SELECTED FARM SEEDS 
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FODDER AND SOILING PLANTS 
EARLY AMBER SUGAR CANE 
The high value of Northern grown sugar cano for fodder 
and ensilage is becoming rapidly known. It may bo made 
to furnish tho principal food for cattle, horses and mules 
from August until tho 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 ono of tho most eco¬ 
nomical. 
Tho Early Amber is the best for fodder as well as for 
sugar, as it matures quickly, and has been cultivated as far 
North as St. Paul, Minn. The seed is valuable also as food 
for horses and cattle, and is greedily eaten by poultry, in¬ 
creasing the egg-production. 
By mail, postpaid, lb., 25c.; 8 lbs., GOe.; by express or 
freight, qt., 20c.; peck, 70c.; bush, of 56 lbs., 62.25; 5 bush, or 
over, 82.00 per bush. 
Photograph of a field of sand or winter vktoh (Picio 
Villosa) at our floracroft trial gardens. Photograph 
taken six weeks after sowing seed. Notice how thick it is 
on the ground, and that it is nenrly knee high. It was 
plowed under eight weeks after sowing. 
SAND OR WINTER VETCH 
(Vieia Villosa) 
Too much cannot bo said regarding the value of this 
Vetch for forage and fertilizing purposes. It succeeds and 
produces good crops on poor, sandy soils ns well as on good 
lands, growing to a height of 4 to 5 feet. It is perfectly hardy 
throughout the United States, remaining green all winter. 
If sown in the spring it can bo sown alone or mixed with 
oats, spring rye or barley. If sown during August or Sep¬ 
tember, winter rvo serves as a good support. Tho root 
growth is very extensive from tho beginning, and makes 
quantities of nitrogen tubercles, thus giving it very valuable 
fertilizing properties. For plowing under os a soiling crop, 
we believe it is superior to Crimson Clover or Cow Pens. As 
a forage plant it will yield 1% to 4 tons per acre. It is excel¬ 
lent for dairy stock and poultry pasturage, being exceedingly 
nutritious, eaten with relish and may bo fed safoly to all 
kinds of stock. Sow 50 to GO pounds per acre with % bushel 
rye, oats or barley. 
Price, per lb., 35c.; 3 lbs., 81.00, by mail, postpaid; by 
freight or express, lb., 
25c.; 10 lbs., 81.75; 100 
11)8. and over, 10c. per 
lb. 
TE0SINTE 
(lieaua Luxuriant) 
teosinte, showing its heavy, 
leafy growth. 
This gigantic 
Grammea will furnish 
n continuous daily sup¬ 
ply of most nutritious 
green food for horses 
and all kinds of cattle 
all through the sum¬ 
mer. It also makes 
splendid dry fodder, 
yielding enormously, 
and being more nutri¬ 
tious a n d better rel¬ 
ished by all stock than 
corn fodder. In ap¬ 
pearance it somewhat 
resembles Indian corn, 
but the leaves are much 
larger and broader, 
and the stalks contain 
sweeter sap. It stools 
out enormously a fter 
beingcut. Sow in May 
or June, at the rule of 
three pounds per acre, 
in drills 4 feet apart. 
Pkt., 5c.; oz., 10<*.; 
Y lb., 25c; lb., 80c. f 
postpaid ; b y express 
or freight, lb., 7t«c.; 5 
lbs. and over at 6V. 
per lb. 
AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH 
Valuable for arid and alkali soils. It remains green all 
winter, and will yield 20 to 30 tons to tho aero. Ono pound 
of seed will plant, an aero. Sow broadcast, in soil well pul¬ 
verized, after all danger of frost is past. Mix tho seed with 
ton timog its weight of loam, sand, ashes or plaster; cover 
lightly, not exceeding ]A of an inch. Or it may bo sown in a 
hot bed, cold frame or noxes; transplant when two inches 
high. Pkt., 10c.; ox., 16c.; V\ lb., 85o.; ll>., 81.20, postpaid. 
SPRING VETCHES, or TARES 
A. species of very ftnmll pen, (frown oxtonnlvely ill Knu- 
laud and Cnnndn for Mock feodlnif. Tile Hood Ih uIho largely 
used for pigeon feed. Culture natno an for Hold ponH. Lit., 
25c., postpaid ; qt., 20c.; peek, $1.00; bush., $3.00, by frel(fbt. 
KAFFIR CORN 
The Great Forage Plant 
Will ninko a fine crop of foraito 
If cut in early bloom, and tins 
Hliootn that then follow will 
maturo a full crop of Heed and 
foruifc. noth (frain and fodder 
are excellent, the whole stalk 
tender to the fall maturity of Heed. 
There Is no failure about It, ns 
it possesses the quality that all 
tho tribe possess, of wnllinif for 
rain without any loss of capacity 
to yield. The (frain is extremely 
valuable for feedlnif to poultry 
and will make a Hour that Is like 
wheat flour. Cultivated the Hamo 
as our common Indian corn, re- 
qulrinif four to five pounds of seed 
per acre. By mall, pkt., 10c.; 111., 
25c.; 3 lbfl., 00c.; by freight or ex¬ 
press, fit., 16c.; peck, GOc.; bush., 
GO Ills , 81.75. 
RED AND WHITE 
MILL0 MAIZE 
These lire popular vurictieg of 
Horghum, somewhat similar to the 
above, valuable for both forage 
and grain. Four pound* will 
plant an acre. Cultivation i**inne 
as for Kaffir Corn. Pkt., 10c ; lb., 
25c.: 3 lbs., G0c. f postpaid; by 
freight, qt., 15c.; peck, G5c ; bush., 
52.00. KAKKIIl CORN. 
