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[EMBERSOH'S TESTED FARM SEEDS 



CORN FOK FODDEK AND ENSILAGE 



Southern Horse Tooth. Grows to a large size, is very leafy and well 

 adapted for ensilage. Large quantities of this corn are sold by feed 

 and other stores which usually result in disappointment to the farmer. 

 There is no corn more difficult to cure or keep properly, and much of it 

 is kiln-dried, while large quantities have been stored in elevators and 

 gone through a sweating pocess which has destroyed the germ. The 

 stock we offer is carefully selected and sun-dried and of high germination. 

 {See engraving.) 



Price, $5.00 per bushel; 10 bushels and upwards, $4.90 per bushel. 



Improved Early Horse Tooth. Being nearly two weeks earlier, this 

 variety is better adapted for fodder and ensilage in the Northern States 

 than the ordinary Southern Horse Tooth. 



Price, $5.50 per bushel; 10 bushels and upwards, $5.40 per bushel. 



Rural Thoroughbred White Flint. An early variety, valuable for the 

 Northern States. Owing to its suckering and branching habit, it yields 

 enormously. 



Price, $5.50 per bushel, 10 bushels and upwards, $5.40 per bushel 



Evergreen Sweet Fodder Corn. Fodder grown from the Evergreen 

 Sweet Corn is superior in quality to that of the ordinary field varieties, 

 being richer, sweeter and more digestible. The best plan is to sow in 

 rows 24 to 30 inches apart, using one bushel of corn per acre. 



Price, $1.50 per peck; $5.50 per bushel; 10 bushels, $5.40 per bushel. 



Sweet Fodder Corn. Best for cutting and feeding green during the 

 summer months. This is better than any field corn, from the fact that 

 it is so very sweet and nutritious that cattle will eat every part of the 

 stalk and leaves with relish. Drill thickly, in rows three feet apart 

 using \ x /i bushels of seed per acre. 



Price, $1.40 per peck; $5.00 per bushel; 10 bushels, $4.90 per bushel. 



SUGAR CANE AND BROOM CORN 



Sugar Cane, Early Amber. Of great value for cutting green and 

 feeding green during hot weather in summer, when pastures are apt to 

 be burned up. Being a tropical plant, it makes its best growth during 

 just such weather, and cattle, horses and sheep relish it, and it may be 

 fed to them with safety. Sow in drills, 10 to 12 lbs. per acre; broadcast, 

 20 to 25 lbs. per acre. Should be cut when about 2 feet high, and will 

 yield several such cuttings. Earlier than the Orange and may be 

 grown even in Northern States. Cured in the same way as a heavy 

 crop of Clover, it makes an excellent qualitv of hav. 



Price, 16c. per lb.; $12.00 per 100 lbs. 



Sugar Cane, Early Orange. Produces a larger and heavier growth 

 than the Amber but is later. Price, 16c. per lb.; $12.00 per 100 lbs. 



Broom Corn, Evergreen. Entirely free from all crooked brush, and 

 remains strictly green, consequently always commands the highest 

 market price. Price, 16c. lb.; $12.00 per 100 lbs. 



Rural Branching Doura. {Millo maize, Sorghum vulgare.) A wonder- 

 fully productive fodder plant that makes a great amount of foliage, and 

 can be cut several times in the season. Plant 4 to 5 lbs. to the acre. 



Price, 16c. lb.; $12.00 per 100 lbs. 



Yellow Branching Doura. ( Yellow millo maize.) Earlier than the 

 Rural Branching and of taller growth, often attaining a height of 9 to 

 12 feet, but it does not stool out quite as much from the ground, although 

 it branches out from the .joints. It produces an enormous quantity of 

 fodder, for which stock show a marked partiality. Plant 4 lbs. to the 

 acre. Price, 16c. lb.; $12.00 per 100 lbs. 



KAFFIR CORN £$2?%,. 



Kaffir Corn is a valuable forage plant, growing 

 \Yi to 6 feet high; it is stocky, erect, and pro- 

 duces wide, luxuriant, succulent foliage, making 

 excellent fodder, either green or dried, highly 

 relished by all kinds of stock. Each stalk pro- 

 duces from 2 to 4 long, narrow heads of grain. 

 Kaffir Corn has the quality common to all Sorg- 

 hums, of resisting droughts, and in this fact is to 

 be found its peculiar value, especially in Southern 

 and Western sections, where it has yielded paying 

 crops of grain and forage even in seasons so dry 

 that Corn utterly failed. The culture is the same 

 as for Field Corn, and when sown alone Kaffir 

 Corn should be broadcasted at the rate of from 

 fi to 1 bushel per acre. When raised for forage 

 it should be cut before heading out. For grain 

 sow in rows 3 feet apart using 3 to 5 lbs. of seed 

 to the acre. In many sections Kaffir Corn is 

 sown broadcast with Cow Peas, using a peck 

 of Kaffir Corn to a bushel of Cow Peas. It then 

 acts as a support to the Peas which produce 

 a much larger crop when grown in this way. 

 They can both be harvested together, the 

 combination making an enormous crop of 

 highly nourishing feed. 



Red Kaffir Corn. This very leafy and juicy 

 variety is taller but more slender than the white, 

 ripens a little earlier and yields heavier. It 

 is also valuable for sowing on poor land, as 

 it will give better results under these conditions 

 than the White Kaffir Corn or other Sorghums, 

 most of which require a well-enriched soil. The 

 stalks and leaves are juicy and brittle, and make 

 very good fodder, greatly relished by cattle 

 whether fed to them green or dry. The grain or seed is readily eaten by 

 all live stock and poultry. Price, 16c. lb.; $12.00 per 100 lbs. 



White Kaffir Corn. Grows 4 to 5 feet high, with numerous wide leaves. 

 The grain crop is heavy being sometimes 50 to 60 bushels to the acre, 

 and its nutritive value is almost as good as other cereals. A fine food 

 for poultry. Price, 16c. lb.; $12.00 per 100 lbs. 



Jerusalem Corn. Grows about five feet high, and is one of the surest 

 crops for dry countries and seasons, having in the driest season in the past 

 15 years in Kansas produced a crop, without irrigation, when other forage 

 plants perished. 5 lbs. will plant an acre. Price, 18c. lb. ; $14.00 100 per lbs. 



Teosinte. (Reana luxurious.) The plant resembles Corn, but 

 is more leafy and tillers enormously. After cutting, it grows again with 

 remarkable rapidity. Those having only a small amount of land on 

 which it is desired to produce the maximum amount of forage should 

 grow Teosinte. Plant in drills, 6 to 8 lbs. per acre. 



Price, 25c. \i lb. ; 80c. per lb. 



HENDERSON'S JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT 



(First introduced into the United States by Peter Henderson & Co.) 



Since we introduced the Japanese Buckwheat, the tendency, on ac- 

 count of the hot, dry summers in the United States, has been for the 

 grain to gradually grow smaller. The seed we offer is grown from the 

 largest type imported from Japan and is much larger in grain than that 

 usually offered, being only one year removed from imported Japanese 

 seed. This variety' is now more generally grown than any other, but 

 to those to whom it may still be unknown we would say that the 

 kernels are at least twice the size of any other variety and of a shape 

 peculiar and distinct from all others. The color of the kernels is also 

 most distinct, being of a rich dark shade of brown. There is always a 

 good market for the grain as it is in demand for all purposes. For 

 bees it is of the greatest value and for this purpose has displaced all other 

 varieties. 



ALWAYS SOW WITH CRIMSON CLOVER 



An excellent plan is to sow Crimson Clover along with Buckwheat, 

 especially when put in late from middle of July to first of August. 

 They come up together, but the Buckwheat is the stronger grower 

 and the Crimson Clover makes but little showing until the Buckwheat 

 is removed. If frost should kill the Buckwheat before ripe, it may be 

 left as a protection, the dead Buckwheat being just the sort of mulching 

 and protection needed by the Clover. The Crimson Clover and mulch- 

 ing of Buckwheat can be plowed under in May and for Potatoes or Corn 

 there is no better preparation. Japanese Buckwheat is one of the 

 most satisfactory crops to sow on new or rough land, but Buckwheat 

 should invariably be sown as a second or catch crop, and we would 

 advise all growers to sow Crimson Clover along with it as recommended 

 above, for, even though the Buckwheat be killed by an early frost, the 

 value of its own humus is worth more than the cost of the seed in addition 

 to its value as a winter protection to the Clover. 



Price, $4.00 per bushel of 48 lbs.; 10-bushel lots, $3.90 per bushel. 



