6 ALFALFA 
RUSSELL-HECKLE 
MEMPHIS, TENN. 
Russell-Heckle’s Farm Seeds 
TOP NOTCH QUALITY SEEDS MEAN BETTER CROPS 
The most vital need of those who depend for their living on the products of the soil is pure seed, not mixed with noxious 
weed seed, and of high germinating quality. Our Top Notch brand was originated to designate seed stocks filling just that 
need, and their dependability is responsible for their popularity. 
Top Notch brand on the seed you plant means bigger crops and more profit to you. To use it means satisfied customers 
who tell their friends about us, which in turn means more friends for us. It’s an endless chain, and Top Notch Seeds form 
the links. 
Alfalfa 
The crop that pays constant dividends, and at the 
same time builds soils. 
Alfalfa Is one of the few crops that cannot be over¬ 
produced. It stands for years, yields several cuttings 
a season and makes a hay about as high in protein as 
INOCULATE ALL LEGUMES 
b. WITH 
N1TRAGIN 
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wheat bran; it more nearly approaches perfection as a forage crop than 
any one other crop. When fed with a grain ration, it supplies the protein 
necessary for a balanced food. For dairy, breeding and fattening oattle, 
hogs and sheep, it is the ideal hay. As a soil builder, it is claimed that it 
adds more than twice as much ammonia or nitrogen to the soil as red 
clover. Alfalfa does not ask the farmer to buy expensive nitrogen, but gets 
all it needs from the air and stores it in the land to make bigger the crops 
that follow It. 
PREPARATION OP SOIL. Good loam or clay soil with natural or ar¬ 
tificial drainage, with no hardpan underneath, will grow Alfalfa when 
properly prepared, and proper and thorough preparation is a prime neces¬ 
sity for a uniform heavy stand. Where the seil is aoid, and that is the case 
in most instances, liming is necessary. 
CULTURE. The seed may be sown broadcast or in drills and covered 
one inch. If sown broadcast, use 20 to 25 pounds of seed per acre. Sowings 
made in the spring, March and April, or in the fall, September and Octo¬ 
ber, are successful. 
PERTIL1Ej.NCT. Use three tons of ground limestone where lime is need¬ 
ed, broadcast to each acre. Applying a coat of well-rotted stable manure 
will be beneficial. If you have tried Alfalfa, and it died out, it was on ac¬ 
count of need of these fertilizers. 
INOCULATION. The cost of inoculation per acre is so small that the 
increased yield will repay it many times. 
Use either Nitragin or Humogerm cultures, which you will find de¬ 
scribed and quoted elsewhere in this catalog. 
WHY INOCULATE 
Inoculation of your seed before planting will give you a 
much stronger and quicker growth, producing a greater ton¬ 
nage of hay. The cost of inoculation per acre is so small that 
the increased yield will repay it many times. 
The big benefit comes in the value added to your land. The 
roots of the Alfalfa are tha home of the inoculated bacteria, 
that draw the fertility-building nitrogen from the air and 
store it in swellings on the roots called nodules. These nodules 
not only feed nitrogen to the plant, but rot away in the ground 
to supply valuable nitrogen to all future crops of all kinds. 
R.-H. Co.’s Top Notch Western Alfalfa 
This seed is produced in the West farther south than Ida¬ 
ho and Utah, and our stock this spring is the latest crop of 
highest germinating strength and tested 99.60 percent pure, 
which is very, very fine. We have sold thousands of pounds 
of this seed throughout the South where it has given splen¬ 
did results. It costs less because It is not so difficult to pro¬ 
duce as seed in the more northern states. 1 lb., 30c, postpaid. 
Not prepaid, 1 lb., 20c. 
Quantity Prices on Green Ink List. 
R.-H. Co.’s Top Notch Hardy Northwestern 
Alfalfa 
The Northwestern states, like Idaho and Utah, produce 
a very hardy type of Alfalfa, due, naturally, to the severely 
cold winters that Alfalfa must weather there each year. 
Our Top Notch Northwestern Seed represents our choice of 
the stocks produced there, based on purity and growth. 
Such seed costs more than seed produced farther south, but 
the man who buys Top Notch Northwestern Alfalfa will 
get full value for every dollar spent. 1 lb., 35c, postpaid. 
Not prepaid, 1 lb., 25c. 
Quantity Prices on Green Ink List. 
R.-H. Co.’s Top Notch Dakota Alfalfa 
Practically every pound of this strain of Alfalfa was ex¬ 
hausted last year because of the enormous demand for the 
seed. This is the best evidence we can offer of its true value. 
South Dakota is the home of this Alfalfa, where the tem¬ 
perature drops way down below zero every winter. Seed 
that withstands such a severe test as that can readily be 
seen to have outstanding advantages. We have never sold 
Dakota No. 12 Alfalfa to any man who expressed other 
than extreme pleasure over results. An exceptionally pro¬ 
ductive Alfalfa. 1 lb.. 40c, postpaid. Not prepaid, lb. 30c. 
Quantity Prices on Green Ink List. 
PUCE. BUSHEL. AND HUNDRED POUND PRICXS QUOTED ON ORE BN INK LIST. 
