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PRICES OF 



FARM SEEDS 



Subject to change 

 without notice. 



SPECIAL PRICES 



can often be made 

 On Large Quantities 



FARM I SEEDS 



g@~ Henderson's Farmers' Manual, 



An Up-to-date Illustrated and Descriptive Catalogue of All Farm Seeds, 



Mailed on Request. 



Early Green Soja Bean. 



This variety produces enormous crops as far north as 

 Canada, and will ripen its seeds even in Massachusetts. It 

 grows about 4 ft. high and yields ten to twenty tons of green 

 fodder per acre, or 20 to 40 bushels of Beans. 



It is a valuable leguminous plant for the farmer and dairy- 

 man for either green or cured fodder or grain. It is especially 

 valuable for ensilage in combination with fodder corn or 

 Japanese Millet, thus furnishing a complete balanced ration 

 with an agreeable aromatic flavor, and is greedily relished by 

 cattle. It increases the milk and butter and fattens the 

 stock. The grain is also exceedingly nutritious, ranking, 

 when ground, even higher than cotton seed or linseed meal 

 for feeding cattle, hogs and other stock. 3 lbs. of Soja Bean 

 meal added to the grain ration of milch cows produces a rich 

 milk. 



Soja Beans are great soil enrichers, adding humus and fix- 

 ing nitrogen from the air. The seed may be planted as soon 

 as the soil is warm — a little later than corn — in rows 30 

 inches apart, 6 to 8 seeds to the foot, requiring 3 pecks per 

 acre. (See cut.) 



Price, 10c. lb., SI .25 pk., $4.00 bush, (of 60 lbs.); 10 bush., 

 " $3.90 bush. 



FARM SEEDS 



WE DO NOT 



DELIVER FREE. 



But when small quantities 

 are wanted by express or 

 mail, we will prepay post- 

 age or carriage, if 8c. per 

 lb. or 10c. per quart is 

 added to prices. 



Wood's Northern White Dent Corn. 



The Earliest Large, White Dent. 



Ripens thoroughly in latitudes south 

 of Albany and Buffalo. Extraordinarily 

 prolific, often yielding 1 10 bushels shelled 

 corn per acre. Large ears, 10 to 12 

 inches long, 7 to 8 inches in circumfer- 

 ence. Long kernels, small cob. Ears 

 2 to 3 feet from the ground. Plant 

 leafy and luxuriant, making fine fodder. 

 It is the earliest large white Dent 

 Corn we know of. Price, 75c. pk., 

 $2.50 bush.; 10-bush. lots, S2.40 bush. 



Long's Champion Yellow Dent Corn. 



The highest achievement in com breeding. Has yielded 1 60 bushels of 



shelled corn per acre. Average yield for 1904, 133 bushels per acre. 



Average yield for 10 years on 80 to 90 acres, 125 bu. per acre. 



This King of Corns is without doubt the finest, the largest 

 and the most productive Yellow Dent Corn ever produced, 

 and will be found to be of great value to the farmer, especially 

 in the Middle and Eastern States, on account of its immense 

 yield, at least 25 per cent, and often 50 per cent, more than 

 can be obtained from the average old-type corns generally 

 planted. 



Long's Champion is the climax of 25 years of Corn breed- 

 ing and selection by Mr. I. S. Long, one of the most success- 

 ful and progressive farmers in the Pennsylvania corn belt. 



The ears are of immense size, 12 to 14 inches in length, 

 8 to 11 inches in circumference, carrying 20 to 24 uniform 

 rows of long large kernels well developed over tip and butt. 

 It is a luxuriant grower, about 12 to 15 feet high, and in 

 Lebanon County, Pa., where it originated, has never failed 

 to mature by September 20th, when planted during the 

 first half of May. There is but a limited quantity of seed 

 grown by the originator for sale, and it cannot be offered 

 by any other seedsman or dealer. (See cut.) 



Price, $1.50 pk., $5.00 bush.; 10-bush. lots, (a S4.90 bush. 



Henderson's Japanese Buckwheat. 



This grand variety, introduced by us several years ago, 

 has proven a bonanza to Buckwheat raisers in this coun- 

 try. It is of strong, branching growth, stands up well and 

 produces from two to. four times as much grain as any 

 other variety under same conditions. It is also fully a 

 week earlier. The seed of our Japanese variety is nearly 

 as large again as that of other Buckwheats; it makes the 

 finest flour and for bees has practically displaced all 

 other sorts where known. 



The Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station reports 

 that it has grown Henderson's New Japanese Buck- 

 wheat for two years, and has found it superior to the old 

 varieties in several important respects. " It is larger and 

 stronger, and stands up better during storms, and its 

 seeds are larger, but what places it far ahead of other 

 varieties is that of setting full crops of Buckwheat in 

 dry, hot weather. It can also be sown much earlier 

 than other varieties, thus avoiding loss by early frost." 



Henderson's Japanese Buckwheat seed is grown from 

 the largest Japanese type imported each year by us for 

 stock seed, and is therefore immensely superior to that 

 grown here for several seasons, whereby it has deteriorated. 

 (See cut.) Price, 50c. pk., $1.40 per bush, (of 48 lbs ); 10 

 bush, lots, @ 

 SI. 30 bush. 



For 



other 

 kinds 

 of Iviillet 

 see page 67. 



JAPANESE MILLET. 



A very distinct variety that is particularly valuable in 

 the Northern States as a quick-growing forage and en- 

 silage crop, attaining a height, in good soil, of 6 to S feet 

 and yielding from 10 to IS tons of green fodder per acre. 

 For feeding green, it may be cut from day to day as 

 needed until the seed begins to ripen. During this period 

 it is much relished by stock; cattle especially consume it 

 without waste before touching green fodder corn, and 

 cows fed on it invariably increase in milk. For dried 

 fodder, it should be cut in the blossom stage; it averages 

 6 tons of cured fodder per acre, and while coarser than hay, 

 it is freely eaten by stock and is often preferred by horses 

 to Timothy and Clover hay; when sown early, it produces 

 a fair second cutting. For ensilage, two parts of the 

 Millet in combination with one part Soja Beans forage, 

 forms a complete balanced ration that may be fed, with- 

 out grain, even to milch cows. Sow from May to July. 

 15 lbs. of seed per acre if broadcasted, or if in drills, 12 to 

 IS inches apart, use 10 to 12 lbs. per acre; the latter 

 method is preferable so that the crop may be cultivated 

 until it gets ahead of the weeds. (See cut.) Price. 10c. 

 lb.; 10 lbs.. 90c; 100 lbs.. $7.50. 



'Henderson's Farmers' Manual 



An Up-to-date Catalogue 

 of All Farm Seeds, 



Mailed FREE 



request 



to Farmers and Breeders. 



