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KIEHBEIRSOH'S TESTED FARM SEEDS 



ANDROPOGON 

 SORGHUM VAR. 



Kaffir Corn 



A NON-SACCHARINE SORGHUM 

 OF VALUE for FODDER and GRAIN 



Kaffir Corn is a valuable forage plant, growing 4^ to 6 feet high; it is stocky, erect, 

 and produces wide, luxuriant, succulent foliage, making excellent fodder, either green or 

 dried, and is highly relished by all kinds of stock. Each stalk produces from 2 to 4 heads 

 of grain. These heads are long and narrow. Kaffir Corn has the quality common to 

 all Sorghums, of resisting droughts, and in this fact is to be found its peculiar value, 

 especially in Southern and Western sections; it has yielded paying crops of grain and 

 forage even in seasons so dry that Corn utterly failed. The culture is the same as for 

 Field Corn, and when sown alone Kaffir Corn should be broadcasted at the rate of from 

 % to 1 bushel per acre. When raised for forage it should be cut before heading out. 

 For grain sow in rows 3 feet apart using 3 to 5 lbs. of seed to the acre. In many sections 

 Kaffir Corn is sown broadcast with Cow Peas, using a peck of Kaffir Corn to a bushel 

 of Cow Peas. It then acts as a support to the Peas which produce a much larger crop 

 when grown in this way. They can both be harvested together, the combination making 

 an enormous crop of highly nourishing feed. 



White Kaffir Corn 



Grows 4 to 5 feet high, with numerous 

 wide leaves. The grain crop is heavy 

 being sometimes 50 to 60 bushels to the 

 acre, and its nutritive value is almost as 

 good as other cereals. A fine food for 

 poultry. 14c. lb.; 100 lbs. $10.00. 



Rural Branching Doura 



(MILLO MAIZE, SORGHUM VULCARE) 

 A wonderfully productive fodder plant 



that makes a great amount of foliage, and 



can be cut several times in the season. 



Plant 4 to 5 lbs. to the acre. 16c. lb.; 



100 lbs. $12.00. 



Yellow Branching Doura 



(YELLOW MILLO MAIZEl 

 Earlier than the Rural Branching, and 

 of taller growth, often attaining a height 

 of 9 to 12 feet, but it does not stool out 

 quite as much from the ground, although 

 it branches out from the joints. It pro- 

 duces an enormous quantity of fodder, 

 for which stock show a marked partiality. 

 Plant 4 lbs. to the acre. 16c. lb.; 100 

 lbs. $12.00. 



Jerusalem Corn 



Grows about five feet high, and is one 

 of the surest crops for dry countries and 

 seasons, having in the driest season in 

 the past 15 years in Kansas produced a 

 crop, without irrigation, when other forage 

 plants perished. Five pounds will plant 

 an acre. 18c. lb.; 100 lbs. $14.00. 



Red Kaffir Corn 



This very leafy and juicy variety is 

 taller but more slender than the white, 

 ripens a little earlier and yields heavier. 

 It is also valuable for sowing on poor land, 

 as it will give better results under these 

 conditions than the White Kaffir Corn, as 

 well as other Sorghums, most of which 

 require a well-enriched soil. The stalks 

 and leaves are juicy and brittle, unlike 

 most of the other Sorghums and make 

 very good fodder, which is greatly relished 

 by cattle whether fed to them green or 

 dry. The grain or seed is readily eaten 

 by all live stock and poultry. (See engrav- 

 ing.) 14c. lb., 100 lbs. $10.00. (For Sugar 

 Cane and Broom Corn, see page 18.) 



HENDERSON'S 

 JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT 



(First introduced into the U. S. by Peter Henderson &■ Co.) 

 Since we introduced the Japanese Buckwheat nearly 

 twenty years ago, the tendency, on account of the hot, 

 dry summers in the United States, has been for the 

 grain to gradually grow smaller. The seed we offer 

 is grown from the largest type imported from Japan 

 and is much larger in grain than that usually offered 

 and it will pay all growers to renew their seed. Our 

 seed is only one year removed from imported Japanese 

 seed. This variety is now more generally grown than 

 any other, but to those to whom it may still be un- 

 known we would say that the kernels are at least 

 twice the size of any other variety and of a shape 

 peculiar and distinct from all others. The color of 

 the kernels is also most distinct, being of a rich dark 

 shade of brown. It ripens fully a week earlier than 

 the Silver Hull, the straw is heavier and the yield is 

 double or more. It branches more and does not need 

 to be sown so thickly as the other kinds. There is 

 always a good market for the grain as it is in demand 

 for all purposes, and the export demand now being 

 enormous. For bees it is of the greatest value and 

 for this purpose has displaced all other varieties. 

 ALWAYS SOW WITH CRIMSON CLOVER 

 An excellent plan is to sow Crimson Clover along 

 with Buckwheat, especially when put in late from 

 middle of July to first of August. They come up 

 together, but the Buckwheat is the stronger grower 

 and the Crimson Clover makes but little showing until 

 the Buckwheat is removed. If frost should kill the 

 Buckwheat before ripe, it may be left as a protection, 

 the dead Buckwheat being just the sort of mulching 

 and protection needed by the Clover. The Crimson 

 Clover and mulching of Buckwheat can be plowed 

 under in May and for Potatoes or Corn there is no 

 better preparation. Japanese Buckwheat is one of the 

 most satisfactory crops to sow on new or rough land, 

 but Buckwheat should invariably be sown as a second 

 or catch crop, and we would advise all growers to sow 

 Crimson Clover along with it as recommended above, 

 for, even though the Buckwheat be killed by an early 

 frost, the value of its own humus is worth more than 

 the cost of the seed in addition to its value as a winter 

 protection to the Clover. (See engraving.) 



Price, $4.00 bushel of 48 lbs.; 10-bushel lots, 

 $3.90 bushel. 



TEOSINTE ( LU R x l^ A A NS ) 



The plant resembles Corn, but is more leafy and tillers enormously. After cutting, 

 it grows again with remarkable rapidity. Those having only a small amount of land on 

 .which it is desired to produce the maximum amount of forage should show Teosinte 

 Plant in drills, 6 to 8 lbs, per acre. Price, 25c. \j lb.; 80c. lb. 



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