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^ BARLEY ^ 



Should he grown more than it is. The straw makes excellent rough feed for 

 all kinds of stock. It is also one of the best grains with which to sow down to 

 grass in spring. Barley meal is also a good food for all domestic animals and 

 nearly equals Corn in feeding value. To produce large crops of Barley, the soil 

 should be well prepared to receive the seed. It should be made fine, firm and 

 fertile. 



Barley is a good crop to follow Corn grown on Clover sod, as the land is then in 

 prime condition. Harrow and roll well after seeding. The crop should be har- 

 vested before it is too ripe, if a bright white berry is wanted. Sow 2}^ bushels 

 per acre broadcast and 1^2 to 2 bushels per acre if drilled. 



BEARDLESS BARLEY 



Beardless Barley is remarkable for its great productiveness: it having "been 

 conclusively shown during the past few years, that it is far and away above all 

 others in that respect. Also for the entire absence of the troublesome beard 

 common to all other varieties except the Improved White HuUess. 



Although it makes a good grain crop, it is of the greatest value, as a quick 

 growing and nutritious- forage crop, either to feed green or cured as hay. If cured 

 as hay it should be cut when the grain is in the milk. 



For fattening hogs or feeding to live stock generally, it is particularly good, 

 and also much safer owing to the absence of beard. . Many young animals have 

 been choked by feeding them the bearded Barleys. Beardless Barley is also 

 preferred by many brewers for malting purposes. Sow I'X to 2 bushels per acre. 

 (See engraving.) Price, 80c. per peck; S2.S0 per bushel of 48 lbs.; 10 bushels, $2.40. 



IMPROVED WHITE HULLESS. A valuable new variety, which should be 

 sown at the rate of II2 bushels per acre about the time of sowing Oats. It is 

 two or three weeks earlier than ordinary Barley, grows about the same height, 

 and will not shatter in the field, even when very ripe. The grain is not unlike 

 Wheat, and weighs about 60 lbs. per bushel, instead of 48 lbs. as other Barley. 

 For feeding to horses and hogs, when ground, it is unequalled, and is also exceedingly 

 valuable as hay, if cut and cured just before ripening. Price, 80c. per peck; $2. SO 

 per bushel of 48 lbs.; 10-bushel lots, $2.40 per bushel. 



VERMONT CHAMPION. This is a two-rowed variety which is much esteemed 

 liy northern farmers. It is quite early, extremely hardy, and very prolific. The 

 heads are longer than the six-rowed varieties, and the berries are larger. It 

 always fetches a high price, on account of its good appearance; and its malting 

 qualities are excellent. Price, 80c. per peck; $2.50 per bushel of 48 lbs.; 10-bushel 

 lots, $2.40 per bushel. 



HENDERSON'S 



SELECTED 



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 con- 

 sidered 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. (Described on page 34.) 



On light sandy soils where other cereal crop.^ would be a fai!iir:\ Tve 



HENDERSON S SELECTED SPBING 1(11, 



can be depended unon t' i returns. Because of its great 



hardiness and ability to -iii.w n h a I'uor land, rye is the best crop to 

 plow under to iiicrease the humus in the soil; but this must be done 

 early in the spring, before the rj^e has mad^ much growth, otherwise it 

 would exhaust the moisture in the soil, to the detriment of succeeding 

 crops. A field of rye which lias made good growth in the fall is often 

 pastured with cattle or sheep for a time, and also in the spring moder- 

 ate) v. The stock is then removed and the rye allowed to ripen. Rye 



is the only cereal crop, which may 

 be thus treated without great in- 

 jury. Sow (if alone) from IJ^ 

 bushels to 2}4 bushels per acre. 



HENDEKSON'S SELECTED 



SPRING RYE 



A variety produced by planting 

 Winter Rye in the spring for sev- 

 eral years, and selecting the seed 

 until the type was fixed. It is an 

 excellent "catch crop" where fall- 

 sown grain has been winter-killed, 

 and also for fodder and grain. 

 Price, $3.00 per bushel of 56 lbs.; 

 10-bushel lots, $2.90 per bushel. 



WINTER KYE 



For winter varieties see our 

 Fall Wheat and Grain Circular 

 issued post free in September. 

 We offer the following varieties: 

 Henderson's New Invincible — 

 Giant Winter — • 

 Thousandfold Winter- 

 Excelsior Winter — ^and Winter. 



We can take orders at any time 

 at prices rulingat timeof shipment. 



A New Book— The Cereals of America 



f By THOMAS F. HUNT, Professor of Agronomy \ 

 \ College of Agriculture, Cornell University J 



$1.75 Postpaid 



