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SEEDS—TREES—ROSES—SHRUBS—BULBS—EVERGREENS, 
Grasses for all Purposes 
[KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS. You all are familiar with Ken¬ 
tucky Blue Grass, and it is certainly famous as a pasture 
crop throughout the world. Blue Grass is extremely hardy, 
comes through our severest winters without killing and 
stands up fairly well under an early summer drouth, until 
July. Last year, Blue Grass carried right on through the 
summer in nice shape. Sow 25 lbs. per acre. 
Blue Grass also is the foundation of every successful lawn, 
and when mixed with White Dutch Clover and two or three 
other hardy grasses, makes a splendid lawn. If you wish 
a mixture on your lawn though, try my Maypark Mixture, 
which is largely composed of Blue Grass. For lawns 1 lb. 
for 200 sq. feet. 
RED TOP. Another popular pasture grass which thrives on 
poor soil. In Southern Illinois, Red Top is almost exclusive¬ 
ly grown on low wet land. It also is a great drouth resister 
and stops washing of the soil. It is a perennial and one seed¬ 
ing lasts several years. Use 10 pounds to the acre. 
MEADOW FESCUE. This is a very nutritious grass and also 
very hardy, especially resistant to drouth and makes good 
hay and pasture. A pasture of meadow fescue will take you 
through a long, dry summer and doesn’t kill out in the winter 
either. Another good grass for low and poor land, because 
there it does better than most any other kinds. Sow 25 lbs. 
per acre. 
ORCHARD GRASS. Orchard Grass should be sown in shady 
places. It is a cover crop for orchards and can be used for 
hay or pasture. It is quite generally mixed with other 
grasses, especially red clover, and this makes a splendid com¬ 
bination for cutting or pasture. Makes excellent hay if cut 
when just in bloom. Sown in orchards, it will help keep down 
the weeds and conserve the moisture. Sow 25 lbs. per acre. 
ENGLISH RYE GRASS. This is another good grass used ex¬ 
tensively for pasture and, also, for lawns. It is a rapid 
[ growing variety, and we put a small amount of this in our 
Maypark Mixture, so it gives you a fine, green lawn early 
until the Blue Grass and White Dutch Clover get a chance 
to become started. It is, also, a very fine pasture grass, and 
keeps on growing even after being clipped. Sow 50 lbs. 
per acre. 
Fodder and Forage Crops 
I’ve built up quite a reputation on forage seed, as well as on 
legumes. For a catch crop, for dry seasons, for late seedings, 
forages are hard to beat. They always produce abundantly 
every year if not sown too early. Every one of these varieties 
grows where there is lots of moisture and gives tremendous 
yields on fertile land having lots of rainfall. There is nothing 
1 finer for plowing under to add green manure to the soil and 
for making a big crop of hay, and for seeding on land to help 
keep down the weeds. 
EARLY AMBER CANE. This is one of the most popular va¬ 
rieties of fodder cane. Matures early and is the standby in 
Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska. Sow 50 to 100 
pounds per acre, and, of course, the more you sow per acre, 
the finer quality hay you get. 
ORANGE CANE. Is an all-purpose cane, too, and is preferred 
in Eastern Kansas, Missouri and Southern Iowa. Use these 
canes for fodder only. 
KAFFIR CORN. This is also a popular drouth resisting fodder 
and is used mostly for hay and grain in the drier sections 
of the Middle West. Makes fine chicken feed and hog feed, 
too. Kaffir grows every place in the corn belt but is used 
mostly in the very dry portions, where other crops are hard 
to grow late in the season. It's equally as resistant to drouth 
as Brome Grass. 
MILO MAIZE. Somewhat similar to Kaffir and is equally drouth 
resisting. It is a little larger seed and requires about 20% 
less seed per acre. I think you’ll find that 90 pounds per 
acre broadcast is about the right amount. 
FETERITA. It has a larger grain and is three weeks earlier 
than either Kaffir or Milo Maize, and for that reason is 
grown farther north for a quick crop of hay. Makes good 
pasture when it’s young and is always popular for a late 
crop. 
GERMAN MILLET. This is the finest millet for you to grow. 
Is probably the most popular forage crop, outside of Sudan, 
that you can plant. If you’re going to be short on feed, 
f sow several acres. It doesn’t make much difference on what 
kind of soil, whether wet or dry, high or low, it will return 
you plenty of feed. Grows quickly, thrives in hot weather 
and is the easiest millet to handle for hay. Oftentimes called 
Golden Millet. 
Hog Pasture Mixture 
Sometimes regular hog pastures suffer winter injury and 
have to be plowed up and reseeded. At any rate, I’ve always 
found that sowing a mixture especially for the hogs, even if 
it is only in the feed lot, is a very desirable practice. It can 
be sown cheap, helps keep down the weeds, and when your 
hogs are in the feed lot it helps put pork on them every minute 
of the time. 
Our Hog Pasture Mixture comes on early in the spring and 
gives continuous pasture throughout the season. It has rape 
in it so that it can be pastured within 40 days of seeding time. 
It has other grasses and legumes in it to give you pasture 
throughout the season. We always like to use 15 to 20 pounds 
per acre with a half bushel of soy beans. I should call this 
my pork producer because that’s what it does. It’s mighty 
cheap for you to sow, too. 
See page 64 for Seeders, Sprayers and Insecticides. 
Fertilizers, page 65. 
ETC., SHENANDOAH, IA. 
This is the way I grow my potatoes. That’s Eddie on his 
knees helping to bag the crop. Mrs. May and Frances are look¬ 
ing on. My potatoes are all raised from certified seed. 
SEED POTATOES 
Red River Valley Grown 
Red River Minnesota-grown seed potatoes produce larger 
yields and better quality of seed. This year, those of you who 
had the better northern grown seed such as I offer raised good 
potatoes and those who planted poor, immature, home grown 
seed had very poor yields. My seed stock is clean, healthy 
and from extra heavy yielding stock. The best of seed that is 
available only is selected for your use. 
We can supply both the Certified and un-Certified seed stock. 
I carry many carloads of potatoes in my stores for you. Seed 
stocks should be moved south every year. In the Farm Belt, 
you should not rely on your home grown potatoes for seed. 
Get them only from the northern end of the Red River Valley 
where the finest seed potatoes in the world come from. They 
will be reasonably priced. See my farm seed price sheet and 
listen in over radio KMA for prices. 
Certified Northern Potatoes 
Certified stock means that these potatoes come sealed in the 
bags, with a certification tag on them, showing that they are 
absolutely free of all disease, and have been inspected, and 
also guarantees that they come from a certain section of Min¬ 
nesota along the Red River Valley, which you know produces 
the finest quality of seed potato in the entire country. 
U. S. No. 1 Seed Potatoes 
Our U. S. No. 1 grade is specially selected stock. They are 
government inspected as to variety and origin and are much 
finer than the ordinary seed stock that you can get. You will 
get far better results than you can secure by planting seed 
about which you know nothing. Good heavy yielding strains 
are the only ones that I have for you. 
EARLY OHIO. This is the most popular potato variety that 
is grown in the central west, a good keeper, an old favorite, 
and one that you can depend on year after year to give you 
heaviest yield. This seed stock comes from the Red River 
Valley of Minnesota and the potatoes are very uniform and 
the eyes are set near the surface, and that means very little 
waste in peeling. The vines grow upright and are easy to 
cultivate. The tubers grow in a compact clump which makes 
them easy to dig. They have light pink skin with beautiful 
white flesh. That is why housewives know that they are of 
the highest cooking quality. These will mature about two 
weeks earlier than southern grown seed. We get reliable seed 
from the Minnesota territory like we are offering you, the 
certified or U. S. No. 1. 
(Seed potatoes continued next page.) 
POTATO TREAT¬ 
MENT 
SEMESAN BEL. This is the 
modern method of checking and 
eliminating disease on potatoes. 
No soaking is necessary, just 
mix, dip, drain and dry, and the 
potatoes are all ready to plant. 
Semesan Bel is not injurious to 
seed, and absolutely controls 
such disease as Scab, Rhizoc- 
tonia and Black Leg. It will in¬ 
crease your yield from 15% to 
25%. Even though you use certi¬ 
fied or selected seed, the stock 
should be treated. Diseases 
which are sometimes born in the 
soil can be controlled by treat¬ 
ing the seed before planting. One 
pound will treat from 60 to 80 
bushels and costs you only $1.75. 
Vi lb. 50c. 
Early Ohio 
