BREEDERS, GROWERS, DISTRIBUTORS 3 
FIELD BEANS 
PINTO Phaseolus vulgaris 
Deservedly a favorite in dry southwest regions both as a commercial crop and in home 
gardens for spring and fall planting. Principally used dry for soups or chili; to a smaller 
extent for green snap beans if picked young. Both dry beans and snaps have a distinct 
and popular flavor. A soil improvement crop. 
Plant small to medium, of spreading bushy type, early, prolific and highly resistant to 
drought. Pods flat and medium light green when young, later becoming oval, broad and 
colored with brown streaks on cream background, 4”-5” long, stringy and tough. Seeds 
about 5 per pod, large, broad oval, buff with tan to brown splotches, 85-90 per oz. 
BROOMCORN 
Sorghum vulgare var. technicum 
A specialized sorghum, grown for the use of the brush, or straw in the seedheads. 
Said to have been introduced to America by Benjamin Franklin, who found some seeds 
in a brush imported from Europe. Our seed is produced by experienced growers in Illinois 
and Texas where the climatic and soil conditions are favorable to the development of 
superior grades of seed free from smut, weather damage, and the possibility of cross pollina- 
tion with other sorghums. 
Broomcorn is a warm weather plant, and the best brush is produced where the summers are 
hot and on loam soils well supplied with moisture which warm quickly in the spring. The 
dwarf varieties are more extensively grown in the South and Southwest, where the brush is 
pulled and the green stalk growth is utilized as grazing. 
BLACK SPANISH DWARF 
An early-maturing, drought-resistant variety; about 10 days earlier than Scarborough and 
very similar to it, but lower yielding. Adapted to irrigated soils of the Rio Grande Valley. 
EVERGREEN 
An old-established, tall variety; chiefly grown in the more humid sections. Produces a fine 
green brush, free from coarse center stems and fairly uniform; matures later than Scar- 
borough. 
SCARBOROUGH DWARF NO. 7 
Introduced about 30 years ago and named for its originator, a farmer in Texas county, 
Oklahoma; now the most extensively grown and most popular of all the broomcorn 
varieties. Plants 5-6 feet tall; maturing in 100-110 days; brush long, weakly attached; 
branches 15-24 inches long, erect and flexible; seed enclosed in reddish brown hulls. 
A variety with few seeds; easy to cure and thresh. Yields a class of brush much in 
demand for finishing the outside of brooms. 

Our plant-breeding station at Robstown, Texas 
