Show I BUSH VELVET BEAN IS VARIETY Grows to Average Height of About Three Feet Does Not Twine on Corn and Hence Does Not Pull Down Stalks Stalks Like Like Cowpeas Crop May Be Harvested Har vested as s Ha Hay Prepared by the United States DepartS Department Depart Depart- S ment of ot Agriculture The bush bush velvet bean a selection from the Alabama variety now being produced on a commercial scale in Georgia Is being distributed In trial lots Jots by the United States department of agriculture This differs from all other v velvet beans In cultivation as asit asit asit it is a bunch bean Instead of ot a vinIng vinIng vin- vin Ing lag variety It grows to an average height of about 8 feet It makes rather less growth than either the he Alabama or Georgia varieties while Its character of growth increases tho th difficulty of harvesting seed The amount of herbage Is somewhat less than the average production of the velvet be bean n family The sp special d l advantage of ot the b bush sh velvet bean Is that It does not twine on corn and hen hence hene does not tend to pull down the stalks while it Is also valuable for planting In orange and other tree fruit-tree groves groves where a n non non- bean Is desired Like cowpeas cowpens cow cow- peas pens this bush may also be harvested harvest harvest- ed d as as hay as the absence of twining stems stenis eliminates the common difficulty ty which occurs In mowing the ordinary ordinary nary twining varieties of velvet beans benns Bush beans are planted about I he the same time as cotton when the soil I Is thoroughly warm the seeds being dropped 2 or or 3 feet teet apart in rows 3 to 8 feet in width and covered the same as corn It is customary to plant the beans either cither alone or in the same sam rows with the corn One bushel of seed will plant 2 to 8 B acres After planting the crop should be beI I cultivated d about like cowpeas |