HIGH 



GRADE 



Glover and 

 Grass Seeds 



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Our grass and clover seeds are extra cleaned and of the 

 highestquality. We take great care to have them absolutely 

 free from all noxious weed seeds. 



POSTAGE ON GRASS SEEDS. 



Remit, in addition to price, 8c. per lb., and 15c. per qt., 

 except on light varieties, which do not weigh over 14 lbs. per 

 bush., on which remit 5c. per qt. to prepay postage. 



Crimson or Scarlet Clover. 



The great nitrogen gatherer and most valuable 

 crop in existence. 



IT IS now ten years since we first called the attention of American farmers 

 to the importance of this crop through our catalogues and advertise- 

 ments, since which time it has been tested by thousands of farmers in all 

 sections of the country, revolutionizing methods of farming and bringing 

 under profitable culture thousands of acres of laud which were heretofore 

 too poor fortilliige. It is purely an annual, and must be sown every year. 

 It will make a good growth on land which is too poor and sandy to grow 

 red clover or any grasses at all, and will make an enormous growth ongood 

 land. It is very valuable as a green manure crop, because it can be grown 

 during the winter and turned under in spring in time to plant corn and 

 other crops. 



Being strictly a supplementary and extra or "stolen" crop, no other crop 

 need be omitted to grow it; it grows quick and adds fertility to the soil 

 beyond the ability of any other known plant in so short a time. 



It will improve worn out and poor soils more rapidly and permanently 

 than any other plant in existence. Therefore, the cheapest and best fertil- 

 izer, also the cheapest food for all kinds of stock. Stock like it. Will leave 

 their grain and feed for it. 1 1 grows and matures its crop when other crops are 

 tlormant, furnishing the very best of feed 

 and still permanently improving the soil. 



Being a winter crop, it should be sown 

 in July and August, from which the spring 

 following it can be cut for soiling by the 

 middle of April ; for ensilage and hay, by 

 1st to iOth of May, and for seed crop by the 

 2oth of May. It will produce on ordinary 

 soil 8 to 10 tons of green food per acre, 1}^ to 

 2^ tons of hay per acre plowed under as a 

 m uiurial crop it is wftrth, as a fertilizer, 

 $24.00 per acre; Experimentsat Experimen- 

 tal Stations have shown that $1.00 invested 

 in seed per acre added 24 bushels corn, 

 while $1.1 worth of Nitrate of .Soda per acre 

 increased the yieldof corn only 6 bushels. 



It can be sown in fields of growing corn, 

 in open ground after some other crop is 

 harvested, in apple, peach, pear, plum or 

 cherry orchards, in tomato, cabbage, beans, 

 pea.^, watermelon, cantaloupes, or any culti- 

 vated crop, also with buckwheat. Is also 

 sown in asparagus beds, in raspberry and 

 blackberry patches, to keep down weeds and 

 to be plowed under as manure, with most 

 excellent results. When sown in the sum- 

 mer months i t furnishes excel lent pasture in 

 October, November and December ; can also 

 be pastured some in early spring without 

 injury to either hay or seed crop. Where 

 Red Clover failed to give a good stand or 

 blighted on wheat stubble, the stubble can 

 be harrowed over and Scarlet Clover sown, 

 which will more than make up the loss of 

 the Red Clover. 



Scarlet Clover weighs sixty pounds to 

 the bushel. Ten to fifteen pounds are neces- 

 sary to seed an acre properly, and after sow- 

 ing the seed it should be covered by a light 

 harrowing. There are five types of Scarlet 

 Clover, one only of which is hardy and 

 which we offer for sale. It has been grown 

 in this latitude now for nine years ; conse- 

 quently it is the ninth generation seed, and 

 being of the hardy type and thoroughly 

 a<'cliinated. it succeeds in extremely north- 

 ern latitudes, having been successfully 

 grown in the most northern States and 

 Canada. 



PRICES-SUBJECT TO MARKET 

 CHANGE. Lb., 15c. (lb. by mail, post- 

 paid, 30c.l; lO lbs., $1.00; bushel (60 

 lb«.), $4.00; sack of two bushels, for 

 »>7.50, l>y Ireight or express. 



ALSIKE, SWEDISH, or HYBRID 

 CLOVER (Trifolium Hybrldum). This 

 variety is the hardiest of the clovers and is 



sometimes called Giant White Clover. Itisaperennial, there- 

 foreadaptedforpermanent pastures or for hay. Its superior 

 pasturage is much liked by cuttle. Blossom heads round, 

 flesh-colored, sweet and fragrant, much liked by bees. Sow 

 six pounds per acre. Lb., 25c.; 10 lbs., S2.C0; 25 lbs., 15c per 

 lb.; bush, of 60 lbs., 86.00, 



BOKHARA CLOVER (Honey Plant). Excellent for 

 bee food, grooving well on poor soil. Lb., 35c.; 10 lbs., 83.00. 



WHITE DUTCH CLOVER. The best to sow with 

 lawn grass and valuable in permanent pastures. Oz., 5c.; lb., 

 <0c.; 25 lbs. and over, aOc. i)er lb.; bush., 60 lbs., S15.00. 



Clover, Commou Red. Lowest market prices. 



HEAD OF CRIMSON OR SCARLET CLOVER. (FlOm nature.) 



LUCERNE, or ALFALFA CLOVER. A perennial 

 forage plant, and when once property seeded in suitable soil 

 will produce fine crops for several years. It has a remarkably 

 strong growth, occasioned by its roots penetrating the ground 

 to a great depth, ten to twenty feet, until they are altogether 

 out of reach of drought. Seed can be sown with any grain 

 crop in the spring, or as a separate crop, at the rate of ten to 

 twelve pounds to the acre. Lb., 25c.; 10 lbs., 81.50; 25 lbs., 

 12c. per lb.; bush., 60 lbs., 8.^..S0. 



MAMMOTH PEA VINE, or SAPLING CLOVER. 

 Market variable. Lowest market prices. 



Japan Clover. Valuable for the South. Lb., 40c. 



