SELECTED FARM SEEDS 



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THE FARMER IS THE REAL CAPITALIST— A BRIGHT OUTLOOK 



The farmer is the real capitalist and aristocrat. He has brought out of the earth this year enough to buy a large 

 majority of the big corporations of the country. The corn crop would buy, at present quotations ( December 15, 1903), all the 

 stocks and bonds of the United States Steel Corporation, and have 200 millions left over with whicla to buy the independent 

 companies. The hay crop is worth 560 million dollars, or more than the present market value of a controliinR interest in all 

 the stock of the Pennsylvania, New York Central. Erie, Baltimore & Ohio, Atchison and Union Pacific Railroad Companies 

 combined, and is likewise worth as much as the net earnings of all the railways of the United States in 1902. It is estimated 

 that the aggregate value of our crops in 1903 is close to 5,000 million dollars, which would buy atpar the total capital stocks of 

 80 per cent, of all the railroads of the country. Now, with such a tremendous accretion of real national wealth, and the 

 prosperity which it indicates to the great agricultural and the transportation industries, how can one be a "bear" upon 

 the country or anticipate commercial disaster? 



While some of the so-called great financiers of the large cities have been facing bad times for the past year, the 

 farmers with their fields in the East, their prairies in the great Westand their cotton plantations in the South, are filled with 

 invigorating clieerfulness and can see only clear skies ahead. Thank God that we live : 



country of the globe I 



in the greatest and most resourceful 



VELVET BEAN (The Great Nitrogen Gatherer) PEAS For Fodder and Plowing Under 



A TTortliy Rival of the Cow Pea 



This new and important forage plant from India is cre- 

 ating a great sensation throughout the Middle and Southern 

 States, where it is supplanting the cow pea for cattle food 

 and as a soil renovator. Since our introduction of it four years 

 since, it has been grown in many of the far Northern States 

 witli great success and is worthy of a trial everywhere. Its 

 nitrogen-gathering properties are said to surpass those 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 20 to 25 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 Sta- 

 tion, 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, because the stems are smaller. 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 of tubercles have 

 been collected, that make a mass, from one single growth, 

 almost as large as a common hen's egg. The vines of this 

 plant are now about 30 feet in length, from seeds planted in 

 May." The cultivation is the same as for cow peas. Prices, 

 pkt., 10c. ; lb., 25c.; 3 lbs. for 60c., by mail, postpaid; by 

 freight, qt., 20c.; peck, 90c.; bush, of 60 lbs., $3.50. 



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 and for fertilizin g the soil and for pas- 

 turing 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, lOc; lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., 

 postpaid ; by freight or express, qt., 20c.; peck, 60c.; bush., 

 $2.00 ; 5 bush, and over, ?1.75 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, heavily podded with seed and yielded over 

 ten tons per acre. It is a valuable fodder variety 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 

 Boil-lmprover, deriving its nitrogen from the air. All who 

 are interested in this class of plants should give our New 

 Early Soja or Soy Bean a trial. Choice seed grown for us in 

 Michigan. Lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., by mail, postage paid ; by 

 express or freight, qt., 25c.; peck, 81.00 ; bushel of 60 lbs., $3.75. 



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 in every case 

 doubles the production 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. Thev 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 

 never sown this crop will be surprised at its large yield. It is 

 a nutritious food and relished by all kinds of farm animals. 

 This crop also makes an excellent soil-improver 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 great 

 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. 



" Peas could ibe 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. "—IT. S. Department of Agriculture. 



riELD OF SOUTHERN B^ACK OR RAM'S HORN COW PEAS IN THE 

 NORTH. SOWN JtJNE 16th, PLOWED UNDER AUGUST 31st. 



COW PEAS (The Great Soil Improver) 



Make Poor Land Rich. Make Good Land More Pro- 

 ductive. Enriching the Soil Even When 

 the Crop is Cut Off. 



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% 

 busiiels to the acre, and plowed under as soon as they have 

 attained their full growth. While this crop is very largely 

 grown wherever known, with the results attained from it the 

 wonder is, that it is not grown ten times as much as at 

 present. There is no surer or cheaper means of improving 

 poor soil than by sowing cow peas. In its capaci'y as a 

 nitrogen gatherer its growth largely enables tlie farmer tO' 

 dispense with the use of nitrogen or ammoiiiated fertilizers. 

 Nitrogen or ammonia in commercial fertilizers is valued at 

 fifteen cents per pound. The cow pea, to a greater extent 

 than any other leguminous crop, with possibly the exception 

 of the New Velvet Bean, described alongside, has the 

 power to extract this costly nitrogen or ammonia from th& 

 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 

 a new 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. 



PER BUSH. 



SOUTHERN BLACK EYE COW PEA »8.3S 



EXTRA EARLY BLACK EYE COW PEA . . . 3.75 



BLACK, or R\M'S HORN " " ... 3.00 



W^HIP-POOK-WILL and CLAY, EACH . . . 3.2S 



PRICES BY LETTER ON LARGER LOTS. 



