8 ALFALFA 
RUSSELL-HECKLE _ Memphis, tenn. 
Russell-Heckle’s Farm Seeds 
TOP NOTCH QUAIiITT SEEDS MEAN BETTER CROPS 
The most vital need of those who depend for their living on the products of the soil is pure seed, not mixed with noxious 
weed seed, and of high germinating quality. Our Top Notch brand was originated to designate seed stocks filling just that 
need, and their dependability is responsible for their popularity. 
Top Notch brand on the seed you plant means bigger orops and more profit to you. To use it means satisfied customers 
who tell their friends about us, which in turn means more friends for us. It’s an endless chain, and Top Notch Seeds form 
the links. 
Alfalfa 
The crop that pays constant dividends, and at the 
same time builds soils. 
Alfalfa is one of the few crops that cannot be over¬ 
produced. It stands for years, yields several cuttings 
a season and makes a hay about as high in protein as 
wheat bran; it more nearly approaches perfection as 
INOCULATE ALL LEGUMES 
g WITH A 
NITRAGIN 
v The Original Lcqumt Inoculitor ^ 
a forage crop than 
any one other crop. When fed with a grain ration, it supplies the protein 
necessary for a balanced food. For dairy, breeding and fattening cattle, 
hogs and sheep, it is the ideal hay. As a soil builder, it is claimed that it 
adds more than twioe as much ammonia or nitrogen to the soil as red 
clover. Alfalfa does not ask the farmer to buy expensive nitrogen, but gets 
all it needs from the air and stores it in the land to make bigger the crops 
that follow it. 
PREPARATION OF SOU.. Good loam or clay soil with natural or ar¬ 
tificial drainage, with no hardpan underneath, will grow Alfalfa when 
properly prepared, and proper and thorough preparation is a prime neces¬ 
sity for a uniform heavy stand. Where the sell is aoid, and that is the case 
in most instances, liming is necessary. 
CULTURE. The seed may be sown broadcast or in drills and covered 
one inch. If sown broadcast, use 20 to 25 pounds of seed per acre. Sowings 
made in the spring, March and April, or in the fall, September and Ooto- 
ber. are successful. 
FERTILIZING. Use three tons of ground limestone where lime is need¬ 
ed, broadcast to each acre. Applying a coat of well-rotted stable manure 
will be beneficial. If you have tried Alfalfa, and it died out, it was on ac¬ 
count of need of these fertilizers. 
INOCULATION. The cost of inoculation per acre is so small that the 
increased yield will repay it many times. 
Use either Nitragin or Dickinson’s Humus culture which you will find de¬ 
scribed and quoted elsewhere in this catalog. 
R.-H. Co.’s Top Notch Western Alfalfa 
The United States Department of Agriculture says that a 
good grade of Kansas Common type of Alfalfa is standard 
for the South. Where this type of seed is produced, in Kansas 
and Northern Oklahoma, they have severely cold weather in 
winters and extremely hot weather in summer, with dry 
periods and wet spells. Much more unfavorable conditions 
than our territory has to bear. Repeated tests at our Experi¬ 
ment Stations and actual field results show the accuracy of 
the department’s statement. We have sold hundreds of 
thousands of pounds all over the South where it has given 
splendid results. 
Our seed this spring are the cream of the crop in Kansas 
and Northern Oklahoma, bought by our own representatives 
who spent almost two months in the growing fields last fall 
when crops were harvested. 1 lb., 40c, postpaid. Not prepaid, 
1 lb., 35c. 
Quantity Prices on Green Ink List. 
PLANT CROTALARIA 
It is one of the greatest soil builders ever produced. 
R.-H. Co.’s Top Notch Hardy Northwestern 
Alfalfa 
The Northwestern states, like Idaho, Nebraska, produce 
a very hardy type of Alfalfa, due, naturally, to the severely 
cold winters that Alfalfa must weather there each year. 
Our Top Notch Northwestern Seed represents our choioe of 
the stocks produced there, based on purity and growth. 
Such seed costs more than seed produced farther south, but 
the man who buys Top Notch Northwestern Alfalfa will 
get full value for every dollar spent. 1 lb., 45c; postpaid. 
Not prepaid, 1 lb., 40c. 
Quantity Prices on Green Ink List. 
WHY INOCULATE 
Inoculation of your seed before planting will give you a 
much stronger and quicker growth, producing a greater ton¬ 
nage of hay. The cost of inoculation per acre is so small that 
the increased yield will repay it many times. 
The big benefit comes in the value added to your land. The 
roots of the Alfalfa are the home of the inoculated bacteria, 
that draw the fertility-building nitrogen from the air and 
store it in swellings on the roots called nodules. These nodulee 
not only feed nitrogen to the plant, but rot away in the ground 
to supply valuable nitrogen to all future crops of all kinds. 
PECK, BUSHEL, AND HUNDRED POUND PRICES QUOTED ON GREEN INK DIST. 
