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SUPERIOR RECLEANBD GRAINS. 



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We were awarded the only GRAND PRIZE (the Highest Award) for FARM and GARDEN SEEDS 



at the World's Fair, St. Louis, 1904. 



OATS. 



Improved Prize Cluster. 



The Earliest of All Oats — To maintain high-grade Oats it is necessary to have a 

 change of seed every few years so as to keep up the standard of excellence, for Oats 

 grown on the same soil year after year gradually become light and chaffy. We 

 have for a number of years been working up a stock of Prize Cluster Oats' from 

 the parent stock, of which the director of the Iowa Experiment Station spoke so 

 highly. In his report he places Prize Cluster at the head of the list of all varieties 

 tested, both for bulk of crop and weight per bushel. It is a white variety, 'with 

 very large heads and heavy, plump grain, straw of medium growth, very strong and 

 entirely rust-proof. In our Improved Prize Cluster Oats we claim to have the best, 

 heaviest and thinnest shelled Oats in cultivation. Peck 40c; bushel $1.25; 5 bushels 

 for $5.50. 



SWEDISH SELECT OATS. 



Awarded Gold Medal at the World's Fair, St. Louis, in 1904. 



Six years ago Prof. M. A. Carleton of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 'while 

 on a tour of investigation in Russia, noticed the superiority of oats of Swedish 

 origin over all other sorts' and he secured a quantity of them which he had shipped 

 to Washington, D. C, and from there distributed them throughout the United States 

 under the name of Swedish Select Oats. The Wisconsin Experimental Station 

 secured some of these oats for trial with a number of other kinds. They -were 

 grown four years on the University grounds, and Prof. Moore pronounced Swedish 

 Select the most satisfactory of all the varieties tested, yielding exceptionally "well, 

 having a strong stiff straw, and very heavy grain (weighing 36 to 40 lbs. per 

 measured bushel) with a thin skin. 



Swedish Select Oats appears to be well adapted to high 

 land, the best returns being obtained on clay loam. Its 

 root development is such as to enable it to resist drought 

 better than any other sort. Peck 40c; bushel $1.25; 5 

 bushels $5.50 



Black Gotham — A very prolific Oat sort of vigorous 

 growth. Peck 35c; bushel $1.00; 5 bushels for $4.25 



BUCKWHEAT. 



Silver Hull — This variety sown at the same time as the 

 common Buckwheat, continues in bloom longer, matures 

 a few days sooner, and yields nearly double under the 

 same conditions. The flour is "whiter and more nu- 

 tritious. Peck 40c; bushel $1.00; 5 bushels $4.75 



Japanese — An early and very prolific variety, with kernels 

 about double the size of ordinary sorts. It ripens a 

 week earlier than the Silver Hull and yields at least 

 twice as much. Peck 40c; bushel $1.00; 5 bushels. . $4.75 



Subject to market fluctuations. 



RYE. 



Rye is a crop that should be more extensively grown 

 by all our farmers. It is a paying crop, even on poor 

 sandy soils, yielding as much as 35 bushels per acre, while 

 on light rich soils it would not be too much to expect up 

 to 60 bushels per acre. It is also a very valuable crop 

 with which to seed down grasses, owing to the fact that 

 it matures so early, giving the grass'es a longer growing 

 season after harvesting. 



Spring — This variety is invaluable as a catch crop for 

 sowing where winter wheat has failed; a mixture of this 

 and Sand Vetches will furnish a lusty feed for cattle 

 all through the summer. Cut for green feed first and 

 afterwards pasture the Vetches with sheep or cattle. 

 Peck 40c; bushel $1.30; 5 bushels $6.25 



Hungarian Winter — A remarkably hardy and strong 

 growing variety, outyielding all other sorts, and of 

 superior milling qualities. Peck 40c; bushel $1.10; 5 

 bushels $5.25 



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SPELTZ OR EMMER. 



Should have a place on all farms. 



A sure eropper in any kind of soil. 



Grand drought resister. 



IMPROVED PRIZE CLUSTER OATS. 



This new grain has now been tried out for several 

 seasons in the Northwestern and also in some of the semi- 

 arid states', and with remarkable success; it withstands 

 , . _, „ ~ the extremes of heat and cold better than any cereal we 



know of. The U. S. Dept. of Agriculture endorses it as a grain to which farmers should pay great 

 attention to as a crop especially adapted to withstand drought and heat and one which should be- 

 come prominent for stock feed. It is readily eaten by all kinds of stock and its' feeding qualities 

 are excellent. It withstands great extremes' of climate, is enormously productive, and can be treated 

 Vk }^ e s ^ me , manner as other grain. Sow broadcast, using 60 lbs. per acre. Weight per bushel 

 40 lbs. Peck 40c; bushel $1.00; 5 bushels $4.75. 



SPELTZ OR EMMER. 



