Fully appreciating the great importance to the farmer of GOOD FUEIJ) CROPS, we have given particular attention to. 

 this department of our business, and have made the SELECTION AND EVIPBOVEMENT OF FARM SEEDS a spec- 

 ialty, exercising great care to secure the best varieties, thoroughly cleaned and of the finest possible quality. 



J®" At prices given, we make no charge for bags, and deliver free to aTiy freight depot or express in Philadelphia. 



/inERIC/IM BEAUTY OAT J. 



This grand new oat was obtained by a continued selection 

 for several years, by O. H. Alexander, of Vermont, of a new 

 variety sent him from Moscow, in Russia. He writes : " It is one 

 of the heaviest croppers known, having yielded eighty-two 

 bushels per acre here in Vermont when the average yield of 

 other good varieties was fifty -two bushels, and I find, after testing 

 over twenty viirieties in the past few years, the straw is far more 

 valuable for foddering purposes that any that I know of." This 

 variety was also tested at the Experimental Station, Geneva, 

 N. Y., the report being as follows: " Alexander's No. 2 (American 

 Beauty) Oats, being long and taper pointed; average height, 

 three feet three inches; culm very erect aiul stout, leaves often 

 exceeding sixteen inches in length; average length of panicle, 

 nine inches; berry, large. This variety is destined to become 

 very popular and is one of themost prolific varieties known." 

 Progressive farmers, try it. Prices, per large pkt., 15c.; lb., .3ic.; 

 3 lbs., SI. 00, post-paid; peck, 75c.; bush., S2. 00; bag of 2}^ bush., 

 $4.50 ; 10 bush and over, 81.75 per bush., sacks included. 



B/ILTIC WHITE OAT J. 



This new and distinct oat comes from the borders of the 

 Baltic Sea, in Sweden, where it is considered the very best of all 

 Swedish varieties. AVe have sold it now for the past two seasons 

 and hear nothing but praise from it. Well-cleaned samples will 

 Tveigh fifty pounds per bushel. Aside from its extraordinary 

 weight, it ripens earlier and will produce more ^veightof grain 

 to the acre than ordinary oats. The straw is straight, stiflf, of 

 good height, crowned with long, beautiful branching, well-filled 

 heads, twenty to twenty-four inches long, and free from any 

 tendency to lodge. If you want to double the yield of your oat 

 crop, you must sow either American Beauty or Baltic, as there 

 is nothing to equal them in productiveness and quality. Pkt., 

 lOc; lb., 30c., 3 lbs., 75c.,. post-paid ; by freight or express, peck, 

 60e.; legal bush, of 32 lbs., $1.50; 10 bush, and over, $1.35 per 

 bush. , bags included. 



WELCOME, CLTDESDAXE, Pringle's Progress, Wide- 

 A'wake, American Triumph, White Belgian, WTiite Rus- 

 sian, Probstier, Surprise, Excelsior, and other well known 

 and popular varieties of .seed oats at bottom prices. Kaeh, 30c. 

 lb., or 3 lbs. for 7oe , post-paid; bv freight or express, bags 

 included, per legal bush., 32 lbs., SI. 20; 10 bush, and over, 81.00 

 per bush. 



JERUSALEM ARTICHOKE ROOTS. 



THE GREATEST HOG FOOD KNOWTJf. 



This variety is not produced from seed. They are sometimes used as a table vegetable when pickled, but their greatest value 



is for feeding stock. They are the best hog- food known and are now attracting much, 

 attention on account of their great fattening properties, great productiveness (over 

 one tliousand bushels having been grown on one acre) and ease with which they can. 

 be grown. They need not be dug in the fall ; the hogs should be turned in on them, 

 and will help themselves by rooting for them. One acre will keep from twenty to- 

 thirty head in fine condition from October until April, except when the ground is 

 frozen too hard for them to root. They are also said to be a preventative of cholera, 

 and other hog diseases: and they are also liighly recommended for milch cows,, 

 increa-sing the yield of milk and at the same time improving their condition. The>^ 

 are well adapted to any soil where corn or potatoes can be grown. Three bushels 

 will seed an acre, and they should be cut the same as potatoes, one eye to a cutbeing: 

 sufficient, planted in April or May, in rows three feet apart and two feet in the rows,. 

 and covered about two inches deep. To destroy them, they should be plowed under- 

 when the plant is about a foot high, at which time the old tuber has decayed and. 

 new ones are not vet formed. They can be shipped at any time dining the season., 

 as thev are not injured bv freezing. I^b.. 35c.; 3 lbs.. Sl.OO. post-paid : by freight or 

 express, peck, $1 00; bush., $3.00; bbl., of 3 bush, (enough for one acre), 87.50. 



