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JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 
FODDER AND SOILING PLANTS 
PEAS 
For ee and Plowing Under 
FIELD OF SOUTHERN BLACK OR RAM’S HORN COW PEAS IN THE 
NORTH. 
COW PEAS (The Great Soil Improver) 
Make Poor Land Rich, Good Land More Pro- 
ductive, and Enrich the Soil 
Green crops plowed under are one of the best 
and cheapest 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, 
in a short time, will put out a new growth to be 
turned under in the Fall as a fertilizer. 
The best varieties of Gow Peas for all purposes 
are the following: 
SOUTHERN BLACK EYE COW PEA. 
SOUTHERN BLACK, or RAM’S HORN. 
WHIP-POOR-WILL, CLAY and NEW ERA. 
Small quantities by mail, postpaid. Pkt., Ioc.; 
pint, 20c.; qt., 35c. 
Write for prices by the bushel, as they vary 
with the market. 
Canada Field Peas and Oats for Fodder 
These make a fodder and hay which double 
the production of milk. The Canada Field Pea, 
which we sell at about $2.75 per bushel, is the best 
for this purpose. They should be sown in March 
or early April, two bushels of peas and twe 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 cutting about the latter end of June, when the 
oats are in milk and the pods formed on the peas. 
It is a nutritious food and relished by all stock. 
SOWN JUNE 16th, PLOWED UNDER AUGUST 3iIst. 
SOJA OR JAPANESE SOY BEAN 
The demand for the Soja 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. New Early Soja will mature in 
the far Northh Mammoth Yellow Soja, late, 
matures south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers. 
Each,) perspkt:, 10c:;) Ib-25e:;, 3 bss 6ocee paste 
paid; by freight or express, qt., 20c.; peck, 90c. 
Write for prices by the bushel. 
SAND OR WINTER VETCH 
For forage and fertilizing purposes; it succeeds 
and produces good crops on poor, sandy soils as 
well as on good lands, growing to a height of 4 to 5 
feet. It is perfectly hardy throughout the United 
States, remaining green all winter. If sown in the 
Spring, it can be sown alone or mixed with oats, 
Spring rye or barley. If sown during August or 
September, Winter rye serves as a good support. 
The root growth is very extensive from the begin- 
ning, and makes quantities of nitrogen tubercles, 
thus giving it very valuable fertilizing properties. 
Sow 30 to 50 pounds per acre, with % bushel rye, 
oats or barley. Price, per lb., 30c.; 3 lbs.. 75c., 
by mail, postpaid; by freight or express, lb., 20c.; 
10 lbs., $1.50; bush. of 60 lbs., $8.00. 
EARLY AMBER SUGAR CANE 
The high value of Northern grown sugar cane 
for fodder and ensilage is becoming rapidly known. 
When fed down young as a pasture it grows rapidly 
again. The seed and fodder is valuable as food for 
horses and cattle, seed is greedily eaten by poultry, 
increasing egg production. By mail, postpaid, Ib., 
25c.; 3 lbs., 60c.; by express or freight, qt., I5c.; 
peck, 75c.; bush. of 56 lbs., $2.75. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE—EIGHT WEEKS FROM SOWING. 
TRUE DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
Dwarf Essex Rape is largely grown on account 
of its rapid growth, producing twenty-five to thirty 
tons of green forage to the acre. It grows to a 
height of 3 feet and covers the surface so densely as 
to smother out all weeds. While unequaled as a 
pasture for sheep, as a food for all cattle, calves or 
pigs, it is without a rival, its fattening properties 
being twice as great as clover, making a much rel- 
ished food from May to December. Lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 
60c., postpaid; by express or freight, lb., 15c.; 10 
Ibs., $1.50; 25 lbs., $3.00; bush. of 50 lbs., $5.75. 
