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ALFALFA. In 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. If in the fall sow eaily 
enough to get a little root before a frost, it can bo sown 
again in February and Spring months. 
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 to the acre. Lb., 25e. 
BURR CLOVER. This makes a good fodder. Creep- 
ing stem, which spreads over a large surface. It is fine 
for dry lands. The seeds are in burr pods; 8 to 10 pounds 
per acre. 15 cts. per lb. $10 00 per 100 lbs. 
ESPERSETTE. (French Sanfoin.) This plant is of a 
lignumvinus character, having many stems two and three 
feet long. Smooth and tapering, with many long oblate 
leafllets in pairs, and spikes of variegated eriinson flowers. 
The root is a perennial of a hard, woody nature. The 
plant flowers eaily and can be repeatedly cut, thus fur- 
nishing 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. 'I he plant does 
beat 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 80 to 40 pounds arc required for an 
acre. 15c. per lb. $12 50 per 100 lbs. 
MELILOTUS. This variety of clover grows on the 
banks of streams and among cobbles, gravel, sliekens and 
sand. It yields an immense amount of feed for stock, 
who are very fond of it. The plant attains a height of 10 
to 12 feet, keeping green the entire season, producing seed 
the second year and maturing in October. Price $12 50 
per 100 Ihs. 
TEXAS BLUE GRASS. — “ The Texas Blue Grass grows 
on the roadsides, by fences and hedges: shade does not 
hurt it any more than Orchard Grass It stands the hot 
and dry summers of the south very well, better than any 
other grass.” Seed very scarce and difficult to obtain, 
and cannot be separated from the chafL Per oz„ 40c. ; 
lb., $5 00. 
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. $5 00 per lOO lbs. 
VETCllliS. Arc much used for stock feed. Sow and 
cultivate same as for peas. 10 cts. per lb. $6 per 100 lbs. 
LENTILS. Are similar to Vetches, and are cultivated 
in like manner. 15 cts. per lb. $10 00 per 100 lbs. 
BROOM CORN. Many farmers make this a profitable 
crop, producing on an acre about 500 cwt. of broom and 
forty bushels of seed; plant and cultivate same as for corn. 
BUCKWHEAT. Can be sown late as in July at the 
rate of 30 to 40 pounds per acre. It should be thrashed 
as soon as dry, us if left standing in mass it will quickly 
gather moist. 
FIELD BEANS. Should be planted after all danger 
from frost is past. Does best in rich, dry, light soil. 
Hoe frequently while 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. 
Prices on application. 
HELD 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 
leas quantity with oats and cut and cured together for 
hay, or threshed and bound together. Prices on applica- 
tion. 
SUNFLOWER SEED. Is growing to be a valuable 
farm crop. The seed is very desirable for planting, while 
the leaves make excellent fodder. 'J'he plant is said to 
be an excellent protection from malaria, and should be 
grown for hedges about the house where this disease pre- 
vails. 
FIELD GRAIN. 
Oi?" 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 Lowest Market Rates. Prices given 
on application . 
QUOTATIONS MADE IN THIS CATALOGUE are for small quantities, and 
Liberal Deductions will be made on Large Amounts. 
