H. W. BUCKBEE, ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS. 



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THOROUGHBRED FIELD SEEDS. 



BROOM CORN. 



Backbee's Improved 

 Superior Evergreen. — 

 The best variety for general 

 cultivation, on acconnt of 

 color and quality of brush. 

 Ripens early. Grows about 

 8 to 10 ft. high. Brush good 

 length, fine and straight. 

 Postpaid, Hlb. 15c.; lb. 

 25c. By express or freight 

 at purchaser's expense, lO 

 lbs. 60c; 25 lb8. $1.25; 

 100 lbs. 83.75. 



BEANS. BUCKBEE'S ELECTRIC TREE. 



A most valuable new variety, the most productive and heavy-cropping Bean known, growing nearly 2 feet high, 

 branching out in all directions and bearing its pods so high that they seldom touch the ground, enabling it to stand a 

 wet spell without any injury. All who have raised Beans know that when the pods lie in contact with the ground after 

 ripening, a very little rain will ruin the crop, turning the pods and beans black. This is indeed a wonderful cropper, 

 yielding from 75 to 100 bushels per acre, average cultivation, while hundreds of my customers report yields of from 40 to 

 60 bushels per acre under average cultivation. Plant them 2K feet apart, 18 inches in the row, 2 to 8 beans in a hill. 

 They are much easier cultivated than email-growing varieties, and much easier harvested. They mature reasonably early 

 and ripen very evenly. As a baking Bean Buckbee's Electric Tree is not equaled and will meet your most sanguine 

 expectations for market or family purposes. Postpaid, % pt. 12c.; pt. 22c; qt, 35c. (See ■wholesale prices in quantity 

 page 4. 



GIANT BEGGAR WEED. 



A wonderful new forage plant and restorer of land. It is more valuable for fertilizing than eitheW; 

 peas or clover, and equal to them for feeding. When once established it grows every year without further attention. 

 It will not interfere with other crops, can be kept under by cultivation, can be eradicated in two years of successive 

 pasturing. This is important, because 6ome forage plants become pests when the land is needed for other crops. The 

 plant is a strong feeder with deep roots like alfalfa, bringing from the subsoil the dormant fertilizing elements, and 

 will enrich the land by its decaying foliage without the expense of plowing it under. Land planted with Beg- 

 gar Weed has improved 300 per cent, in six years. Hogs, horses, cows and mules eat it greedily. Can be 

 pasture land in summer and fall. Can be 60wn in the corn-field. Will thrive on much poorer land than most forage 

 crops. More fattening to stock than all othor known forage plants. Five pounds of seed for an acre. Drill or sow 

 broadcast in the spring after frost. Postpaid, oz. lOc; & lb. 25c; lb. 45c; 5 lbs. SI. 75. 



A New 



Jerusalem Corn. 



borage Plant of Great Merits — Belongs to the non-saccharine sorghnma, and was 



brought a few years since from the arid plains of Pales- 

 tine. It is pronounced the best and surest grain crop for 

 dry countries and seasons; even better than Kaffir Corn or 

 Milo Maize. It grows sevoral smaller heads on side 

 ■hoots; often as many as 8 heads on a stalk. Very valu- 

 ableforfeedingstockand provesa GOLDMINE forchicken 

 feed. Plant 5 to 10 lbs. per acre. Postpaid, H lb. 15c; 

 lb. 25c At buyer's expense, 5 lbs. 40c; 10 lbs. 

 76c 



Branching Dhoura Corn. 



Yields from 6 to 16 Stalks from 1 Seed. Being 

 allied to Sugar Cane, cattle, horses and hogs will eat 

 it ravenously. The Bural New Yorker says: "Though, 

 during the severe drought, corn dried up within a few 

 feet of it, the Branching Dhoura suffered but very little, 

 producing from 4 to 12 branches, and crew sturdily from 

 6 to 10 feet high. If cut down it starts again with 

 renewed strength. It yielded at the first cutting at the 

 rate of 68 tons to the acre. Plant 5 lbs. in rows per acre. 

 Postpaid, M lb. 15c; lb. 25c. At buyer's ex- 

 pense, 5 lbs. 40c; 10 lbs. 75c. 



"Wonderful Milo Maize Corn. 



Excellent Fodder Plant for Feeding. In a 



great many sections it is planted to the exclusion of all 

 others. It will produce an amazingly large crop of the 

 richest green fodder of superlative quality. It will grow 

 anywhere. The seed is an excellent fattener, and is rel- 

 ished by nil cattle, hogs, poultry, etc. Plant 6 lbs. in rows 

 per acre. Postpaid, K lb. 15c; lb. 25c. At 

 buyer's expense, 5 lbs. 40c; 10 lbs. 75c 



It costs less than 30 cents an acre to use 

 our carefully selected Seed Corn. Do you 

 consider it wise to risk doubtful Corn when 

 the best is so cheap? 



HAMMOND'S SLUG SHOT. 



Guaranteed to destroy Potato Bugs and those on Toma- 

 toes and Egg Plants, Currant Worms, cabbage Lice and 

 Worms, Fleas, Beetles and Striped Bugs on Melons, 

 turnips. Beets, Onions, etc. Also a preventative of the 

 Rose Bug and Cut Worm. Use In the morning while the 

 dew is on. Postpaid, lb. 15c. Freight or express, at 

 buyer's expense, 5 lbs. 30c; 10 lbs. 50c; 25 lbs. $1.25; 

 60 lbs. $2.25; 100 lbs. $4.25; 1,000 lbs. $40.00. 



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