34 CURRIE BROTHERS’ FARM AND GARDEN ANNUAL. 
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RECLEANED OATS, WHEAT, ETC 
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A dc not claim impossible yields for our Grains, nor do we advertise them to perform miracles, bu. we grow and | 
offer varieties that are unsurpassed in quality and productiveness, and such as cannct fail to give satisfaction!) 
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We have numerous [etters from 
our cusiomers of last year, claim= 
ing that our Improved Prize Cluster 
Oats were the Earliest, Best and 
Largest Yielder they ever grew. 
OATS. 
IMPROVED PRIZE CLUSTER. 
The Earliest of All Oats—To maintain high- 
grade Oats it is necessary to have a change of seed 
every few years so as to keep up our standard of 
excellence, for Oats grown on the same soil year after 
year gradually become light and chaffy. We have 
for the past 6 years been working up a stock of Prize 
Cluster Oats from the parent stock, of which the 
director of the lowa Experimental Station spoke so 
highly. In his report he places Prize Cluster at the 
head of the list of all varieties tested, both for bulk 
of crop and weight per bushel. It is a white variety, 
with very large heads and heavy, plump grain, straw 
of medium growth and entirely rust-proof. In our 
selected Prize Cluster Oats we claim to have one of 
the best, heaviest and thinnest shelled Oats in cul- 
tivation. 
Peck 40c; bushel $1.25; 2k bushels for $3.00: 
BUSI poy Oe ee $5.50 
Michigan Wsnder—An 
early white Oat of vigorous 
habit. Itis a prolific yielder, 
straw medium long, remarka- 
bly strong; and we have never 
known it to lodge. 
Peck 35¢; bushel $1.00: : 
23 bushels for «2.2... $2.25 
Black Gotham—A very 
prolific. sort of vigorous 
growth, yielding as high as 
100 bushels to the acre. 
Peck 35e; bushel $1.00; 24 
bushels for.......2..02222... $2.25 
BUCKWHEAT. 
Silver Hull—This variety sown at the same tim| 
as the common Buckwheat, continues in bloo1/| 
longer, matures a few days sooner, and yields near] 
double under the same conditions. The flour if 
whiter and more nutritious. 
Peck 40c; bushel $1.00; 24 bushels ......... --cse...--- $2.| 
Japanese—An early and very prolific variety 
with kernels about double the size of ordinary sorts 
It ripens a week earlier than the Silver Hull an 
yields at least twice as much. 
Peck 40c : oushel $1.00 ; 24 bushels a 
Commen —Peck 30c bushel see ae eee 
; Subject to market fluctuations. 
RYE. 
Rye is a crop that should be more extensivel. 
grown by all our farmers. It is a paying crop, eve), 
on poor sandy soils, yielding as much as 35 bushel 
per acre, while on light rich soils it would not be tor 
much to expect up to 60 bushels per acre. It is alsi 
a very valuable crop with which to seed dow) 
grasses, owing to the fact that it matures so early. 
giving the grasses a longer growing season afte 
harvesting. | 
Spring—This variety is invaluable as a catch ero] 
for sowing where winter wheat has failed ; amixtur 
of this and Sand Vetches will furnish a lusty feed fo} 
cattle all through the summer. Cut for green feet 
first ong aiterwards pasture the Vetches with shee] 
or cattle. 
Peck 50c; bushel $1.25; 24 bushels.........--..-.-------- $2.7! 
Winter—Peck 50c: bushel $1.25; 2} bushels. 2.7! 
Hungarian Winter—A remarkably hardy an¢ 
strong growing variety, outyielding all other sorts 
and of superior milling qualities. 
Peck 60c ; bushel $1.35 ; 24 btishels...........-0..c--000- $3.0 
SPRING WHEAT. 
Subject to market fluctuations. 
Saskatchewan Fife—This wheat is beyond 
question the hardiest and best milling wheal 
known. Other favorite features are earliness, vigor 
oi growth, productiveness, purity and héalthiness. 
Adapted to all states where Spring Wheat can be 
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Peck 50c; bushel $1.50; 23 bushels............--.2--:.-- $3.25. 
SPELTZ. 
Emmer. 
Recently introduced into this 
country from Russia, wheres 
its value as a cereal has iong ¥ NWS 
been esteemed. Very heavy \¥ 
crops of it have been reported 
from many sections in this 
country. It appears to do 
better than any other grain 
crop on poor thin soil and in 
extremely dry seasons. It is 
eaten greedily by all kinds of 
stock, including poultry, and 
its feeding qualitiesaresaidto & 
be excellent. A very fairflour 
is made from it. By many 
Speltz is supposed to be the 
grain grown by the Egyptians . 
in the time of Moses. We be-, 
lieve it worthy of a trial. | 
Sow broadcastsame as oats, 
using about 75 lbs to the acre. 
1 lb. 10c; 10 lbs. 35¢e; 59 
Ibs, $1.40; 100 Ibs... $2.75 
RUSSIAN FLAX. 
When grown for seed with- 
out regard to fibre, sow from 
2 to 3 pecks of seed tothe acre. .\W 
If fine fibre is wanted,sow from 
13 to 2 bushels to the acre. so 
as to grow clean, straight ¥ 
slender straw. Te 
1b. 10c ; peck 65c ; bushel \ 
$2.00 
PEAS. 
Field Varieties. 
Very valuable crops for 
plowing under, or sown in 
combination with Oats and 
cut while the Oats and Peas 
are in the milk; they make VELVET CHAT EOE BLUE STEM 
excelent foo os LO AOS, The most popular Spring Wheat for the Middle 
Canadian White—Bushel ._.......--"__._...$1.50' -qyest, “This a large: yielder. producing heavy crops 
Canadian Blue—Bushel............................ 1.60 where other sorts fail. Its milling qualities compare 
Scotch—Bushel...............-....--.. 1.65 favorably with Saskatchewan Fife. The stock we 
offer is pure and free from all impureties. 
See Garden Peas, pages 22 and 23 Peck 50c; bushel $1.50; 23 bushels ...........-.--+0+ $3.25 
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