WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, P A. 



A PAGE OF PASTURE 



Forage Crops — 101 



Three Permanent Pasture Mixtures. 



11 is true beyond all ques- 

 tion that a mixture of 

 grasses produces a better mowing field and subsequent permanent pasture 

 than a mere combination of timothy and red clover. The former will 

 last five times as long as the latter. Timothy "runs out" in a couple of 

 years or so, while a good permanent pasture will last ten or even twenty 

 years. This has been frequently and forcibly shown by experience. 

 My completed mixtures are sold in two parts, one containing grass 

 seeds and the other clover seeds, to be sown separately, on account of 

 their different weights. The grass seeds may be sown in spring or fall; 

 the clover seeds preferably in the spring. In preparing the permanent 

 pasture grass mixtures I employ mainly Kentucky Blue, Timothy, 

 Knglish Rye, Italian Bye, Red Top or Herd, Orchard, Tall Meadow Oat, 

 Meadow Foxtail, Meadow Fescue, Hard Fescue, Tall Fescue, Bough 

 Stalk Meadow, Canadian Blue, Awnless Brome, Creeping Bent, Sweet 

 Vernal, etc. In the clover mixture I employ Red, Mammoth, Alsike 

 and White. A few of these components will disappear in two or three 

 years, but the others are absolutely permanent. I vary the proportions 

 to suit different situations. 



Maule's Permanent Pasture Mixture for Light and Sandy Soils. 

 — Use at the rate of ot> pounds (4 bushels) per acre. Bu., $2.75; 4 bus., 

 enough for an acre, $10.00. The suitable clovers are included. 



Maule's Permanent Pasture Mixture for Average Soils. — For 

 general use, everywhere. Sow at the rate of 41 lbs. (3 bus.) per acre. Bu., 

 $2.50; 3 bus. mixed grass seeds and 10 lbs. mixed clover, $9.00. 



Maule's Permanent Pasture Mixture for Heavy Soils Use at the 



rate of 41 pounds (8 bushels) per acre. Bushel $2.50; 3 bushels mixed 

 grass seeds and 10 pounds mixed clover seeds, $9.00. 



Pasture mixtures are shipped by express or freight, not prepaid. 



DWARF ESSEX RAPE. 



Best and Most Fattening Sheep Forage Known. 



This is the best autumn sheep forage known, and is also used for pigs 

 and dairy cows with success and profit. Under favorable circumstances 

 it is ready for pasturage in six weeks from the time of sowing. One acre 

 of good rape will .carry a flock of a dozen sheep for two months. Rape is 

 a plant of the cabbage family, requiring the same cultural treatment as 

 the turnip. It is grown exclusively for its leaves. Stock should be fed 

 alternately on grass and rape; not on rape exclusively. Rape-fed animals 

 should have free access to salt. The seed should be sown in May, for 

 midsummer pasturage; or any time before the end of August (at the 

 North) for autumn pasturage. In the Southern States the best sowing 

 time is September or October. Rape is a plant which loves cool weather, 

 and thrives better in autumn than in midsummer. The seed should be 

 used at the rate of 8 pounds per acre in drills, or 5 to 10 pounds per acre 

 broadcast. Rape is one of the best and most fattening of forage plants, 

 especially for sheep. The leaves are so succulent and juicy that the 

 animals will require little or no water, but salt is quite necessary, as 

 above stated. Bape is an excellent green manure for plowing down. Its 

 use in this country is becoming very general, especially in sheep raising 

 sections. Packet, 10 cts.; pound, 25 cts.; 5 pounds, $1.00, postpaid. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, 25 lbs., $2.00; 100 lbs., $7.00. 



A Wonderful 



New Grain. 



This remarkable grain partakes somewhat of the nature of wheat 

 and somewhat of the nature of barley. It has been grown for centuries 

 in Russia, near the Caspian Sea. It was recently brought to this coun- 

 try by an emigrant, and has already attracted very wide attention on 

 account of its merits. The grain is intermediate between wheat and 

 barley. The chaff adheres to the grain when threshed, and is fed in 

 that condition to stock. It is adapted for milling purposes, as well as 



for feeding, making a grade somewhat similar to rye. The straw resem- 

 bles wheat straw. It grows large crops— 40 to 80 bushels per acre — OB 

 comparatively poor soil, and it is said to give full double the crop of 

 barley. It resists drought successfully, and is adapted to Northern 

 latitudes. Sow in the spring or in the fall at the rate of one bushel 

 per acre. Packet, 10 cts.; pound. 30 cts.; 3 pounds, 75 cts., poai • 

 paid. By ex. or fgt., not prepaid, pit., 50 cts.; bu. (40 lbs.), 81.75o 



wish to impress upon all my friends and customers that 

 while my main office in Philadelphia is 1711 Filbert Street, 

 if at any time they should forget my street address, a letter 

 addressed Wm. Henry Maule, Philadelphia, is always sure to 

 reach me. Receiving as I do 5,000 to 6,000 letters some 

 days, there is not a Post Office in any County in the United 

 States that does not know MAULE, so if this catalogue be- 

 comes mislaid all anyone has to do in order to send me a 

 letter is to remember three words, "Maule's Seeds" and 

 "Philadelphia," and they can reach me just as quickly as if 

 they gave my full address, Wm. Henry Maule, 1711 Filbert 

 Street, Philadelphia, Pa., U. S. A. 



