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D. M. FERRY & CO., DETROIT, MICH. 



RAPE 



DWARr ESS&X. 



A Most Profitable Porage Plant. 



We can think of no simple change which would do more to increase the profitableness 

 of American farming than a more general use of Dwarf Essex Rape. It is an inexpen- 

 sive crop, costing but little for seed or cultivation, is vers* hardy, can be made to take the 

 place 6f some crop that has failed, and will yield an enormous crop of forage, or it can 

 be sown after harvest as a cover crop, and when fed off by stock, particularly sheep, 

 will rapidly restore the fertility of exhausted soils. It is important that the true bien- 

 nial Dwarf Essex Rape should be used and not the annual sort, which is not only much 

 less valuable as a crop, but which when once introduced becomes a pernicious weed 

 very difficult to eradicate. Sow broadcast on well prepared soil, using about 5 lbs. seed 

 per acre. Oz. 10 cents; Lb. ^o cents, postpaid. Per 100 Lbs. S8.00, by freight or 

 express, at purchaser's expense. 



CRinSON CLOVER 



WILD RICE SL. 



{Crhnsojt Trefoil, or Scarlet Italia?i). 

 An annual variety of Clover of inestima- 

 ble value wherever it can be grown. 

 Although not perfectly hardy, it does well in sheltered situations as far north as Michi- 

 gan, while farther south it stands the winter admirably. It 3'ields an enormous quantity 

 of forage, and when cut, immediately starts into a new growth. To plow under for 

 green manuring it has no equal. Sow in August or September, using 10 to 15 lbs. of 

 seed to the acre. Lb. 2^ cents, postpaid. Per 100 Lbs. Sd.jo, by freight or express 

 at purchaser's expense. 



An annual which sows itself in the fall, about the middle of 

 September, lies dormant all winter, and in spring commences 

 to sprout as soon as the water gets warm, reaching the sur- 

 face during the first half of June. It grows very rapidly in one to eight feet of water, ripens late in August or early in 

 September. It should be sown in the fall, before ice forms, broadcast from a boat, in two or three feet of water, 

 having a mud bottom. It has been successfully planted through the ice in winter and in the spring, but it suc- 

 ceeds best when planted in the fall. 



As an attraction for wild fowl it cannot be equaled. In large ponds and lakes it purifies the water, affords a 

 refuge for the small fry from the large fish, as well as furnishing the small fry plenty of food from the animalculae 

 upon its stalks; for planting in fish ponds it is especially desirable. It also does well along the shores of marshes, 

 and makes a good hay. In the South two crops can be cut, and all cattle are very fond of it. Per Lb. 40 cents, 

 postpaid: per 100 Lbs. $20.00 at purchaser's expense /or transportation. 



GRASS SEEDS CLOVER ETC 



Subject to Variation in Price to Correspond with the Harket. 



Fine Mixed Lawn Grass 



Extra Fine Mixed, Central Park Mixture. 



Orchard Grass 



Red Top 



Red Top, Fancy, cleaned from chaff 



Fowl Meadow, or False Red Top 



Blue Grass, Kentucky, fancy clean 



Timothy 



Hungarian 



Perennial Rye Grass 



Mammoth, or Large Red Clover 



Medium Red, or June Clover 



Alsike, or Swedish Clover 



Bokhara Sweet Clover, (.lA-///^///'.s- a/ba). 



Crimson Clover 



White Dutch Clover 



Lucerne Clover, or Alfalfa 



Rye, Fall or Winter 



.per lb., postpaid, 35c. 

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lbs., by mail. 



Per 100 lbs., $15 00 



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The above, by the pound, postpaid; by the bushel or 

 exfense for transportation. 



50c. per bush. 56 lbs. i 00 

 100 lbs., at purchaser s 



