

RED COB ENSILAGE CORN A pure white Corn, cropping as high as 



i tons per acre. In introducing this variety of Ensilage Corn to my customers, I con- 

 I sider I offer them the very best grown. It is sweet, tender and juicy, furnishes more' 

 nourishment than any other variety, has short joints, abundance of leaves and grows 

 to a great height. It is adapted to every section of the country, (see testimonials 

 below). Hundreds of dairy farmers use it, and are never disappointed. Do not 

 fail to give this corn a trial this season, for I know if once grown, you will 

 plant it every season. PRICE: Pk., 50 cts.; bus., $1.50; 10 bus., $12.50. 

 What is said by a few customers : By mail, pkt., 10c; lb., 30c; 3 lbs., 75c 

 M AINE. It is very much liked and is the only corn we can get that is «, 

 I sure to erow." 



MASSACHUSETTS. " Bed Cob gives splendid satisfaction. It has 

 more leaves and stands tbe storms better than any other kind I have been 

 | able to obtain." 



NEW YORK. " We think it the best fodder corn we have ever 

 I seen. It looked to us as though every kernel grew. It has more fodder 

 on a stalk than any other kind ; grows very rapidly, is fine color, and 

 I the stalk is extra sweet." 



OHIO. " Red Cob Ensilage Corn is excellent, very large and 

 juicy. Think one-third more can be produced to the acre than 

 any other kind." 



ILLINOIS. " Planted under very unfavorable circum- 

 stances, June 29th, still it yielded better than other Ensilag 

 planted at the same time. Some stalks grew 14 feet high." 



MICHIGAN. " Any one who has stock to winter 

 in this State, the more of this corn he plants, t 

 better. Some stalks grew sixteen feet high." 



MINNESOTA. ?< In no case has anything but 

 praise been said of Red Cob." 



CANADA. " Ensilage Corn grew to great 

 height, and produced very fine sweet fodder." 



KAFFIR CORN 



A New Forage Plant 

 from the South — Kaffir 

 Corn produces two to four 

 heads from a single stalk, 

 and in Georgia has yielded 

 in a single season, by the 

 middle of October, two 

 crops of green fodder, and 

 a full cropoi grain (50 to 60 

 bus. per acre.) The whole 

 stalk if cut down as soon 

 as seed heads appear, at 

 once starts a second growth 

 from the roots. It also 

 stands drought wonder- 

 iully. If growth is 

 checked for want of mois- 

 ture the plant waits for 

 rain, and when it comes, 

 at once resumes its growth. 

 On very thin or worn-out 

 lands it yields paying crops 

 of grain or forage even in 

 dry seasons when corn has 

 utterly failed. The whole 

 stalk, as well as blades, 

 makes excellent fodder, 

 and all stock eatit greedily. 

 It is as early or quick in 

 growth as Minnesota Am- 

 ber Cane, and is therefore 

 reliable in any latitude 

 where Amber Cane has 

 been found useful as a fod- 

 der crop. Should be sown 

 in drills and cultivated 

 same as Indian Corn. Com- 

 pared with other sorghums 

 Kaffir Corn has proved 

 itself to be early, abundant 

 in yield, reliable in all 

 seasons, and a superior 

 crop for both quantity and 

 quality of its product. It 

 keeps green, and stalk is 

 brittle and juicy to the 

 last : is not a hard and 

 cane-like growth such as 

 other sorghums. Flour 

 made from Kaffir Corn is 



KAFFIR CORN. Packet, 10 cents, 

 excellent for batter cakes, muffins, etc 



has a 

 Large pkt., 



slightly sweetish taste, otherwise is not distinguished from wheat. 

 10c; lb., 40c; 3 lbs., $1, postpaid. 



SUGAR CORN FOR GREEN FODDER.- Profitable as green feed for 

 milch cows. It is sweeter and more nutritious and eaten more readily than 

 fodder from Field Corn. Peck, 75 cents ; Bushel, 81.75. 



C^X. P r ie<?S or? pi^ld apd Qrass Seeds (<^xc;epC u/rperj 

 / quoted by mail, postpaid,) ipelude delivery free 

 oi? board c;ars ir> tl?is ?icy. f/o c;r?ar?Je for ba<$s 

 <?ustom«?r bo pay frei<$r;c or express erparcjes. 



Yellow Milo 

 Maize. 



main head 

 in 100 days, and still grow on 

 and mature olhers and fod- 

 der until frost." Pkt., 10c; 

 lb., 40c; 3 lbs., $1.00, postpaid. 

 TEOSINTE — So many 

 have spoken to me of this 

 magnificent forage plant that 

 I am glad I have at last been 

 able to secure a small quan- 

 tity of seed. In this latitude, 

 planted July 3d, it produced 

 from one seed, twenty-seven 

 stalks, and attained a height 

 of seven feet by Sept. 10th. 

 making a luxuriant growth of 

 leaves, which the horses and 

 cattle ate as freely as young 

 sugar corn. In appearance 

 somewhat resembles Indian 

 Corn , but the leaves are much 

 longer and broader, and the 

 stalk contains sweeter sap. 

 In its perfection it produces a , 

 great number of shoots, grow- 

 ing twelve feet high, very 

 thickly covered with leaves, 

 yielding such an abundance 

 of forage that one plant is 

 considered to be sufficient 

 to feed a pair of cattle for 

 24 hours. In the South it 

 surpasses either Corn or 

 Sorghum as a soiling or 

 fodder-plant. 85 stalks have 

 been grown from one seed, 

 attaining a height of 11 feet. 

 Packet, 15 cents ; % pound, 

 60 cents ; pound, $2.20. 



YELLOW MILO MAIZE This is another variety of g 



the sorghum family, and I cannot do better in describing it m 

 than by giving the experience^one of my customers (Judge m 

 Hudson, of Mississippi,) had with it. "I planted it in my a; 

 Irish potato patch, four by two feet, three stalks to the hill, 

 and about 200 hills, and cultivated as corn. It was a bold, w 

 vigorous grower and deep-green color and continues so yet jjj- 

 from bottom to top ; grows eight to ten feet. About half-way & 

 up the stalk and on the top are numerous large shoots with g 

 fine large blades on them like those of the main stalk, and on ■■ 

 which shoots are other shoots or suckers, all bearing fine j! 

 heads like the main head or stalk, but not quite so large, S» 

 until from mid-way the stalk up is a large mass of heads and ** 

 fodder. Some stalks have as high as twenty heads, weighing Q. 

 from one-fourth to one pound per head, and as fine heavy 2v 

 blades as the best common corn. One stalk will make a good, » 

 rich feed or meal for a horse. It makes a beautiful, delicious, 'JJ 

 and perfect pop-corn. There is no use to raise anything else **• 

 for horses, cattle, chickens or pop-corn. Fertilize and culti- 8 

 vate well ; nothing of its kind will pay as well. It will 

 mature its 



TEOSINTE. 



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SSSSJ& JERUSALEM CORN *£gg* 



IT IS ONE OF TJBCE BEST FORAGE PLANTS KNOWN. 

 FOR DESCRIPTION AND PRICES, SEE PAGE xx. 



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