H. W. BTTOKBEE, ROOKFOBD, ILLINOIS. 



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Headquarters for Horse Cultivators, Etc 



Here's a Sample Bargain for only $5.35 fT'Zt $5.35 



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miiS NORTHERN 



Grown few r^^^' 



ENKICH LAND UNTIL IT BECOMES* 

 A VERITABLE GOLD MINE. 



The Cow Pea was until very recently supposed 

 to be suited only to Southern conditions. Now it 

 has been demonstrated that where suitable vari- 

 eties are sown 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 [ 

 doubt not that when I make the statement that 

 it is richer in fertilizing matter, more lasting, 

 more beneficial, 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 en- 

 rich a thoroughly worn-out piece of land by fer- 

 tilizer froip the bardyard than by sowing plenty 

 of Cow Peas an(f plowing 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 ofone bushel peracre.oria 

 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 olowing under a crop of Cow Peas, and thus made into a fertile ibam. 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 throughly, using half abushel 

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

 tjiizer 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 bushel per acre. I offer these excellent varieties: 



NEW ERA— Choicest Northern-grown. A particular good variety for Northern sections. Price, postpaid, K lb, ISc? 



lb. 25c. By express or freight at buyer's expense, % hn, 60o.; 34 bu. $1.00; H bu $1.80; bu, $3.50. 



IMPEOVED WHTPPOORWIXL-Northern grown and acclimated. BTJCKBEE'S EXTRA EAELY PROIIFIC— Choicest Northern 



One of the best aud most popular sorts for all climate?. Price, post- grown. Well suited to any soil, Very early and a wonderful 

 paid, V-s lb. 120.; lb, 20c. By express or freight at buyer's expense, Ya bu. yielder. Price, postpaid, % lb. 15c.; lb. 25c.; By express or freisrhtat 

 40o. ; H bu. 75o. ; H bu. $1.40 ; bu. $2.75 buyer's expense, H bu. 45o;, H bu. 85c. : Vi bu. $1.60; ou. $8.00. 



AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH 



A Forage Plant for Alkali Soils a.nS 

 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. 

 Prom twenty to thirty tons of green fodder have been har- 

 vested 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 extensively tried where single plants 

 grow 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 culti- 

 vation. Price, postpaid, pkt. 5c.; oz, 15c.; H lb. 85o.; lb. $1.35, 



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