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F5P®2m FETEIR MEMDEIRSOM 



^KW YOIRM 



HENDERSON'S FARMERS' MANUAL 



FOK 1917 



INDEX 



and Table of Quantities 

 Required per Acre 



Page 



Sow (if alone) 

 per Acre 



INDEX 



and Table of Quantities 

 Required per Acre 



Page 



Sow (if alone) 

 per Acre 



Agrostis canina — See R. I. Bent 



" stolonif era — See Creeping Bent 



" vulgaris — Red Top Fancy 



Alfalfa 



Alopecurus pratensis — See Meadow Foxtail 



Alsike, Hybrid or Swedish Clover 



Andropogon sorghum var. — See Kaffir Corn 



Anthoxanihum odoratum , See Sweet Vernal, peren 

 Arrhenatherum avenaceum — See Tall Meadow Oat 



Grass 



Artichokes 



Australian Salt Bush 



Avena elatior — See Tall Meadow Oat Grass 



Awnless Brome Grass 



Barley (Sow broadcast, 2 to 2}4 bushels) 



Beans, Field 



Velvet 



Beet, Sugar 



Beggar Weed 



Bermuda Grass 



Bokhara Clover 



Brassica Napus — See Rape 



Bromus inermis — See Awnless Brome Grass 



Broom Corn 



Buckwheat 



Canada Blue Grass 



Carrots 



Chaetochloa italica — See Golden Millet 



Clovers 



Corn, Dent 



" Flint 



" Fodder 



" Pop 



Cotton 



Cow Grass — See Mammoth Red Clover 



Cow Peas 



Creeping Bent or Fiorin. 



Crested Dog's Tail 



Crimson or Carnation Clover — See Scarlet Clover 



Cynodon dactylon — See Bermuda Grass 



Cynosurus cristatus — See Crested Dog's Tail .... 



Dactyhs glomerata — See Orchard Grass 



Desmodium tortuosum 



Douras or Durra 



English Blue Grass — See Meadow Fescue 



" or Perennial Rye Grass 



Fertilizers 



Festuca duriuscula — Gee Hard Fescue 



" elatior — See Tall Meadow Fescue 



" heterophylla — See Various Leaved Fescue 



" ovina — See Sheep's Fescue 



" " tenuifolia — See Fine Leaved Sheep's 

 Fescue 



" pratensis — See Meadow Fescue 



" rubra — See Red Fescue 



Fine Leaved Sheep's Fescue 



Fiorin — See Creeping Bent 



Flax Seed 



Glycine hispida — See Soja Bean 



Grasses, for the South 



" Hay and Permanent Pasture 



" Lawn 



"■ Permanent Hay Mixtures 



" Permanent Pasture Mixtures 



" u .. Clover, for above. . . 



" Renovating Mixture 



" various 



" Woodland Pastures 



Hard Fescue 



Herd's Grass of the South — See Red Top 



" u .. o North — See Timothy 



Hungarian Grass — See Hungarian Millet 



Italian Rye Grass 



Japan Clover 



Jerusalem Corn 



Johnson Grass 



June Clover — See Red Clover 



" Grass — See Kentucky Blue 



Kaffir Corn 



Kentucky Blue Grass 



9 

 6 



8 



16& 17 



7 



15 



30 



7 

 38 

 38 



7 

 12 



27 

 38 

 3i 

 35 

 38 

 12 

 14 

 32 

 12 

 25 

 26 



10 



35 



29 

 13-15 

 21-23 



24 



25 



24 

 38 

 14 

 33 

 6 

 10 

 15 

 12 

 10 



38 

 30 



9 

 9 



39 

 8 

 11 

 11 

 11 



9 



9 

 11 

 11 



6 

 38 



31 

 12 

 3 

 5 

 4 

 2 

 3 

 4 

 6-12 

 4 



10 



29 



14 

 30 

 12 

 13 

 10 



30 

 10 



3 bushels. 



2 bushels. 



1 bushel. 



30 to 40 lbs. 



3 to 4 bushels. 



8 lbs. 

 8 to 10 lbs. 

 3}4 bushels. 



4 to 5 bushels. 

 8 to 10 bushels. 



lib. 



4 to 5 bushels. 



20 to 25 lbs. 



IHto 2 bu. drilled. 



1 bushel drilled. 



1 bushel. 



6 to 8 lbs. 



10 to 12 lbs. 



6 lbs. 



10 lbs. 



2 to 4 lbs. 

 20 to 25 lbs. 



8 to 10 lbs. 

 1 bushel. 



3 bushels. 



4 lbs. 



1 bushel. 



8 to 10 qts. 



8 to 10 qts. 



I Broadcast, 2 bu. 



1 Drilled, 1 bu. 



4 lbs. 



15 lbs. 



12 lbs. 



2 bushels. 

 2 bushels. 



IK bushels. 



15 lbs. 



6 lbs. 

 IK bushels. 



3 to 4 bushels. 



10 to 12 lbs. 



4 to 5 lbs. 



2K bushels. 

 2H to 3 bushels. 



2K bushels. 

 2 3-2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 

 2J2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 

 2K bushels. 

 214 bushels. 

 1 3 bushels. 



2 bushels. 

 H to M bushel. 



74 



bushel. 



3 bushels. 

 5 bushels. 

 3 bushels. 

 3 bushels. 



10 lbs. 

 1 bushel. 



3 bushels. 



2i4 bushels. 



3 bushels. 



K to 1 bushel. 



1 bushel. 



3 bushels. 



14 lbs. 



5 lbs. 



I bushel. 



12 to 14 lbs. 



3 bushels. 



8 to 10 lbs. 

 3 bushels. 



Lespedeza striata — See Japan Clover , . 



Lolium italicum — See Italian Rye Grass 



" perenne — See English Rye Grass 



Lucerne — See Alfalfa 



Lupins 



Mammoth or Pea Vine Clover 



Mangels 



Meadow Fescue 



" Foxtail 



Medicago sativa — See Alfalfa 



Melilotus alba — See Bokhara Clover 



Millet, German and Hungarian 



" Japanese (in drills, 10 lbs. per acre) 



' Pearl, Egyptian, Cat-Tail or Horse Millet. 



Millo Maize — See Douras 



Mucuna utilis 



Oats 



Onobrychis sativa — See Sainfoin , 



Orchard Grass 



Panicum crus-galli — See Japanese MiUet 



Pea Vine Clover — See Mammoth Clover 



Peas, Cow 



" Field 



Pennisetum spicatum — See Pearl Millet 



Perennial Red Clover — See Mammoth Clover... . 



Phleum pratense — See Timothy 



Poa compressa — See Canada Blue Grass 



" nemoralis — See Wood Meadow Grass 



" pratensis — See Kentucky Blue 



" trivialis — See Rough Stalked Meadow Grass. 

 Potatoes 



Rape, English 



Reana luxurians — See Teosinte 



Red Clover (Common or June Clover) 



Red or Creeping Fescue 



Red Top Fancy (Herd's Grass of the South) 



Rhode Island Bent 



Root Crops 



Rough Stalked Meadow Grass 



Ruta Baga 



Rye 



Sainfoin 



Scarlet Clover 



Sheep's Fescue 



Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass-See Kentucky Blue 



Soja Bean or Soy Bean 



Sorghums 



Sorghum Halapense — See Johnson Grass 



Sudan Grass 



Sugar Beet 



Sugar Cane 



Sunflower 



Swedish Clover — ^See Alsike 



Sweet Clover — See Bokhara Clover 



Sweet Vernal — true perennial 



Tall Meadow Fescue 



" " Oat Grass 



Tares 



Teosinte 



Timothy or Herd's Grass of the North 



Tobacco 



Trifolium hybridum — See Alsike Clover 



" incarnatum — See Scarlet Clover 



" pratense — See Red Clover 



" " perenne — See Mammoth Clover 



" repens — See White Clover 



Turnips 



" Ruta Baga, Russian or Swedish 



Various Leaved Fescue 



Vetch, Sand. Winter or Hairy 



" Spring (Tares) 



Vicia sativa 



Vicia villosa 



Vigna catjang 



Wheat , 



White or Dutch Clover 



Wild Rice 



Wood Meadow Grass 



Zizania aquatica — See Wild Rice 



14 



9 



9 



16 & 17 



38 



14 

 35 



9 



7 



16 & 17 

 14 

 29 

 29 



29 



30 

 33 



18to20 

 38 



29 

 14 

 33 

 32 

 29 

 14 

 10 

 10 



9 

 10 



9 

 37 



32 

 30 

 13 

 11 



8 



7 

 35-37 



8 

 36 

 27 



38 

 15 

 11 

 10 

 31 

 25 

 12 

 12 

 35 

 25 

 38 

 15 

 14 



11 

 7 

 38 

 30 

 10 

 38 

 15 

 15 

 13 

 14 

 14 

 36 

 36 



11 



34 

 38 

 38 

 34 

 33 



28 



14 



38 



9 



38 



14 lbs. 



3 bushels. 



2 K to 3 bushels. 

 30 to 40 lbs. 



2 to 3 bushels. 



12 lbs. 

 6 to 8 lbs. 

 2K bushels. 



3 to 4 bushels. 

 30 to 40 lbs. 



10 lbs. 



1 bushel. 

 Broadcast, 15 lbs. 



( Drills, 5 to 6 lbs. 

 ( Broadcast, 8 lbs. 



4 to 5 lbs. 



2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 



3 to 4 bushels. 

 3 to 4 bushels. 



15 lbs. 

 12 lbs. 



2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 



8 lbs. 



12 lbs. 



32 to 1 bushel. 



3 bushels. 



2 bushels. 



3 bushels. 

 13-2 bushels. 



12 to 14 bushels. 



2 to 4 lbs. 

 6 to 8 lbs. 



12 lbs. 



23-2 bushels. 



1 bushel. 



3 bushels. 



13-2 bushels. 



2 to 3 lbs. 

 lyi bushels. 



3 to 4 bushels. 



15 lbs. 

 232 bushels. 



3 bushels. 

 5-4 bushel. 



8 to 10 lbs. 



1 bushel. 

 12 to 20 lbs. 



6 to 8 lbs. 

 8 to 10 lbs. 



4 qts. 



8 lbs. 



10 lbs. 

 33-2 bushels. 



2)2 bushels. 



4 to 5 bushels. 



2 bushels. 

 6 to 8 lbs. 



K to 1 bushel. 



8 lbs. 



15 lbs. 



12 to 14 lbs. 



12 lbs. 



2 to 3 lbs. 



2 to 3 lbs. 

 8 lbs. 



3 bushels. 

 1 bushel. 



2 bushels. 

 2 bushels 

 1 bushel. 

 2 bushels. 



IK bushels. 

 8 lbs. 



2 bushels. 



PURCHASER PAYS TRANSPORTATION ON FARM SEEDS. IF SMALL QUANTITIES ARE WANTED BY MAIL SEE ZONE RATES 



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