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HEMBBIRSOBTS TESTED FA3RM SEED! 



CORN FOR 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 process which has destroyed the germ. The 

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



Price, $4.50 per bushel; 10 bushels and upwards, $4.40 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, $5.00 per bushel; 10 bushels and upwards, $4.90 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, $5.00 per bushel, 10 bushels and upwards, $4.90 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 

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



Price, $1.25 per peck; $4.50 per bushel; 10 bushels, $4.40 per bushel. 



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

 summer months. This is better than any field com, from the fad thai 

 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 1 ' •_> bushels of seed per acre. 



Price, $1.15 per peck; $4.00 per bushel; 10 bushels, $3.90 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, ID to 12 lbs. per acre; broadcast, 

 20 to 2."i lbs. per acre. Should be cut whin 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 quality of hay. 



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 oulgare.) 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. 



KAFFIR CORN 



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

 Rural Branching and of taller growth, often attaining a height of !t 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 ol 

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

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



Andropogon 

 Sorghum Van 



Kaffir Corn is a valuable forage plant, growing 4J^ to 6 feet high; 

 it is stocky, erect, and produces wide, luxuriant, succulent foliage, making 

 excellent fodder, either green or dried, highly relished by all kinds of 

 stock. Bach stalk produces from 2 to 4 long, narrow heads of gram. 

 Kaffir Corn has the quality common to all Sorghums, 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 3 4 to 1 bushel per acre. 

 When raised for forage it should be cut before heading out. For grain 

 SOW in rows :j feet apart using :j 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 

 tin' 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, 

 in ist 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 ~> feet high, with numerous wide leaves. 

 The grain crop is heavy being sometimes 50 to GO 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. Crows about five feet high, and is one of the surest 

 Crops lor dry countries and seasons, having in the driest seaMin in the past 

 1.") years in Kansas produced a crop, without irrigation when other foi age 

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



Teosinte. (Reana luxurians.) 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 i> desired to produce the maximum amount of forage should 

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



Price, 25c. \4 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 account 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 i< 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 simile 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. Si • 

 i ngraving.) 



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 co ip 



together, but the Buckwheat is the stronger l 

 and the Crimson Clover makes but little showing 

 until the Buckwheat is removed. If frost should kill 

 the Buckwheat b< fore ripe, it may be left as a protec- 

 tion, the dead Buckwheat being just the sort of mulch- 

 ing and protection needed by the Clover. The Crim- 

 son Clover and mulching 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, $3.50 per bushel of 48 lbs.; 10-bushel lots, 

 $3.40 per bushel. 



