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Field of Alfalfa grown by David Boberts, Moorestown, N 



It was sown in August and the above photograph was taken in June 



STOKES' SUPERIOR CLOVER AND GRASS SEED 



Prices subject to market change at any time. Write for figures on the quantity you need. The prices below are approximate only. 



ALFALFA. This has been called Lucerne Clover in the East, .t is 

 one of the most important crops that western farmers can grow, 

 and eastern farmers should take it up as a soil-improving and money- 

 crop. The roots go down lo feet or more, and once estabHshed 

 properly it lasts a great many years. Four or five cuttings may be 

 made each season in a three-year or older field. Try to get at 

 least a few acres started. Sow either in spring or in early August, 

 twenty, twenty-five and up to forty pounds of seed to the acre, 

 depending on your soil and other conditions. See that there is 

 plenty of lime in the soil, that it is well worked, and that it is 

 inoculated with, the legume bacteria. Alfalfa cannot grow 

 without this bacteria. You can supply it by spreading soil from a 

 successful Alfalfa field, or by using "Farmogerm," which is the 

 bacteria artificially raised. See below. Seed about S12 per bus. Write. 



ALSIKE CLOVER. Very hardy and well adapted for mixing with 

 other Clover or with timothy to make finer hay. Tall, slim plants, 

 much honey in the blossoms. About S14 per bus. Write. 



CRIMSON or SCARLET CLOVER. This Clover {Trifolium 

 incarnatum) is an annual, like wheat, dying each year. Plants i to 

 2 feet high, slender and fine. Makes two or three tons of cured 

 hay an acre, but its greatest value is for a cover-crop, in soils and 

 localities where it succeeds. Sow in fall, twelve to fifteen pounds 

 of seed an acre. About Ss per bus. Write. 



WHITE DUTCH or LAWN CLOVER. Good on lawns because it 

 lives so long, and in pastures for the same reason. It is the little 



low Clover with the round white or gray blossoms. Sow ten or 

 twelve pounds to the acre on land seeded to grass or grain, between 

 April and September. Lb. 70 cts., postpaid; by express or freight, 

 lb. 60 cts., 5 lbs. $2. 80, 10 lbs. $5.50, bus. (60 lbs.) I31.20, 100 lbs. 



SWEET CLOVER, or BOKHARA. In the central West just now 

 there is much interest in Sweet Clover, and many think it should 

 be used in place of other Clovers. The fact is that it cannot 

 compare with Red Clover or alfalfa in feeding value, and where 

 these other Clovers will grow, it should not be used. Where they 

 will not grow, however, it often succeeds. If your soil is thin and 

 rainfall scant, try Sweet Clover. It is fine, too, for inoculating 

 the soil so it will grow alfalfa. Lb. 30 cts., in loo-lb. lots, 26 cts. 

 per lb. 



MAMMOTH RED or PEA-VINE CLOVER {Trifolium pretense 

 peremie). Lb. 30 cts., bus. about S14. Write for prices before 

 buying. 



RED CLOVER, Medium (Trifolium pretense). You can get 

 "Clover Seed" at nearly every village store, but it has been proved 

 that three-fourths of the seed that is sold, on account of careless- 

 ness in growing, harvesting, curing and cleaning, is foul with weed 

 seeds of many kinds, including yellow trefoil, and is of very low 

 germinating power. My Clover Seed is free from weed seed and 

 almost every grain will grow. This I absolutely guarantee. Price 

 about 30 cts. per lb. or $14 per bus. But write for current figures. 



FARMOGERM 



Artificially grown bacteria for inoculating alfalfa and clover. Better than 

 using soil from an old field, because sUrer of results. Use it on the seed 



It is well known that Alfalfa simply cannot be grown unless the 

 seed or the soil is inoculated with the httle bacteria which gather 

 the nitrogen. Clovers will grow without inoculation, but they make 

 an indifferent crop. You ought to see the rank and luxuriant growth 

 that Clover wUl make after you supply bacteria, even on land where 

 it failed before. Farmogerm is a bacteria culture, scientifically 

 prepared for use by any farmer just before the seed is sown. It needs 

 no treatment or development before using. It comes in sealed bottles 

 in a kind of jelly, and you make it ready for use by simply adding a 

 little water according to the plain directions. The preparation is 

 put on the seed, and in this way the soil is inoculated. Not only is 

 the immediate crop made to grow twice or three times what it could 

 on land not supplied with bacteria, but the soil is enriched in nitro- 

 gen, which will be available for future crops for two or three suc- 



cessive seasons. It benefits the following crops: Alfalfa, Alsike, 

 Crimson, Red and White Clovers, Canadian Field, Cow, Garden and 

 Sweet Peas; Soy, Velvet and Garden Beans, Vetch, Peanuts and all 

 other legumes. 



Farmogerm is put up in bottles and is sent prepaid by mail as 

 follows: 



Price-List — be sure to tell for what crop it is wanted: 



Bottles to treat seed for one acre, $2; s-acre bottles, S9. Be sure 

 and state whether for Red Clover or Alfalfa, as germs are different. 



Bottles for one acre of Garden Peas, Beans, Cowpeas or Vetch, 

 $2 each. 



Bottles, garden size, for Peas, Beans and Sweet Peas, 50 cts. each; 

 one-half size, 25 cts. each. 



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