2 BULLETIN 1333, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Fig. 1.— A luxuriant growth of velvet beans has practically covered the corn, which matures ahead 
of the beans. Velvet beans do not bear well unless they have something to grow up on 
Fig. 2.— Note the luxuriant growth of pod-laden Early Speckled velvet-bean vines twined around i 
the stalk of corn the man is holding 
