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OURRIE BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 



WHEAT. 



DURUM OR 

 MACARONI WHEAT. 



DWARF ESSEX RAPE 



DURUM OR MACARONI (Variety Kubanka.) 



The Most Valuable Wheat for Dry and Semi-Arid Sections, Yielding Heavy 



Crops Where Other Sorts Pail. 



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

 tremely resistent of drought, the attack of fungus pests, rust and smut, always 

 furnishing an excellent hard grain. 



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

 and t'he extreme Western States, in some instances reaching 80 bushels per 

 acre. We have before us reports of crops of Blue Stem Wheat in North Dakota 

 not worth harvesting, while in the adjoining fields Durum Wheat yielded close 

 to 30 bushels per acre. 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 50c; bushel $1.65; 2V 2 bushels $4.00 



MINNESOTA No. 169 SPRING WHEAT. 



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

 World's Pair, 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. 



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

 tion in 1902, ten years after being started from a single seed of Blue Stem 

 Wheat. During 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 ex- 

 tensive and thorough trial of it in all sections of the state. These trials pro- 

 duced marvelous results, the average 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 producing sections. Peck 50c; 



bushel $1.75; 2% bushels $4.25 



ASS1NIBOIA FIFE SPRING WHEAT. 



The Hardest and Best Milling Wheat Known. Other good qualities are earliness, 

 vigor of growth and productiveness. Adapted to all states where Spring 



Wheat can be grown. Peck 50c; bushel $1.75; 2% bushels $4.25 



VELVET CHAFF OR BLIE STEM WHEAT. 



A popular Spring Wheat in the Middle West. It is a large yielder, producing 

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

 with Fife. Peck 50c; bushel $1.75 ; 2% bushels $4.25 



RAPE— TRUE DWARF ESSEX. Minnesota 



NO. 169 WHEAT. 



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 sus- 

 picion 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 p.urpose of ex- 

 torting a higher price from the buyer. The easiest cultivated and most profitable plant for sheep, 

 hog or cattle feed known. The cost per acre never exceeding 45c, 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 fattener for sheep and hogs, 

 being superior to clover, and sheep pastured 

 on it gain rapidly in weight. Rape should be 

 sown in drills at the rate of 3 lbs. per acre, 

 or broadcast, using 4 to 6 lbs. per acre, all 

 through the summer months, so as to furnish 

 a successive crop of sheep feed. Owing to 

 its being a great grower in cool weather, ir. 

 can be sown up to the first days of August. 



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

 $1.00; 25 lbs. for $1.65; 50 lbs. for $3.00; 100 

 lbs. for $5.50. 



ONE ACRE OF RAPE WILL PASTURE 36 

 SHEEP FOR TWO MONTHS. 



