838 J. STECKLER SEED CO., LTD., ALMANAC AND 
Farmogerm is put up in bottles in the following sizes: 
Garden size, containing material to treat the seeds for 1-6 acre of Jand denetioecthes cecaueentece nade te ey. Sake $0.50 each 
Acre size : iy a me x: i a i be ERT eseenceceeeeseenss soesmenee 5m utente 2.00 “‘ 
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FOR THE FOLLOWING CROPS IN ACRE SIZES: 
Red Clover, Burr Clover, Berseeim, Garden Beans, Canadian Fieid 
Mammoth Clover, Sweet Clover, Peanuts, Garden Peas, Soy Beans. ee 
Crimson Clover, Alsike, Vetch, _ Sweet Peas, and all other 
White Clover, Alfalfa, Lupins, Cow Peas, legumes. 
In Garden Size for Peas, Beans and Sweet Peas; alsoa mixed culture good for all three. In ordering state 
what crop you wish to piant, quantity wanted, and ask for boo, on “Farmogerm Method.” 
Grass and Field Seeds. 
FoR PRICE LIST SEE RED PAGES IN BACK OF BOOK. 
One of the most remarkable metamorphoses in the history of agriculture of any land has come over 
the entire South within the last twenty-four months or since the arrival of the boll weevil and the conse- 
quent devastation of the cotton fields. It has been proven by actual experiment along practical lines that 
there is as much profit in diversified farming as there ever was in the palmiest days of the production of the 
ouce omnipresent staple. It has been shown in actual and uncontrovertible figures that cotton is no longer 
King, and that corn and oats and live stock, together with the production of truck and other things give by 
far larger returns than did the soil before it was drained of its fertility by the one crop system. 
In former days a large part of the income froin the cotton plant went elsewhere to pay for the corn, 
the oats, the hay, the meat, the mules and other things that have been the main stand-by of the farmers of 
the North and the West. But now matters have changed and some of the products that were once imported 
are now being exported. ‘To-day the States of Louisiana and Mississippi are mure nearly independent than 
they were ever before in their agricultural history, and the time is not far distant when these States*wlll ex- 
perience such an impetus in the direction of diversification that they will become financially the richest of 
the Union. 
That one crop system, however, has brought about a condition of affairs that was not experienced 
during the days when agriculture was young in these States. It has reduced the once natural fertility of the 
soil to such an extent that the Southern farmer of to-day must take immediate steps to prevent further loss 
of the elements and toenable him to take advantage of the free gifts of nature in the shape of an almost 
unlimited growing climate and an abundance of water. In other words, he must replenish the worn out 
cou vith those elements that have been so freely taken, before he can hope to reach the full measure of his 
profits. 
In no other way can this be done so well or so quickly as to cultivate those legumes that grow so well 
in the South and at the same time supply the soil with the nitrogen that has been stolen. Simultaneously 
the farmer must use these crops for the live stock that also thrives and is raised so cheaply that his profits 
are added to more largely than in any other section of the country. By the practice of these two things the 
farmer not only adds the elements that have been stolen but also increases his bank account and finds him- 
self on the highway to prosperity never dreamed of when the land was continualiy tied up in the one 
staple crop. 
Alfalfa, Cow Peas, the Velvet Bean, the Soy Bean, the Clovers and the like are, among other plants of 
asimilar nature, admirably adapted to this double purpose and the farmer of to-day is growing them and 
making his pork at the rate of only 3 cents per pound where it costs the northern farmer from 9 to 11 cents. 
The corn crop of the State now is worth more than $20,000,C00 more than the cotton crop, and the hay crop 
from these other products will be worth more in dollars every year to the farmers than was the crop from 
Should be sown 
Red Clover. either during . 
wom, {all or early in spring. Ten to fifteen MWY 
wey pounds to an acre, Nal \ 
White Dutch Clover. 
A grass sown for pasturing at the 
rate of five to eight pounds to the 
myacte. Should be sown in fall and 
Wy early spring. 
The valu- 
Speltz or Emmer. 72 
grain from Russia. This grain grows 
talllike rye and matures early like 
barley, and each year, when tested by 
the side of each, it has yielded twice 
astnuch per acre as oats, and three 
bushels to one of barley, andit is much 
better feed for stock than either, It 
yields 40 to 80 bushels to the acre, and 
from 4 to6tons of straw hay. Tough 
and hardy, it stands the drouth better 
than any other grain, making itasure 
crop. Itisagrain to sow for profit. 
Your chickens and geese, your horses 
and colts, your cows and calves, your 
sheep, lambs and swine, all will eat it 
; eagerly and flourish. The culture of 
Red Clover. Speltz is simplicity itself. It’s just as Whit Dutch Clover. 
easy as Sowing oats or wheat. Prepare . 
your land as you would for wheat or oats, and sow at the rate of 75 to 100 pounds per acre. Sow very early in 
Best of all Beans, we know no better for ali purposes. 
