LIST OF CHOICE FARM SEEDS FOR 1912. 



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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 

 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. 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 it^ 

 milling and baking qualities. Peck 50c; bushel $1.75; 2% bushels $4.25 



MINNESOTA No. 169 SPRING WHEAT. 



The only Wheat awarded a "Grand Prisee" (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 extensive 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 produc- 

 ing sections. Peck 50c; bushel $1.75; 2V 2 bushels $4.25 



ASSINIBOIA 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 BLUE 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 



Winter Wheat — Turkey Red and Red Clawson. Prices on application. 



MINNESOTA 

 NO. 169 WHEAT. 



DURUM OR 

 MACARONI WHEAT 



DWARF ESSEX RAPE, 



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. 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 fat- 

 tener 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, it can be sown up to the first 

 days of August. 



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

 $1.00; 25 lbs. for $1.75; 50 lbs. for $3.25; 100 

 lbs. for $6.50. 



ONE ACRE OF RAPE WILL PASTURE 38 

 SHEEP FOR TWO MONTHS. 



