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CURRIE BROTHERS CO. FARM AND GARDEN ANNUAL 



WHEAT. 



PCRI'M OB MACAROM WHEAT. 



DURUM OR MACARONI (Variety Kubanka.) 



The most valuable Wheat for dry and semi-arid sections, yielding heavy crops 



where other sorts fail. 



Durum Wheat is particularly adapted to dry and semi-arid districts, being ex- 

 tremely resistant of drought, the attack of fungus pests, rust and smut, always fur- 

 nishing an excellent hard grain, with an increase in quantity and quality of gluten, 

 and without a corresponding decrease in yield, as is the case with other sorts of 

 wheat. 



Enormous yields of Durum Wheat are reported from Kansas, Dakota. Nebraska 

 and the extreme Western States, in some instances reaching SO bushels per acre. We 

 have before us reports of crops of Blue Stem -Wheat in North Dakota not worth har- 

 vesting, while in the adjoining fields Durum Wheat yielded close to 30 bushels per 

 acre. Since the commercial value of Durum Wheat has become known and estab- 

 lished its production has increased with rapid strides, and it is now taking the place 

 of the older and well known varieties to a great extent. It is now considered a 

 Wheat of the highest class, ranking with Hard Spring and Hard Winter Wheat in its 

 milling and baking qualities. Peck 60c; bushel 51.75; 5 bushels SS.50 



MINNESOTA No. 169 SPRING WHEAT. 



The only Wheat awarded a "Grand Prize" (the highest possible award) at 

 the World's Fair, St. Louis, in 1904. 



In 1902 the result of trials made by 89 farmers in Minnesota show the average 

 yield of Minnesota No. 169 Wheat to be 18 per cent more than any other variety of 

 wheat. 



Its milling and baking qualities are the best. 



Minnesota No. 169 Wheat was first sent out by the Minnesota. Experiment Station 

 in 1902, ten years after being started from a single seed of Blue Stem Wheat. Dur- 

 ing that time it was carefully grown and watched, and the greatly increased yield at 

 all times over the parent variety encouraged the growers to foster the crop until a 

 sufficient quantity should be secured to make an extensive and thorough trial of it 

 in all sections of the State. These trials have produced marvelous results, the aver- 

 age yield of it being 18 per cent more than any other sort on the same soil. 



Its milling and baking qualities have been thoroughly tested and found equal to 

 the best of the older and well-known sorts generally grown in the large wheat pro- 

 ducing sections. Peck 60c; bushel $1.75; 5 bushels $8.50 



ASSINIBOIA FIFE SPRING WHEAT. 



This Wheat is beyond question the hardest and best milling Wheat known. Other 

 favorites are earliness, vigor of growth, productiveness, purity and healthfulness. 

 Adapted to all states where Spring Wheat can be grown. 

 Peck 50c; bushel $1.65; 5 bushels $8.00 



VELVET CHAFF OR BLUE STEM WHEAT. 



The most popular Spring Wheat for the Middle West. It is a large yielder, pro- 

 ducing heavy crops where other sorts fail. Its milling qualities compare favorably 

 with Fife. Peck 50c; bushel $1.65; 5 bushels $8.00 



RAPE— True Dwarf Essex. 



Beware of the Kind of Rape Seed you Sow — There is only one sort of any value in 

 this country for sheep feed, and that is the True Dwarf Essex. Look with suspicion 

 upon all others, no matter under what name they appear. Some are worthless as 

 fodder plants, while others are offered under new names with glowing descriptions, 

 for the purpose of extorting a higher price from the buyer. We import our Dwarf Essex Rape 

 Seed every year from headquarters in England, and know it to be genuine and of the very best 

 quality, which alone is sufficient guarantee, worth much more than the price of the seed. The 

 easiest cultivated and most profitable plant for sheep, hog or cattle feed known. The cost per 

 acre never exceeding 4 5c. is so small as to be scarcely worth taking into account. It can be sown 

 in early spring along with Oats or Rye, and eaten off by sheep within a week or so after harvest. 

 It can also be sown on Oat, Rye or Wheat stubble, or on any vacant land up to the end of July, 

 and will yield an immense crop of green fodder in six to eight weeks from the time of sowing — 

 nothing like it for sheep feed. The feed furnished by Rape is unsurpassed as a fattened for sheep 

 and nogs, being superior to clover, and sheep pastured on it gain rapidly- in weigjit. A fair 

 idea of the value of Rape can be had from the following. At the Michigan Experiment Sta- 

 tion 12S Lambs were pastured for 8 weeks on 



MINNESOTA 

 HO. 169 WHEAT 





One Acre 

 of RA|EWill 

 Pasture 36 Sheep 

 for Two Months. 



5 acres of Rape and showed the magnificent 

 total gain of 2.S90 lbs., or almost 3 lbsjj per 

 lamb for each week they were on this Rape 

 feed, and all at the small cost for seeding 

 of 45c p.er acre. Prof. W. .A. Henry. Direc- 

 tor of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, says: "We had half an acre 

 of Rape this year, 1S94. which gr ve an actual 

 yield by weighing of 9 a 4 tonus., or at 'the rate 

 of 19^2 tons per acre, and this. too. in spite of 

 the great drought. Rape should be sown in 

 drills at the rate of 3 lbs'.' per acre, or:broad- 

 cast, using 4 to 6 lbs. per acre, all through 

 the summer months, so as to Ct/fnish a 

 successive crop of sheep- feed. 'Owing to 

 its being a great grower in woo] weather. 

 Rape can be sown up to the first days of Au- 

 gust. 



Per lb. 10c: by mail 20c per lb.: 12 lbs. for 

 75/c; 25 lbs. for $1.35: 50 lbs. for $2.60; 100 



lbs. for $5.00. 



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Thousand Headed Kale-r-Like Dwarf Essex 

 Rape, this is a valuable foragelorop. Sow 



Tile seed in sprint;- in raws 12 t& IS inches 

 apart, using about 1 lb. to the acre. Pkt. 

 5c: U lb. 10c: 1 lb., by mail, 30c: 6 lbs., by 

 express, $1.00. 



