. [Catalog]. Nurseries (Horticulture) Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Nursery stock Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Flowers Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Vegetables Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Fruit Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Gardening Tennessee Memphis Equipment and supp. ^m;rinw^i.'.u.'.i!j! SCHWILL'S PEANUTS AND VELVET BEANS. PEANUTS In the last ten years the peanut crop has become a recognized money- maker with thousands of acres under cultivation both for hog feeding and for sale direct to oil mills for the manufacture of peanut oil and meal. Every part of the peanut crop is of use.
. [Catalog]. Nurseries (Horticulture) Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Nursery stock Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Flowers Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Vegetables Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Fruit Tennessee Memphis Catalogs; Gardening Tennessee Memphis Equipment and supp. ^m;rinw^i.'.u.'.i!j! SCHWILL'S PEANUTS AND VELVET BEANS. PEANUTS In the last ten years the peanut crop has become a recognized money- maker with thousands of acres under cultivation both for hog feeding and for sale direct to oil mills for the manufacture of peanut oil and meal. Every part of the peanut crop is of use. Therefore, it should become a regular crop with Southern farmers. The tops make fine hay and the nuts are valuable either for feed or for sale. Oil mills, as a rule, will con- tract in advance for your entire crop. Do not forget, either, that the pea- nut is a leguminous plant that draws that most costly element of plant food—nitrogen—from the air and de- posits it in your soil. One and a half bushels of unshell- ed nuts will seed an acre. Prepare the ground well, laying off in rows with a shovel plow and put two ker- nels to the hill, about one foot dis- tance between the hills. Cultivate thoroughly and keep the land as level as possible. SchwilFs Velvet Beans Velvet Beans make an enormous growth of vines; greater, in fact, than any other known forage plant, in the same length of time, surpassing even the cowpea. Velvet Beans are usually planted in rows 4 to 5 feet apart, at the rate of about half a bushel per acre. As a soil improver they are considered superior to cowpeas, as they make larger growth and heavier foliage. In the South these beans are generally grown in with the corn. The corn is planted in rows five feet apart, and the corn about three feet apart in the row. The beans are planted in the drill between the corn. At the last working of the corn beans are planted again in the middles between the rows of corn. When the corn is dry, it is pulled from the stalk a
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