OF CHOICE FARM SEEDS FOR 1914. 
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Vicia Villosa. SAND OR HAIRY VETCH. Sandwicken. 
One of the most valuable fodder plants for the West and Northwestern States, owing to its 
adaptability to withstand severe drought, heat and cold. The vines are very similar to Pea 
vines, but are more slender and much more thickly clad with leaves and side stems, which fur- 
nish nice, succulent feed. Individual plants will make a 10-foot growth before going to seed. 
Sand Vetch is without an equal. From sowings made in August an 
excellent late Fall pasturage for sheep or hogs can be had in 50 days, 
the plants being by that time two feet in height. After close eating it 
can be left to prevent soil washing during Winter and Spring. It is one of the first plants to 
start into growth in spring and will be again ready to pasture by May, or it can be allowed to 
mature for green cutting or for a Hay crop. Hos, sheep, and catile eat it with great relish. 
The Washington Department of Agriculture estimates the value of a 
plowed-under crop of this Vetch as equivalent to putting into the ground 
$16 to $45 worth of commercial fertilizers per acre. Sow in either fall or spring, at the rate of 
30 lbs. per acre, broadcast, with the addition of one-half bushel Rye or Oats to furnish support 
for the vines. On rich soil it yields enormous crops of green fodder, from 10 to 15 tons to the acre; equal to 3 to 4 tons 
when cured as dried Hay. It is also a remarkable grower on sandy and thin land. 60 lbs. to the bushel. Per Ib, 15ce; by 
mail 25¢e; 10 Ibs. $1.25; 25 Ibs. $3.00; 100 Ibs, $11.50. 
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 worth- 
less as fodder plants, while others are offered under new names with glowing descriptions, for the purpose of extorting a 
Fe Ss es higher price from the buyer. The easiest cultivated and most profitable plant for sheep, hog or 
on FNS cattle feed Known. The cost per acre never exceeding 50c, is so small as to be scarcely worth 
GENIN taking into account. It can be sown in early spring along with Oats or Rye, and eaten off by 
SE “eal sheep within a week or so after harvest. It 
A) 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 unsur- 
passed as a fattener for sheep and hogs, be- 
ing 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, it can 
be sown up to the first days of August. 
Per lb. 10c; by mail 20e per 1b; 12 lbs. for 
$1.00; 25 lbs. for $1.85; 50 lbs, for $3.50; 100 
lbs, for $6.50. 
ONE ACRE OF RAPE WILL PASTURE 36 
SHEEP FOR TWO MONTHS. 
As a Pasture Plant for 
Late Fall and Early Spring. 
Value as a Fertilizer. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE. AN 
THOUSAND-HEADED KALE. 
Like Dwarf Essex Rape, this is a valuable forage crop. Sow the Seed in Spring in rows 12 to 18 inches apart, using 
about 1 lb. to the acre. 
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All Seeds on This Page Subject to Market Fluctuations, 
