ABEL’S SEED HOUSE, READING, PA 
Field Seeds 
QUAKER BRAND FIELD SEEDS 
All our seeds have been recleaned and graded. If 
you have not sowed Abel’s Quaker Brand Field 
Seeds before, don’t put off until next season. Sow 
this season and see the difference in Quaker Brand. 
We are unable to quote prices as Field Seeds are 
controlled by the market and subject to change with¬ 
out notice. Write us for samples and prices. 
Grass Seed 
ORCHARD GRASS ( Dactylis glomerata). One of the most valuable 
of the pasture grasses. Makes a good hay. Sow 3 bus. to the acre. 
ENGLISH RYE GRASS ( Lolium perenne). Sow 60 lbs. to the acre. 
MEADOW FESCUE ( Festuca pratensis). English Blue Grass, or 
Sweet Grass. Sow 40 lbs. to the acre. 
SHEEP’S FESCUE {Festuca ovina). Valuable for lawns and sheep- 
pastures. Sow 40 lbs. to the acre. 
RED, or CREEPING FESCUE {Festuca rubra). For sandy soils and 
putting greens. Sow 30 lbs. to the acre. 
CREEPING BENT GRASS {Agrostis stolonifera). Excellent for 
lawns; makes a low velvety growth. Sow 60 lbs. to the acre. Very 
scarce; write for price stating quantity wanted. 
TIMOTHY {Phleum pratense) . Sow V 2 bus. to the acre alone, or 8 to 
10 qts. if used with other grass seeds. 45 lbs. to bus. 
Soja Beans 
Wilson. An excellent variety for the middle and eastern states. 
Grows 36 to 44 inches high, branches well, holds leaves, and the 
seeds do not shatter from pods after cutting. In Delaware it matured 
in 115 days, and the plants held the seed well. Write for price. 
Mammoth Yellow. Valuable as a forage crop and for silo purposes. 
It matures late and is very popular for forage purposes, also pro¬ 
ductive. Most valuable for growing in the southern states. Write 
for price. 
Millet, German or Golden 
Panicum germanicum 
A valuable annual hay and fodder crop. Sow 1 bushel to the acre. 
50 lbs. to bushel. Write for pri_ce. 
Vetches 
Spring Vetches or Tares {Vicia sativa). Highly valuable for soiling 
or for green manuring. Use 2 to 3 bushels to acre, broadcast, or 1 
to 2 bushels in drills. 
Winter Vetches or Tares {Vicia villosa) . Also called Sand Vetch or 
Hairy Vetch. Recommended for fall sowing. Sow 1 bushel of 
seed per acre, with 1 bushel of rye. 
Rape, Dwarf Essex 
A valuable forage plant which can be sown in this latitude in April 
for early crop, or as late as September for fall crop. Sow broadcast 
at the rate of 10 lbs. to the acre, or 5 lbs. in drills. 
Peas for Fodder and Green Manuring 
Canadian Field Peas. Valuable for northern climates for cattle¬ 
feeding and for green soiling, and is also used in large quantities 
for feeding pigeons. Sow 1 M> bus. per acre with *4 bus. of oats. 
Write for price. 
New Era Cowpeas. Upright-growing variety which matures quickly 
and produces a large crop of Peas. The vines are small, but cure 
nicely and make a good forage. Write for price. 
Whip-poor-will Cowpeas. An early variety. Grows upright, vigorous, 
and the crop is easy to harvest. We sell more of this variety 
than any other, and consider it the best for general purposes. 
Write for price. 
Clay Cowpeas. A medium-late variety of running habit and strong 
growth. Write for price. 
Reid’s Thoroughbred Yellow Dent Field Corn 
Closer Seed 
Red Clover, Medium {Trifolium pratense) . Sow spring or fall, 10 to 
15 lbs. per acre. Write for price. 
Mammoth Red Clover {Trifolium pratense perenne). For plowing 
under. 10 to 15 lbs. per acre. Write for price. 
Alsike or Swedish Clover {Trifolium hybridum). Sow 8 lbs. to the 
acre when used alone. Write for price. 
Sweet Clover, Bokhara {Meldotus alba). Grown for bee food and as 
fertilizer. Sow 20 lbs. to the acre. 
Crimson, or Scarlet Clover. Write for price. 
Alfalfa, or Lucerne ( Medicago sativa). Produces three to four heavy 
crops of nutritious hay in a season. Write for special leaflet and 
price per bushel. 
Broom Corn, Improved Evergreen 
This variety is extensively grown on account of the color and 
quality of its brush, which is long, fine, straight, and always green. 
Grows 7 feet high. Sow 10 lbs. to the acre in good, deep, dry soil. 
Sunflower, Mammoth Russian 
May be grown to advantage on waste ground. An excellent and 
cheap food for fowls. All farmers should plant this, if only for feeding 
chickens. It is enormously productive, as the heads sometimes 
measure 18 inches in diameter. Plant 5 lbs. per acre. 
Sudan Grass 
A new forage plant which is valuable in the Middle West and may 
also be grown in the East. It is an annual related to the sorghums, 
and is valuable both for hay and silo. Grows from 6 to 10 feet high, 
makes small leafy stems, and is greatly relished by stock. Sow seed 
when ground has become warm, using 4 to 6 lbs. per acre, in drills 
18 to 24 inches apart, and cultivate like corn. 
If any seed grain can truly be called pedigreed, the Reid’s Yellow 
Dent Field Corn is certainly entitled to be known as such, as its 
history dates many years back. 
Improved Learning Corn. Its extreme earliness and fine quality 
have made it very popular with the farmers, and especially with 
those in the localities where the seasons are short. It produces 
from 65 to 90 bushels to the acre in accordance with the quality of 
the soil. The ears and grains are of medium size. 
Iowa Gold Mine Corn. A splendid early Yellow Dent variety. Ears 
are not excessively large, but of a good size and symmetrical. 
Color bright golden yellow, shining like a new coin direct from the 
mint. Grain is very dry; cob small and dries out nearly as soon as 
it ripens. 
Reid’s Yellow Dent 
Abel’s Zipper 90-Day Yellow Corn. This splendid yellow Corn is 
one of the best and most reliable cropping Corns in cultivation. 
The grain is broad, golden yellow, of uniform size; thin red cob; 
ears usually average 8 to 10 inches long. Most attractive and 
greatest yielding yellow Corn. 
Hickory King White Corn. The largest-grained and smallest-cobbed 
pure white Dent Corn in cultivation. 
Eureka Ensilage Corn. A very large-growing leafy stalk sort, and 
one of the best silo Corns. 
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