22 PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK.—FORAGE PLANTS, ETC. ; 
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71838 py pereRHEN? 
ViEkCii 
Is perfectly hardy 
ted States, remaining green all w 
and should b mm during 
Sand or 
Winter 
te 
August and 
with Oats or Barl 
It grows to a h 
is the earliest crop for 
y a month earlier : >t 
Clover, and a full crop can be taken off 
the land in time for planting Spring cr 
Being much hardi 1 . | ] 
this is the forag 
Northern States, 
Winter kills, though it is equa 
in the South. 
It is eedingly nutritious, much 
gore so than Clover, is eaten with relish 
and may be fed with safety to all kinds 
of stock. 
Sow one bushel per acre with one-half 
bushel of Rye or Wheat. (See cut.) 12c. 
1b.. $5.50 bushel of 60 lbs.,100 lbs. $9.00 
1f by mail, add 8c. per lb. 
JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 
ts 
crstne 
“\ Waa // z — 
True Dwarf Essex Rape. 
Valuable for Cattle, Sheep and Hogs. 
In the Unit 
good land th: 
latter part o 
we have millions of acres of 
lie idle or run to weeds the 
, after the grain, potato and 
harvested, a large portion of 
in the greatest abundance, ata 
ep and hogs are roaming through 
h of canty living. Under 
it is ready for pasturing sheep or 
from time of sowing, and on 
ill carry twelve to fifteen sheep 
ths. When on the Rape they 
lave access to salt; but water is 
here are several varieties of Rape, 
d be taken to procure the Dwarf Essex, 
as it is some times called, which does not 
n as sown, unless in some excep- 
hen sown too early, and the young 
f In the Northern States, it 
to end of August for Fall 
g, but as it thrives best in cool weather, it 
not be sown in the Southern States until Sep- 
tember, or October for winter pasture. In the lati- 
tude of New York, it should be sown in April, or in 
July or August. Its fattening properties are prob- 
ably twice as good as those of Clover. 
nd f sheep the feeding value of 
er plants we know 
f. At the Michigan Expenment 
Station, 128 lambs were pastured for 
ight weeks on 15 acres of Rape sown 
1 ora 
ly and showed a gain of 2,890 
or at the rate of 3 lbs. per lamb 
Even so far South as 
week. 
1a, it has proved a boon to the 
In a recent bulletin pub- 
Alabar Expernment 
; state: ‘‘ Quality of pro- 
both hogs and cattle. 
Ss enormous. By re- 
zs, it will and did carry 
through our dry, hot sum- 
es the amount of 
planted in anything else ever 
here. I would recommend it 
outhern farmers."" To secure 
s > Rape should be 
. Sow four Ibs. per 
acre broadcast two to three Ibs. pcr 
acre in drills. (See cut.) Price of 
True Dwarf Essex Rape, 10c. Ib., 
$3.25 per bushel of 50 lbs:, 100 Ibs., 
$6.00. If by mail, add 8c. per Ib. 
Station, t 
duct goc 
The growtl 
peated sowi 
more ho 
mers than four tin 
land 
Intre 1 
tion \ 
small grain usually found on the market. 
This variety h 
sally grown in pre 
vanietie t 
common 
} 
most distinct, being a rich dark shade of 
heavier, it branches more, and do 
as the other kinds. 
equal in quality, if not 
as the yield shows, it is enormously prolific. 
Truly the Japanese Buckwheat ts one of the greatest improveme 
in a single line of grain, of the present age. 
wheat can be well thrown aside, and not only 
but farmers in general, can unite in tenc 
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ced into cultivation by us in 1887, and by constan 
have fully maintained the Jarge grain, totally unlike the 
as superseded all others and is now almost univer- 
I I black 
he kernels are at least twice the size of those of any§ 
other variety, and of a shape peculiar and distinct. 
brown. 
not need to be sown as t 
Flour made from it is greater in « 
superior, to that of any other Buck 
It ripens a 
than the Silver Hull and yields two or three times as much. 
$1.40 per bushel, 10 bushel lots, $1.30 per bushel. 
ring a vole 
enterprising seedsman Peler Henderson.—"'Gleanings in Bee Culture. 
selec- 
and Sil 
Hull 
The color 
The 
is also 
Ww is 
ickly 
antity and 
leat, and, 
week earlier 
(See cut.) 
i Buck 
our land, 
of thanks to our 
her kinds 
eepers oO} 
FARM SEEDS we do NOT deliver free, but When small quantities are wanted We Will prepay carriage in the United States ii 8c. 
per pound is added to prices, 
