Alfalfa in the hill country 



CLOVER SEED 



Red Clover, Medium (SEE?) 



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 carelessness in growing, harvesting, curing and clean- 

 ing, is foul with weed-seeds of many kinds, including yellow tre- 

 foil, and is of very low germinating power. Our Clover Seed is 

 free from weed-seed and almost every grain will grow. This we 

 absolutely guarantee. Write for prices. 



Alfalfa 



This has been called Lucerne Clover in the East. It 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 10 feet or more, and once established 

 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 success- 

 ful Alfalfa field, or by using "Farmogerm," which is the bacteria 

 artificially raised. Write for prices. 



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. • Write for prices. 



Crimson or Scarlet Clover 



This Clover (Trifolium incarnalum) is an annual, like wheat, 

 dying each year. Plants 1 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. Write for prices. 



FARMOGERM 



BE SURE TO MENTION THE CROP FOR 

 WHICH YOU WANT FARMOGERM 



Farmogerm is a pure culture or growth of nitrogen-fixing bacteria that have been selected and bred up, to 

 transform nitrogen from the air into soluble nitrates in the soil. These bacteria are grown in a jelly, or food, 

 in which they remain active for a long period of time and are sent out in bottles which admit the necessary supply 

 of pure air. 



YOU CAIN GROW ALFALFA AND CLOVER 



Every farmer and dairyman realizes the immense value of alfalfa to any farm, and, by the use of Farmogerm, 

 alfalfa has been successfully grown on soils that had previously been considered as unable to produce this valuable 

 crop. Care must be exercised, however, to carefully fulfil all the conditions that are required by the crop, and 

 also to treat the seed carefully according to the directions which are given on every package, in order that you 

 may obtain the best results. An increase of 200 per cent to 400 per cent is not uncommon from seed treated with 

 Farmogerm over that which is not treated. If your clover or alfalfa germinates and grows a few inches in height, 

 and then turns yellow and refuses to develop further, it is almost positive evidence that your soil is lacking in 

 bacteria, and Farmogerm will fill this deficit. Separate cultures are prepared for different crops, so that in order- 

 ing be sure and mention for which crop the culture is wanted. 



Farmogerm is of no value to the ordinary garden crops, such as beets, cabbage, carrots, onions, etc.; it applies 

 only to the leguminous crops, that is, those which bear pods. 



L Garden size, for Peas, Beans, Sweet Peas. SO cts. per bottle. 

 PRICE-LIST^ Field size, for Alfalfa, Red Clover, Alsike Clover, Crimson Clover, Vetch, Peas, Beans, Cowpeas, Soja Beans. 

 ( One-acre size of each, $2. Five-acre size of each, $9. 



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