CURRIE BROTHERS COMPANY, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
DURUM OR 
MACARONI WHEAT. 
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DWAKF BSSEX RAPE 
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 fur- 
nishing an excellent hard grain, with an increase in quantity and quality of gluten, 
a without a corresponding decrease in yield, as is the case with other sorts of 
wheat. 
Enormous yields of Durum Wheat are reported from Kansas, Dakota, Nebraska 
and the extreme Western States, in some instanees reaching 80 bushels per acre. We 
have before us reports of erops of Blue Stem Wheat in North Dakota not worth har- 
vesting, while in the adjoining fields Durum Wheat yielded close to 30 bushels per 
acre. Since the commercial value of Durum Wheat has become known and estab- 
lished its production has increased with rapid strides, and it is now taking the place 
of the older and well-known varieties to a great extent. It is now considered a 
Wheat of the highest class, ranking with Hard Spring and Hard Winter Wheat in its 
milling and baking qualites. Peck 50c; bushel $1.50; 24% bushels...... TOS Oho o $3.50 
MINNESOTA No. 162 SPRING WHEAT. 
The only Wheat awarded a “Grand Prize” (the highest possible award) at the 
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In 1902 the result of trials made by S89 farmers in Minnesota show the average 
yield of Minnesota No. 169 Wheat to be 1S per cent. more than any cther variety of 
wheat. 
its milling and baking qualities are the best. 
Minnesota No. 169 Wheat was first sent out by the Minnesota Experiment Station 
in 1902, ten years after being started from a single seed of Blue Stem Wheat. Dur- 
ing 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 haye produced marvelous results, the aver- 
age 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 pro- 
ducing sections. Peck 50c; bushel $1.50; 2% bushels....... 2. ce ee eee eee ee $3.50 
‘ASSINIBOIA FIFE SPRING WHEAT. 
This is beyond question the hardest and best milling Wheat known. Other good 
qualities are earliness, vigor of growth, productiveness, purity and healthfulness. 
Adapted to all states where Spring Wheat can be grown. 
Peck 50c; bushel $1.50; 274 bushels... 2... csc cece eee Filis. SMiey Sbibeke Miele do Tas tga ave $3.50 
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 $1.50; 214 bushels. ...5. .-.08 Wie eee cee org. oxsippess ged sa ntere weeny pis «fran $3.50 
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 worthless as _MINNESOTA 
fodder plants, while others are offered under new names with glowing descriptions, NO. 169 WHEAT 
for the purpose of extorting a higher price from the buyer. We impert our Dwarf Essex Rape 
Seed every year from headquarters in England, and know it to be genuine and of the very best 
quality, which alone is sufficient guarantee, worth much more than the price. of the seed. 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 hegs, being superior to clover, and sheep pastured on it gain rapidly in weight. <A fair 
idea of the value of Rape can be had from the following. At the Michigan Experiment Sta- 
tion 128 Lambs were pastured for 8 weeks on 
5 aeres of Rape and showed the magnificent 
total gain of 2,890. lbs., or almost 3 Ibs. per 
lamb for each week they were on the Rape 
feed, and all at the small cost for seeding 
of 45c per acre. Prof. W. A. Henry, Direc- 
tor of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, says: “We had half an acre 
-of Rape this year, 1894, which gave an actual 
yield by weighing of 934 tons, or at the rate 
of 19% tons per acre, and this, too, in spite of 
the great drought. Rape should be sown in 
drills at the rate of 3 Ibs. per acre, or broad- 
east, 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, 
Rape can be sown up to the first days. of 
August. 
Per lb. 10e; by mail 20e per lb.; 12 Ibs. for 
75e; 25 Ibs. for $1.35; 50 Ibs. for $2.60; 100 
lbs. for $5.00. 
ONE ACRE OF RAPE WILL PASTURE 
36 SHEEP FOR TWO MONTHS. 
