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W. i?. Strong & Co., Sacramento, Cal. 
CJLOVER 8E£D. 
Alfalfa. Is cultivated above all other clover in California. It produces enormous 
crops, and is cut many times in the season for hay. It roots deeply, keeping fresh 
and green through our long dry season, and is the most valuable and profitable of 
all crops for abundance of feed. Sow 20 to 25 pounds to the acre. It in the tall sow 
early enough to get a little root before a frost, it can be sown again in February and 
Spring mouths. 
Red Clover. Two varieties— large and medium. Both succeed well in California, 
especially in our bottom lauds and deep soils ; 25 pounds to the acre. 
Alsyke or Swedish Clover. Is very hardy and valuable for hay, yielding largely. 
Its roots are fibrous, and it is very desirable for hillsides and levees liable to wash; 
10 to 15 pounds to tlie acre. 
White Dutch Clover. Grows low', spreading and very fragrant, and is most excel- 
lent for lawns and lawn mixture ; 10 pounds to the acre. 
Crimson Trefoil, or Scarlet Clover. Grows about one foot high, dark roots, long 
leaves and blossoms of deep red. It makes good hay and will give tour or five cut- 
tings each season. Sow 15 pounds to the acre. 
Bokhara Clover. This is a tall shrubbery plant, growing to height of four to six 
feet. It produces an abundance of small white flowers of great fragrance. Sow 10 
pounds to the acre. 
Burr Clover. This makes a good fodder. Creeping stem, which spreads over a 
large surface. It is fine for dry lands. The seeds is iu burr pods ; 8 to 10 pounds 
per acre. 
Espersette (French Sanfoin). This plant is of a lignnmvinus character, having 
many stems two and three feet long. Smooth and tapering, with many long oblate 
leaflets in pairs, and spikes of variegated crimson flowers. The root is a perennial 
of a hard, woody nature. The plant flowers early aud can be repeatedly cut, thus 
furnishing a great abundance of most nutritious food through the long dry and 
heated seasons, and requiring no irrigation. Stock will eat it with impunity, without 
danger of bloat as in alfalfa. The seed and seed pods are said to be more nutritious 
than oats. The plant does best in calcareous and gravelly soils, and elevated slopes 
and arid regions, where other vegetation fails. It will, however, not succeed in wet 
or low lands where there is no drainage. From 30 to 40 pounds are required for an 
acre. 
Carolina, or Cow Pea. This makes a valuable fodder and is a good fertilizer. 
The pods can be harvested or all cut green for fodder, or it can be ploughed under 
for a fertilizer. 
Vetches. Are much used for stock feed. Sow and cultivate same as for peas. 
Lentils. Are similar to Vetches, and are cultivated in like manner. 
Broom Corn. Many farmers make this a profitable crop, an acre producing about 
500 cwt. of broom and forty bushels of seed ;Jplant and cultivate same as for corn. 
Buckwheat. Can be sown late ns iu July at the rate of 30 to 40 pounds per acre. 
It should be thrashed as soon as dry, as if left standing in mass it will quickly gather 
moisture. 
Field Beans. Should be planted after all danger from frost is past. Does best in 
rich, dry, light soil. Hoe frequently wliile the plant is dry, but not otherwise. The 
Medium White, White Navy and the Bayo, or Chile, varieties are mostly used for 
marketing in this country. 
Field Peas. Should be sown on good cultivated soil at the rate of about one 
hundred and fifty pounds to the acre, in drills or broadcast. They are often sown in 
less quantity with oats and cut aud cured together for hay, or threshed and bound 
together. 
Sun Flower Seed. Is growing to be a valuable farm crop. The seed is very 
desirable for planting, while the leaves make excellent fodder. The plant is said to 
be an excellent protection from malaric, and should be grown for hedges about the 
house where this disease prevails. 
FIELD RRAISf. 
^SEED WHEAT, BARLEY, OATS, CORN and OTHER 
GRAINS of every variety, will be furnished to our customers in 
quantities as may be desired ; also, SEED POTATOES, at LOW- 
EST MARKET RATES. Prices given on application. 
