HENDERSON'S AMERICAN FARMER'S MANUAL. 



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WINTER "WHEATS.— Continued. 



American Bronze. (Bald.)— Although especially adapted 

 to poor soils producing a good crop when most other sorts would 

 prove a complete failure, it is also one of great value on rich, moist 

 land on which long and soft strawed sorts would go down. It is of 

 medium height and the thickest ivalled straw in cultivation, resisting 

 severe wind-storms without lodging. It is a very strong grower and 

 of spreading habit, requires light seeding if sown on rich soil. 

 Heads are long and broad, chaff white, grain large and of a rich 

 bronze shade, the color being very distinct when grown on light 

 soils. It is early, very productive, and especially free from rust even 

 in unfavorable seasons. 



Fultz. (Bald.) — A very popular, beardless amber variety, 

 -very hardy and productive. Straw of medium length, and strong. 

 It is an excellent milling sort, making the finest flour. 



Hybrid Mediterranean. (Bearded.) — A well-known, 

 standard Winter Wheat. It produces large, square heads, with 

 four rows of grain, having short beards. The straw is stiff, of 

 medium length, bronze at maturity. The grain is of a handsome, 

 amber red color, hard and flinty, making excellent flour. We 



recommend it as one of the surest and best for ordinary farms and 

 conditions. 



The Martin Amber. (Bald.)— The berry is a light amber 

 color, good size, very plump and handsome, and has a very thin 

 hull, makes but little bran, and yields a large return of flour of the 

 best quality. 



Jones' Square Head White. (Bald.)— This promising 

 sort is making a splendid record in all sections where tested. It 

 is a seedling grown from a cross between the Armstrong and a 

 seedling not named. It is, without doubt, the most handsome in 

 head of any sort in cultivation, and a very strong grower, with 

 straw of great strength supporting a large square head filled with 

 white grain of superior quality. 



Rochester Red. (Bald.)— A new variety of great promise, 

 heads larger than the average varieties, red chaff and red grain ; 

 medium large and very flinty, one of the best for milling purposes ; 

 has a stiff straw and does not lodge with high culture ; is medium 

 early, ripening with or a little before the Fultz. In a favorable 

 season the yield was fifty bushels per acre, and when well grown 

 and well cleaned will weigh sixty-four pounds to the measured 

 bushel. 



Prices of Winter Wheats on application. 



SPRING WHEATS. 



Saskatchewan Fife. — This is considered the best No. 1 

 Spring Wheat yet introduced, and is unequaled for great produc- 

 tiveness, earliness, vigor, and freedom from smut and diseases. 

 The highest authorities pronounce it to be the most valuable mill- 

 ing wheat in the world. Price, $2.25 per bushel. 



Wellman Fife. — An improvement on the well-known and 

 favorite Saskatchewan, having larger heads and grain, and the 

 straw taller and stronger with white chaff heads and dark kernels. 

 Is enormously productive, outyielding all other Spring Wheats. 

 SI. 00 per peck, $3.00 per bushel. 



BUCKWHEAT, BARLEY AND RYE. 



BUCKWHEAT. 



NEW JAPANESE. (Introduced into cultivation by us in 1887.)— It is seldom that such a sterling variety as this is placed 

 ■before the agricultural community, and we would advise all who are growers of Buckwheat to give this new and distinct Japanese 

 variety a trial in preference to any other variety, whether it be for milling, for the apiary or aviary. A glance at our illustration 

 will show that the kernels are at least twice the size of those of any other variety, and of a shape peculiar and distinct from all others. 

 The color of the kernels is also most distinct, being a rich dark shade of brown. The straw is heavier ; it branches more and does not 

 need to be sown as thickly as the other kinds. (See cut.) SI. 40 per bushel ; 10 bushel lots, $1.30 per bushel. 



Early Orders are respectfully solicited to prevent disappointment, as the demand has far exceeded the supply in the past. 

 Truly the Japanese Buckwheat is one of the greatest 

 improvements, in a single line of grain, of the present 

 All other kinds of buckwheat can be well thrown 



aside; and not only the bee-keepers of our land, but 

 farmers in general, can unite in tendering a vote of 

 thanks to our enterprising seedsman, Peter Henderson. 

 — " Gleanings in Bee Cultuke." 



I prefer the Japanese buckwheat to all other kinds. — 

 F. N. Hilton, Pontiac, Mich. 



Common or American. - 



Price, $1.25 per bushel. 



I found your Japanese Buckwheat first-rate ; it yielded 

 four times more than the old kinds did in the same lot. 

 — David Ceas, Bloomville, N. Y. 



The Japanese Buckwheat I had of you last year pro- 

 duced four times as much (by weight) as any other 

 variety, not counting what my neighbor's chickens, who 

 visited it daily, stole.— Philip Weok, Col. Co., N. Y. 



-Yields an average of from 20 to 30 bushels per acre. 



New White Hulless Barley.— A 



valuable new variety, which should be sown 

 at the rate of \}/ 2 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 unequaled. $1.00 per 

 peck ; S2.50 per bushel of 48 lbs. 



Two -Rowed Duck- Bill. — The 

 heads are of great length, and when maturing 

 become slightly curved ; the grains are large 

 and plump, and brighter than any other va- 

 riety of two-rowed Barley. The straw is 

 stronger than the old popular Chevalier 



BARLEY. 



Barley, and has yielded nearly 70 bushels 

 per acre. Price, 50c. per peck; $1.75 per 

 bushel. 



Vermont Chain pion. — Two-rowed, 

 early, hardy and prolific. 60c. per peck ; 

 $2.00 per bushel. 



Manshury. — One of the very best six- 

 rowed Barleys grown, with kernels plumper 

 and fuller than the best Scotch Barley, while 

 for malting it is unsurpassed. Is early in 

 ripening and always plump, has strong up- 

 right straw and yields from 50 to 70 bushels 

 per acre. The heads are very long and 

 contain from 75 to 100 great plump, heavy 

 kernels. Prof. Henry, of Wisconsin Agri- 

 cultural College, in his report says: "The 

 Manshury heads the list in productiveness." 

 75c. per peck ; $2.50 per bushel. 



RYE. 



NEW JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



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 considered preferable to wheat for this purpose, as it protects the young grass and matures two weeks earlier in the summer than wheat. 



Excelsior Winter. — A new variety from Vermont, that has 

 never failed to yield at the rate of from 40 to 50 bushels per acre. 

 With the originator, a four-acre field yielded 52 bushels to the 

 acre. $2.00 per bushel ; 10-bushel lots, SI. 75 per bushel. 



Spring. — A variety produced by planting Winter Rye in the 



spring for several 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. $2.25 per bush. 

 Winter. — The variety most commonly cultivated, whether sown 

 for grain, straw or cutting green. $1.35 bush. ; 10-bush. lots, $1.25. 



