CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL QUIDE. 



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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 sus- 

 picion 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. We impurt our Dwarf Essex Kape 

 Seed every year from headquarters in England, 

 and know^ it to be genuine, and of the very best qual- 

 ity, which alone is a sufiBcient 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 harv- 

 est. It can also besown 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 hogs, 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 Station 128 L,ambs were 



pastured for 8 weeks on 5 acres of Rape and 

 showed the magnificent total gain of 8,890 lbs., 

 or almost 3 lbs. per lamb for each week they were on 



__ Henry, Director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Sta- 



lavs'""' Wehad halfan a^cTe of Rape this year, 1894, which gave an actual yield by weighing of 9% tons, or at the rate of 19^ tons per acre, 

 is too in spite of the great drought " Rape should be sown in drills at the rate of 3 lbs. per acre, or broadcast, using 4 to 6 lbs. per acre, 



re of 



(vill Pasture 



ep for Two 



ne feed, and all at the small cost for seeding of 45 cts. per acre. Prof. W. A. 



fough the summer months so as to furnish a successive crop of sheep feed 

 yn up to the first days of August. 



Owing to its being a great grower in cool weather Rape can 



I Per lb., 15 cts. 

 as lbs. for 



10 lbs. for 81.00 



80 lbs. for 83.50 



8.00 100 lb«. for 



WHEN REQUIRED BY MAIL, ADD 8 CTS. PER LB. FOR POSTAGE. 



6.50 



A Great 

 Iney Maker for the Farmer. 



MANDSCHEURI BARLEY. 



The.... 

 Heaviest Cropper Known. 



EARLIEST, 

 ONQEST 



[awed and, 

 [mpest"*^ 



WED SORT 



»WN. 



! GRANDEST 



BEST 

 LDINQ BAR= 



EVER IN. 

 )DUCED IN 

 fe UNITED 

 iTES. 



A CHANGE OP 

 SEED TO THIS 

 VARIETY WILL 

 MORE THAN 

 DOUBLE YOUR 

 CROPS. IT 

 CAME OUT ON 

 TOP in a COM- 

 PARATIVE TEST 

 OF THIRTY- 

 SEVEN VARIE. 

 TIES. 



MandSCHEUB( — Is an early six-rowed variety, maturing in So to 90 days from time of sowing, very strong strawed and stools well, bearing 

 :e, well-filled heads of beautCful plump-berried grain, possessing malting qualities of a high order, and adapting itself readily to a wonderful 

 iety of soils. 



Mandscheurj, in a comparative test of 37 varieties sown under the same conditions, and with no attempt made at getting above an average 

 3, easily outdistanced the whole field by an average yield of 15 bushels more per acre. In Milwaukee and Waukesha Counties, where our stock 

 s grown for seed last season, it yielded extraordinary crops, double the quantity of any Barley growing in the same sections. 



Prof Henry, of the Wisconsin Agricultural Kxperiment Station, is loud in its praises, and hopes that its cultivation will become genera 

 oughout all our Barley-growing states. The introduction of Manshury is reckoned as having been worth millions of dollars to our farm 

 and we are confident, from the Agricultural Station reports and from our own experience, that this new Barley will eclipse Manshury in 

 • of yield and value of product. 



We offer specially grown seed from the genuine imported stock, thoroughly cleaned: 

 Per peck, 50 cts.; per bushel, $1.25 ; 2li bushel lots, $2.75 ; 5 bushel lots, $5.00. 



nshury — 6-rowed sort, long heads well filled, straw long, is later than the common 6-rowed and a very heavy yielder. Peck. 40 cts.; 

 I bushel, $1.00; 2'^ bushels „ :.... ■. $2.25 



otch— A strong-growing 6-rowed sort. Peck, 40 cts.; bushel, $1.00; 2^ bushels ,..,.. 2.25 



