SELECTED FARM SEEDS 
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Dwarf Essex Rape 
TRUE BIENNIAL VARIETY 
Dwarf Essex Raj>e is considered indispensable by the 
slieep and cattle farmers of Great Britain, and is last coming 
into use in this country on account of its rapid growth, 
being ready to feed in ten weeks from sowing, and producing 
twenty-live to thirty tons of green forage to the acre. It 
grows to a height of three feet, and covers the surface so 
densely as to smother out all weeds and to kill quack and 
other objectionable grasses. It can be sown all tluough the 
season, being perfectly hardy, withstands drought, and will 
produce a crop in any soil by sowing broadcast at the rate of 
live pounds to the acre, or in drills or rows two feet apart at 
the rate of three pounds per acre. While unequalled as a 
pasture for sheep, ns a fattening food for all kinds of live 
stock it is without a rival in point of cheapness or effective¬ 
ness. Pkt., 10c.; lb., 30c.; 3 lbs., 75c.; postpaid; lb., 20e.: 10 
lbs., $1.50; 25 lbs. and over, 10c. per lb., by express or freight. 
Early Amber Sugar Cane 
The high value of Northern grown sugar cane for fodder 
and ensilage is becoming rapidly known. It may be made 
to furnish the principal food for cattle, horses and mules 
from August until the following spring. When fed down 
young as a pasture it grows rapidly again. It also with¬ 
stands severe drought with the best of this class of plants. As 
■a fodder and for winter feed it is one of the most economical. 
The Early Amber is also the best variety for sugar, as it 
matures quickly, and has been cultivated as fur north as 
St. Paul, Minn. The seed is valuable also ns food for horses 
and cattle, and is greedily eaten by poultry, increasing the 
egg production. By mail, postpaid, lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c.; by 
express or freight, qt., 20c.; peck, 75c.; bush, of 56 lbs., $2.25*; 
10 bush, or over, $2.00 per bush. 
Sand, or Winter Vetch (vidavniosa) 
Vida Villosa succeeds and produces good crops on poor 
sandy soils as well as on good land ; grows to a height of four 
to five feet. It is perfectly hardy throughout the United 
States,remaininggreenall winter,and should he sown hi the 
spring, mixed with outs, spring rye or barley; or during 
August and September, with winter rye, which serves as a 
support for the plants. It is the earliest crop for cutting, 
being hardier and nearly a month earlier than Scarlet Clover, 
and a full crop can be taken ofi’ the land in time for planting 
spring crops. Every dairyman and stock-breeder in the 
United States should have a field of it, and if you try it once 
you will never ho a season without it. It is exceedingly nu¬ 
tritious, eaten with relish, and may be fed with safety to all 
kinds ofstock. 
Sow one bushel per acre with one-lmlf bushel of rye, oats 
or barley. Ll»., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., postpaid; lb., 15c.; 10 lbs., 
$1.00; bush. (60 lbs.), $1.00, by freight or express. 
Soja Bean—(German Coffee Berry) 
In the past few years the Soja Bean, which we have cata¬ 
logued for >it least twelve years as valuable for forage, has 
been advertised in a sensational way by certain seedsmen 
as German Coflee Berry. 
The dry beans, roasted and ground, closely resemble and 
taste very much like coffee. Its great value, however, is as a 
forage crop and for fertilizing the soil and for pasturing, or 
feeding the green fodder, of which it yields eight to ten tons 
per acre. Sow broadcast one-lmlf bushel to the aero, or it 
may he plnnted in drills three feetnpnrtand one foot between 
plants. Pkt., 10c.; lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c, postpaid; qt., 20c.; 
peck, 75c.; bush., $2.50, by freight or express. 
COW Peas —(The Great Soil Improver) 
Make Poor Land Rich. Make Good Land More Pro- 
ductlve. EnricliJng the Soil Even When 
the Crop is Cut Off. 
Green crops plowed under are one of the best and cheap¬ 
est ways of improving the soil. For this purpose the Cow 
Pea is superior, especially for medium or light soil. They 
should he sown in the month of May, at the rate of 1 Yi bushels 
to the acre, and plowed under as soon as they have attained 
their full growth. While this crop is very largely grown 
wherever known, with the results attained from it the won¬ 
der is that it is not grown ten times as much as at present. 
There is no surer or cheaper means of improving poor soil 
than by sowing Cow Peas. In its cajiacity as a nitrogen 
gatherer its growth largely enables the farmer to dispense 
with the use of nitrogen or ammoniated fertilizers. Nitrogen 
or ammonia in commercial fertilizers is valued at fifteen 
cents per pound. The Cow Pen, to n greater extent than any 
other leguminous crop, with possibly the exception of the 
New Velvet Bean, has the power to extract this costly nitro¬ 
gen or ammonia from the atmosphere. The l»cst varieties 
are the Soutliern Black Eye and Black Cow Pea, cither 
of which wc can furnish at $1.50 per bushel, F. O. B. here, 
sacks included. Write for special prices on large lots. 
Pods of Velvet Bean showing its wonderful productiveness. 
Velvet Beall —(The Great Nitrogen Gatherer) 
A worthy rival of the Cow Pen 
I This new and important forage plant is creating a great 
sensation tlirougliouttlioSouthern States,where it isHtipplaiit- 
ing the Cow Pea for cattle food and as a soil renovator. Its 
nitrogen-gathering properties surpass those of the cow pen. 
It is the rankest grower of any of the legumes; two or three 
seeds planted four feet apart in rows five feet apart will liter¬ 
ally cover the ground two to three feet thick with a mass of 
1 foliage and vines 20 to 25 feet long, no matter how poor t he 
j soil. It leaves a mulch on the ground that is very beneficial 
totlicsoil. As to prolificacy, we never have seen the like; 
I such huge clusters of beaus, from 15 to 25 pods, and often 
, more, in a single cluster, giving over 1000 beaus on a vino, 
i The Florida Experimental Station reports 10,680 pounds of 
' green forage per acre. 
Dr. Stubbs, Director of the State Experiment Station, 
says: “i believe that it eau be cut advantageously almost 
any time from June to October, ami cured in less time than 
cow-pea hay, because the stems are smaller. It seems to 
make an excellent hay, and stock eat it well. It is u 
heavy nitrogen gatherer, and the tubercles on its roots 
are the largest of any plant i have oliservcd; coral-like 
clusters of tubercles have been collected, that make a 
mass, from one single growth, almost ns large as a common 
lien’s egg. The vines of this plant are now about 30 feet in 
length, from seeds planted in May.” The cultivation is the 
h.i me as for Cow Peas, and it behooves <we ry farmer interested 
in this class of plants to give the Velvet Bean a trial. 
Prices, pkt, 10c.: lb., 25c., by mail, postpaid; lb., 15c.; 10 lbs., 
. $!.00; bush., €4.50, by freight or express. 
