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//. G. Hastings Co., Seedsmen, Atlanta, Georgia 
DWARF ESSEX RAra(Na400) 
The South is favored with a long list of summer growing feed 
and fattening croiis. 
In late winter and early spring rye, oats, wheat, barley, ete., 
furnish splendid grazing. 
There is, however, a need and a place for an extra quick grow¬ 
ing green forage crop fur use any time during the fall, winter and 
sjiring and our Dwarf Essex Rape fills tlmt need exactly. 
To show the increasing popularity of r.ipe it's only necessary to 
tell you that we are selling some thirty tinier as much .seed of 
Rajie now each year as we did a few years ago. 
Dwarf Essex Raiie in its top growth looks very much like ruta- 
liaga turnii)s. but does not form a Imllious root. It can he sown 
with the liest of results any month from August to April. Accord¬ 
ing to soil and season, rape grows from 15 to hU inches liigh. It is 
a splendid green feed and forage crop relished by all kinds of 
stock hut is principally planted for hogs and poultry. 
It makes an exceptionally fine hog pasture, is also excellent for 
sheep, all sorts of stock eating it greedily, and it puts and keeps 
them in'fine condition. 
At one of the Exiieriment Stations an acre of rape was used to 
p.'isture 20 hogs for three months in connection with a small grain 
ration at the same time. 
A crop of rape is ready for grazing in 8 to 10 weeks from time 
of planting. It’s valuable not only for pasture hut green feeding. 
It can 1)4 grown successfull.v and profit,ably on any soil that will 
make a crop of turnips or rutabagas, and in case your turniii 
greens or spinach iiatcn runs short, you will find a mess of greens 
from the rape patch a mighty good substitute on your table. 
Well Developed Plants in a Field of Our Dwarf Essex Kape 
For rape put your land in goo<l condition by plowing and har¬ 
rowing down fine, riant any time during late summer, fall or 
winter. If sown broadcast use 8 to 10 pounds of seed per acre. 
If in drills like turnip or rutabagas, .3 to 1 pounds is sufficient. If 
broadcasted cover the seed by a light harrowing. If thei’e is a 
showery season rape can be planted between the corn rows at the 
last working. 
Rape is quite hardy and will stand practically unharmed any 
usual cold anywhere in the Cotton Belt and lower Gulf Coast 
section. 
Rape can never become a pest as it belongs to the same general 
family as the turnip and rutabaga. 'When planted under favor¬ 
able conditions of soil and season, it makes an immense crop of 
green foliage, juicy and succulent, and often at a time of year 
when little green feed is available. 
If you have hogs or poultry to feed through the winter you 
can’t afford to be without a rape patch. Once you have one, you 
will never he without one in the future. 
We know of no crop plantahle at the time of year suitable for 
rape that will bring you in so great a return for so little expendi¬ 
ture of time and money for seed. 
It is estimated that there is in Georgia alone more than a mil¬ 
lion more hogs than two years ago. Other Southern States have 
also made great strides in hog growing during the last two years. 
Every one of these hogs need rape pasture during this fall and 
winter. 
Every poultry raiser needs at least a small patch of rape to fur¬ 
nish green feed during late fall, wdnter and early spring. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE (No. 400), 35 cents per pound, postpaid. 
Not prepaid: Ten-pound lots, ’20 cents a pound. Write for large 
quantity iirices. Hundred-pound lots, about 17 cents a pound. 
Plant Rape for Hogs or Poultry 
