THE DASHEEN 
Is the Potato’s Only Rival 
A delicious vegetable. The large tuberous 
roots of which are used like potatoes, the 
blanched stems like asparagus, and the 
foliage used for greens. 
The tubers sometimes reach a weight of more 
than 6 pounds each. One hill often produces 6 
to pounds or more of tubers, and in rare in¬ 
stances 20 to 26 pounds of Dasheens have been 
taken from a single hill. 
The Dasheen can be used in almost any way 
that Irish Potatoes or Sweet Potatoes can be 
used. They are excellent when baked, boiled, 
fried, creamed, stuffed, meat-filled or scalloped, 
and for Saratoga Dasheen chips and fritters they 
are delicious. 
In growing Dasheens, there seems to be no dis¬ 
ease or insect' enemy to contend, with. No dreaded 
bugs to be poisoned; no rot, scab, blight, mildew, 
or other trouble. 
The “Country Gentleman” published the 
following regarding it: 
“Not only does the Dasheen promise well, as a 
market crop once the enemy generally has recog¬ 
nized its merits, but in the meantime it is cap¬ 
able of furnishing food for home consumption. 
Its food value is higher than the potato, and 
about 50 per cent more protein and 50 per cent 
more starch. The flavor of the Dasheen is de¬ 
cidedly richer and more tempting than that of the 
potato. 
Land that is too wet for ordinary crops can be 
used to advantage in growing Dasheens. They 
can be grown on lands that are subject to short 
overflows that would ruin most other crops, thus 
making more, land available for food crops that 
is now considered worthless. 
Choice seed tubers: 3 for 40c—6 for 75c— 
12 for $1.25—25 for $2.00—50 for $3.75— 
100 for $7.00, delivered to you prepaid. 
The Great Forage Crop 
KUDZU is a wonderful perennial legume. It outyields alfalfa' on 
poor land; succeeds on land too poor for alfalfa; and does not have 
to be fertilized or limed. While it is perfectly hardy in the North¬ 
ern States, the South is where it thrives to perfection, and it is 
there that it is a most profitable crop. It is adapted to every class 
of well-drained soils, and will succeed on practically any land not 
water-soaked and not a desert. It enriches poor soil more rapidly 
and more permanently than it' can be improved in any other way, 
and will transform non-productive, barren hillsides into a main 
resource of the farm. 
KUDZU contains mbre protein than wheat bran—as high as 19.82 
per cent and averaging 17.43 per cent. A remarkable feature is 
that although the hay is richer than alfalfa, yet it is not’ injurious 
to horses and perfectly safe for all stock, when fed either green or 
dry. Does not cause sickness of animals even when overfed; when 
fed to cows it will produce more milk and richer milk than any 
other one feed; and makes a good permanent pasture. 
KUDZU can be harvested when weather conditions are unfavor¬ 
able for othei; hays, and will yield a fine quality of hay, often when 
continued showers and dampness would mean ruin to any other 
legume hay. It cures the quickest of any known hay, and the 
leaves do not drop off. Instances are known where four cuttings 
of hay averaging 2 V 2 tons per cutting and making a total yield of 
ten tons per acre in a single season have been made. 
KUDZU should be given cultivation the first season. A full crop 
of corn or a good crop of potatoes, or any other similar crop, may 
be raised on the same land the first year, so the farmer does not 
lose the use of the land. After the first year no cultivation is need¬ 
ed, as the plants will cover the ground the next season and take 
root at the joints, growing so rapidly as to choke out all other 
plants (even such pests as Johnson and Bermuda grasses), yet it.is 
an easy matter to get rid of Kudzu if desired, for it has a peculiar 
habit of neither blooming or bearing seed under field culture, and 
the plants will only sprout' from the crowns and can be killed by 
cutting off these crowns with a disk plow in hot, dry weather. 
When the crowns of Kudzu roots are cut off and exposed to sun¬ 
shine for half a day or so they are killed, and the roots decay. An¬ 
other method to eradicate Kudzu in case one desires to put a field 
back to intertilled crops,, is to plaw late in. the fall and plant the 
following spring to corn, beans, potatoes, or any other crop that 
can be given careful cultivation, Plit. 15c—2 Pkt* 80 c— IQ Pkt. $1 
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KUDZU 
One farmer who has given Kudzu a 
good trial says; “In my 35 years’ ex¬ 
perience in farming in different states 
I have never seen a hay that has cured 
so quickly, held its leaves so well, or 
kept its color so perfectly under various 
conditions as Kudzu does. It does not 
require lime, as is the case with alfal¬ 
fa and some other legumes. It does not 
require a rich soil; fertilizing is not 
only unnecessary, but unprofitable.” 
A 5-Lb. Dasheen Tuber 
