RETAIL PRICE-LIST FOR 1883, 
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MISCELLANEOUS SEEDS, etc. 
Cotton, Upland, Improved Herlong 
Sea Island (long staple) 
Broom-Corn Seed (Evergreen) 
Cow Peas (heavy cropper, for plowing in green) 
Doura, Branching, White-Seeded Egyptian . . . 
Flax Seed 
Sugar Cane (Early Amber) 
Sunflower : 
Hop Seed 
Tobacco Seed, Havana 
Connecticut 
per qt. 
pr. bu. 
.20 
4 - 5 ° 
■'5 
2.50 
3 - SO 
• 3 ° 
6.00 
.20 
5.00 
pr pkt. 
per oz. 
.10 
1. 00 
.10 
.50 
.10 
.40 
Whale Oil Soap, extra best quality, in 2 lb. boxes 
extra best quality, in 5 lb boxes 
extra best quality, in 10 lb. boxes 
extra, quantities in firkins or barrels. . . 
Chemical Concentrated, in bars, per lb. 
Tobacco Soap (for washing animals or plants) 
Tobacco Dust (for extermination of insects) 
White Hellebore (sure remedy for Currant Worms) . . 
Archangel Mats (for vegetable and plant ties) 
Raffea (for tying) 
Soft Twine (for tying) 
Grafting-Wax 
pr box 
.60 
.00 
per lb. 
8 
•*5 
.40 
.10 
•35 
.50 
.40 
•30 
EGYPTIAN, OR CHINA CORN (Sorghum Vulgare). 
This is a valuable grain and fodder producing plant, particularly for 
very hot and dry climates. It will make a crop on poorer land and with 
less moisture than any other grain. Tested with Indian Corn or Maize, 
through weeks of dry weather, without rain, the results proved that 
while the Maize dried up and perished, the Egyptian Corn continued to 
grow apparently as well as if no drought prevailed. The grain is small 
and white, matures in about ioo days, and is useful as food for man, 
animals, and fowls. The yield of grain, usually 75 to 100 bushels per 
acre, has been known to exceed 150 bushels per acre. As a forage crop 
it is excellent, either green or dry ; is very leafy (the Branching variety 
especially so); and cattle are exceedingly fond of it. It grows 8 to 12 
feet high, if left to attain maturity; but, if wanted for green fodder, it 
sprouts readily after being cut, and two or three heavy crops can be 
obtained in a season. Plant in good warm soil, in hills three by four feet 
apart, and cultivate as Indian Corn. Two or three plants are sufficient 
for each hill. Four pounds of seed are required per acre. 
White-Seeded Branching (Branching Doura of some) . . per lb., 40 cts. 
per lb. 
.20 
.20 
.40 
.10 
per lb. 
6.00 
4.CO 
each. 
75 
