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Improved Seed Selection Makes Growers More Money - 
The Kind With Barbless 
Beards 
the best of them. The straw is far superior BSj&ffr 
to the old kinds because there are no barbs on Sr 
the beards. 
The beards act as a protector to the grain under unfavorable conditions. 
They are as smooth as the straw itself and thus radically different from the 
old kinds which have the worst barbs imaginable. 
Increasing Barley Acreage 
Thousands of farmers are again turning to Barley growing since this 
variety has. come on the market. Barley is the heaviest producing small 
gram crop in the northern part of the United States. It yields more pounds 
of gram per acre and it is valuable feed. 
. ® U F Velvet Barley is being growh successfully over a large territory and 
is being used in sections where barley has not been generally grown. You’ll 
be enthusiastic about it too after growing it. See page 32 for Sale Prices. 
^ An old variety 1 
. producers. An ° tegtg with 
most reliable 11 excelled m 
same type i ctraw is very 
ality of grain. SWi m 
n. a marked larger than 
Kernels a. little bughel> in 
ghed beavi ^ protein test. 
h^nha^Ie the P importance 
it yields more than any other cereal. ^ 
Pound for pound it is equal to corn in 
teedmg^ value. It matures early, escaping 
tot weather. It is the best nurse crop for 
grain. Barley does not lodge readily 
and withstands.unfavorable conditions, espe¬ 
cially well. Gives you greater returns per i 
^ acre. Taken all in all it is a most sat- A 
^^^sfactory small grain crop an4 
money maker. 
IN A CLASS BY ITSELF 
It Is Beardless and 
Hulless 
Ther 0 is no other variety quite 
like it. Looks more like wheat than 
like ordinary barley. Grain is about 
the size of wheat. Color white. It 
is sold on same bushel weight basis 
as barley (48 lbs.), but actually 
weighs out like wheat (60 lbs.), it 
o beards and is at times 
called Bald Barley. 
Straw is quite leafy. Makes 
heavy crop of fine hay if cut while 
W 11 4 the dough stage. Yields 
IJP, t0 i?® t0 bushels per acre. 
c iui t e so good for nurse crop as 
other barleys but in great demand 
. A six r— 
I introduced f. 
reliable kind 
grown in the 
sidered one oj 
and a , 
strain of Manshu 
berry thar 
yield from 
Per acre, 
bright, cl 
of seed is 
yields, i 
money wj 
such seed, 
■ lL er ^i extensively 
•ited States. Con- 
' be . st Ceding bar- 
good yielder. Our 
)id *? aS a Plumper 
10 to i s t ? Pe * and 
t0 } 5 bushels more 
u f seed stock is nlum£ 
i heavy seed. This k-Jrfi 
necessary for the lar ' st 
ely a wherv" d ‘ ng * ° » ' I 
y When you pureimo 
offer are ^ ver y best for 
tk u vm, a ? d Purposes, it is important 
y g00d - , c ] ean seed free from disease. 
1 ou get larger yields and a higher grade of 
nf r maV. ^hsters require clean undamaged grain 
of high quahty. It has to be pure. * eiain 
We have discontinued handling the regular 
mfh m e ,?r? arley u W ? found ^ difficult to obtain 
seed and 11 was not as satisfactory 
listed t%s m mge S . e3 aS the VarfetieS We have 
The Velvet or Barbless Types are superior for 
malting and cereal purposes. The Oderbrucker 
and Manshury are old well known varieties used 
a good many years for malting and feeding. 
, Sheldon, Ill. 
Vish to say that the hundred 
ca’s Best Mixture I got of yeti 
one of the finest stands of grass, 
t wants to build up his soil 
use it. 
(Signed) Edw. E. Miller. 
Bridgeport, Ind. 
Gentlemen: I have sown your seed for a few 
years and have splendid results. I am always 
glad to recommend your company as I have always 
found your seed as represented. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) John F. Mills. 
WHITE 
HULLESS 
OF OUR VARIETIES 
