PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK 5 
WINTER RYE 
THE HARDIEST AND EARLIEST GRAIN CROP GROWN 
Rye is a valuable crop for either soiling, green fodder, straw or grain. It is largely used by farmers 
to seed down with in the fall, and is considered preferable to Wheat for this purpose, as it protects the 
young grass and matures two weeks earlier in the summer than Wheat. It is also extensively used for 
fall pasture when sown early and for cutting green in late spring and early summer, but when wanted 
for cutting it is best sown with the Sand or Winter Vetch. 
On light sandy soils where other cereal crops would be a failure, rye can be depended upon to produce 
fair returns. Because of its great hardiness and ability to grow upon poor land, rye is the best crop to 
plow under to increase the humus in the soil; but this must be done early in the spring before the rye 
has made much growth, otherwise it would exhaust the moisture in the soil, to the detriment of succeeding 
crops. A field of rye which has made good growth in the fall is often pastured with cattle or sheep for a 
time, and also in the spring moderately. The 
stock is then removed and the rye allowed to 
ripen. Rve is the only cereal crop, which may 
be thus treated without great injury. 
Sow (if alone) from 114 bushels to 2)4bushels 
ROSEN RYE 
A NEW LARGE YIELDING RYE 
THRIVES WELL ON ALL SOILS 
This remarkable Rye is destined to become 
one of the leading varieties grown in America. 
It is extremely hardy due to the fact of its 
Russian origin. 
Rosen Rye was brought to its present high 
state of development at the Michigan Agri- 
cultural College, where it has proven superior 
to all other sorts in growth and productivity. 
While the average yield for rye throughout 
the United States is only 15 bushels to the 
acre, Rosen Rye has yielded up to 45 bushels 
to the acre. 
The plant is extremely vigorous, producing 
a luxuriant stiff straw from large stools. On 
apr account of its vigorous stooling habit only one 
bushel will be required to sow an acre. 
_ The grain of Rosen Rye is extremely attrac- 
tive, plump, and heavy. It commands the 
highest market prices wherever offered. 
One of the principal merits of this valuable 
grain, is that it thrives equally as well on light 
soils as it does on heavy soils. It has proven 
to be a dependable sort by producing large 
crops in unfavorable seasons when other kinds 
only gave meager yields. (Sce engraving.) 
Price, $2.75 per bushel of 56 lbs.; 10-bushel 
lots $2.65 per bushel. 
GIANT WINTER RYE 
A remarkably heavy cropping Ryé, having 
in fair tests outyielded many other varieties 
both in straw and grain. The straw is of 
uniform length, strong and of extraordinary 
stiffness. 
Price, $2.50 per bushel of 56 lbs.; 10-bushel 
lots, $2.40 per bushel. 
WINTER RYE 
The variety most commonly cultivated, 
whether sown for grain, straw or cutting green. 
Price, $2.25 per bushel of 56 Ibs.; 10-bushel 
lots, $2.15 per bushel. 
THE NEW ROSEN RYE 
