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W. E. Srrong Company, Sacramento, Cal, 
CLOVER SEEDS. 
There are no plants so valuable for fertilizers as the 
Clovers. They have the faculty of absorbing nitrogen 
from the air, and also of rendering avaiiable much of the 
inert plant food of the soil Their long, powerful tap 
roots penetrate to a great depth, loosen the soil, admit 
air, and by their decay add immensely to the fertility of 
the soil. The seed may be sown in fall or spring; which 
is the best season will depend upon local climate, and 
method of cnlture. In any case, it should be evenly dis- 
Uibuted on a mellow, well prepared soil. Plaster will 
increase the growth remarKably, and should be sown 
broadcast the season following the seeding. 
RED CLOVER. Two varieties — large 
and medium. Both succeed well in Cal- 
ifornia, especially in our bottom lands 
and deep soils; 25 pounds to the acre. 
WHITE DUTCH CLOVER. Grows 
low, spreading and very fragrant, and is 
most excellent for lawns and lawn mix- 
ture; 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 
Red Clover, give four or five cuttings each season. 
Sow 15 pounds to the acre. 
ALSIKE, OR SWEDISH CLOVER. This variety is 
fast gaining great popularity. It is the most hardy of all 
the clovers; perennial. On rich, moist soils it yields an 
enormous quantity of hay or pasture, and may be cut 
several times in a season, but its greatest value is for sow- 
ing with other clovers and grasses, as it forms a thick 
bottom, and greatly increases the yield of hay, and cattle 
prefer it to any other forage. The heads are globular, 
very sweet and fragrant, and much liked by bees, who 
obtain a large amount of honey from them. Sow in spring 
or fall, at the rate of 10 pounds per acre, where used 
alone, 
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 abun- 
dance of feed. Sow 20 to 25 pounds to the 
acre. If in the fall sow early enough to get a 
little root before a frost, it can bo sown again 
in February and Spring months. 
Alfalfa. 
HO^HARA CLOVER. This is a fall shrubbery 
plant, growing to a height of four to six feet. It pro- 
duces an abundance of small white flowers of great fra- 
grance. Sow 10 pounds to the acre. 25c. per lb. 
ESPERSETTE (French Sanfoin.) This plant is 
of a liguumvinus 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 perennial of a hard, woody nature. 
The plant flowers early andean 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 
not succeed in wet or low lands where there is no drain- 
age. From 50 to 75 pounds are required for an acre. 
MELILOTUS. This variety of clover grows on the 
banks of streams and among cobbles, gravel, siickens 
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, produc- 
ing seed the second year and maturing in October. Price 
112 50 per 100 lbs. 
TEXAS BLUE GRASS. — “The Texas Blue 
Grass grows on the roadside, 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 diflicult to 
obtain, and cannot be separated from the chaff Per oz 
40c.; lb., $5 00. ■ u ., 
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 bo 
ploughed under for a fertilizer. 15 00 per 100 lbs. 
VETOHEP. Are much used for stock feed. Sow 
and cultivate same as lor peas. 10 cts. per lb $6 per 
100 lbs. ^ 
LENTILS. Are similar to Vetches, and are cnlti- 
vated in like manner. 15 cts. per lb. $10 00 per 100 lbs. 
BROOM CORN- Many farmers make this a profi- 
table 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 80 to 40 pounds per acre. It should be 
thrashed as soon as dry, as 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 va- 
rieties are mostly used for marketing tn this country. 
Pi ices on application. 
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 and cured together for 
hay, or threshed and hound together. Prices on applica- 
tion. 
SUNFLOWER SEED. Is growing to be a valua- 
ble farm crop. The seed is very desirable for planting 
while the leaves make excellent fodder. The piant is 
said to be an excellent protection from malaria, and 
should be grown for hedges about the house where this 
disease prevails. 
•11 ETC., when required in large quantity 
wi^ be sold at reduced rates, as market is variable, please write for special rates in quan- 
FIELD GRAIN. 
(^Seed TFkeaf, Barlejf, Oats, Corn and other Grains, of every 
variety, wilt be furnished to our customers in quantities as may be 
desired; also Seed Potatoes at Lowest Market Bates. Brices 4ven 
on application . i, 
