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CURRIE BROTHERS' HORTICULTURAL GUIDE. 



RECLEANED OATS, WHEAT, ETC. 



OATS. 



Improved.! Prize Cluster — 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 ex- 

 cellence, for Oats grown oh the same soil year afier 

 year gradually become light and chaffy. We have 

 for the past 2 years been working up a stock of 

 Prize Cluster Oats from the parent stock, of which 

 Prof. E. P. Spear, director of the Iowa Experiment- 

 al Station, spoke so highly. In his report for 1888 he 

 places Prize Cluster at the head of the list of 15 

 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 cultivation. 



Peck, 40cts.; bushel. $1.00; 2% bushels for 82.25; 

 5 bushels for $4.25 



Lincoln — The introduction of this variety a few 

 .years ago created quite a sensation amongst the 

 farmers who invested in it, and judging from the 

 -many reports we have had it proved an excellent 

 sort. The introducer ihus describes it : "The Lin- 

 coln Oat has produced one-third more than any 

 ■other variety grown in the same locality. It is very 

 •early, and thus far has proven entirely rust-proof. 

 It stands up better than any other sort, and is the 

 best for feeding on account of its thin hull and 

 Sieavy meat. 7 bushels produced 817 bushels 

 '21 lbs., or an average of 116 bushels to each 

 bushel sown. 



Peck, BOcts.; bushel,81.00; 2^ bushels for 82.25; 

 5 bushels for .". 4.25 



Black Prolific— A very prolific sort of vigorous 

 growth. 



Peck, 40 cts.; bushel, 81.00; iy 2 bushels for $2.25; 

 5 bushels for 4.25 



White Shoenen — A very large yielder; exten- 

 sively grown in Wisconsin. Grain plump and 

 iheavy; heads very large; straw stout. 



Peck, 40 cts. ; bushel, 81.00; 2; 2 bushels for $2.25; 

 5 bushels for 4,25 



White Probestier — A leading white variety. It 

 is very productive, plump grained, and has very 

 strong straw, a great yielder and ripens medium 

 early. We have a lot of this well-known Oat grown 

 .and specially cleaned for seed purposes. 



Peck. 40 cts.; bushel, 75 cts.; 1% bushels for 

 $1.75; 5 bushels for 3.25 



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 excellent feed for 

 anilch cows. 



'{Canadian White— Bushel 1.00 



Canadian Blue — Bushel 1.00 



Scotch— Bushel 1.00 



Subject to market fluctuations. 



(See Garden Peas, pages 20 and 21.) 



BARLEY. 



Mandscheuri — It is an early six-rowed variety, 

 maturing in 80 to 90 days from time of sowing, very 

 strong strawed and stools well, bearing large, well- 

 iilled heads of beautiful piump-berried grain, possessing malting qualities 

 of a high order, and adapting itself readily to a wonderful variety of soils. 



Mandscheuri, in a comparative test of 37 varieties sown under the same 

 conditions, and with no attempt made at getting above an average crop, 

 easily outdistanced the whole field by an average yield of 15 bushels more 

 per acre. 



Prof. Henry, of the Wisconsin Agricultural Experiment Station, is loud 

 in its praises, and hopes that its cultivation will become general throughout 

 all our Barley-growing states, The introduction of Manshury is reckoned 

 as having been worth millions of dollars to our farmers, and we are confident, 

 from the Agricultural Station reports and from our own experience, that, this 

 siew Barley will eclipse Manshury in size of yield and value of product. 



We offer specially grown seed from the genuine imported stock, thor- 

 oughly cleaned : 

 Per peck, 50 cts.; per bushel, 81.25; iy 2 bushel lots 82.75; 5 bushel lots.. 5.00 



IMPROVED PRIZE CLUSTER. 



BARLEY-Continued. 



Manshury — The most popular variety of Barley 

 grown. It is a six-rowed sort, long heads' well filled, 

 straw long, is later than the common six-rowed and 

 a very heavy yielder. 

 Peck, 40 cts.; bushel, $1.00; iy 2 bushels 82.25 



Scotch — This variety takes precedence of all 

 others with maltsters; six-rowed. 



Peck, 40 cts.; bushel, $1.00; 2}^ bushels 2.25 



BUCKWHEAT. 



Silver Hull— This variety, sown at the same 

 time as the common Buckwheat, continuesin bloom 

 longer, matures a few days sooner, and yields nearly 

 double under the same conditions. The flour is 

 whiter and more nutritious. 

 Peck, 40 cts.; bushel, $1.00; 2}A bushels 2.25 



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 

 and yields at least twice as much. 

 Peck, 40 cts.; bushel, 81.00; 2V£ bushels 2.25 



Common— Peck, 30 Cts.; bushel 85 



Subject to market fluctuations. 



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 yielding as much as 35 bushels 

 per acre, while on light rich soils it would not be 

 too much to expect up to 60 bushels per acre. It is 

 also a very valuable crop to seed down Grasses with, 

 owing to the fact that it matures so early, giving the 

 grasses a longer growing season after harvesting. 



Spring — This variety is invaluable as a catch 

 crop for sowing where winter wheat has failed, a 

 mixture of this and Sand Vetches will furnish a 

 lusty feed for cattle all through the summer. Cut 

 for green feed first and afterwards pasture the 

 Vetches with sheep or cattle. 



Peck, 50 cts.; bushel, 81.25; 2% bushels 2.75 



Winter— Peck, 50 cts.; bushel, 81.25; 2% 

 bushels 2.75 



Hungarian Winter — A. remarkably hardy and 

 strong growing variety, outyielding all other sorts, 

 and of superior milling qualities. 



Peck, 60 cts.; bushel, 81.50; 2% bushels S.25 



SPRING WHEAT. 



Subject to market fluctuations. 



Saskatchewan Fyfe— This wheat is beyond 

 question the hardest and best milling wheat 

 known. Other favorite features areearliDess, vigor 

 of growth, productiveness, purity and healthiness. 

 Adapted to all States where Spring Wheat can be 

 grown. 

 Peck, 50 cts.; bushel, $1.75; V/ 2 bushels 4.00 



WINTER WHEAT. 



Subject to market fluctuations. 



Early Red Clawson (Bald) 

 Early Genesee Giant (Half Bald) 

 Bearded Winter Fife (Jones) 

 The International No. 6 (Bald) 



I For full description see Fall List 



published middle of August. 

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