CURRIE BROTHERS CO. FARM AND GARDEN ANNUAL. 



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DCBDM OK MACARONI WHEAT. 



One Acre 

 of RAPE will 

 I Pasture 36 Sheep 

 for Two Months. 



WHEAT. 



DURUM OR MACARONI (Variety Kubanka). 



The most valuable Wheat for dry and semi-arid sections, yielding heavy crops 



where other sorts fail. 



Durum Wheat is particularly adapted to dry and semi-arid districts, being ex- 

 tremely resistant of drought, the attack of fungus pests, rust and smut, always fur- 

 nishing an excellent hard grain, with an increase in quantity and quality of gluten, 

 and without a corresponding decrease in yield, as is the case with other sorts of 

 wheat. 



Enormous yields' of Durum Wheat are reported from Kansas, Dakota, Nebraska 

 and the extreme Western States, in some instances reaching 80 bushels per acre. We 

 have before us reports of crops of Blue Stem Wheat in North Dakota not worth har- 

 vesting, while in the adjoining fields Durum Wheat yielded close to 30 bushels per 

 acre. Since the commercial value of Durum Wheat has become known and estab- 

 lished its production has increased with rapid strides, and it is now taking the place 

 of the older and well-known varieties to a great extent. It is now considered a 

 Wheat of the highest class', ranking with Hard Spring and Hard Winter Wheat in its 

 milling and baking qualities. Peck 60c; bushel $1.75; 5 bushels $8.50 



MINNESOTA No. 169 SPRING WHEAT. 



The only Wheat awarded a "Grand Prize" (the highest possible award) at the World's Fair, 



St. Louis, in 1904. 



In 1902 the result of trials made by 89 farmers in Minnesota show the average 

 yield of Minnesota No. 169 Wheat to be 18 per cent more than any other variety of 



wheat. 



Its milling and baking qualities are the best. 



Minnesota No. 169 Wheat was first sent out by the Minnesota Experiment Station 

 in 1902, ten years after being started from a single seed of Blue Stem Wheat. During 

 that time it was carefully grown and watched, and the greatly increased yield at all 

 times over the parent variety encouraged the growers to foster the crop until a 

 sufficient quantity should be secured to make an extensive and thorough trial of it 

 in all sections of the State. These trials have produced marvelous results, the aver- 

 age yield of it being 18 per cent more than any other sort on the same soil. 



Tts milling and baking qualities have been thoroughly tested and found equal to 

 the best of the older and well-known sorts generally grown in the large wheat pro- 

 ducing sections. Peck 60c; bushel $2.00; 5 bushels $9.50 



ASSINIBOIA FIFE SPRING WHEAT. 



This Wheat is beyond question the hardiest and best milling Wheat known. Other 

 favorites are earliness, vigor of growth, productiveness, purity and healthfulness. 

 Adapted to all states where Sprinig Wheat can be grown. 

 Peck 50c; bushel $1.65; 2% bushels $4.00 



VELVET CHAFF OR BLUE STEM WHEAT. 



The most popular Spring Wheat for the Middle West. It is a large yielder, produc- 

 ing heavy crops where other sorts fail. Its milling qualities compare favorably 

 with Fife. Peck 50c; bushel $1.65; 2% bushels $4.00 



T^ /V P F), = = True D warf Essex, 



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Beware of the Kind of Rape Seed you Sow — There is only one sort of any value in N0 " 169 WHEAT - 

 this country for sheep feed, and that is the True Dwarf Essex. Look with suspicion 



upon all others, no matter under what name they appear. Some are worthless as fodder plants, while 

 others are offered under new names with glowing descriptions, for the purpose of extorting a higher 

 price from the buyer. We import our Dwarf Essex Rape Seed every year from headquarters in Eng- 

 land, and know it to be genuine and of the very best quality, which alone is sufficient guarantee, worth 

 much more than the price of the seed. The easiest cultivated and most profitable plant for sheep, 

 hog or cattle feed known. The cost per acre never exceeding 45c, is' so small as to be scarcely worth 

 taking into account. It can be sown in early spring along with Oats or Rye, and eaten off by sheep 

 within a week or so after harvest. It can also be sown on Oat, Rye or Wheat stubble, or on any vacant 

 land up to the end of July, and will yield an immense crop of green fodder in six to eight weeks from 

 the time of sowing — nothing like it for sheep feed. The feed furnished by Rape is unsurpassed as' a 

 fattener for sheep and hogs, being superior to clover, and sheep pastured on it gain rapidly in weight. 



A fair idea of the value of Rape can be had 

 from the following. At the Michigan Experi- 

 ment Station 128 Lambs were pastured for 8 

 weeks on 5 acres of Rape and showed the 

 magnificent total gain of 2,890 lbs., or almost 

 3 lbs', per lamb for each week they were on 

 the Rape feed, and all at the small cost for 

 feeding of 45c per acre. Prof. W. A. Henry, 

 Director of the Wisconsin Agricultural Ex- 

 periment Station, says: "We had half an acre 

 of Rape this year, 1894, which gave an actual 

 yield by weighing of 9% tons, or at the rate 

 of 19% tons per acre, and this, too, in spite of 

 the great drought." Rape should be sown in 

 dri"s at the rate of 3 lbs. per acre, or broad- 

 cast, using 4 to 6 lbs. per acre, all through the 

 summer months', so as to furnish a successive 

 crop of sheep feed. Owing to its being a 

 great grower in cool weather, Rape can be 

 sown up to the first days of August. 



Per lb. 10c; by mail 20c per lb.; 12 lbs. for 

 75c; 25 lbs. for $1.35; 50 lbs. for $2.60; 100 

 lbs. for $5.00. 



Thousand Headed Kale — Like Dwarf Essex 

 Rape, this is ( a valuable forage crop. Sow the 

 seed in spring in rows 12 to 18 inches npart, 

 using about 1 lb. to the acre. Pkt. 5c; % lb. 

 10c; 1 lb., by mail, 30c; 6 lbs., by express. $1.00. 



