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from a single seed. When the plant first comes up, the 
stems are prostrate, but assume an upright position 
when two feet long. Stock e.»t it with great avidity. In 
the South, it can be cut three or four times, si>rou::na 
readily and growing rapidly after each cutting. It is 
probably fully equal to sweet orr tor fodder, and • -ill 
yield live times the quantity on the same ground. We 
hope all our farmers. North and Sonth, will give it a trial. 
It should be sown in drills, dropping about two or three 
seeds two feet apart in the drill ; the drills should be 
three feet apart, as plenty of room is required for its 
growth. Two pounds of seed is sufficient for an acre. 
Hungarian Grass — Panicum 
Germanicum .— This is a species 
of millet, growing less rank, with 
smaller stalks, often yielding two 
or three tons of hay per acre. ^It 
is very popular, and in the West¬ 
ern States is used extensively. 
Like the millet, it is an annual, 
and requires to be sown every 
season, but will produce a larger 
return than almost any other 
crop. Sow and cultivate like mil¬ 
let. Forty-eight pounds per 
bushel. 
Fine Mixed Lawn Grass. — 
The essentials for a fine lawn arc 
proper drainage, a careful prepa¬ 
ration of the soil, thorough roll¬ 
ing, and a selection of the seeds 
present a luxuriant verdure from 
in autumn ; and then frequent 
mower. However much care is 
bestowed on the soil and seed, no lawn will be beautiful 
without frequent mowing and rolling. We have found 
the Charter Oak Lawn Mower the best for cutting 
lawns. Too much care cannot be bestowed however on 
the selection of grasses, as some varieties arc the most 
luxuriant in spring, others in summer, and others again 
in autumn, and a combination of the proper sorts is re¬ 
quired for a perfect, carpet-like lawn. These we can 
supply ready mixed, in proper proportions of each. The 
quantity sown varies according to the variety of grasses 
from forty to sixty pounds per acre, much more being 
required than for hay or pasturage. The seed can be 
sown in spring or autumn. 
Flint’s Extra Fine Mixed Lawn Grass, for Per¬ 
manent Lawns. — This mixture is the result of much 
thought and experimenting, and is undoubtedly the very 
best mixture that can be obtained for permanent lawns, 
resisting the severe droughts of our climate better than 
any other. The mixture is composed of sixteen selected 
grasses, and the quantity required per acre is sixty 
pounds, sown in spring or fall. Though a little more 
expensive at the outset, it will undoubtedly be found 
the cheapest in the end, and it can hardly fail to please 
the most critical. 
MISCELLANEOUS FARM SEEDS 
WINTER WHEAT. 
Much has been written throughout the country re¬ 
garding Michigan Winter Wheat, and especially the 
white varieties. We mention several of the leading ones- 
Diehl.—A white, winter variety, bald, round berry, 
light color, thin hull, and yielding liberally of flour. 
Produces moderately, except on new ground. 
Clawson. — A bald, white, winter variety, and one of 
the bc^t yiclders ; medium length berry, some darker 
than Diehl, heavier hull, and liberal yielder. 
Treadwell. — A white, winter variety, long berry, 
approaching amber in color, heavy hull, and yields well 
of flour ; very popular with millers. Produces moderately. 
Fultz.— A superior amber variety, well known and 
much esteemed in Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, 
deny round and reddish-yellow, chaff white. This 
variety, though not yielding so abundantly as the Claw¬ 
son, is a good ciopper, and is the most desirable kind 
now known for milling purposes. 
SPRING WHEAT. 
White Russian. — This is without doubt the best 
variety of spring wheat in cultivation. Reports from 
Iowa, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Texas, and many other 
wheat-growing States are unanimous in its praises. We 
quote the description of the introducer : “The White 
Russian Wheat is a bald, white chaff wheat, of a much 
lighter color than most varieties of spring wheat, and 
has proved itself to be the best spring wheat ever grown 
in Wisconsin. From the reports of those who tried it 
last year, it will be seen that all were more than satis¬ 
fied with the wheat. No wheat ever tried in this coun¬ 
try has received a more unanimous commendation from 
those who tried it. The White Russian Wheat has 
astonished all who sowed it. Such long, strong, healthy, 
yellow straw, standing straight several days after ripen¬ 
ing, and bearing large, long, white chaff heads, well 
filled with plump kernels, weighing oftentimes from 
sixty to sixty two pounds to the measure*! bushel, while 
the wheat produces five to ten bushels more per acre 
than varieties once well thought of. It is believed by 
many that as soon as the White Russian Wheat can be 
got in sufficient quantity, it is destined to crowd out, to 
a great extent, other varieties, and will become the sta¬ 
ple spring tv heat of the United States for a term of 
years, until other new varieties take its place. The 
While Russian Wheat stands well after being ripe, and 
is not liable to lodge or rust when green ; it is decidedly 
healthy, and has in many cases produced a full average 
crop where other varieties alongside of it failed.” 
Barley, Common.—Barley succeeds best on lands 
more sandy and lighter than those adapted for wheat. 
It is sown in the spring, and can be grown farther north 
than any other grain. Unless intended for seed, it 
should be cut before fully ripe, as it is then heavier, of 
belter quality and less liable to shell. The land should 
always be rolled immediately after sowing ; or perhaps 
a better method is to roll the ground when the plants 
are one or two inches high. The quantity of seed sown 
per acre is about two and a half bushels, sown broad¬ 
cast. The weight per bushel is forty-eight pounds, 
though it is almost always sold by the ioo pounds. The 
product is from forty to sixty bushels per acre, accord¬ 
ing to cultivation. 
Barley, Naked, or Hullcss. — This is a peculiar- 
grain, and not generally known. The corolla .s not. 
attached to the grain, and it thus resembles wheat. It 
is a splendid grain for all purposes for which barltfy is 
used, and will make excellent bread when bolted and 
ground like wheat, while the yield is much greater than 
wheat, and fully equal to common barley. Nothing 
can surpass this grain for grinding into meal for stock, 
as it produces from forty to sixty bushels of solid grain 
per acre, and is a very certain crop. 
Russian White Oats. — This new variety of oats 
has already been tested in nearly all portions of the 
country, from Maine to California, and the reports from 
almost all the States of the Union, are unanimous in its 
commendation as the heaviest yielder in cultivation. 
One hundred and fifty-seven pounds of clean oats 
w-erc harvested from a single ounce of seed last season. 
In nine-tenths of the xeports the yield exceeded 500 fold 
increase. 
Hungarian Grass 
of such grasses as will 
early spring till late 
mowings with a lawn 
