TESTED FARM SEEDS. 
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Prices Subject to Market Chance*. 
RAPE —TRUE DWARF ESSEX 
RAPE—DWARF ESSEX 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE. This is an ideal sheep 
feed, easily grown; perfectly hardy and possesses 
remarkable fattening properties. One acre will 
pasture 36 head of sheep two months and lambs 
will make a gain of 8 to 12 pounds a month. Pigs 
and cattle are also very fond of it. The plant 
is a rank grower and should have heavy manur¬ 
ing as well as high cultivation. Any corn soil 
will grow rape. A good crop will furnish at 
least twelve tons of green food per acre and its 
nutritive value is nearly twice that of clover. 
This plant may be grown successfully in tlu 
following ways: 
First—In the early spring to provide pasture 
for sheep and swine. 
Second—In June or July on well prepared land 
to provide pasture for sheep. The crop will be 
ready to feed at a season when it is most needed 
Third—Along with grain, using two l»bs. of seed 
per acre to provide pasture for sheep after har¬ 
vesting. 
Fourth—Along with peas, oats, clover seed, to 
provide pasture for sheep, and to get a “catch’ 
of clover. 
Fifth—Along with corn drilled in broadcast to 
provide pasture for sheep. 
Sixth—In corn, sowing the seed with the last 
cultivation given to the corn. 
Seventh—Along with rye sown in August In 
sheep pastures. 
When the Rape is sown broadcast, 5 lbs. of 
seed per acre will suffice. When sown in rows, 
say 30 inches apart, and cultivated, from one to 
two lbs. will be enough. The cost of sowing an 
acre is less than with any other forage plant. 
A director of one of the Agricultural Experi¬ 
ment Stations says: “We had one-half an acre 
of Rape, which gave an actual yield of nine and 
three-fourths tons, or at the rate of ninteen and 
one-half tons per acre.” 
USE DUBAY on all garden and field crops. A 
disinfectant for every kind of seed. 
BROOM CORN 
WILSON’S IMPROVED TENNESSEE EVER¬ 
LASTING. This Broom Corn grows about 8 to 
10 feet high, stands up well and is entirely free 
from crooked brush. The fiibre is long and fln* 
and will always command the highest price. 
MISSOURI EVERGREEN. Is a favorite of 
Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. 
BUCKWHEAT 
Buckwheat should be sown about the middle of 
June, broadcast, at the rate of from one to three 
pecks per acre. 
JAPANESE. An early maturing variety with 
dark brown seeds, or large size, making it a 
profitable sort to raise. 
SILVER HULL. This variety is a decided Im¬ 
provement over the common sort. The hulls ar# 
light gray and very thin. Much preferred by 
millers as there is less waste and it produces a 
winter flour. Remains in bloom for long time. 
COMMON. The old. well known sort. 
PEANUTS 
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Peanuts can be cultivated as early as potatoes 
They yield largely and are a paying crop. Planted 
in April they ripen in August. 
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COW PEAS —THE GREAT SOIL IMPROVER 
More and more Cow Peas are planted every year 
as the farmer realizes more ana more their great 
value as a soil enricher. The plant is a legume, 
and through the agency of the nitrogen producing 
bacteria on its roots adds this valuable plant food 
to the soil much cheaper than it is possible to 
obtain it in any other way. Cow Peas make ex¬ 
cellent hay; should be cut and cured the same as 
Clover; then the stubble with its new growth may 
be turned under as a fertilizer. Kaffir corn sown 
with Cow Peas holds the vines off the ground, 
causing a better growth. 
For those in the North who have had poor suc¬ 
cess with Cow Peas, we suggest the plant must 
have a warm, almost sandy soil. Where never 
grown before, the best results may be had in 
drilling the seed and cultivating at first as for 
field beans—the growth being quite slow at first; 
weeds get the best of things unless kept down. 
BLACK COW PEAS. This variety, while a lit¬ 
tle later than Whippoorwill, produces more growth 
of foliage and is consequently better for cutting 
and as a soil improver. It makes large yield of 
peas and is very popular in the latitude of Ken¬ 
tucky. 
WHIPPOORWILL. A favorite early bunob* 
growing variety, has brown speckled seed. 
This variety is a prime favorite in the North 
and West on account of its early maturity and 
habit of growth. 
CLAY. This makes an enormous and remark¬ 
able growth of vines, but requires the full grow¬ 
ing season to make its crop. In yield and growth 
of vines it surpasses any of the varieties of Cow 
Peas. This variety should be planted in May. 
NEW ERA. An early maturing variety, which 
has proved very popular and satisfactory. It 1* 
upright-growing, quick to mature, and remark¬ 
ably prolific of peas. The vines cure easily, bum* 
ing splendid dry forage. The seed are smaller 
in size than the ordinary Cow Pea, so that It 
does not require as many to seed an acre, from 
three-fourths to one bushel per acre will give 
ample seeding. 
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