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GREEN MANURE IS YOUR BEST FERTILIZER 
By So Enriching Your Land With Its Practice You Strikingly Introduce 
To Yourself The Value of Catch Crops As Emergency Forage 
Treatment — Sow a piece of your poorest land this spring as soon as the ground can 
be worked to one of the following — Peas and Oats — Rye and Vetches — Barley. Plow 
this under as green manure just before a hoed crop such as — Corn — Beans — Potatoes, 
etc., are ready to plant. Or you may allow them to develop until June or July when 
they can be cut for green feed or hay (especially in the event of drought or shortage). 
Assuming, for example, that the latter situation prevails another green Catch Crop 
can be sown on this same land after fitting it. We would recommend any one of the 
following seeds — Buckwheat — Millet — Sudan Grass — Soy Beans. In early September 
or October plow this crop under for land enrichment. When this is done soil should 
again be thoroughly fitted (plowed and cross-harrowed) and a fall or Cover Crop sown. 
We recommend our King’s Brand Rosen Rye for this purpose but Winter Wheat or Vetches 
can also be used. The following spring, around the middle of May, again plow under this 
crop and thoroughly harrow the land fine and even for the planting of a Main or Money 
Crop or seed for permanent meadow or hay land. In the latter event, Emerson’s Per¬ 
manent Meadow or Dairy Hay Farm Mixtures are especially valuable because of their 
varied legume seeds in expert combination with fine hay producing grasses. 
A farmer who so thoroughly works 
his land by this intensive green manur¬ 
ing method seldom buys fertilizer. 
When and where, however, chemical 
plant foods are added, their value is 
double in crop outcome to the user 
because green manures are already the 
real basis of his soil fertility. 
Through the plowing under of 
Catch and Cover Crops, the main 
divisions of a general farm — pasture 
— meadow or hay land — Money Crop 
acreage — can be alternately rejuve¬ 
nated to a point where ultimately one 
acre is doing the work it would ordi¬ 
narily take three to accomplish. Green 
Manuring with these Catch or emer¬ 
gency forage crops pares down the labor 
costs of seeding, cultivating and harvesting because of the greatly enlarged yields resulting from 
them. The consequent margin of profit assures a higher standard of living and planning not other¬ 
wise obtainable from the soil. 
Devote at least one or several acres this year to such cultivation as we have outlined 
above and prove that to ignore its practice is costing you hundreds of dollars each year 
in your general farming operations. 
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