SELECTED 
PEAS For Fodder and Plowing Under 
“Peas could be made to bring more nitrogen to 
the soils of this country every year than is now pur- 
chased annually by the farmers at a cost of millions 
of dollars.”—U, S, Department of Agriculture. 
FIELD OF SOUTHERN BLACK OR RAM’S HORN COW PEAS IN THE 
NORTH. SOWN JUNE l6th, PLOWED UNDER AUGUST dlst. 
COW PEAS (The Great Soil Improver) 
Make Poor Land Rich, Good Land More Produciive, 
and Enrich the Soil 
Green crops plowed under are one of the best and cheap- 
est ways of improving the soil. For this purpose the cow 
pea is most popular, especially for medium or light soil. 
They should be sown in May or June, at the rate of 1% 
bushels to the acre, and plowed under as soon as they have 
attained their full growth. This crop is very largely grown 
wherever known, and with the results attained from it, the 
wonder is that it is not grown even more extensively. There 
is no surer or cheaper means of improving poor soil than by 
sowing cow pes. In its capacity as a nitrogen gatherer its 
growth enables the farmer to dispense with the use of nitro- 
gen or ammoniated fertilizers. Nitrogen or ammonia in 
commercial fertilizers is valued at 15 cents per pound. The 
cow pea, with possibly the exception of the New Velvet 
Bean, described alongside, has the greatest power of extract- 
ing this costly nitrogen or ammonia from the atmosphere. 
COW PEAS FOR HAY 
If planted early, say by middle of May, in the central 
corn belt section, a crop can be cut and cured for hay the 
same as clover, then the stubble in a short time will put out 
anew growth to be turned under in the fall as a fertilizer. 
The best varieties for all purposes are the following: 
PRICES variable with the market. 
SOUTHERN BLACK EYE COW PEA... 
XTRA EARLY BLACK EYE COW PEA 
BLACK, or RAM’S HORN COW PEA ..... 
WHIP-POOR-WILL and CLAY, EACH... . 
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PRICES BY LETTER 
CANADA FIELD PEAS and Oats for Fodder 
For Dairy Cows and Hogs, Equal to Corn, 
and Six Weeks Earlier. 
These make a fodder and hay which double the pro- 
duction of milk. The Canada Field Pea, which we sell 
at $1.60 per bushel, is the best for this purpose. They 
should be sown in March or early April, two bushels of 
peas and two bushels of oats to the acre. The peas should 
be sown first and plowed under about four inches deep; the 
oats then sown and harrowed in. They will be ready for 
cutting about the latter end of June, when the oats are in 
milk and the pods formed on the peas. Farmers who have 
neversown this crop will be surprised at its large yield. It 
is a nutritious food and relished by all kinds of stock. 
This crop also makes an excellent soil im prover when turned 
under like cow peas as described above. Since we first called 
attention to the great value of Canada Field Peas for this 
purpose, some years ago, the demand has become so grent 
that we are now having them grown by the carload in 
Canada and can always quote LOW PRICES BY LETTER 
when wanted in lots of 10 bushels and upwards. 
FARM SEEDS 
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VELVET BEAN (The Great Nitrogen Gatherer) 
A Worthy Rival of the Cow Pea 
This new and important forage plant from India is cre- 
ating a great sensation throughout the Middle and Southerm 
States, where it is supplanting the cow pea for cattle food 
und asasoil renovator. Since our introduction of it, it has 
been grown in many of the far Northern States with great 
success and is worthy of a trial everywhere. Its nitrogen- 
gathering properties are said to surpass tliose of the cow 
pea. It is the rankest grower of any of the legumes; 
two or three seeds planted four feet apart in rows five feet 
apart will literally cover the ground two to three feet thick 
with a mass of foliage and vines twenty to twenty-five feet 
long, no matter how poor the soil. It leaves a mulch on the 
ground that is very beneficial to the soil. 
Dr. Stubbs, Director of the Southern State Experiment 
Station, says: “I believe that it can be cut advantageously 
almost any time from June to October, and cured in less time 
than cow pea hay. It makes an excellent hay and stock eat 
it well. A heavy nitrogen-gatherer, and the tubercles on its 
roots are the largest of any plant I have observed, corn-like 
clusters having been collected that make a mass, from one 
single growth, almost as large as a common hen’segg. The 
vines of this plant are now about thirty feet in length, from 
seeds planted in May.”’ The cultivation isthe same as for cow 
pens. Prices, pkt., 10c.; lb., 25c.; 3 lbs. for 60e., by mail, post- 
paid; by freight, qt., 20ce.; peck, $1.00 bush. of 60 lbs., $3.75 
SOJA BEAN—Late Variety 
The demand for the SOJA OR JAPANESE SOY 
BEANS has grown remarkably of late years. Their great 
value is as a forage crop, for fertilizing the soil and for 
pasturing or feeding the green fodder much in the same way 
as the cow pea. This late variety is very valuable south of the 
Potomac and Ohio Rivers. Sow broadcast one-half bushel to 
the acre, or it may be planted in drills three feet apart and 
one foot between plants. Pkt., 10c.; lb., 25¢.; 3 lbs., 60e., 
postpaid; by freight or express. qt., 20c.; peck, 75¢.; bush., 
$3.00; 5 bush. and over, $2.90 per bush. 
SOJA BEAN—New Early Variety 
The ordinary or late soja bean, described above, while 
valuable south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, is too late to 
be of value in the far Northern States. This variety ripens 
in all the Northern States, where it has been grown over four 
feet in height, and yielded over ten tons per acre. It is a 
valuable fodder either for feeding green or for the silo. 
Being a rich nitrogenous feed, it is unsurpassed as a flesh- 
former, and, like the clovers, is a soil-improver. All who 
are interested in this class of plants should give our New 
Early Soja or Soy Bean atrial. Choice seed grown for us in 
Michigan. Lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., by mail, postage paid; by 
express or freight, qt., 25¢e.; peck, $1.00; bush. of 60 Ibs., $3.50. 
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TRUE DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
Dwarf Essex Rape, of the True Biennial Variety 
is now largely grown in this country on account of its rapid 
growth, being ready to feed in eight to ten weeks from sow- 
ing, and producing twenty-five to thirty tons of green forage 
totheacre. It grows toa height of three feet and covers the 
surface so densely as to smother out all weeds. It can be 
sown all through the season, being perfectly hardy, with. 
stands drought, and will produce a crop in any soil by sow- 
ing broadcast at the rate of five to ten pounds to the acre 
While unequaled as a pasture for sheep, as a food for al! 
cattle, calves or pigs, it is without a rival, its fattening 
properties being twice as great as clover, making a much 
relished and most succulent food from May to December 
Lb., 25¢e.; 3 Ibs., 60¢., by mail, postpaid; by express or 
freight, lb., 15e.; 10 Ibs., $1.00; 25 Ibs., $2.00; bush. of 50 Ibs 
for $8, 25; 1.0 Ibs. and over at 6c. per 1b, Special prices by 
letter for larger lots, J 
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