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EARL E. MAY'S 1934 CATALOG OF SEEDS AND NURSERY STOCK 
I spend as much time as I possibly can on the farms of my 
neighbors, checking up what they are doing too. 
Sudan Grass for May, Pasture and Silage 
I am strongly in favor of all farmers having Sudan Grass 
for their milk cows and other stock. Sudan hay, you know, 
is only a one year crop but it’s the heaviest producer of all. 
It is finer and better for stock than either Millet or Cane. 
It can be planted late, as late as the middle of July or the first 
of August and still make a heavy growth. It stools out a lot, 
too; makes tremendous bunches of hay from each seed and 
grows about four to six feet tall. 
Last summer during the hay and pasture shortage, Sudan 
grass was a life saver on many farms. It is a cheap seed to 
grow but a sure producer. Plant Sudan on your waste land 
to help keep down the weeds. Sudan yields four to ten tons 
of hay per acre of high feeding value for hogs, cattle, milk 
cows and horses. 
HOW TO GROW SUDAN GRASS. After the ground warms 
up in the spring and danger of cool, frost or freezing weather is 
over, sow at the rate of 20 to 25 pounds per acre and cover 
about one inch deep. Sudan is a good crop to plow under, as 
it makes a lot of green manure and humus. 
First crop is ready for hay in sixty days and should be cut 
when the heads are in the milk stage. Second crop comes 
30 to 40 days later. Plenty of time to get it out of the way 
before frost comes. Do not cut or feed frosted Sudan Grass. 
Brome Grass 
May worth 
Hay and Pasture Mixture 
This is without doubt the most practical and the best known 
mixture I have. A few years ago when I was in Europe I 
noticed that the European farmers were making use of prac¬ 
tically this same kind of a mixture in their pastures. They 
learned long ago that mixtures make the most hay and pasture. 
I was surprised too at the similarity of the European pas¬ 
tures with ours. Mayworth Hay and Pasture mixture contains 
more than half legumes, including Alfalfa, Red Clover, Sweet 
Clover, Alsike, Timothy, Red Top, Blue Grass,' Meadow Fescue, 
etc. This will save you a lot of labor of mixing and besides 
it comes lots cheaper. A bushel weighs 45 pounds and is 
enough for about 4 acres. 
Mayworth Hay and Pasture Mixture has these advantages: 
1. It can be sown for less than $1.25 per acre. 12 pounds is 
plenty. 
2. It grows two cuttings of hay per year and will give you 
lots of pasture besides. 
3. It is an abundant heavy pasture throughout the season. 
4. It is much cheaper than buying your own seed and mixing 
it because it is mostly a natural crop mixture and most of 
it is grown right here in our own territory. 
5. It builds up the soil. It is over half legumes and clovers. 
6 . It prepares your land for Alfalfa, the great protein crop. 
There is a generous amount of Alfalfa in this Mayworth 
Hay and Pasture Mixture. 
7. It can be sown any time of the year from the first of 
February to the first of August and will start right out 
producing hay or pasture for you the first season. 
Rape-Dwarf Essex 
Each year more and more genuine Dwarf Essex Rape is be¬ 
ing sown, and on good rich land, it will produce as high as 
12 tons of green feed. It is a wonderful hog pasture and can 
be pastured from six to eight weeks after you sow it. It only 
takes 6 to 8 pounds of seed per acre, and is the most economical 
hog pasture for you to sow. I don’t believe it's quite as good 
as my regular Hog Pasture Mixture, but it’s hard to beat. 
Helps keep down weeds, too. Sow it alone, either broadcast 
or drill. 
You can sow it with oats in the spring by waiting until the 
oats are up, then broadcast the rape and harrow along drill 
rows to cover. Rape comes along and makes a fast growth 
after the oats are cut. Some sow in corn at the last cultiva¬ 
tion. It can also be sown with soy beans or clovers. The Iowa 
State College at Ames recommends using four pounds of rape 
to about ten pounds of Sudan Grass for a balanced pasture. 
Remember hogs like rape better than any other pasture ex¬ 
cept alfalfa. 
The greatest grass crop for dry climate there is. The seed 
is large, too large to go through a seeder so must be sown 
by hand. It is such a high yielding crop that seed has been 
short the past several years. Roots go down 5 to 6 feet deep, 
stays green when other grasses get brown, the severe winters 
do not damage it. It grows on clays, loams 
and sandy soils. It usually makes a hay 
crop the first year, although the second and 
third years are much larger in yield. Once 
seeded it will last for a great many years. 
Sow alone at the rate of about 20 pounds 
per acre, either spring or fall. Or sow with 
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover, using 10 
pounds of Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover 
and 12 pounds of Brome Grass. Cover Brome 
Grass not more than one-half inch deep. 
I have seed that's free of quack grass and 
all bad weeds. Let me send you a sample of it. 
INOCULATE 
this seed 
Soy Beans 
"Dear Mr. May: We bought $27.00 
worth of seed at your store in Lincoln, 
Nebraska, before we moved here. We 
bought Korean Clover seed and although 
it was planted on poor soil it grew 18 
to 20 inches high. We would like your 
new catalog. Yours truly, LeRoy E. 
Barton. Afton, Iowa.” 
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Soy Beans are one of the most popular 
annual legumes that is being grown in the 
Corn Belt. They can be used for hay, pas¬ 
ture, silage, oil meal and are good to mix 
in with your home grown feeds. It is good 
for hogging down, either by itself or 
planted with 90-day corn. Dairy cows like 
soy beans, and it produces 12 to 13 tons of 
green fodder per acre. Soy beans will usu¬ 
ally average about 25 bushels of beans per 
acre on average yields. 
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I secure the Timothy Seed for you from this fine crop 
HOW TO PLANT. Plant soy beans from 
corn planting time until the fourth of 
July. Of course, the earlier they are 
planted, the bigger the yield. Never sow 
before the ground is thoroughly warm. 
Drill in rows 8 to 10 inches apart, using 
a bushel or a bushel and a half per acre. 
AVhen planting with corn, use a bean at¬ 
tachment to the planter and use six pounds 
of beans per acre. It can also be broad¬ 
cast at last cultivation, 20 to 30 pounds 
of seed per acre and covering shallow. 
WHEN TO CUT TOR HAY. Cut for hay 
when the pods are quite well developed 
but before the leaves begin to drop. For 
a seed crop, it’s best to wait until most 
of the leaves have fallen and then cut 
when the dew is on. The leaves should 
be raked up in bunches and allowed to 
cure out, or can be cut with a binder, then shocked. 
MANCHU SOY BEANS. 105 days. Standard bean throughout 
the Corn Belt and a heavy producer. We like Manchu best 
because it can be planted In early corn and makes abundant 
hay or pasture early, grows very quickly compared with some 
?■ , , e other crops. Grows 36 inches high and is an old re¬ 
liable bean—can’t be beat for hogging down. 
ILLINI SOY BEANS. 115 days. Here is the small seeded yel¬ 
low bean that goes a little further when drilling because 
15 lbs. to the acre is sufficient. Lots of folks like this bean 
because it makes good silage, grows fairly quick, and is very 
popular for all purposes. 
VIRGINIA SOY BEANS. Here is the standard brown soy bean 
tor the Central West. I believe there are more acres of Vir¬ 
ginia soy beans sown in Missouri than any other kind of bean 
unless it would be Manchu. A very new variety but a mighty- 
good one that has been proven very satisfactory wherever it 
is grown. The brown seeded kind that people in Southern 
Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and other states in this region will 
find probably the best hay bean that can be grown. 
BLACK WILSON. We always have lots of call for a black 
seeded bean, so we picked this one out for you because it 
is one of the earliest black beans you can sow. Fairly good 
size and is equal to Manchu, Illini or Virginia for hay, for 
pasture, or for hogging down. Put a bushel of these Black 
Wilsons alongside your Manchus in order to make these com¬ 
parisons yourself. 
