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g g^ JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA 



A Page of Interesting Fodder Plants 



Australian Salt push 



THE FORAGE PLANT FOR AI.KAI.I SOItS 



Yields 30 tons to the acre on any soil without water. 



Introduced into the United States by the University of Cali- 

 fornia. 



Experiments and actual tests have shown that Salt Bush 

 is a hardy, dry air plant, capable of thrifty and substantial 

 growth in any soil. Its nutritious strength is equal to alfalfa 

 or Lucerne. Hogs, sheep and cattle are extremely fond of it, 

 and chickens will leave almost any other food for it. It will 

 stand cold to a temperature of 19 degrees, and heat to 150 

 degrees. 



E.xperiments in California, Colorado, Arizona, New 

 Mexico, Montana, Idaho, Utah, South Carolina and Florida 

 have been uniformly successful, and the unanimous opinion 

 of all is that it is a God-send. 



One plant will cover 500 square feet in one season, cover- 

 ing the ground with a matting of from six to eight inches 

 thick. It remains green all winter, and will yield 20 to 

 30 tons to the acre. It produces wool and mutton of superior 

 quality. Horses fed on it seem to be possessed of inexhaust- 

 able endurance. One pound of seed will plant an acre. Sow 

 broadcast, in soil well pulverized, after all danger of frost is 

 past. Mix the seed with ten times its weight of loam, sand, 

 ashes, or plaster; cover lightly with a brush harrow or roll 

 lightly. The seed germinntes quickly, and the plants soon 

 take possession of the ground. Or it may be sown in a hot- 

 bed, cold frame or boxes : transplant when two inches high. 



Prices: Seed of the TRUE AUSTRALIAN SALT 

 BUSH (Atriplex semibaccatum), grown for us in Cali- 

 fornia, per pkt.. 10c. ; oz.. 20c.; ^i lb., oOc; lb.. SI. 50. 



Sand, or Winter Yetch ^jf/o^sa 



Vicia Villosa succeeds and produces good crops on poor 

 sandy soils as well as on good laud; grows to a height of four 

 to five feet. It is perfectly hardy throughout the United 

 States, remaining green all winter, and should be sown in the 

 spring, mixed with oats, spring rye or barley ; or during 

 August and September, with winter rye, which serves as a 

 support for the plants. It is the earliest crop for cutting, 

 being hardier and nearly a month earlier than Scarlet Clover, 

 and a full crop can be taken off the land in time for planting 

 spring crops. Every dairyman and stock-breeder in the 

 United States should have a field of it, and if you trj' it once 

 you will never be a season without it. It is exceedingly nu- 

 tritious, eaten with relish, and may be fed with safety to all 

 kinds of stock. 



Sow one bushel per acre with one-half bushel of rye, oats 

 or barley. Lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., post-paid ; lb., 15c.; 10 lbs., 

 $1.00 ; bush. (60 lbs.), &1.50, by freight or express. 



Jeosinte (Jieana Jjuxurians) 



This gigantic Grammea will furnish a continuous dail.v 

 supply of most nutritious green food for horses and all kinds 

 of cattle all through the summer. It also makes splendid 

 dry fodder, yielding enormously, and being more nutritious 

 and better relished by all kinds of stock than corn fodder. 

 In appearance it somewhat resembles Indian corn, but the 

 leaves are much larger and broader, and the stalks contain 

 sweeter sap. In its perfection it produces a great number 

 of shoots, growing ten to twelve feet high, very tliickly 

 covered with leaves, yielding an abundance of forage. It 

 stools out enormously after being cut, as many as forty-five* 

 stalks having been grown from a single seed. Sow in May 

 or June, at the rate of three pounds per acre, in drills three 

 and a half to four feet apart. Pkt., 10c.; oz., 15c.; J4 lt>., 35c.; 

 lb., SI.25. 



LATHYRUS SYLVESTRIS, or FLAT PEA. If the 

 strong claims made for this forage plant are but half true, it 

 is certainly one of the best yet discovered. Tlie roots pene- 

 trate the soil twenty to thirty feet, enabling it to withstand 

 cold or drought, and will last fifty yeare without manure or 

 reseeding. It will fatten hogs or sheep without grain, and 

 will cut six to eight tons of hay to the acre. Sow in drills 

 twelve to fifteen inches apart. Pkt., lOc; oz., 20c.; i4 lb., 

 60c.; lb., S2.00. 



SACALTNE (True Polygonum Sachalinense). No 

 other forage plant has ever created such widespread discus- 

 sion as Sacaline, and there seems to be a wide difference of 

 opinion regarding its value in the United States. 



From our own experience we cannot endorse the strong 

 claims made for it. To those who wish to try it, however, 

 we offer seed of the true variety at 10c. per packet, or 3 pkts. 

 for 25c. 



Pwarf pssex Jlape 



TRUE BLENNLAL VARLETY 



Dwarf Essex Rape is considered indispensable by the 

 sheep and cattle farmers of Great Britain, and is fa.st coming 

 into use in this country on account of its rapid growth, 

 beingready to feed in ten weeksfroni 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 and to kill quack and 

 other objectionable grasses. It can be sown all through the 

 season, being perfectly hardy, withstands drought, and will 

 produce a crop in any soil by sowing bioadcast at the rate of 

 five pounds to the acre, or in drills or rows two feet apart at 

 the rate of three pounds per acre. While unequalled as a 

 pasture for sheep, as a fattening food for all kinds of live 

 stock it is without a rival in point of cheapness or effective- 

 ness. Pkt., lOc; lb., 30e.; 3 lbs., 75c., post-paid; lb., 20c.; 10 

 lbs., S1.50 ; 25 lbs. and over, 10c. per lb., by express or freight. 



parly ^mber Sugar Cane 



The high value of Northern grown sugar cane for fodder 

 and ensilage is becoming rapidly known. It may be made 

 to furnish the principal food for caitle, 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 with the best of this class of plants. As 

 a fodder and for winter feed it is one of the most economical. 

 The Early Amber is also the best variety for sugar, as it 

 matures quickly, and has been cultivated as far north as 

 St Paul, INIinn. The seed is valuable also as food for horses 

 and cattle, and is greedily eaten by poultry, increasing the 

 egg production. By mail, post-paid, lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c.; by 

 express or freight, qt., 20c.: peck, 75c.; bush, of 56 lbs., $2 25 ; 

 10 bush, or over, 52.00 per bush. 



KAFFIR CORN is now 

 successfully cultivated for 

 both forage and grain in all 

 sections oftlie United States. 

 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. There is no failure 

 about it, as it possesses the 

 quality that all the tribe 

 possess, of waiting for rain 

 without any loss of capacity 

 to yield. The grain makes 

 a flour that is like wheat. 

 Cultivated the same as our 

 common Indian Corn, re- 

 quiring four to five pounds 

 of seed per acre. By mail, 

 postage paid, pkt., 10c. ; lb., 

 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c.; by freight 

 or express, qt., lijc.; peck, 

 50c.; bush.,601bs.,S1.50. 



JERUSALEM CORN. 



Belongs to the nonsaccliar- 

 ine sorghums, and "was 

 brought a few yeai's since 

 from the arid plains of Pal- 

 estine. It is pronounced by 

 all who have grown it the 

 best and surest crop for dry 

 countries and seasons. 

 Growsabout three feet high. 

 The grains are pure white 

 and nearly flat. Three 

 pounds will plant an acre. 

 The cultivation is the same 

 as for Kaffir Corn and other 

 forage plants. Pkt., 10c ; lb., 

 2.5c.; 3 lbs., 60c., post-paid ; 

 qt., 15c.; peck, 75c.; bush. (60 

 lbs.),S2.50, by freight. 



WHITE MtLLO 

 MAIZE, or DHOURA, 

 and YELLOW MILLO 

 3IAIZE, or YELLOW 

 BRANCHING DHOURA. 

 Popular varieties of sor- 

 ghum, valuable for both for- 

 age and grain. Pkt., 10c.; 

 ll>.,25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., post-paid; 

 A SEED HE.4D OF KAFFIR qt., 1.5c.; peck, 75c.; bush., 

 couN. $2.50, by freight or express. 



