6 HENDERSON’S TESTED FARM SEEDS 
SAND OR WINTER VETCH 
(VICIA VILLOSA) 
THE EARLIEST CROP FOR CUTTING OR PLOWING UNDER IN SPRING 
A VALUABLE UPBUILDER FOR POOR OR IMPOVERISHED SOIL 
Sand or Winter Vetch is perfectly 
hardy throughout the United States 
remaining green all winter. It should 
be sown during August and September 
mixed with rye which serves as a sup- 
port for the plants. When sown in 
spring mix with oats or barley. 
It is ready for cutting a month 
earlier than any other fall sown forage 
plant, and a full crop may be taken off 
before planting spring crops. As a 
forage crop it is exceptionally valuable 
especially in the Northern States where 
Scarlet Clover winter kills. It is highly 
nutritious, is eaten with relish and may 
be safely fed to all kinds of stock. 
In the South and dry Western parts 
of the country, it has proven valuable 
as a hay crop, when sown in fall and 
cut early in spring, before the droughts 
set in. 
Sand or Winter Vetch will grow 
even on barren soils, though of course 
it will grow much more luxuriantly 
on good soils. Being a legume, it 
attracts atmospheric nitrogen, which 
is stored in the soil. When grown 
on new soils it will prove advantageous 
to inoculate with Farmogerm. Sow 
one bushel to the acre with one-half 
bushel of rye. 
Price, 30c. lb.; $15.50 per bushel 
of 60 lbs.; $25.00 per 100 Ibs. 
TRUE DVVARE-ESSEX RAPE 
PROVIDES PERFECT PASTURE and is GREATLY RELISHED BY ALL STOCK 
INDISPENSABLE FOR SHEEP AND HOGS 
Sow in the North from April to end of August and in the South 
During September and October 
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In the United States we have millions of acres of good land that annually lie idle or run to 
weeds the latter part of the season, after the grain, potato and hay crops have been harvested, a 
large portion of which might be made to produce one of the finest feeds imaginable, and in the 
greatest abundance, at a time when cattle, sheep and hogs are roaming through bare pastures in 
search of a scanty living. Under favorable conditions it is ready for pasturing sheep or cattle with- 
in six weeks from time of sowing, and on an average one acre will carry twelve to fifteen sheep six weeks 
to two months. When on the Rape they should at all times have access to salt; but water is not necessary. 
There are several varieties of Rape, but care should be taken to pfocure the DWARF ESSEX, or English, 
as it is sometimes called, which does not seed the same season as sown, unless in some exceptional cases, 
as when sown too early and the young plant is touched by frost.- In northern States it should be sown 
from April to end of August for fall pasturing, but as it thrives best in cool weather, it should not be sown 
in the Southern States until September or October for winter pasture. In the latitude of New York it 
should be sown in April, or in July or August. Its fattening properties are probably twice as good as those 
of Clover, and for sheep the feeding value of Rape excels all other plants we know of. At the Michigan 
Experiment Station 128 lambs were pastured for eight weeks on 15 acres of Rape sown in July, and showed 
a gain of 2,890 lbs., or at the rate of 3 lbs. per lamb each week. Even so far South as Alabama it has 
proved a boon to the farmer. In a recent bulletin published by the Alabama Experiment Station they 
state: “Quality of product good for both hogs and cattle. The growth was enormous. By repeated 
sowings it will and did carry more hogs through our dry, hot summers than four times the amount of 
land planted in anything else ever grown here. I would recommend it to all Southern farmers.’’ To 
secure vee results, the Rape should be sown in drills. Sow 4 lbs. per acre broadcast, 2 to 3 lbs. per 
acre on drills. 
Price, 15c. per Ib.; $7.00 per bushel of 50 Ibs.; 100 Ibs., $12.00. 
