DOUBLE YOUR 
CORN and COTTON YIELDS 
809. Rapidly climbing to the top as the leading soil-builder and 
winter cover crop throughout the entire South, because of its large, 
heavy growth on practically all soils and its ability to resist winter 
freezes. Matures two weeks ahead of Vetch and makes a splendid 
temporary pasture in late winter. Cotton and corn yields will double 
former yields following the first good crop of Peas. It grows about 
5 feet high, can be planted by itself, but also does fine with a light 
seeding of oats, rye or barley to hold the vines off the ground; makes 
a heavy tonnage of splendid hay. It will protect your soil, hold and 
increase its fertility, furnish grazing for your livestock, or makes 
wonderful green manure, decaying rapidly when plowed under. 
Austrian Winter Peas get' most of their nitrogen from the air. 
Legumes are the farmers’ nitrogen factories and a good crop of 
Austrian Winter Peas takes out of the air as much nitrogen as there 
is in 600 to 800 pounds of nitrate of soda. 
Rebuild Your Land This Year 
The very foundation of profitable crop production is a fertile 
soil. To maintain what fertility our soils have and to increase it, 
we must add manure from livestock or turn under green manure 
crops. Right now is the time to make plans for seeding Austrian 
Peas in cotton, corn and other crop middles. The greatest need on 
our farms is to increase production per acre and lower the unit cost. 
To bring this about, richer soils are essential, and with the type of 
farming prevalent in the South, the growing and turning under of 
winter legumes probably offers the surest way of bringing this 
about. 
Our seed is strictly new-crop. Considering our quality, both in 
purity and germination, Reuter’s prices are lowest. Let Reuter 
take care of your order and you will be satisfied. Lb. 25c; 3 lbs. 
50c. Not prepaid: 10 lbs. 75c; 25 lbs. $1.75. 
Sow during September and 
October, in drills, at the rate of 
30 pounds per acre and cover 2 
inches. May also be sown broad¬ 
cast and disked in. Sowing the 
seed broadcast in cotton middles 
and straddling the rows with a 
two-horse cultivator with the disk 
hillers or plows is a very good 
method of covering. This can 
be done before the cotton is all 
opened by sowing just behind the 
pickers. 
No commercial fertilizers are 
needed for Austrian Winter 
Peas grown on most of our soils, 
but when planting on all thin, 
impoverished upland soils, apply 
superphosphate at the rate of 400 
pounds per acre two weeks after 
the plants are up, or its equiva¬ 
lent in basic slag at the time of 
planting. 
Turn under when the green 
tops cut from a square 10 by 10 
feet will weigh 15 pounds (green 
weight). They usually obtain 
sufficient growth during late 
March or early April to justify 
growing and turning under the 
crop. Valuable planting leaflet 
free! 
Inoculate Seed with 
HUMOGERM 
A guaranteed inoculant. Helps 
to grow bigger crops and increase 
their soil building powers. 
POSTPAID PRICES 
1- bu. size (60 lbs.). $0.35 
2- bu. size (120 lbs.). 50 
5-bu. size (300 lbs.). 1.00 
20-bu. size (1200 lbs.). 3.75 
REUTER SEED CO., Inc., New Orleans 
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Farm and Field Seeds 
