DE JONG FLORAL AND SEED CO., PELLA, IOWA 



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Sudan Grass 



Sudan Grass is an annual and dies each year like Millet, so 

 there is no danger of spreading over your land like Johnson 

 Grass will do. It grows tall, reaching a height of about seven 

 feet; the stems are very small and rarely thicker than a lead 

 pencil. The plants stools wonderfully and produces under fav- 

 orable conditions as many as 100 stalks from a single root. 



Sudan Grass yields a good crop of first-class hay, all stock 

 relish the hay and thrive on it, the quality of the hay is superior 

 to millet. Yields of from two to four tons per acre are com- 

 mon and under favorable conditions, six to eight tons per acre 

 have been grown. 



Sudan Grass should not be planted until soil has become warm. 

 It can be sown any time during the summer as a catch crop. 



It can be sown in rows 18 to 36 inches apart and cultivated, or 

 can be drilled with a grain drill or sown broadcast by hand. 



Seeded in rows, it takes from 3 to 6 lbs. per acre, depending 

 on the width of row; drilled or broadcast, from 12 to 15 lbs. is 

 used. 



Sudan Grass is easy to cut with a mower and cures readily 

 like millet. For hay it is best to cut just after full bloom and 

 will give it more time for a second growth, and in 40 to 50 days 

 another cutting is ready. Ordinarily two or three cuttings may 

 be expected when the season is long enough. 



Price per pkt., 5 cts., % lb. 10 cts., lb. 25 cts., 3 lbs. 70 

 cts., by mail. By express or freight, 10 lbs., $1.00, 25 lbs. $2.00, 

 100 lbs. $8.00. 



RAPE 

 Dwarf Essex 



This plant is extensively grown in Europe and 

 Canada for forage, especially for sheep, and for 

 green manure, for which purposes there is per- 

 haps no plant better adapted where a quick, rank 

 growth is desired. Farmers who raise much 

 stock and desire to get young cattle, sheep or 

 lambs into favorable condition to be sold advan- 

 tageously in the fall, can do it most cheaply by 

 growing this rape. Prepare the ground as for 

 turnips, sow in May to July, with a turnip drill, 

 in rows two and one-half feet apart, at the rate 

 of two and one-half pounds of seed per acre, or 

 may be sown broadcast at the rate of five pounds 

 per acre. It is also well adapted for a catch crop, 

 where crops have failed, as it makes most of its 

 growth late in the season. Can be sown on stub- 

 ble land or in corn at the last plowing. Per i/4 

 lb. 10 cts., lb. 15 cts., 3 lbs. 40 cts., not prepaid, 

 5 lbs. 60 cts., 10 lbs. $1.25, 25 lbs. $8.00, 100 

 lbs. $10.00. 



