6 SHELBY PLANT FARMS 

GRAPES 
Varieties—Concord, Delaware, White Niagara, 
Moore’s Early, Campbell’s Early, Fredonia, Ives. 
3 10 25 100 
$ .50 $1.60 $2.75 $11.00 
SCUPPERNONGS 
White or Black Varieties. Large berries. Juicy 
and excellent flavor. Every Southern home should 
have a few of these, as they are delicious and 
ripen in late summer and fall when other fruits 
are not so abundant. 
Prices on Scuppernongs: 
Size: Strong, well rooted. 
1 10 25 100 
$ .50 $4.50 $10.00 $37.00 
KUDZU CROWNS 
Two Years Old 
Kudzu is particularly good for rough areas that 
are accessible for pasture. Kudzu will gradually 
establish itself, stop washing and build up the 
land if left there long enough. Many dairymen 
have found kudzu especially valuable in supple- 
menting their permanent pastures. In very dry 
spells when pasture dries up, kudzu is there with 
abundant green feed. 
By express or collect for postage: 
25 50 100 500 1,000 
$ .60 $1.00 $1.50 $6.00 $9.50 
Prepaid: 
10 25 50 75 100 
$ .75 $1.00 $1.75 $2.50 $2.75 
HOW TO GROW KUDZU 
Kudzu is one of the very promising forage crops of the South. 
Its good qualities are in its feeding value, its abundance of 
growth, in the permanency of the planting and its ability to fill 
up gullies and stop washing of land. It is a legume and is equal 
in feeding value to soybeans, cowpeas and some claim it is even 
equal to alfalfa. 
It is started by planting the roots. These should come from 
plants that are two or three years old. The roots should be 
planted or at least heeled in immediately on receipt and before 
they have time to dry out. They should be planted in deep fur- 
rows and must be planted with the crown up. About one to 
two inehes is plenty deep to cover the crowns. Set crowns 4% 
feet apart in rows 10 feet wide, which means 1,000 crowns to 
set an acre. 
Unless the land is rich, it should have some manuring in order 
to permit rapid growth. The land should be cultivated a few 
times, except where planted on gullied or steep land, in order to 
keep down outside growth in order that the runners of these 
plants may be in contact with the soil, and, therefore, take root. 
About the second year begin doing some cutting because every- 
thing that is high enough to cut is not low enough to take root. 
This first cutting is where one will have most of the trouble. 
After the runners have taken root all over the space, you will 
have hosts of young plants, each of which will be sending its run- 
ners and these should be cut two, possibly three, times each 
year. If you do not cut early but wait until late in the season, 
the stuff may produce such a heavy growth that it will shade 
itself out. 

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