R.B.BUCHANAN SEED CQ MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. 
BUCHANAN’S VELVET BEANS 
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The South’s Wonderful Forage and Soil Improving Crop 
A Fine Fall and Winter Grazing Crop—Velvet beans make an 
enormous growth, larger than any other known forage plant. As 
a soil improver they are considered superior to cow peas, making 
. much larger growth and foliage. 
Makes Nutritious Fall and Winter Grazing—In the South, velvet 
; beans are used very largely for winter grazing. They should be 
allowed to grow until killed by frost, after which they can be 
grazed through the winter, as the vines, leaves and pods decay 
very slowly and remain palatable a long time. 
Velvet beans are usually grown with corn. The corn is planted 
in 5-foot rows, 3 feet apart in the row, and the beans planted 
between the corn. At the last working, beans are planted again 
in the middles between the rows of corn. When the corn is dry 
it is pulled from the stalk, and cattle turned in to graze. Twenty 
pounds will plant an acre in 5-foot rows, 3 feet apart in the row. 
1228— 100-DAY OR SPECKLED VELVET BEANS—Although it 
will not mature the pods in 100 days, this is one of the earliest 
varieties and can be grown farther North than the common velvet 
beans. Far South they will mature in a season of average length. 
In more northerly sections, where the seeds will not mature, it 
will make a wonderful growth of vines for pasturing and finish¬ 
ing cattle, and a fine soil improver. 
1 lb., 20c; 5 lbs., 70c; 1 pk„ 15 lbs., $1.45 
1229— MUNG BEANS—A comparatively new bean that has thor¬ 
oughly demonstrated its value to the South. Mung Beans should 
be planted in May for hay or turning under. They produce a 
smaller plant and make more seed if planted in June or early 
July. The seed are small and it takes from 3 to 5 pounds to drill 
an acre in 314 -foot rows. Broadcast, it takes from 15 to 20 pounds 
to seed an acre. Beans mature in 90 to 120 days, depending on the 
season. 
1 lb., 30c; 5 lbs., $1.00; 1 pk., 15 lbs., $2.25 
1223—MAMMOTH BROWN (Hay, 115 days; Seed, 140 days)— 
Makes a large upright growth, standing 3 feet or more, with 
plenty of foliage and an abundance of pods. It is a good hay 
bean, is a prolific yielder of beans, robust and is more disease- 
resistant than most varieties. Probably no variety is so well 
suited for planting with cow peas, as they mature nearly to¬ 
gether. Mammoth Brown beans remain in the pod long after 
maturity. They are especially fine for late hog pasture. 
1 lb., 25c; 5 lbs., 70c; 1 pk., 15 lbs., $1.80 
1250—AUSTRIAN WINTER PEAS—Disk about 25 to 30 pounds 
per acre about 2 inches deep in cotton middles for green manure. 
If sown for hay it is best to mix 25 pounds of peas with 1 bushel 
oats—oats hold the peas up to be cut. 
Austrian Peas when used for soil improvement should be 
turned under the first half of March. When used for hay they 
are ready about the same time as oats planted the same time. 
1 lb., 25c; 5 lbs., 90c; 10 lbs., $1.35; 15 lbs., $1.95 
BUCHANAN’S COW PEAS 
FACTS ABOUT COW PEAS 
Pound for pound, cow pea hay is as valuable as clover hay. 
It is nearly equal in value to alfalfa and wheat bran. 
It contains four times as much digestible protein as timothy hay. Horses 
and mules need no grain through the winter when fed cured cow pea hay. 
The U. S. Department of Agriculture says: “No one thing can add more to 
the agricultural wealth of the South than the growing of cow peas.” 
Makes a fine feed for work and beef stock and dairy cattle. 
Cotton can be grown for three successive years after a cow pea crop. 
Wheat and oat lands put into cow peas after harvest can be seeded to 
grain again in the fall, making two crops a year on the same land. 
Does not require expensive fertilizer, but adds nitrogen to the soil and 
improves its mechanical condition. 
They can be grown on any soil that is not too wet. 
There is no cheaper way to improve poor land than by growing cow peas. 
They add nitrogen and improve the mechanical condition of the soil. 
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Should be used to inoculate all Soy Beans and Cow Peas. 
Speckled Velvet Beans 
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