest of all sorts. They are 
early, maturing closely after the Tennessee 
Clay Crowder, which variety it threatens 
to equal, if not excel. AS many as twen- 
ty-two large seeds have been found in a 
single pod. The seeds are of a grayish 
color and for cooking purposes are unsur- 
passed. This variety is also a crowder, the 
seed growing so compact as to aimost 
crowd each other out of the pods. This 
is a great variety for soil improvement as 
well as for making great crops of hay for 
stock. It is the best of all varieties to sow 
for turning under for green manure or 
for soil improvement. Roots deep and 
withstands dry, hot weather. 
has so many good qualities that we cannot 
too strongly recommend it to our  cus- 
tomers. Price, 40c. per quart, postpaid; 
$1.50 per gallon. = 
This new pea 
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