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STANDARD SEED COMPANY 
SATISFACTORY FOR FOUR YEARS 
Dear Sirs: I have been buying Clover and Grass and Alfalfa seed from 
you for the past four years. They have given satisfaction in every way. 
I get four cuttings of Alfalfa a season and the yield is fine. I cut 15 tons 
of Alfalfa hay from 13 acres the first cutting last spring. The Timothy 
and Clover was as fine as I ever saw. I always have a good word for your 
seed. I saved 25% to 40% on the price of seed by ordering from you.— 
W. B. Holt, Crocker, Mo. 
RAPE 
Rape can be put to quite a num¬ 
ber of uses. It may be sown alone 
as a spring crop to provide early 
pasture. It may be sown with 
spring grain to provide fall pasture 
after the grain is cut. As it is a 
common practice to drag or weed 
our grain crops after they are up, 
the sowing of rape at this time can 
be easily done. Rape may also be 
sown just before the last cultiva¬ 
tion of corn to provide fall feed 
and increases the yield of feed per 
acre, or Rape may be sown with 
fall rye to provide fall pasture. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
This plant, which is related to the 
rutabaga family is one of the very 
best forage plants for pasturing 
cattle, hogs, or sheep, as well as 
for silo filling. Thrives best in low, 
moist soil, such as slough, lake bed 
or a coulee bottom. In such places 
it will produce a tremendous quan¬ 
tity of feed, growing out as fast 
as it is eaten off. 
BUCKWHEAT 
An excellent catch-crop, develops 
very rapidly. Useful either for hay 
or if allowed to mature gives an ex¬ 
cellent grain crop which is much in 
demand for both poultry feeding 
and household use. 
The best variety for the North¬ 
west. Produces its seed earlier, re¬ 
sists drought and is very depend¬ 
able. 
While not quite so early as Jap¬ 
anese, is preferred by millers as it 
makes a whiter, better and more 
nutritious flour. A nice variety to 
sow where bees are kept. 
The Alfalfa seed bought of you is 
growing fine and have a nice stand. 
—Mr. W. E. Hiatt, Route 3, Union- 
ville, Iowa. 
