Cole's Seed Store, Pella, Iowa 



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Sudan Grass 



Sudan Grass is an annual and dies each year like 

 Millet, so there is no danger of spreading over your 

 land like Johnson Grass will do. It grows tall, reach- 

 ing a heiglit of about seven feet; the stems are very 

 small and rarely thicker than a lead pencil. The plants 

 stools wonderfully and produces under favorable con- 

 ditions as many as 100 stalks from a single root. 



Sudan Grass yields a good crop of first-class hay, 

 all stock relish the hay and thrive on it, the quality of 

 the hay is superior to millet. Yields of from two to 

 four tons per acre are common and under favorable 

 conditions, six to eight tons per acre have been grown. 



Sudan Grass should not be planted until soil has 

 become warm. It can be sown any time during the 

 summer as a catch crop. 



It can be sown in rows 18 to 36 inches apart and 

 cultivated, or can be drilled with a grain drill or sown 

 broadcast by hand. 



Seeded in rows, it takes from 3 to 6 lbs. per acre, 

 depending on the width of row; drilled or broadcast, 

 from 12 to 15 lbs. is used. 



Sudan Grass is easy t cut with a mower and cures 

 readily like millet. For hay it is best to cut just after 

 full bloom and will give it more time for a second 

 growth, and in 40 to 50 days another cutting is ready. 

 Ordinarily two or three cuttings may be expected when 

 the season is long enough. 



Price per pkt., 5 cts.; ^ it)., 10 cts.; ft., 25 cts. 3 fts., 

 70 cts., by mail. By express or freight, 10 fts., $2.00; 

 25 fts., $4.75; 100 fts., $18.00. 



RAPE 

 Dwarf Essex 



This plant Is extensively grown in Europe 

 and Canada for forage, especially for sheep, 

 and for green manure, for which purposes 

 there is perhaps no plant better adapted 

 where a quick, rank growth is desired. Farm- 

 ers who raise much stock and desire to get 

 young cattle, sheep or lambs into favorable 

 condition to be sold advantageously in the 

 fall, can do it most cheaply by growing this 

 rape. Prepare the ground as for turnips, 

 sow in May to July, with a turnip drill, in 

 rows two and one-half feet apart, at the rate 

 of two and one-half pounds of seed per acre, 

 or may be sown broadcast at the rate of five 

 pounds per acre. It is also well adapted for 

 a catch crop, where crops have failed, as It 

 makes most of its growth late in the season. 

 Can be sown on stubble land or in com at 

 the last plowing. Per lb. 10 cts., lb. 25 

 cts., 3 lbs. 70 cts., not prepaid, 5 lbs. 75 cts., 

 10 lbs. $1.25, 25 lbs. $3.00, 100 lbs. $12.00. 



