6 SHELBY PLANT FARMS 

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. 
a 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 es- 
tablish itself, stop washing and build up the land if 
left there long enough. Many dairymen have found 
kudzu especially valuable in supplementing 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 
$ .50 $ .90 $1.25 $5.00 $8.50 
10 25 50 75 100 
$.65 $90. $150 — $2.25 — $2.50 
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 inches 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 eultivated 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 be- 
cause everything 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 runners 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. : 
