THE DASHEEN » » 
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 pounds or more of tubers, 
and in rare instances 20 to 26 pounds of Dasheens have been 
taken from a single hill. 
The Dasheen can be used in almost any way that Irish Po¬ 
tatoes 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 disease 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 recognized its merits, but in 
the meantime, it is capable of furnishing food for home con¬ 
sumption. Its food value i> higher than the potato, and 
about 50 per cent more protein and 50 per cent more starch. 
The flavor of the Dasheen is decidedly richer and more tempt¬ 
ing than that of the potato. 
Land that is too wet for ordinary crops can be used to ad¬ 
vantage 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 Tubeis: 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 
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Is the Potato’s Only Rival 
A 5-Pound Dasheen Tuber 
One farmer who has given Kudzu a good trial 
says: “In my 35 years’ experience 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 alfalfa and some other legumes. It 
(does not require a rich soil; fertilizing is not only 
unnecessary, but unprofitable.” 
KUDZU » » 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 Northern 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 rapid¬ 
ly and more permanently than it can be improved in any other way, and will 
transform nonproductive, barren hillsides into a main resource of the farm. 
KUDZU contains more 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 unfavorable for other 
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 bay, and the leaves do not drop off. Instances are known 
where four cuttings of hay, averaging tons per cutting and making a total 
yield of 10 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 needed, 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 nor 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 
disc plow in hot, dry weather. When the crowns of Kudzu roots are cut off 
and exposed to sunshine for half a day or so, they are killed, and the roots 
decay. Another method to eradicate Kudzu, hi case one desires to put a field 
back to intertilled crops, is to plow late in the fall and plant the following 
spring to corn, beans, potatoes, or any other crop that can be given careful 
cultivation. Pkt. 15c—2 Pkts. 25c—10 Pkts. $1.00 
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