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WHEAT. 



MINNESOTA NO. 169 SPRING WHEAT. DURUM OR MACARONI (Variety Kubanka.) 



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 S9 farmers in Min- 

 nesota show the average yield of Minnesota No. 169 Wheat to 

 be 18 per cent, more than any other variety of Wbeat. 

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

 sota Experiment Station 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 produced 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 



VELVET CHAFF OR BLUE STEM WHEAT. 



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

 yielder, producing heavy crops where other sorts fail, 

 milling qualities compare favorably with Fife. Peck 

 50c; bushel $1.75; 2% bushels $4.25 



Winter Wheat — Turkey Red, Red Clawson and Red Cross. 

 Ready for delivery after harvest in summer. Prices on 

 application. 



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

 Yielding Havy Crops Where Other Sorts Fail. 



Durum Wheat is particularly adapted t6 dry and semi- 

 arid districts, being 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 Kan- 

 sas, Dakota, Nebraska and the 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 ad- 

 joining 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 $1.75; 2% bushels. $4.25 



ASSINIBOIA FIFE SPRING WHEAT. 



The Hardest and Best Milling Wheat Known. Other good 

 qualities are earliness, vigor of growth and productive- 

 ness. Adapted to all states where Spring Wheat can be 

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



RAPE—TRUE DWARF ESSEX. 



pWARF ESSEX RAPE 



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. 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 tak- 

 ing 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 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 20c per lb.; 12 lbs. for 

 $1.00; 25 lbs. for $1.85; 50 lbs. for $3.50; 100 

 lbs. for $6.75. ' 



ONE ACRE OF RAPE WILL PASTURE 36 



SHEEP FOR TWO MONTHS, 



