LIST OF CHOICE FARM SEEDS FOR 1921. 



43 



Speltz or Emmer. 



WHEAT 



MARQUIS WHEAT 



The Wheat destined to "revolutionize wheat growing- in the Northwest." Originated at 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, except for a few short awns at the top. Peck 90c; bushel $3.25; 

 5 bushels or over at $3.10 per bushel. 



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 showed the average 

 yield of Minnesota No. 169 Wheat to be 18 per eent. more than any other variety of Wheat. De- 

 veloped from Haynes' Blue Stem and first sent out by the Minnesota Experiment Station in 1902. 

 In comparative trials its average yield has been 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 produc- 

 ing sections. Peck 90c; bushel $3.25; 5 bushels or over at $3.10 per bushel. 



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 extremely re- 

 sistant 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 ex- 

 treme Western States, in some instances reaching 80 bushels per acre. Again and again during 

 recent years there have been reports of crops of Blue Stem Wheat in North Dakota not worth 

 harvesting, while in the adjoining fields Durum Wheat yielded close to 80 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 90c; bushel $3.25; 5 bushels or over at $3.10 

 per bushel. 



RYE 



Rye is a crop that should be more extensively grown by all our farmers. It is a paying crop, 

 even on poor, sandy soils. It is also a very valuable crop with which to seed down grasses. 

 Spring — This Rye is invaluable as a catch crop for sowing where winter wheat has failed. Peck 



75c; bushel $2.75. 

 Wisconsin Pedigree Rye No. 1 — A strain of winter Rye secured after a dozen years of the most 

 careful selective breeding at the Wisconsin Experiment Station. It was developed from "Pet- 

 kus," but the new grain outyields even that fine, heavy yielding sort. The straw is very long, 

 strong and stiff, not lodging readily even on rich soils, the kernel is uniformly very large and 

 plump heads of unusual length. A year or two ago the average yield reported by the mem- 

 bers of the Experiment Station was 8.7 bushels per acre more than the average yield of com- 

 mon Winter Rye. Yields of 40 to 50 bushels per acre are very common. ^Peck 65c; bushel $2.50. 



FIELD PEAS FOR FEEDING. 



Canadian Field Peas can be very profitably sown along with oats and either eaten off the 

 field by cattle or hogs, or allowed to ripen, when they can be readily separated by any farm 

 seed mill. In this -way two crops can be grown at the one cultivation. 



Sow broadcast, if alone, 3 bushels of Peas per acre (60 lbs. to the bushel), or in combination 

 1% bushels of Peas to 1% bushels of Oats, mixed, to the acre. 



Canadian White — Per 100 lbs $6.25 



Canadian Blue — Per 100 lbs $7.25 



Scotch — Per 100 lbs $7.25 



SPELTZ OR EMMER 



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

 Conditions 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 excellent; is enorm- 

 ously productive and can be treated in the same manner as other grain. It outyields oats bar- 

 ley, 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 50c; bushel $1.75; 5 bushels $8.25 



Seed Offered on This Page, Subject to Market Fluctuations. 

 Two Bushel Seamless Bags, 50c each. 



