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ENDERSON’S SUPERIOR SEED WHEAT 
HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR & ROPER Selection of Seed Wheat, as well as Proper Cultivation, are essential 
in securing highest results, for, like any other product, it is the poor article 
: : : SEED WHEAT : =: : that brings the poor returns, while there is always a market for the superior 
product at remunerative prices. It costs almost as much to lay down an acre of 
is GROWN from PEDIGREE STRAINS wheat that yields only 15 bushels per acre as one that will yield from 35 to 50 bushels 
BOC —the first scarcely returns the cost of the investment, while the latter yields a hand- 
some profit, and the leading essential needed to attain such results is to use superior 
seed. The ‘‘running out’’ of certain varieties of wheat is considered by experts as due to the improper selection of wheat intended 
for seed purposes, for wheat is such a strictly self-pollenizing plant that unless cross-pollination is practiced occasionally even 
between plants of the same variety, and intelligent selection made of the ideal plants, there is a tendency towards loss of vigor 
and eventually it “‘runs out.” 
“It is noteworthy that in this country the wheat hybrids thus far produced, which have given valuable results, are racial 
hybrids, in many cases very complex, including several different races.’”’—Ycear Book U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. 
Most of the new varieties of HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR WHEATS that we offer in this catalogue are the offspring from 
cross-bred combinations of meritorious Russian and American races, with some blood from the Mediterranean long berry. This 
is the blood that was utilized in producing the widely-grown Winter Fife, Early Red Clawson, Early Genesee Giant, and other 
well-known varieties, so that it may confidently be expected that the later, carefully-bred sorts now offered will show remarkable 
mprovement in all desirable qualities, including yield, gluten, milling qualities, hardiness, health, vigor, etc. 
HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR SEED WHEAT is not only 
grown especially for seed purposes from choicest selected 
cross-bred and pedigree strains, but it is all recleaned at our 
warehouses (250,000 bushels capacity), which are equipped 
with the most modern seed-cleaning machinery in America. 
This enables us to supply direct to the farmer plump and 
heavy seed, of undoubted superiority, at lowest possible 
prices, where quality is considered. 
H ENDERSON’S SUPERIOR 
SPRING SEED WHEAT 
Often, through pressure of other work, the seeding of 
Winter Wheat is neglected until too late and is either not 
sown at all or results in failure. With the two varieties of 
Spring Wheat here offered, this difficulty can be overcome 
by Spring sowing. They are the best of the Spring Wheats, 
yield well, and the milling quality of the grain surpasses 
even the best of the winter varieties. Spring wheat is also 
a satisfactory crop to sow along with grass seed. 
The prices herein named are those ruling at this date 
(February, 1906) for the crop of 1905, but they are subject 
to market fluctuations. Delivery f. 0. b. New York, bags 
extra. Special quotations to large buyers. 
=== SASKATCHEWAN FIFE SS 
The favorite variety in the great Spring Wheat sections 
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of the Northwest, where it is much esteemed by the farmer 
for its earliness, productiveness, vigorous growth and freedom 
from smut and diseases, and by the miller on account of its 
unsurpassed milling qualities. $2.25 per bushel (60 lbs.); 
10-bushel lots, $2.15 per bushel. 
“Last spring I purchased one quart of the Saskatchewan Fife Spring 
Wheat. I sowed the same on five square rods of land where one crop had been 
grown before. I threshed four bushels and forty-four pounds of very fine 
wheat, weighing sixty-five pounds to the bushel. I found some stools that 
contained as many as eighty stalks of bearing size from one kernel. Most 
of the stools contained from forty to fifty stalks. That was more than I ex- F 
pected to raise, more than ever was raised, and I think more than ever will 
be raised again from a like amount of seed. I am sure when every farmer 
=a port it, it will be a great thing for the country.” 
will start io raise it, it w g J. W.NOOTNY, Angus, Minn. 
WELLMAN FIFE 
The best of all the Spring Wheats, having large heads 
and grain, and tall, strong straw, with white chaff heads 
and dark amber kernels. The grain is very hard and pro- 
duces the finest grade of flour, and is eagerly sought aiter 
by millers. Enormously productive, and is invaluable for 
spring sowing where the Winter Wheat has been killed, or 
where it was not sown. (See cut.) $2.30 per bushel (60 
lbs.); 10-bushel lots, $2.20 per bushel. 
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We hall be pleased to make Special Prices {,“**.| to buyers of large quantities of Farm Seeds. {zie 
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