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■ -.JOHNSON.-. & .-. STOKES .-. PHILADELPHIA .-. 



KAFFIR — CORN THE GREAT FORAGE AND GRAIN PLANT. 



MFFIR CORN. 



We were the first Northern seedsmen to offer and 

 introduce, three years since, this valuable new and distinct 

 variety of sorghum, which is now successfully cultivated 

 for both forage and grain, in all sections of the United 

 States. Our customers everywhere are enthusiastic in 

 its i)raise. Our illustration above was made from a photo- 

 graph taken in our field growing for seed. It is the best 

 general purpose plant of all the varieties of sorghum yet 

 offered, and will make a paying crop on land that will not 

 yield five bu-hels <if corn or wheat. It is early as Amber 

 Cane, and will mature its seed as far North as Minnesota and 

 New York. It will make a fine crop of forage if cut in early 

 bloom, and the shoots that then follow will mature a full crop 

 of seed and forage. Both grain and fodder are excellent, the 

 whole stalk tender to the full maturity of seed. It grows 

 not over five to six feet on best land, is easily niiinaged, bears 

 as many blades as a stalk of Millo, or com that is twice as 

 tall, foliage wide, thick, curesinto the best of fodder. It does 

 not stool at all at the bottom, but grows stocky and strong 

 and branches at the top two to four heads to each stalk. If 

 cut down for forage, the shoots again spring; from the ground. 

 It c;»n be put thick, hears massing in the rows. There is no 

 failure about it, jis it possesses the quality that all the tribe 

 possesses, of waiting for rain without any loss of aipacity 

 to yield. The grain is nearer to wheat than any other sort. 

 It makes a flour that is like wheat, makes up like it, and 

 tastes like it, except being a little sweeter and well adapted 

 to human food. It can be cultivated the same as our com- 

 mon Indian Corn, requiring four to five pounds of seed per 

 acre. Bv mail, postage paid, pkt., Iflc; lb., .35c.; Slbs.,$I.OO; 

 byfreiglitorexpress, qt.,20c.; peck, Sl.OO; bush. (601bs.i,S3.50. 



TEOSINTE (KEANA tXIXtlKIANS). This gig.'intic 

 Grammea of Central America somewhat resembles Indian 

 Corn. It produces a great number of shoots, growing twelve 

 feet high, very thickly covered with leaves, yielding an 

 abundance of forage. In the North a single seed will make 

 from twelve to sixteen stalks. It surpasses either corn or 

 sorghum as a soiling or fodder plant. Planted three feet 

 apart, it will cover the ground bv autumn with only ordinary 

 culture. Pkt., lOc; oz., 20c.: % lb., 60c.; lb., $2.00. 



LARGE AFRICAN MILLET. A variety of sorghum, 

 growing stalks ten feet high, and yielding heads of g^rain 

 twelve to fourteen inches long. If the stalk is cut down and 

 cured it makes excellent forage, well eaten by stock in win- 

 ter. Pkt., lOc; lb.. Sic; 3 lbs., 81.00, post-paid; qt., 25c.; 

 peck. SI. 25; bush., 84.00. 



TVHITE MILLO MAIZE, ORDHOURA. A grain, of 

 SoutliAnierican origin, which we have distributed largely the 

 p:ist five seasons. Our customers are highly pleased wiith it, 

 and pronounce it a valuable acquisition, both for a grain and 

 foraee crop. It can lie cut repeatedly for green feed, or for 

 fodder. It stools or branches freely; the ma^s of foliage it 

 produces is enormous, and it stau'ls dry weather well. Plnnt 

 in AditI, in rows three by four feet apart, five to eight seeds 

 in a hill, r "quiring two pounds to the acre, and cultivate as 

 corn. Post-naid, pkt., lOc: lb., .35c.; 31b-i., 81.00; by express 

 orfreight, qt.,2jc.; peck, $1.25; bush., $4.00. 



YELLOW MTLLO MAIZE, OR 

 YELLOW BRANCHING DHOURA. 



Another new variety of sorghum, valuar 

 ble for both forage and grain. Its growth 

 is tal, nine to twelve feet, stooling from 

 the ground like the white Millo Maize. 

 It sends out shoots also from the joints. 

 The seed heads grow to greater size, often 

 weighing a full pound after being fully 

 ripe. The heads are set close and solid, 

 with a large, plumpg^rain, double the size 

 of White Millo, and of deep golden yel- 

 low color. In shape, the seed head is 

 thick, well shouldered, solid, never long 

 and narrow, and by reason of size and 

 weight, each head is the full equal in 

 grain to a fine ear of corn. The heads 

 begin to turn down usually as soon as 

 formed, and when ripe it hangs on a short 

 goose-neck stem. The grain makes most 

 excel lent feed for horses.eattle, chickens or 

 human food. It will mature its njain head 

 in 100 days and still go on maturing 

 others until cut down bv frost. Pkt., 10c. ; 

 lb., 35c.; 3 lbs., $1.00, post-paid; qt., 25c.; 

 peck, $1.50; bush., $4.50. 



SUGAR CANE— EARLY AMBER. 

 best variety for sugar, as it matures quickly, and has been 

 cultiviited as far North as St. Paul, Minn. The seed is valua- 

 ble also as food for horses and cattle, and is greedily eaten by 

 poultry, increasing the egg production. For ensilage or fod- 

 der, it possesses important advantages. By mail, post-paid, 

 lb., 30e.; 3 lbs.. 75c.; by express or freight, qt., 20c.; bush, of 

 56 1bs.,$2..50; 10 bush, or over, $2.25 per bush. 



RAiVUE— Silver China Grass. ( Urlica nivea.) This is 

 the variety now so extensively cultivated in the South for its 

 fibre, machinery having been recently perfected in the 

 United States for separating the fibre from the stalk. The 

 seed should be germinated by sowing it on cotton, floating 

 in a tub of lukewarm water, and transferring it to a bed, 

 screened from the hot sun. When the plants are four inches 

 high, transplant to afield in rows four feet apart each way ; 

 and when plants are three feet high, turn them over and peg 

 to the ground, after which cover them with the earth, and 

 thev will start in everv direction, completely covering the 

 field in a short time. Pkt., 20c.; oz., 90c.; lb., $10.00. 



YEU-OW MILLO 



MAIZE. 

 This is by far the 



MAMMOTH RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER. 



n/innoTH kussi/in /yNFLowER. 



THE GIANT-OF-ALL SUNFLOWERS. Growing to 

 double the size of the common sunflower, and the yield of 

 seed is twic" as great. One hundred and twenty-five bush- 

 els to the acre have been grown at a less expense than corn. 

 It is highly recommended for potdtry ; the best egg-produc- 

 ing food known. The leaves make splendid fodder, much 

 relished by all kinds of stock. The seed is good feed for 

 horses, and yields a fine quality of oil. The strong, thick 

 stalks are used for fuel. In fact there is no waste whatever 

 in any of its product. Pkt., 5c.; qt., 25c.; qt., post-paid, 40c.; 

 peck, 90c.; bush., $3.00. 



BROOM CORN. 



WEBER'S IMPROVEI> EVERGREEN. This strain 

 of Evergreen Broom Corn is the best and purest in cultiva- 

 tion, originated and selected by Mr. Geo. Weber, one of the 

 largest growers of Montgomery County, Pa., who has for 

 many years had the reputation of having the best in the 

 Slate, having made his stock famous by selection and im- 

 provement for length, strength and straightness of brush. 

 It is of a very bright green color, without the slightest red- 

 dish tinge, height seven to eight feet. Qt., 30e.; i>eck, 81.00; 

 bush., $2.50. 



Dwarf Evergreen. Grows three to four feet high, 

 straight, smooth brush. Qt., 20c.; peck, 80c.; bush., 82.50. 



