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Spnng Rye. This valuable rye is used to produce grain and is also used to sow 
with other grains for Spring pastures and soiling purposes, as well as for nurse crops. 
Spring Rye should be seeded early, same as oats, and will make fine crops. Seed should 
be brought from the North every few years, as seed produced here deteriorates from 
time to time. Spring Rye is not quite as plump in the grain as the Winter sort, but is 
just as valuable for all purposes. Our stock was secured directly from the grower in 
North Dakota, and is pure, clean, and true to name. See Price List. 
Speltz or Emmer. The production of this grain in the United States is greatly in- 
creased each year. Speltz is adapted to a wide range of soil and climate. It resists al- 
most any extreme of weather. It is excellent feed and makes heavy yields of grain. Will 
in time rank with the standard cereal crops of the world. Those who have not yet grown 
Speltz should try it upon at least a few acres of their farm. 
Speltz is readily eaten by all kinds of stock — is especially 
adapted for feed to cows. Speltz should be mixed, however, 
with bran shorts to give best results. Speltz is also valuable 
as a hog feed and may, too, be fed mixed with other feed 
to horses. 
Speltz is a wonderful drought resister and proof against 
all conditions that undo other cereals. 
Sow 2 bushels Speltz per acre — and handle the crop all 
through about the same as you handle Oats. Fine stocks of 
new crop Speltz ready for your orders. See Price List. 
FACTS ABOUT SPELTZ 
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It resists drought. Ripens very early. 
It thrives on poor land, stony ground, in forests. 
It makes a crop with almost any condition of soil or climate. 
Endures a great deal of frost. 
Is not readily damaged by harvest rains. 
Does not yield to rust or smut. 
Yields as well as Oats, Rye, Wheat or Barley. 
Makes better feed than Barley. 
Stock readily eat both grain and straw. 
Japanese Buckwheat 
Speltz or Emmer 
Japanese Buckwheat. May be sown where other 
crops have failed or where hardly anything else will 
grow. Japanese is the standard and most popular variety 
of Buckwheat — is a sure " catch " crop. Besides produc- 
ing heavy crops on poor soils, it must be remembered that 
Buckwheat is not hard on land. May be seeded all of 
June and first half of July. Only one bushel of seed per 
acre is needed. Yield in grain and straw is heavy, even on 
thin soils. Buckwheat flour is very valuable human food. 
Buckwheat middlings have high protein content and are 
in much demand for dairy feed. Buckwheat in the grain 
is an attractive poultry feed. See Price List. 
Silver Hull Buckwheat. Enjoys with the Japan- 
ese variety a world-wide reputation. The grain is of a 
beautiful gray and has a thin husk. Millers like Silver 
Hull, as it makes a white flour and leaves little waste. 
A favorite variety for bees. See Price List. 
" YOU MUST BE PLEASED "— 
With every purchase of Seed you make from this Catalog. Your own judgment governs the case. 
If you're not satisfied with the quality of the Seed you receive, return it. Make use of the " Money- 
Back Plan " printed on first page. Our business is to please you. 
