Helena, Montana. 
FIELD SEEDS— (Continued.) 105 
F^AX — Continued. 
North Dakota iill4 — This Flax comes to us highly recommended 
both as a seed and fibre prolucer. In tlie section where it 
originated it lias proven under normal conditions wilt-resistant 
and of excellent value. 
Head of Mammotli Sunflower. 
SUNFLOWER 
(S Lbs. to the Acre.) 
Mammoth BnsEiau — Single heads measure 15 to 22 inches in diam- 
eter, and contain an immense amount of seed, wliicli is higli- 
ly valued by farmers and poultry breeders who have tried it as 
an excellent and cheap food for fowls. It is the best egg pro- 
ducing food known for poultry. It can be raised cheaper than 
corn, and is destined to be an article of great value. Sunflower 
is being profitably grown as a fodler crop quite extensively in 
some parts of Montana, and is very highly recommended for 
a silo crop. 
RAPE 
(Sow 2 to 3 Lbs. to the Acre in Drills; 5 Lbs. Broadcast.) 
Use of Dwarf Essex Rape — Dwarf Essex Rape thrives best on 
a good soil, rich in vegetable matter. Slough lands are excel- 
lent. This plant may be grown successfully in the following 
ways, viz: 1, In the early spring, to provide pasture. 2. In 
5une or July, on well prepared land to provide pasture. 3. Along 
with grain using 2 lbs. of seed an acre, to provide pasture for 
sheep after liarvest. 4. Along with peas, oats, clover seed, to 
provide pasture and to get a "cntch" of clover. 5. As a cover in 
the orchard for winter protection to avoid root-killing. 6. In 
corn, sowing the seed with the last cultivation; the succulent 
feed produced may save th'' loss of cattle by corn stalk disease. 
Prevention is better than medicine in regard to this fatal disease. 
7. Along with rye, sown in Au,s;ust, in sheep pasture. 8. On 
early plowed fields to shade the land and so that the soil will 
not leach, wash or drift. 9. To plow under as a green crop, add- 
ing humus to the soil, an element needed in grain growing sec- 
tions. When rape is sown broadcast. .'> lbs. of seed an acre will 
suffice. When sown in rows, say thirty inches apart and cul- 
tivated, from 2 to 3 lbs. an acre will be enough. 
BUBKWHEAT 
(3!i to "in Lbs. to the Acre.) 
SIIiVEB HVIiI^ BUCKWHEAT — This valuable variety originated 
abroad and is a decl led Improvement on the old black or gray 
sort. It is early, remains longer in bloom than other sorts. A 
fine variety for honey bees. The grain is of a beautiful light 
gray color, and has a thin husk. Millers prefer Sliver Hull, 
there being less waste and it makes whiter, better and more 
nutritious flour than other varieties. Silver Hull is more pro- 
d\ictive and the grain meets with a more ready sale, bringing 
higher prices than the Japanese. Under f&vorable conditions 
it will yieW 40 to 50 bushels an acre. 
BIRD SEED 
BIRD SEED MIXED— (S. W. & S. Co.'s) Lb. (Postpaid), 25c; by 
express or freight. 10 Lbs $1.50 
Has become famous for its superior quality. We use nothing 
but the freshest high-grade seed free from mustiness and dust. 
These seeds are particularly relished by canary birds, etc. Put 
up in 1 pound lithographed cartons. 
BIRD — (Hemp) — Best grade. Lb., (Postpaid) 
BIBD — (Canary) — Best Sicily, Lb., (Postpaid) 
BIRD — (Rape) — For birds Lb., (Postpaid) 
BIRD— (Millet) — Fancy, Lb., (Postpaid) 
BIRD — (Qravel) — Lb., (Postpaid) , 
FOR PRICES SEE BED INSERT — PAGE 80. 
SEED GRAINS 
WHEAT 
(60 to 75 Lbs. to the Acre.) 
SFRINO DURUM — Duru^ or Kubanka Macaroni — In the field 
this Wheat grows very strong and with surprising rapidity, 
so rapidly as to get well ahead nf the weeds. It does not 
shell or bleach and is also hail proof owing to the tightness 
of the hull. The straw is very strong. 
Marquis Wheat — The wheat you will eventually buy. Unques- 
tionably the best wheat for the northwest. Matures a week to 
ten days earlier than Red Fife; yields 15 to 20 bushels to an 
acre more than Red Fife; and for milling purposes grades No. 
1 hard. Kernel Is hard and flinty, a little darker than Red 
Fife and more plump than that varl"ty. It is beardles>i. hav- 
ing smooth yellow chaff. Marquis Wheat is the earliest, hardi- 
est and heaviest yielding Spring Wheat adapted for northwest- 
ern conditions. 
Soft Sprlntr Club — An old favorite, grown especially for consump- 
tion at home for feeding purposes, a heavy ylelder under irri- 
gation. 
BURBANK SUPER WHEAT — See Togo 107. 
WINTER WHEAT — Kharkov or Improved Ttirkev Red — For de- 
livery in July, write for Sample and price. The kernel is a 
little larger and berry a little lighter in color than the Turkey 
Red, of which this is an improvement. By various growers' 
reports the Kharltov is a better ylelder by from 4 to 6 bushels 
per acre. 
WINTER WHEAT — Turkey Red — For delivery in July, write for 
sample and price. We offer a true strain of the Old Reliable 
Turkey Red. Tlie Farmers' and Millers' Friend. 
OATS 
(50 to 60 Lbs. to the Acre.) 
Swedish Select — These originated in Sweden and they seem to 
be adapted to the growing conditions of the Great Northwest 
better than any other of tne improved foreign Oats. They re- 
tain splendidly the vigor, hardiness and productivity that were 
bred into the original parents. 
These Oats ripen fairly early, the straw is of medium Iieiglit, 
strong and stiff. The grain Is white, thin hulled, and plump. 
Weight per measured bushel, 40 to 45 lbs. The spikelets are 
small and usually two-grained. The shoots are abundant and 
the development in the field is strikingly regular and ample. 
National — National Oats are claimed to be the heaviest yielders 
of the family. Yields liave been reported from 60 to 150 bu. 
per acre. It stands drouth well, has a very strong stiff straw, 
with large long heads and kernels are large full and white in 
color, 
60 Day Oats — In an average of seven years at the Moccasin Ex- 
periment Station of the Montana State Agricultural College, 
this has outyielded all other varieties. Growers at first sight 
sometimes form an erroneous opinion of the value of 60 Day 
Oats from the small kernel of tlie grain. This however Is not a 
valid objection, as examination shows that there is much less 
hull than in many other varieties, thus vastly Increasing its 
food value, 
Montana White or Big- Pour Oats — A large fat grain, preferred 
by many to the Swe;lish Select, which it most nearly re- 
sembles. 
FOR PRICES SEE BED INSERT— PAGE 80. 
