'Sterling and Northland Farm Seeds 
BUCKWHEAT 
Japanese Buckwheat. Entirely distinct from all other varieties. 
It lias the advantage of remaining for some time in bloom and produces 
seed earlier. On this account it can be grown farther north. It resists 
drought and blight very well. The seed is rich dark brown in color and 
larger than Silver Hull. As much as forty bushels to the acre have been 
harvested of this variety. Usually commands a premium over Silver Hull. 
Silver Hull Buckwheat. This valuable variety originated abroad 
and is a decided improvement on the old black or gray sort. It is early, 
remains longer in bloom than other sorts. A fine variety for honey bees. 
The grain is of a beautiful light gray color, and has a thin husk. Silver 
Hull is more productive and the grain meets with a ready sale. Under 
favorable conditions it will yield 40 to 50 bushels an acre. 
Dwarf Essex Rape. It is an annual, bearing a close resemblance 
in leaf and stalk to the Rut a Baga, but both leaves and stalk are more 
numerous in the Rape plant, and of a taller habit of growth. It is a pas¬ 
ture plant which may be eaten off by any kind of live stock, but it is 
pre-eminently fitted to furnish pasture for sheep, cattle and swine. 
A good crop will furnish at least 12 tons of green food an acre. 
Dwarf Essex Rape thrives best on a good soil, riph in vegetable matter. 
Slough lands are excellent. When rape is sown broadcast, 5 lbs. of seed 
an acre will suffice. When sown in rows, say thirty inches apart, and 
cultivated, from 1 to 2 lbs. an acre will be enough. 
Speltz or Emmer. It is found to be adapted to a wide range of 
soil and climate, to resist extremes of weather, to be of superior feeding 
value and to yield so much more heavily than oats and barley as to 
insure its increasing popularity. 
FLAX 
Northland Brand 
Prof. Bolley of the 
N. D. Experiment Sta¬ 
tion especially recom¬ 
mends “plump, bright 
colored seeds—because 
they probably grew 
upon strong or vigor¬ 
ous mother plants and 
are thus not likelv 
to be internally dis¬ 
eased.” 
Northland Brand 
Flax is meeting with 
approval throughout 
the Northwest. It 
ripens in mid-season 
and under favorable 
conditions, yields 
splendidly. Cleaning 
Flax so as to make it 
suitable for seed is an 
expensive operation, 
requiring special machinery and often involves considerable waste, but we 
take great care to do this thoroughly. Send for sample and note its 
splendid quality. 
BlSOIl A new large seeded Wilt Resistant Variety, developed by the 
North Dakota Experiment Station. This variety has proven more satis¬ 
factory than any other for growing particularly on older farms in Minne¬ 
sota and Dakota. Will bring a premium on the market on account of 
greater oil content. 
SOY BEANS 
This crop has become quite popular in the Northwest during the last 
few years, due to the discovery of early maturing varieties. For a long 
time it has been grown extensively in the South. Soy Beans are grown 
for hay, ensilage, grain and soil improvement. They produce a quality of 
hay equal in feeding value to Alfalfa and are valuable for planting where 
Clover has winter killed. For silage they are planted with corn using 
about 10 pounds of seed per acre, producing silage of higher feeding 
value than com alone. The ground beans are equal to or better than Oil 
Meal for mixing with home grown grains to balance the dairy ration. 
Being a legume, like Clover, Soy Beans improve the soil on which they 
are grown. Sometimes they are plowed under as a green manure crop. 
Early Wisconsin Black. One of the earliest maturing varieties 
adapted to light soils of northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, also North 
Dakota and Montana. They grow about 24 to 30 inches high and are 
valuable for grain and hogging down. 
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