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The Quality in Grass Seed is especially important because you seed a pasture, meadow or lawn for 
a period of many years. If vicious weed seeds are in the seed you sow they will be in your fields for a long 
time. Get the best seed even if it costs a little .more. 
We take special pride in our best seed and we know you would be pleased with it. If you are in any 
doubt as to the quality of our seed let us send you a sample. Then compare them with others or, better 
still, send- them all to- your Experiment Station for analysis. 
KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS. This has long been the standard grass 
in America for both lawns and pastures. There are a good many grass 
mixtures on the market but the base of all the good ones is Kentucky 
Blue Grass. Nine parts of Kentucky Blue Grass and one part of White 
Clover make a very good mixture for lawns. Very few people sow Blue 
Grass thick enough. For lawns one pound should be sown for every 150 
.square feet or for every plot 10 by 15 feet. 
Kentucky Blue Grass thrives best on limestone soil and although some- 
what slow in starting it is permanent when once established. When 
sowing for pasture from 25 to 30 pounds should be sown per acre. Lb., 35c. 
ORCHARD GRASS (Bactylis Glomerata). No farmer should be with- 
out a small field of Orchard Grass as in many respects it is superior to 
all other grasses. It stands the drought, grows well in the shade, does 
well in w T et or.poor ground and is splendid to prevent worn out fields from 
washing. This grass furnishes excellent pasture three weeks before any 
other, and after close grazing ten days' rest is sufficient for another 
growth. Cows fed on this will produce more and richer milk than on blue 
grass. It makes a very heavy sod and when well set remains for many 
years. It is especially adapted for winter grazing, as it remains green all 
season. It is well &tt ; t'*d to sow mixed with alfalfa; an average of 12 lbs. 
orchard grass, 6 to 8 lbs. alfalfa seeds. Sow 20 to 25 lbs. per acre. Lb., 25c. 
BROMUS INERMIS or HUNGARIAN BROME GRASS. A wonderful drought 
resister. A grass for the stock raiser. All cattle like it. This pre-eminent 
drought-resisting grass stands at the head of all^ and is destined to lead as 
the most satisfactory and valuable forage grass in all localities where arid 
soils demand a plant with ability to stand the drought. Stands intense cold equally 
as well. May be sown in autumn with winter wheat, or early spring. In southern 
states sow in February or March, preparing lands as for other grasses. Blooms in 
North in June, and earlier in Southern States. Its nature is to stool out, and thus does 
its best until the second season. It seldom produces seed the first year. Aside from 
alfalfa no grass has fulfilled the pi*omise to the western farmer better than Bromus 
Inermis. It meets drought as well as wet and cold, and for Kansas we know of no grass 
to equal it. Many of our large ranchers are planting it extensively. For hog pasture a 
mixture of Bromus Inermis and alfalfa, where the latter succeeds well, is recommended 
by Prof. Ten Eycke of the Kansas State Agricultural College Experiment Station, and 
he also suggests for large pastures for cattle a mixture of the following per acre: Bromus 
Inermis, 10 lbs.; Orchard Grass, 8 lbs.; Meadow Fescue, 8 lbs.; Red Clover, 1 or 2 lbs. added 
to the mixture. For worn out pastures he advises a disc early in the spring, following with 
a harrow and sow Bromus Inermis on the land, putting most on places where native grasses 
are most killed out. Lb., 25c. 
For prices of Grass Seeds, see our Pink List, mailed free at any time. 
