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White Kidney Bean 
Soup Beans 
These beans are generally grown for using dry 
during the winter months and they will not make a 
snap on account of their tough fibrous hulls. As a 
winter bean, however, they are invaluable. Can be 
planted in missing hills of corn, cotton or tobacco 
fields and allowed to remain on the vine until all 
pods are dry. Then the vines may be pulled up, 
allowed to dry, and the beans either beaten from 
them or shelled. It is best not to plant these beans 
until late in the season, because early plantings are 
almost always attacked by rust and do not yield 
very much. Plant from June 15 to July 15. If 
planted alone drop seed every six inches in rows 
three feet apart and give frequent shallow cultiva¬ 
tion. 
2052—WHITE NAVY.—One of the best known 
and most popular sorts. The beans are small and 
pure white. Makes a delicious dish. 
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2050— WHITE KIDNEY. — A most appetizing 
bean and a heavy yielder. The seeds are pure white 
and kidney shaped and very large. 
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2051— BED KIDNEY.—Similar in size and pro¬ 
ductiveness to the White Kidney. About the only 
difference is the color of the seed. 
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2102 h Sunflower 
A valuable crop for poultry and good for furnish¬ 
ing support for running beans or vines of all kinds. 
Ornamental, and can be used for a high hedge to 
hide unsightly spots. Will produce an enormous 
crop of seed and grows on almost any kind of soil. 
Drop several seed in a hill at the desired distance 
and cover about one inch deep. For a hedge, plant 
thick, but for seed allow about two feet apart. Sow 
after danger of frost is past. 
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Peanuts 
Peanuts w’ill improve the soil like cow peas, fat¬ 
ten hogs like corn, and make hay almost as good as 
alfalfa. They are legumes and store nitrogen in the 
soil, thus improving it. For hog pasturage they 
have no equal. An acre in peanuts will fatten your 
hogs just as well as corn and you do not have to 
go to the trouble of harvesting them. The vines 
when cut yield a good crop of hay that is almost 
as good as alfalfa hay. Shell the nuts and plant 
after the ground has become warm in the early 
summer or late spring. Drop two or three nuts to 
a hill, having hills ten inches apart. Rows should 
be three feet apart. Give frequent shallow cultiva¬ 
tion, working the soil up around the plants, until 
the nuts begin to form. A light sandy soil pro¬ 
duces the best peanuts. 
2080— SPANISH. —This makes one of the most 
desirable varieties for hog pasturage. It outyields 
all others and the hogs will do the harvesting for 
you. The nuts are small but well filled. When 
grown for eating, it is a most desirable sort, since 
the kernels possess a better flavor than those of 
the Virginia. 
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2082 — VALENCIA. —Is also known as the im¬ 
proved Spanish. It has all of the good qualities of 
the Spanish and is larger. Is good for either hog 
pasture or for growing the nuts for market. Makes 
long pods which often contain from three to five 
kernels. Has the good flavor of the Spanish and 
are comparatively easy to harvest. 
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2081 — VIRGINIA. —This is a bunch variety and 
therefore can be grown closer together than the 
other sorts. Nuts grow very large and contain two 
kernels to the shell. One. of the easiest of all to 
harvest, and a desirable variety for any purpose. 
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Virginia Peanuts 
