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Very nice! live not far from the home of the former J.B. Rice seed company. He was one of the huge "robber barrons" of our area. He and a few of his pals installed the water system to the entire village on their own dime.
During WWI he re-tasked all his fields to grow beans for Uncle Sam (thus letting all his other commercial crop seeds fade out) the war ended and he was left with a lot of beans and not much market for them. That was pretty much the end of hs dynasty.
There is still a lot of memorabilia in the area. I'll see if I can find and upload some seed packets.
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