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SELECTED FARM SEEDS 



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Golden Fleece Oats 



NOVELTY OF 1901 



Last year we secured from the originator in Genesee 

 County, New York, his entire crop of seed of this valu- 

 able new oats and offered it for sale for the first time. 

 Hundreds of customers have written ua they have never 

 Been its equal, and it is, without doubt, the heaviest crop- 

 ping and handsomest oats ever introduced. One of the 

 largest and most experienced oat growers in Chester 

 County, Pa., says: "Its wonderful productiveness Is 

 far beyond what the most enthusiastic farnaers in 

 this section ever expected to realize." The field 

 photograph herewith represents our crop while being 

 harvested, and after threshing and cleaning for seed the 

 yield was 108 bushels per acre of large, plump, handsome, 

 meaty, white grain, weighing 44 lbs. to the bushel. The yield of other varieties on 

 neighboring farms was from 85 to 50 bushels per acre, or less than one-half that of the 

 GOIiD£X fleece;. This can be partly attributed to the fact that in many cases the 

 spikes or breast will contain three full kernels where other oats give but two. The 

 straw is very strong and does not lodge even when others with less weight of grain in 

 the head go down. The blade is nearly double the size of that of ordinary oats, which 

 is the best evidence of its inherent vigor. This new oats is remarkable for its heavy 

 stooling property, and for this reason 6 pecks (IJ^ bushels) is suflRcient to seed an acre. 

 Prices: Lb., 35c.; 3 lbs. for $1.00, by mail, postage paid. By freight or express: Per 

 peck, 70c.; per legal bush, (of 32 lbs.), 82.00; sack of 3 legal bush. (96 lbs.) for 85.00. 



Standard Varieties of Northern-Grown Seed Oats 



TVHITE MAINE, MORTGAGE MFTEK, DANISH ISLAND, LINCOLN, 

 GOLDEN GIANT, WELCOME, CLYDESDALE, WHITE RUSSIAN, VIRGINIA 

 WINTER TURF, and other well-known and popular varieties of seed oats at bottom 

 prices. Each, 30c. lb., or 3 lbs., 65c., postpaid; by freight or express, peck, 40c.; per 

 legal bush. (32 lbs.), $1.10 ; 10 bush, and over, 81.00 per bush., bags included. 



^PRTNO RYF DISTINCT and VALUABLE 



*^^ IVAi^VJ AV 1 lu A More Profitable Crop Than Oats 



Distinct from the winter rye, grain of finer quality and more productive; can be 

 successfully grown in any latitude, and is now being largely sown in the Middle States 

 m place of oats, being a much more profitable crop, on account of the production of 

 nearly four times the straw, and also as a " catch " crop where winter grain has failed. 

 The straw is equally as valuable as that of the fall or winter rye, standing stiff, 7 to 8 

 feet high. Produces 30 to 40 bushels of grain per acre. As itdoes not stool like winter 

 rye, not less than 2 bushels to the acre should be sown. Pkt., 10c. ; lb., 35c.; 3 lbs., 

 $1.00, postpaid; peck, 60o.; bush., 81.50; 2 bush., 82.75; 5 bush, and over, $1.35 per 

 bush., bags included. 



SPRING WHEAT 



SASKATCHEWAN FIFE. This wheat is pronounced by the great milling kinga 

 of the Northwest the best. Fifty bushels to the acre is not an uncommon yield. It is 

 ten days earlier th,an the Common Fife, straw growing about a foot taller, standing 

 stiff and strong. Pkt., lOc; lb., 35e.; 3 lbs., $1.00., postpaid; by express or freight, 

 peck, 75o.; bush., 82.25; 5 bush, and over, 82.00 per bush., bags included. 



SEED BUCKWHEAT 



NEW JAPANESE. The kernels are nearly twice the size of any other, of a rich , 

 dark brown color and manufacture a superior flour. It has rapidly displaced all 

 others, and is now more largelv planted than any other, being about two weeks 

 earlier. Pkt., lOc; lb., 25e.; 3 lbs., 60c., postpaid; qt. 15c.; peck, 40e.; bush., 81.00; 6 

 bush, and over, 90c. per bush., sacks included. 



SILVER HULL BUCKWHEAT. Qt., 15c.; peck, 45c.; bush., 81.25. 



SEED BARLEY 



NEWMANSBTURY. Earliest and most productive. Qt.,15c.; peck, 50c.; bush., 81.25. 

 SPRING BARLEY. Most popular. Qt., 15c.; peck, 50c.; bush., 48 lbs., 8i.20. 



.^^ Where larger lots of Seed Grain than those quoted above are wanted, 

 please write ng for special prices. No troable for us to answer your letters 

 and inquiries at any time. 



8E0TIOS OF OUR FIELD OF (iOLDEN FLEECR OATS. 



SPRING KYE, SHOWING HEIGHT AI?]> 

 PBODUOTIVENESS OF BTBAW. 



