. Alexander's garden and field seed catalogue. Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs; Fruit, Seeds, Catalogs; Cottonseed, Catalogs. Alexander's Bunch Velvet Bean. Alexander's Bunch Velvet Beans THE LATEST INTRODUCTION OF THIS VALUABLE LEGUME FAMILY Grows in Compact Bush Form—Makes Four Times the Amount of Forage as the Cow Pea—Grows On the Poorest Lands THE SUREST-CROPPING, LAND-ENRICHING FORAGE PLANT KNOWN. Does Not Choke Out Corn When Planted Together Does Not Interfere with Gathering Full Corn Crop Does Not Prevent Pulling Fodder The Best Forage Plant, the Best Cattle Food, and the Best Land Enricher
. Alexander's garden and field seed catalogue. Vegetables, Seeds, Catalogs; Fruit, Seeds, Catalogs; Cottonseed, Catalogs. Alexander's Bunch Velvet Bean. Alexander's Bunch Velvet Beans THE LATEST INTRODUCTION OF THIS VALUABLE LEGUME FAMILY Grows in Compact Bush Form—Makes Four Times the Amount of Forage as the Cow Pea—Grows On the Poorest Lands THE SUREST-CROPPING, LAND-ENRICHING FORAGE PLANT KNOWN. Does Not Choke Out Corn When Planted Together Does Not Interfere with Gathering Full Corn Crop Does Not Prevent Pulling Fodder The Best Forage Plant, the Best Cattle Food, and the Best Land Enricher Ever Introduced There is no legume or forage plant ever introduced in the South that has been of more value to Southern farmers than the Velvet Bean. The Velvet Bean is now planted from North Carolina throughout the Southern States into Texas, and wherever planted has given universal satisfaction, and has been the means of enriching some of the poorest farm lands in existence, and at the same time has furnished an abundance of nutritious feed both for cattle and hogs—feed that required no harvesting, the cattle and hogs doing this when turned into the fields. It has been customary In most instances to plant Velvet Beans between corn rows and sometimes be- tween the corn hills, the corn rows when planted with Velvet Beans being from four feet to five and six feet apart. Velvet Beans have also been planted broadcast on land with a slight mixture of corn, just a sufficient amount to afford some support for the vines. Where Velvet Beans have been planted in corn, farmers have experienced more or less diffi- culty in harvesting the corn, and in nearly every case have been unable to save the fodder on account of the dense growth of the Velvet Bean vines. We take pleasure in offering to our Seed Custom- ers throughout the entire South a new Velvet Bean which grows in the bunch form very similar to the Soy Bean, but making a much larger bush with considerably more leafage and st
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