34 QFFn.rATALOGUE of L. L. Ik J W ^ CO., ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Seedsmen, Florists, Nurserymen 
"Northern Grown" Seeds Are Be si 
May's Wonderful Fertilizer and Forage Plants 
The Varieties Listed Here Have a Wide Range of Usefulness 
GOOD CROPS FROM POOR SOIL— BETTER CROPS FROM GOOD SOIL 
MAY'S SOJA BEAN OR COFFEE 
BERRY 
[MINNESOTA 
6R0WN) 
HAS MANY 0/ the characteristics of Cow Peas. It 
will produce 20 to 30 bushels per acre and is 
as easily grown as other beans. For pasturing or 
green fodder it is very valuable, and nearly equal 
to clover as a fertilizer. It is a fact that when 
roasted and coarsely ground it tastes so nearly like 
Brazilian coffee that the difference is scarcely per- 
ceptible. It is certainly the best substitute for 
coffee yet found. Packet Sc., ]4-foyxaA ISc, pound 
30c., postpaid; by express or freight, peck $1.50, 
bushel $5.00. 
MAY'S Giant Spurry 
IT FLOURISHES On sandy, worn out soils where no 
other plant flourishes, and returns big yields 
every time. It comes next to clover as a fertilizer. 
Take the poorest or the worst land that you can 
imagine and sow 20 pounds of May's Giant Spurry 
per acre. Do this two years and you will have a 
soil for wheat, oats and potatoes. It is of very 
rapid growth and is sown the latter part of March, 
or during April or May, at the rate of 10 pounds 
per acre, if wanted for hay. The seed is sown 
broadcast on well prepared soil, and covered lightly by harrowing. It germinates quickly, 
and in from 6 to 8 weeks is ready to cut. It is usually cut for hay the first time and pas- 
tured afterward for the rest of the summer. If wanted as a fertilizer 20 pounds per acre 
are sown, and when from 15 to 20 inches high, plowed under. Two crops can be plowed 
under in one year on account of its quick growth. Its value as a fertilizer on light soil is 
very pronounced. It seems to enrich the soil more rapidly than other plants. It is readily 
eaten by cows, sheep and cattle. 10 pounds (enough for one acre) $1.25, 50 pounds $5.00. 
THE VALUE OF FORAGE PLANTS 
THE FORAGE PLANTS listed on this page are equally valuable as soiling, pasture or 
fodder crop. For the dairyman they will increase the milk production of his cows; 
when grazed down many kinds, including Giant Spurry, spring up again, thus affording 
a large amount of pasturage; as a fodder crop they furnish an enormous amount of feed. 
Field peas, also, according to the Year Book of the United States Department of Agricul- 
ture, could be made to bring more nitrogen to the soils of this country every year than 
is now purchased annually by the farmers at the cost of millions of dollars. This state- 
ment proves that a forage plant is valuable not only for fodder but as a fertilizer as well. 
MAY'S AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH 
A FORAGE PLANT for all alkali soils and for regions subject to periodic drought. See illus- 
tration below which is of a single plant six months from planting, grown on dry land 
without irrigation, and no rainfall after plants were one inch high. This is a most wonder- 
ful forage plant, as it will grow freely in arid and alkali lands that will produce no other 
vegetation. It is of creeping habit, from 20 to 30 tons of green fodder having been harvested from 
one acre of ground. It has further been proven tliat after tliree or four crops have been grown 
on alkali land, that the soil is then capa- 
able of producing any other vegeta- 
tion. This plant has been exten- 
ively tried at the California 
Experimental Station, where ^"-"^ 
single plants, grown in the 
poorest of alkali ground, 
have reached a diameter of 
16 feet in one season. Seeds 
should be sown early. It 
may be sown in beds, and the 
seedlings planted out when 
2 inches high, 3 feet apart. 
It is a very good stock food. 
Packet Sc., ounce ISc, 1 
pound 40c., pound $1.00. 
SOJA BEAN 
FROM A PHOTOGRAPH 
AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH 
