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J. STECKLER SEED CO , LTD., ALMANAC AND 



KING'S EARLY IMPROVED COTTON. — 

 This short staple Cotton, which was originated 

 by Mr. T. J. King, of North Carolina, has 

 wonderfully increased in popularity. Mr. 

 King claims for it that it is "extra early, ' 

 wonderfully prolific, long limbed, seed small, 

 lint 36 to 40 per cent. Mr. King's locality 

 being in the extreme northern portion of the 

 Cotton belt, is an advantage in maintaining 

 his claim for earliness — naturally seeds from 

 latitudes north of us come earlier wben 

 planted here. 



HAWKINS" EXTRA PROLIFIC COTTON.— 

 Earliest, most prolific, easiest picked, most 

 superior lint and finest staple, tall grower, 

 long tap root, resisting drought, from two to 

 four limbs near the surface branching, two 

 short limbs together all the way up to the 

 top, all literally covered with bolls, large boll, 

 small seed, lightly grey or dark green, yield- 

 ing from 39 to 41 per cent. 



LITTLE BRANNON COTTON.— It grows 

 very prolific, easily picked and on ordinary 

 land yields about one bale per acre, producing 

 37 pounds net of lint cotton to every 100 

 pounds. 



JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE. — This tuber is 



well known and requires no further descrip- 



t 

 tion. It is used for the table, also for stock 



feed. It does better in a rich loam, and 



Steckler's White Mammoth Peanuts, 

 should be planted and cultivated like pota- 

 toes. They yield very heavily. Price per 

 bushel, $2.50 ; per gallon, 35c. ; $5.00 per 

 barrel. 



CHUFAS. — This nut is splendid for fatten- 

 ing hogs ; it has a fine flavor. The nut sends 

 up a single spire so much like Cocoa it might 

 deceive even an experienced eye at first ap- 

 pearance. Around this spire a multitude of 

 others form rapidly. At the foot of each spire 

 is a nut never more than two inches in the 

 ground. Price, 40c. per pound, $1.75 per 

 peck, $5.00 per bushel. 



STECKLER'S WHITE MAMMOTH PEA- 

 NUTS. — This is the largest Peanut ever in- 

 troduced. The pods measure on an average 

 2y 2 inches in length and l 1 /! inches in diame- 

 ter. 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 won- 

 derful size, its bearing qualities are still more 

 wonderful. It is known to yield on an aver- 

 age one gallon of peanuts to one kernel 



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