PETER HENDERSON ^COivNEW *ORK- 



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Forage and Soiling Crops. 



EARLY GREEN SOJA BEAN. 



This variety produces enormous crops as far north as Canada, and will ripen 

 its seeds even in Massachusetts. It grows about 4 ft. high and yields ten to 

 twenty tons of green fodder per acre, or 20 to 40 bushels of Beans. 



It is a valuable leguminous plant for the farmer and dairyman for either 

 green or cured fodder or grain. It is especially valuable for ensilage in combi- 

 nation with fodder corn or Japanese Millet (two parts of Millet to one part of 

 Soja Beans), thus furnishing a complete balanced ration. It increases the milk 

 and butter and fattens the stock. The grain is also exceedingly nutritious, 

 ranking, when ground, even higher than cotton seed or linseed meal for feeding 

 cattle, hogs and other stock. Three pounds of Soja Bean meal added to the 

 grain ration of milch cows produces a rich milk. 



Soja Beans are great soil enrichers, adding humus and fixing nitrogen from 

 the air. (See cut.) 



Price, peck, $1.50; bushel (60 lbs.) 84.50; 10 bushels @ $4.40. 



JAPANESE MILLET. 



A very distinct variety that is particularly valuable in the Northern 



States as a quick growing forage and ensilage crop, attaining a height, 



in good soil, of 6 to 8 feet and yielding from 10 to 18 tons of green 



fodder per acre. For feeding green, it may be cut from day to day as 



needed until the seed begins to ripen. During this period it is much 



relished by stock; cattle especially consume it without waste before 



touching green fodder corn, and cows fed on it invariably increase in 



milk. For dried fodder, it should be cut in the blossom stage; it is 



freely eaten by stock and is often preferred by horses to Timothy and 



Clover hay; when sown early, it produces a fair second cutting. For 



ensilage, two parts of the Millet in combination with one part Soja Beans 



■rage, form a complete balanced ration that may be fed without grain. 



w from May to July, 15 lbs. of seed per acre if broadcasted, or if in drills, 



to 18 inches apart, use 10 to 12 lbs. per acre. (See cut.) Price, 12c. lb.; 



lbs., $1.00; 100 lbs., $9.00. (For other varieties of Millet see page 69.) 



For Fodder and Green- Manuring. 



"Peas could be made to bring more nitrogen to the soils of this country 

 every year than is now purchased annually by the farmers at a cost of 

 millions of dollars." — (Yearbook of the U. S. Department of Agriculture.) 



For the Northern States there is no crop of greater value than Field 

 Peas. Whether for fodder, in mixture with oats, sown at the rate of two 

 bushels each per acre, or the Peas sown alone at the rate of three bushels 

 per acre for plowing under, there is no crop that we can so strongly recom- 

 mend. 



Peas have the power of extracting nitrogen from the air, and the 

 soil from which a crop of Peas has been harvested is richer in nitrogen 

 than before, and there is no kind of live stock on the farm to which 

 Peas and Oats in mixture cannot be fed with positive advantage. The 

 Canada varieties and Marrowfat should be sown early in the spring, 

 but Cow Peas are more tender and should not be sown until corn- 

 planting time. Cow Peas, being of very rapid growth during the 

 warm weather, can be sown as late as the middle of July with reason- 

 able assurance of a profitable crop, either for harvesting or plowing 

 under. 



Prices for Fodder and Green-Manuring. 



Peck. 



Bush, of 

 60 lbs. 



10 bush, 

 lots, at 



Peas, Canada White. (See cut.) 



" Canada Blue 



60c. 

 75c. 



80c. 

 $1.25 



$2.25 

 2.75 



3.00 

 4.25 



$2.15 

 2.65 



" Large Marrowfat. Of immense 

 growth, the best of the Field Peas for 



COW PEAS. Black-eyed. Of great 

 value in the Southern States and also 

 in the Northern States as a green sum- 

 mer feed for sheep, and as a green crop 



2.90 

 4.00 



Sand or 

 Winter 



Vetch. 



(Vicia Villosa.) 



It succeeds and produces good 

 crops on poor, sandy soils, though 

 it is much more vigorous on good 

 land and grows to a height of 4 

 to 5 feet. It is perfectly hardy, re- 

 maining green all winter, and 

 should be sown during August and 

 September, mixed with Rye, which 

 serves as a support for the plants, 

 or in spring with Oats or Barley. 



It is the earliest crop for cut- 

 ting, being nearly a month earlier 

 than Scarlet Clover, 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 stockbreeder 

 in the United States should have 

 a field of it. 



It is exceedingly nutritious, 

 much more so than Clover, is 

 eaten with a relish and may be fed 

 with safety to all kinds of stock. 



It will also prove valuable for a 

 Hay crop in the South and dry 

 Western regions, as it may be sown 

 in the fall and will make a luxur- 

 iant growth during the fall and 

 spring months, and will yield a 

 heavy crop, which may be cut and 

 stored before the droughts set in. 



Sow 1 bu. per acre, with 4 bu. of 

 Rye or Wheat. Price, 12c. lb., 

 $5.75 bushel of 60 lbs.; 100 lbs., 

 $9.00. If by mail, add 8c. per lb. 



Henderson's Farmers' Manual, 



An Upto-Date Catalogue AA. "1 _ J 

 of AU Farm Seeds. I V laiied 



Free request to Farmers and Breeders. 



