GARDEN MANUAL FOR THE SOUTHERN STATES. 



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Feterita. 



FETERITA. 



The agricultural papers have been telling- 

 about the wonderful yield made by this new 

 grain during one of the worst droughts that 

 the Middle West has ever experienced. 

 Feterita is from 20 to 50 days earlier than 

 KafRr Corn, is not bothered by chinch bugs, 

 makes good fodder; in some instances made 

 an excellent yield of grain without having 

 received any rain .from the day it was 

 planted until it was harvested. No variety 

 of seed of any kind has ever sprung so 

 suddenly into such popular favor. Feterita 

 has taken the country by storm. Price, 20c. 

 per lb.; $3.50 per bushel; $7.50 per 100 lbs. 



JAPAN CI^OVEB. 



A legume. Southern seed. Grows any- 

 where; is tenacious in any soil; lasts al- 

 ways; well known now in the Sputh. Sow 

 in Spring in permanent pastures by scari- 

 fying surface with disc harrow. It may be 

 classed among the most valuable hay and 

 pasture plants of the Southern States; is 

 eaten greedily by stock — June till frost. 

 In some soils it grows 20 inches high; is 

 mowed; two tons to acre; rich soil grows 

 30 inches; appears in May; can plant in 

 Spring 25 pounds, op one bushel per acre 

 alone, or in the Fall with rye and oats. 

 This clover is spreading by natural means 

 rapidly through the whole South. 



As important to the Southern farmer as 

 crimson clover is to the farmer and stock 

 raiser of the North is Lespedeza, the 

 Japanese clover that has been found to be 

 particularly adapted to the soils and cli- 

 mate of the States bordering on the Gulf 

 and even further to the North. Introduced 

 here several years ago, it has proven one 

 of the best hay and forage crops of the 

 continent, the record of its family kin in 

 the North not being nearly so good nor so 

 advantageous. 



"The best time to sow the seed is from 

 December to March 1st, but can be sowed 

 as late as during month of April. The best 

 time for harvesting for hay only is just 

 when the clover is in bloom, but for hay 

 and seed both, just when the seeds are 

 about full grown. The clover blooms here 

 from about August 15th to October 1st, 

 according to the character of the soil and 



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its richness. In poor, thin soil it will ma- 

 ture much earlier tlian in rich, and thin 

 land will produce much more seed. 



"The most redeeming quality of the 

 Japan Clover is that it will build up old 

 worn out lands and make a nice profit at 

 the same time, and most any kind of a 

 farmer can raise it. if he has money 

 enough to buy seed. It does not require 



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