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MINNESOTA NO. 169 SPRING WHEAT. 



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

 Fair, St. Louis, 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. 



First sent out by the Minnesota Experiment Station in 1902, ten years after being start- 

 ed from a single seed of Blue Stem Wheat. During that time it was carefully grown and 

 watched, and a greatly increased yield at all times over .the parent variety was easily ap- 

 parent. In comparative trials its average yield was found to be 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 60c; bushel $2.15; 5 bushels or over at $2.05 per bushel. 



MARQUIS WHEAT. 



The Wheat destined to "revolutionize wheat growing in the Northwest." Originated by 

 Dr. Chas. E. Saunders of the Central Experiment Station, Ottawa, Canada, by crossing Red 

 Fife and Red Calcutta, a very early Wheat from India, the result being a Wheat combining 

 the extreme earliness of the one with the frost resisting and heavy yielding qualities of the 

 other. It is a week to 10 days earlier than Red Fife or any other sort, and yields 5 to 10 

 bushels more per acre, the grain being flinty, short, wide, plump and deep amber in color. 

 The heads are very heavy, and the stalk stout and shorter than Red Fife. Beardless, ex- 

 cept for a few short awns at the top. Peck 60c; bushel $2.10; 5 bushels or over at $2.00 per 

 bushel. 



DURUM OR MACARONI. 



The Most Valuable Wheat For Dry and Semi-Arid Sections, Yielding Heavy Crops Where 

 Other Sorts Fail. It is extremely resistant 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 the 

 extreme Western States, in some instances reaching 80 bushels per acre. It is a Wheat of 

 the highest class, ranking with Hard Spring and Hard Winter Wheat in its milling and bak- 

 ing qualities. Peck 60c; bushel $2.10; 5 bushels or over at $2.00 per bushel. 



RED FIFE SPRING WHEAT. 



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

 of growth and productiveness. Beardless; kernels hard and flinty. Adapted to all states where 

 Spring Wheat can be grown. Peck 60c; bushel $2.10; 5 bushels or over at $2.00 per bushel. 



WINTER WHEAT — The leading varieties ready for delivery after harvest in summer. 

 Prices on application. 



SPELTZ OR EMMER. 



Should Have a Place on All Farms. A Sure Early Cropper in Any Kind of Soil and Under 

 All Conditons of Weather and Climate. Grand Drought Resister. Withstands the extremes of 

 heat and cold better than any cereal we know of. It is readily eaten by all kinds of stock, 

 including chickens, geese, horses, cattle, swine, and sheep, and its feeding qualities are ex- 

 cellent; is enormously productive and can be treated in the same manner as other grain. It 

 outyields oats, barley, wheat, etc., is not attacked by rust or smut, and is not harmed by 

 frost. Sow broadcast, using 60 to 80 lbs. per acre. Weight per bushel 40 lbs. Peck 45c; 

 bushel $1.45; 5 bushels $7.00. 



FLAX. 



When grown for Seed, sow from 2 to 3 pecks to the acre. If fine fibre is wanted, sow from 

 1% to 2 bushels to the acre, so as to grow clean, straight, slender straw. 



Primost (Minn. No. 25) — An improved variety, considerably earlier than Common Flax; yields 

 about a 25% larger crop and is more wilt-resistant. 1 lb. 10c (by mail 20c); peck $1.00; bushel 

 (56 lbs.) $3.50. 



Russian — The Standard sort. Common Flax is no longer sown to any extent, the Russian and 

 later improved strains having taken its place. Choice re-cleaned Seed. 1 lb. 10c (by mail 

 20c); peck 95c; bushel (56 lbs.) $3.40. 



Subject to Market Fluctuations. Two Bushel Seamless Bags, 20c each. 



