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SELECT SEEDS FOR THE PARTICULAR GARDENER 
SORGHUM OR SUGAR CORN 
Sorghum is a sweet fodder of most luxuriant growth. 
EARLY AMBER —-Grows from 11 to 12 feet in height, and can 
be planted by the first of May. The seed ripens almost invariably, 
affording an excellent foor for stock and poultry. 
Buckwheat BARLEY 
BEARDLESS —This barley is as easily grown and handled 
as either oats or wheat. It is an improved beardless variety, 
of a distinct six rowed type. It is similar to Success Barley 
but is larger, has a longer straw, and yields more per acre. 
Being beardless, it, is pleasant to handle and the straw can 
be fed to stock without fear of injury. Farmers are delighted 
with the yield and from the fact that they are not bothered 
with the nuisance of the “sticky old beards.’’ 
RYE 
WHITE WINTER —It is much hardier than wheat and can 
be grown on a greater variety of solis. Rye can be cultivated 
longer on the same land than any other crop. % bushel to 
the acre. 
SPRING —Spring Rye is an excellent catch-crop where win¬ 
ter grain has been killed out, or where a fall crop has not been 
planted. 
RAPE 
This plant is extensively grown for sheep forage, and for 
green manure. Three pounds of seed to the acre in rows,, or 
broadcast at the rate of 6 pounds to the acre. Our stock is the 
true Essex Dwarf. 
Rape is considered one of the most valuable forage crops 
to plant in connection with other crops. The demand for 
rape is increasing rapidly and the higher the price of land 
the more rape will be used. 
MILLETS 
GERMAN, OR GOLDEN MILLET —Matures two weeks later 
than the common Millet. The seed we offer will produce more than 
double the quantity of fodder usually got on the same ground. Four 
or five feet high. Sow one bushel to the acre. 
PEAR MILLET, OR PENICILLARIA —An immense fodder 
yielder, attaining a height of 8 to 10 feet. Can be cut several times 
during a season. Sow 10 pounds to the acre. 
SIBERIAN —Rapidly becoming the most popular of all Millets. 
Very productive; grows 4 to 5 feet. Withstands drought. 
COMMON MILLET —Best quality for feeding. 
JAPANESE MILLET —Particularly valuable in the Northern 
States as a quick-growing forage and ensilage crop. 
HUNGARIAN —A very valuable forage plant of the Millet fam¬ 
ily, but not so coarse. Sown and cultivated same as Millet, and 
quite a favorite with stockmen. 
MILO MAIZE 
A variety of sorghum, nonsaccharine, growing stalks 8 to 10 
feet high. Useful for the large amount of green feed or cured fod¬ 
der it produces and for its grain. It stands dry weather atfd makes 
its crops when corn would wholly fail. Plant in 3-foot, rows and 
cultivate as corn; 3 to 5 lbs. to the acre. 
BUCKWHEAT 
Should be sown about the middle of Jun«, at the rate of from 
one-half to three-fourths bushels per acre. You will avoid the dan¬ 
ger of its spoiling by threshing 
as soon as dry. 
Buckwheat is one of the very 
best cover crops that can be 
grown in the orchard and the 
floweys are very much relished 
by bees. Buckwheat is the cool 
seasons crop and one which can 
be sown very late in the season 
and will produce very satisfac¬ 
tory returns. It can be handled 
at a time when other crops are 
not needing attention and we be¬ 
lieve it should be much more 
Golden Millet 
generally sown than it is 
at present. It is exception¬ 
ally well suited for late 
planting on wet ground or 
after the grain crop is har¬ 
vested. 
JAPANESE —Is much su¬ 
perior to the common Buck¬ 
wheat. The yield is far 
greater and it makes a su¬ 
perior flour. 1 bushel, (48 
lbs.), to the acre. 
SILVER HULL — The 
grains are of a silvery gray 
color making a white flour. 
Early Amber Sorghum 
SUNFLOWER 
MAMMOTH RUSSIAN —Makes large heads; valuable for 
poultry. 
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