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JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 


FODDER AND SOILING PLANTS 

PEAS for Fodder and Plowing Under 

FIELD OF SOUTHERN BLACK OR RAM’S HORN COW PEAS IN THE 
NORTH. SOWN JUNE 16th, PLOWED UNDER AUGUST 81st. 
COW PEAS (The Great Soil Improver) 
Make Poor Land Rich, Good Land More Productive, 
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. There is no surer or cheaper 
means of improving poor soil than by sowing cow peas. 
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 ina 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 ..... 
EXTRA EARLY BLACK EYE COW PEA .. 
BLACK, or RAM’S HORN COW PEA..... 
WHIP-POOR-WILL and CLAY, so 6 
MIXED COW PEAS ..... 
PRICES BY LETTER 
CANADA FIELD PEAS and Oats for Fodder 
These make a fodder and hay which double the pro- 
duction of milk. The Canada Field Pea, which we sell 
at $1.75 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 
eutting about the latter end of June, when the oats are in 
milk and the pods formed on the peas. Farmers who have 
never sown 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 improver when turned 
under like cow peas as described above. Write for prices on 
large quantities. 
VELVET BEAN (The Great Nitrogen Gatherer) 
A Worthy Rival of the Cow Pea 
This is supplanting the cow pea for cattle food and asa 
soil renovator; it has been grown in many of the far Northern 
States with great success and is worthy of a trial every where. 
Its nitrogen-gathering properties are said to surpass those of 
the cow pea. Itis 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. 
It makes an excellent hay and stock eat it well. The cul- 
tivation is the same as for cow peas. Price, per pkt., 10c.; 
Ib., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., by mail, postpaid. On larger quantities 
write for quotations. 
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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. Pkt., 10c.; lb., 25c¢.; 3 lbs., 
60c., postpaid; by freight or express, qt., 20c.; peck, 75c.; 
bush., $2.75. 
SOJA BEAN—New Early Variety 
The ordinary or latesoja bean, while valuable south of 
the Potomae 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 fiesh-former, and 
like the clovers, is a soil-improver. Lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60e., by 
mail, postage paid; by express or freight, qt., 25c.; peck, 
$1.00; bush. of 60 lbs., $3.50. 
EARLY AMBER SUGAR CANE 
The high value of Northern grown sugar cane for fodder 
and ensiluge is becoming rapidly known. It may be made 
to furnish the principal food for cattle, horses and mules 
from August until the following spring. When fed down 
young as a pasture it grows rapidly again. It also with- 
stands severe drought, and as fodder and for winter feed it 
is one of the most economical. The seed is valuable as food 
for horses and cattle, and is greedily eaten by poultry, in- 
creasing the egg-production. By mail, postpaid, lb., 25c.; 
3 lbs., 60ce.; by express or freight, qt., 15e.; peck, 60e.; bush. 
| of 56 Ibs., $2.00; 5 bush. or over, $1.90 per bush. 

DWARF ESSEX RAPE—EIGHT WEEKS FROM SOWING. 
TRUE DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
Dwarf Essex Rape is largely grown in this country 
on account of its rapid growth, being ready to feed in eight 
to ten weeks from sowing, and producing twenty-five to 
thirty tons of green forage to the acre. It grows to a height 
of three feet and covers the surface so densely as to smother 
out all weeds. While unequaled as a pasture for sheep, asa 
food for all 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 De- 
cember. Lb., 25c.;3 Ibs., 60c., by mail, postpaid; by express 
or freight, Ib., 15c.; 10 Ibs., $1.00: 25 Ib., $2.00; bush. of 50 Ibs. 
for $3.75; 100 Ibs. and over at 7e. per lb. Special prices by 
letter for larger lots. 
Fruit Tree Seeds 
Peach Pits. Pure Tennessee, natural, lb., 20c., post- 
paid; bush., $2.50. Apple Seed, lb., 40c. Apricot Pits, 
oz., 10¢c.; lb., 50e. Pear Seeds, French, 0z., 20c.; Ib., $2.00. 
Osage Orange. For hedges. Lb., 45c.; bush., $8.00. 
on all seeds for fodder and 
PRICES soiling fluctuate with the 
We can frequently supply lower 
market. ! 
than catalogue rates. Write for quotations. 
