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H. W. BCCKSEE, SOCEFOBD, ILLINOIS. 



RIKKBEE' 5 northern 



4)11 -Grown ^wPeas. 



ENRICH LARD UNTIL IT BECOMES 

 A VERITABLE GOLD MINE 



The Cow Pea was until very recently supposed 

 to be suited only to Southern conditions. Sow it 

 has been demonstrated that where suitable vari- 

 eties are gown the crop can be grown with entire 

 success in the North. The Cow Pea has proved to 

 be one of the greatest fertilizers of the age, and I 

 doubt not that when I make the statement that 

 it is richer in fertilizing matter, more lasting, more 

 beneficiil, a greater soil improver and a better soil 

 enricher than the fertilizer drawn out from the 

 barnyard, many of my farmer friends will feel like 

 challenging this statement, but nevertheless It is 

 a fact. It will take longer to enrich a thoroughly 

 worn-out piece of land by fertilizer from the barn- 

 yard than by sowing plenty of Cow Peas and plow- 

 ing them under. You can get two very creditable 

 crops of Cow Peas on the same piece of land in one 

 season by sowing them quite early in the Spring 

 after frosts are over, broadcast, at the rate of one 

 bushel per acre, or in drills twelve inches apart, 

 and when they have attained the height of thirty inches plow them under and sow a second crop. It makes a magnificent 

 fodder for cattle. The ripe peas contain no less than eighteen and one-half per cent, of digestible protein. The seed, or grain, 

 is ground and used for cattle fodder; the leaves and stalks also make excellent fodder fed green. Poor sandy land may be 

 greatly improved by plowing under a crop of Cow Peas, and thus made into a fertile loam. Plant in a thoroughly pulverized 

 soil. If wanted to plow under for manure, sow one to two bushels per acre with a grain drill in drills a foot apart. If 

 grown for seed, plant three and one-half feet apart and one foot in the row, and cultivate thoroughly, using half a bushel 

 of seed per acre. When pastured by swine the crop should be allowed to get nearly ripe; when plowed under as a ferti- 

 lizer the plowing should be done when the plants are in full bloom. The yield of peas in a dry state is from forty to sixty, 

 bushels per acre. I offer these excellent varieties: 



NEW ERA — Choicest Northern-grown. A particularly good variety for Northern sections. Price, postpaid, | ib 

 15c; lto. 25c. By express or freight at buyer's expense, J t>u. 60c; £ bu. $1.00; * bu. $1.80; bu. $3.50. 

 IMPROVED WHIPPOORWILL — Northern grown and accli- EUCXBEE'S EXTRA EARLY PROLIFIC— Choicest Northern 



mated. One of the best and most popular sorts for all climates. Price, grown. Well suited to any soil. Very early and a wonderful vielder. 

 postpaid, i lb. 12c; lb. 20c By express or freight at buyer's Price, nostpaid, * lb. 15c; lb. 25c; By express or freight at 

 expense, I bu. 40c; i bu. 75c; I bu. $1.40; bu $2.75. buyer's expense, g bu. 45c; i bu. 85c; I bu. $1.60; bu. $3.00. 



AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH 



A Forage Plant for Alkali Soils, and 

 Regions Subject to Periodic Drought 



This is a most wonderful forage plant, as it will grow freely 

 in arid and alkali lands that will produce no other vegetation, 

 yielding a marvelously liberal foliage, which is eagerly eaten by 

 all kinds of stock. It is of creeping habit. From twenty to 

 thirty tons of green fodder have been harvested from one acre. 

 It has further been proven that after three or four crops have 

 been grown on alkali land the soil is then capable of producing 

 any other vegetation. In many sections of the States this is 

 in itself of priceless value. This plant has been very exten- 

 sively tried where single plants grown on the poorest alkali 

 ground have reached a diameter of sixteen feet in one season. 

 One pound of seed will seed an acre. _ It grows readily from 

 seed, and requires no cultivation. Price, postpaid, plit. 5c; 

 oz. 15c; i lb. 35c; lb. $1.35. 



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