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The World’s Champion Fill-In Crop—Beans 

If there’s any more popular vegetable in our gardens than beans, I have yet to make 
its acquaintance, 
where, yield big crops, are easy to can and are rich in Vitamins A, 
hydrates, Calcium and Iron, 
This picture is of my own bean—Field’s First Early—the earliest of all. 
found in Tennessee years ago and it still ranks as high on the list as it ever did. 
Beans take first place everywhere, and they should. 
They'll grow any- 
B, C, D, Protein Carbo- 
It’s a bean I 
It’s the 
one bean that will grow anywhere and the rankest amateur gardener is bound to get a 
good crop. 
sure, this year. 
Of course, the other varieties are good, too. 
And it’s a prolific yielder of tender, stringless nee: 
You ought to try some, for 
You can’t go wrong on any of them. And 
the best part of beans is that as soon as a crop is through bearing in your garden, you 
ean always pull it up and put in another row of beans. 
crop and seem to stand planting almost any time all summer iong. 
own vegetables” year and beans should head your list. 
They’re the champion “Fill-In” 
This is a “grow your 
Plant lots of them. 

Pickles—Hard to Get 
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I see in the papers where the govern- 
ment has recommended a 22% decrease 
in pickle plantings, so it looks like you 
may not be able to buy pickles. Better 
grow and put up your own. If you do, 
you won’t go wrong taking advantage of 
my special cucumber offer: 
1 pkt. National pickle—best small 
one. 
1 pkt. Early Fortune—Vigorous one. 
1 pkt. Dark Green Slicer—for dills or 
chunks, 
All 3 for 13c postpaid. 
A New Popcorn—White Jumbo 
I’ve got something new for you Seed 
Sense readers this month that I think 
you'll like. It’s a new White South 
American Popcorn we call White Jumbo. 
It’s a cross between the regular South 
American and Sweet corn, so is much 
sweeter and whiter than regular S, Amer- 
ican. Big yielder, too. Stalks are more 
vigorous, stands up better and I claim it 
is one of the finest of the newer popcorn. 
Everyone ought to put in a little sweet 
corn when making a garden. The kids 
get a great thrill out of growing their 
own and usually will take care of the 
shelling. Only a limited amount of this, 
so for Seed Sense readers only. Price, 
3 oz., 19¢; % 1b., 40c; 1 1b., 65¢ postpaid. 
X-Ray of a 
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At least 
that’s what 
P. M. Ohling- 
er of Ports- 
mouth, Ia., 
ealls this pic- 
ture. He took 
it of one of 
Field’s Early 
Alaskas just 
as it was 
starting to 
fill out, 

Plenty of Navy Beans... 
Gif you grow them yourself) 
Nobody need go hungry for Navy Beans 
or dry beans or peas of any kind in spite 
of alleged shortage and Government ra- 
tioning and all the rest of the uproar 
about them. 
The answer is to grow them yourselves. 
They are very easily grown, probably 
nothing in the garden is easier grown 
than beans. They will grow on any kind 
of soil in any climate. Really, I don’t 
think there is anything in the line of 
concentrated foods that is any better or 
more practical, or any easier to grow. 
Besides, the well known white beans, 
sometimes called Navy Beans, there are 
butter beans, and kidney beans, pinto 
beans, and endless other varieties, all of 
them mighty good eating and all easily 
grown. 
Better get busy and start growing your 
own, because my judgment is that they 
will be practically entirely withdrawn 
from the market by the Government for 
the armed forces and for Lend Lease. It 
will be a “have to case” to grow them 
yourself or do without. 
One woman told me that last year she 
planted 1% pound of our White Wonder 
Navy Beans and raised a bushel of nice, 
clean dry beans—enough to feed her fam- 
ily all winter. That’s a very good yield 
but not at all out of the ordinary. You 
can buy 1% pound of seed for 18¢ ora 
pound for 35e and if you take good care 
of them you can raise anywhere from a 
bushel to two bushels from a pound of 
seed. And they are going to be a mighty 
good price this fall if you have any for 
sale. 
Plant them any time from May ist to 
July 1st, but probably the best time, 
especially if you are growing in -quan- 
tities, would be the last half of June. 
The Red Kidney Beans are handled prac- 
tically the same way. 
Lima or ‘‘butterbeans” are also very 
easily grown. Hither the bush or the pole 
form. Down in Missouri we like the Mis- 
souri Spotted Butterbean. It’s a Pole 
Lima which yields tremendously and is 
very hardy and exceptionally fine eating 
quality. You can get a pound of seed for 
45¢e postpaid, 

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A Tomato Expert 
3 yr. old Wayne Bowden looks mighty % 
pleased at the way his daddy has staked 
up the tomatoes or maybe it’s the pros- 
pect of eating that big, ripe tomato he 
has just picked. 
Anyway, that’s an expert job of smiling 
as well as an expert job of staking. 
Wayne’s grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Cole, 
Macomb, Ill., who sent this picture in, 
says half the usual number of tomato 
plants are enough when they’re staked 
like this. Staking keeps them clean and 
there are few rotten ones. 

About Canning 
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Space is too limited in Seed Sense to 
give you all the information you would 
want about canning, but you can easily 
get full and very excellent directions by 
writing to the Bureau of Home Econom- 
ics, Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, 
D. C., for the canning information they 
will be glad to give you, or sending to 
the Kerr Mason Jar Co., 2912 Title In- 
surance Bllg., Los Angeles, Calif. They 
put out excellent books on canning which 
cost you only 10c, or we can send them 
out from here. 
By all means, everyone- should can 
plenty of vegetables, and fruit this year. 
Besides being a big help on the grocery 
bill, home canning is almost imperative 
as the rationing of canned food will cut. 
down most family’s supplies a great deal. 
Be sure you have plenty to eat by GROW- 
ete OWN and CANNING TOURS 
Doesn’t Garden Without My Seeds 
“Dear Mr. Field: I never make a gar- 
den without your seed. We have been 
married 35 years and have always had. 
some of your seed. I always have a nice 
garden and can lots of vegetables as we 
have raised 10 children, all married but 
2 youngest. Boy 18 in draft and girl 15 
in school. We plant Field’s seeds because 
they are sure to yield, and we plant good 
seed because we want them to grow.”’— 
Mrs. Ira L. Hicks, Rt. 1, Forest City, Mo. 
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We've committed the Golden Rule to mem- 
ory; now let’s commit it to life. 

