From PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 



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MAMMOTH RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER 



Highly valued as an excellent and cheap food for fowl. It is the best 

 Egg-Producing Food known. It can be raised cheaper than Corn. Four 

 pounds of seed will plant one acre. 



Price, lb. 30c; 10 lbs. $2.50; 25 lbs. $4.50; 100 lbs. $16.00. 



SHALLU or EGYPTIAN WHEAT 



Heads are similar to Broom Corn, very large yields of grain and fodder. 

 Excellent feed for Cattle, Chickens, etc. Sow 5 lbs. per acre. 

 Price, lb. 30c; 10 lbs. $2.75; 25 lbs. $5.00; 100 lbs. $18.00. 



TEOSINTE 



(Reana Liixurians) 



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



Price, lb. $1.25; 10 lbs. $10.00. 



SEED OF HIGH GRADE TOBACCO 



One Ounce Will Sow 50 Square Yards 



Tobacco is an annual in the United States although perennial in the 

 tropics. Botanically it is related to the Tomato and Eggplant, and there- 

 fore sensitive to frost. Still it is successfully cultivated as far north as 

 Canada, as it requires but a short season to grow to maturity. The quality 

 of the product depends almost entirely upon the nature of the soil and 

 climate, and highly congenial soils may exist in any section. The suit- 

 ability of soils in Connecticut, now a great center of Tobacco production, 

 was only discovered by experimentation. 



Below we offer some of the new and improved varieties as well as standard 

 sorts. 



Primus. The earliest of all ; succeeds well even as far north as Canada. 



Pkt. 15c; oz. 75c 



Zimmer's. Spanish. The earliest and best American-Spanish, and a favorite 

 cigar variety. Pkt. 15c; oz. 90c 



Havana, Imported Pkt. 15c; oz. $1.50 



Havana, Domestic Pkt. 15c; oz. 75c 



Connecticut Pkt. 15c; oz. 75c. 



Kentucky Pkt. 15c; oz. 75c 



Virginia Pkt. 15c; oz. 75c 



FARMERS ARE URGED TO PLANT COVER CROPS 

 TO PREVENT SOIL EROSION 



During a recent interview given to a representative of the New York Herald Tribune, Dr. Linwood L. Lee, State Coordinator of 

 the Federal Soil Conservation Service, urged farmers to get their fields under vegetative cover before the end of the growing season, 

 explaining that winter winds rank with insects and disease as among the farmers' worst enemies. Dr. Lee emphasized his warning 

 by referring to a severe gale that swept South Jersey last winter, carrying off as much as sixty tons of topsoil per acre from unpro- 

 tected fields. 



Although wind erosion is more common on the light, sandy coastal plain, farms in rolling country must be protected from erosion by 

 rain and melting snow, which constantly are at work carrying off valuable soil and plant food from sloping fields. 



Close-growing crops planted after harvest and left until spring are known as winter cover crop, Dr. Lee explained, calling 

 them the best protection against erosion. Their roots serve to bind the soil while their tops prevent the direct action of these erosive 

 agents upon the soil. Cover crops also enrich the soil when they are plowed under in the spring, he added. 



"The use of winter cover crops is spreading rapidly among progressive farmers, but many still leave their fields exposed through 

 the winter, while others plant cover crops only to plow them under in December or January," Dr. Lee said. 



The report noted that severe blowing of soil was observed from Monmouth County south during the February 28 storm and 

 motorists near Deerfield, in Salem County, were compelled to turn on headlights in midday as they drove through the dust-laden 

 air. Wind velocities up to fifty-seven miles an hour were reported. 



Among crops which may be planted for winter protection, Dr. Lee said, were wheat and rye. Wheat, he said, is preferable on 

 heavier soils and rye on lighter. Both may be planted in mixture with hairy vetch, a legume which will add nitrogen to the soil when 

 plowed under in spring. 



VETCH, SAND or WINTER 



The Best Legume for Sandy Soils 



(Vicia villosa) 



It is the earliest crop for cutting, and a full crop can be taken off the land in time 

 for planting spring crops. Being much hardier than Scarlet Clover, this is the forage 

 plant to sow in the Northern States, where Scarlet Clover winter kills, though it 

 is equally valuable in the South. Every dairyman and stock breeder in the United 

 States should have a field of Winter Vetch. 



Although Sand Vetch succeeds, and even produces good crops on poor, sandy 

 soils, it is, naturally, more vigorous on better land. Under such conditions the 

 plant produces numerous branches 3 to 6 feet long. Both leaves and branches are 

 covered with fine hairs, hence it is sometimes called "Hairy Vetch." Sand Vetch 

 is hardy all over the United States, and in most places remains green all winter. 

 The crop may be seeded, either from the middle of August to the middle of September, 

 or in the spring from the middle of April to the middle of May. 



Sown in the fall it should be mixed with Mammoth Red Clover or Rye to serve 

 as a support for the vines, thus keeping the forage off the ground. 



If sown in the spring it may be mixed with Oats or Barley. Fall sown crops furnish 

 some forage before winter comes, and as growth starts very early in the spring it can 

 be pastured, cut for hay, or turned under to renovate the soil. 



The foremost orchardists highly recommend Sand Vetch as a cover crop. Soluble 

 plant food in porous soils leaches away in considerable amounts during the late fall 

 and the early spring, when the roots of trees are not actively foraging for it. (See 

 engraving.) 



Sow 60 pounds per acre, with one-half bushel of Rye or Wheat. 



Price, lb. 35c; 10 lbs. $3.00; 25 lbs. $7.00; 100 ibs. $20.00. 



SPRING VETCHES or TARES 



A species of the Pea, grown for stock, and often mixed with Oats for soiling 

 broadcast at the rate of 100 to 150 pounds per acre. 



Price, lb. 35c; 10 lbs. $3.00; 25 lbs. $5.00; 100 lbs. $18.00. 



(Vicia saliva) 



Sown 



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