SOUTHERNER’S DELIGHT — TURNIPS AND GREENS 
Turnips are the big fall garden crop throughout the whole South. They are hardy, make delicious greens or turnip salad and the 
roots make a tempting table food all through the winter months. Sow one ounce to 100 feet of row; 
423—PURPLE TOP WHITE GLOBE. This excel- 
lent toble variety is globular in shape, of good 
size and very attractive in appearance. The 
roots are large, purple or dark red above the 
around and snowy white below. Pkt., 10c; oz., 
Sarg fq lb., 35c7 lb., $1.00; 5 lbs., $4.50, post- 
paid. 
425—WHITE EGG. This is a snowy white, egg- 
shaped, and very rapid growing Turnip. Pkt., 
10¢; oz., 15¢; VY lb., 35c; lb., $1.00, postpaid. 
430—COW HORN. A great winter variety. 
ety 10c; oz., 15c; 1% lb., 35; Ib., $1.00, post- 
paid. 
431—SEVEN TOP. The name describes this 
Turnip. It has a very heavy top. It is used for 
greens in late fall and early spring, as it does 
not winter-kill. The root is very small and of 
poor quality. Pkt., 10c: oz., 15c: WY lb., 30c: 
lb., 90c; 5 Ibs., $4.00, postpaid. 
421—EARLY PURPLE TOP STRAP LEAF. Flat; 
white with purple top, fine grained and ex- 
ceedingly tender: Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; Y lb., 35c; 
Ib., $1.00; 5 lbs., $4.50, postpaid. 
424—EXTRA EARLY PURPLE TOP MILAN. 
The earliest Turnip grown; smooth and white 
with a purple-red top. Leaves short and few. 
Pkt., 10cz oz., I5cz Wg lb., 35c7 $1.00, 5 Ibs., 
$4.75, postpaid. 
427—_-AMBER GLOBE. One of the most desir- 
able of the yellow varieties for main fall crop 
turnip. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15¢; ¥% lb., 35c; Ib., $1.00; 
5 Ibs., $4.50, postpaid. ; 
428—POMERANIAN WHITE GLOBE. This is a 
large globe-shaped and clear white Turnip. 
Crisp and tender tops are unexcelled for greens. 
turnip. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15¢; 1% lb., 35c; 1b., $1.00; 
5 Ibs., $4.50, postpaid. 
429—-WINTER WHITE GLOBE. It is of medium 
size and is excellent for both greens and 
turnips. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15¢; 1/4 lb., 35c; lb., $1.00; 
5 Ibs., $4.50, postpaid. 
432—-SHOGOIN. A splendid Turnip of Oriental 
origin. It is very resistant to both insect pests 
and blight. The roots are pure white and globe 
shaped, usually blunt or flattened at the bot- 
tom. The tops are for greens. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15c; 
Vy lb., 35c; lb., $1.00; 5 lbs., $4.50, postpaid. 
Rutabaga 
435—AMERICAN PURPLE TOP YELLOW. 
This is a wonderful fall and winter variety. 
It is remarkable for its uniform shape, size 
and quality. Pkt., 10c; oz., 15¢; 1% lb., 35c; lb., 
$1.00; 5 lbs., $4.50, postpaid. 
2 or 3 pounds per acre. 
Good This Year Too! 
17 Million U.S. Families 
Raise Own Vegetables 
By GEORGE GALLUP 
Director, Institute of Public Opinion 
PRINCETON, N.J., Aug. 1—With 
the price of food at an all-time high, 
nearly two out of every five American 
families this summer are going to a 
habit much publicized during World 
War II. 
They're raising their own vegetable 
gardens. 
Even after the beetles, grubs and 
other pests get their share the resulting 
crop of beans, beets, carrots, cabbages, 
tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce and other 
garden-grown delicacies should be enor- 
mous, for an estimated seventeen mil- 
lion families are cultivating family gar- 
den plots. 
The family hoe-and-rake brigade this 
year campares favorable in numbers 
with the war years. At the peak of the 
victory garden program—in 1943—an 
estimated 20,600,000 families said they 
raised home gardens. 
This year’s number has just been de- 
termined in a nation-wide survey by 
the American Institute of Public Opin- 
ion in which a balanced cross-section of 
families throughout the nation were 
asked: 
“Do you have a vegetable garden for 
home use this year?” 
The results: 
Ves: have‘a varden: =. 22... 39% 
No; Have note. ee, 61 
100% 
During the war the size of garden 
plots ranged from an average of about 
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20x25 feet in large cities to as much as 
half an acre in farm and rural areas. 
This year, as during World War II, 
the Department of Agriculture is doing 
all it can to encourage family gardens. 
Housewives who plan to can fruits 
or vegetables this summer, or have al- 
ready done so, will have plenty of com- 
pany. 
Nearly half (46 per cent) of all fami- 
lies, the institute survey finds, except to 
put up jars of fruit and vegetables 
either from their own gardens or from 
produce bought at markets and roadside 
stands. 
A substantial proportion also expect 
to lay away fruits and vegetables in 
the deep freeze for family use during 
the winter months when fresh fruits and 
greens become scarcer. 
Statistically here’s how the home can- 
ning and freezing activities line up at 
present: 
“Do you (your wife) expect to can 
any fruit or vegetables this year?” 
Yea Ss oe ti as... seem angen 6% 
INO Mts eee. Maire 50 
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100% 
“Do you (your wife) expect to freeze 
any fruit or vegetables this year?” 
LY GS jraea ie ae a Selene . 16% 
Nomen es eet oe. Ue eee 79 
INOteCertainie ee. 2 oes 5 
—Reprinted from 
The Dallas Morning News, 
Thursday, August 2, 1951. 
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Growing Pastures in the South 
By J. F. COMBS 
Our fellow Texan, the author, is a pasture 
crop specialist. He has served for seventeen 
years as Agricultural Extension Agent, fo 
the U. S. Department of Agriculture, and A. 
& M. College of Texas, in the heart of the } 
best pasture sections of the State. 
It is a practical book of information for 
the farmer, cattleman and the agricultural 
worker, with enough technical information 
to make it useful, as a text book in schools 
and colleges. 
Nineteen chapters of data that will give 
you the type information that can be gath- 
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contains over 275 pages, 78 illustrations and 
9 tables. 
“Growing Pastures in the South” has 
been strongly endorsed by some of the best 
agricultural editors over the entire South. 
We recommend this book to our customers 
as a good investment, if you are interested 
in pastures. Price: $3.00, postpaid. 
DALLAS, TEXAS 
