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JOHNSON & STOKES, PHILADELPHIA 
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PEAS For Fodder and Plowing Under 
“Pea* could be made to bring more nitrogen to 
the kojIh of tin* country every year than is now pur¬ 
chased annually by the farmers at a cost of millions 
of dollars.”— (J. £>. Department of Agriculture. 
VELVET BEAN (The Great Nitrogen Gatherer) 
A Worthy Rival of the Cow Pea 
This new and important forage plant from India is cre¬ 
ating a great sensation throughout the Middle and Southern 
States, where it is supplanting the cow pea for cattle food 
and as a soil renovator. Since our introduction of it, it has 
been grown in many of the far Northern States with great 
success and is worthy of a trial everywhere. Its nitrogen¬ 
gathering properties are said to surpass those of the cow 
pea. It is the rankest grower of any of the legumes; 
two or three seeds planted four feet apart in rows five feet 
apart will literally cover the ground two to three feet thick 
with a mass of foliage and vines twenty to twenty-five feet 
long, no matter how poor the soil. It leaves a mulch on the 
ground that is very beneficial to the soil. 
Dr. Stubbs, Director of the Southern State Experiment 
Station, says: “ I believe that it can be cut advantageously 
almost any time from June to October, and cured in less time 
than cow pea hay. It makes an excellent hay and stock eat 
it well. A heavy nitrogen-gatherer, and the tubercles on its 
roots are the largest of any plant I have observed, corn-like 
clusters having been collected that make a ma«s, from one 
single growth, almost as large sis a common hen’s egg. The 
vines of this plant are now about thirty feet in length, from 
seeds planted in May.” The cultivation isthesame usforcow 
peas. Prices, pkt., iOc.: lb., 25c.; 3 lbs. for 00c.. by mail, post¬ 
paid; by freight, qt., 20c.; peck, 75c.; bush, of 60 lbs., $2.75. 
SOJA BEAN—Late Variety 
The demand for the SOJA OR JAPANESE SOY 
BEANS has grown remarkably of late years. Their great 
value is as a forage crop, for fertilizing the soil and for 
pasturing or feeding the green fodder much in the same way 
as the cow pea. This late variety is very valuable south of the 
Potomac and Ohio Rivers. Sow broadcast one-half bushel to 
the acre, or it may be planted in drills three_ feet apart and 
one foot between plants. Pkt., 10c.: lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., 
postpaid; by freight or express, qt., 20c.; peck, G0c.; bush., 
S2.00; 5 bush, and over, $1.75 per bush. 
FIELD or SOUTHKRN BLACK OK RAM’S HORN-COW I'KAH IN TJIK 
NORTH. SOWN JUNK 16tll, FLOWED UNDER AUGUST 31st. 
COW PEAS (The Great Soil Improver) 
Make Poor Band Rich, Good Band More Productive, 
and Enrich the Soli 
Green crops plowed under are one of the best and cheap¬ 
est ways of improving the soil. For this purpose the cow 
pea is most popular, especially for medium or light soil. 
They should bo sown in May or June, at the rate of 
bushels to the acre, and plowed under as soon as they have 
attained their full growth. This crop is very largely grown 
wherever known, and with the results attained from it, the 
wonder is that it is not grown even more extensively. There 
is no surer or cheaper means of improving poor soil than by 
sowing cow peas. In its capacity as a nitrogen gatherer its 
growth enables the farmer to dispense with the use of nitro¬ 
gen or ntnmonlntcd fertilizers. Nitrogen or ammonia in 
•commercial fertilizers is valued at 15 cents per pound. The 
cow pea, with possibly the exception of the Now Velvet 
described alongside, has the greatest power of extract¬ 
ing tills costly nitrogen or ammonia from the atmosphere. 
COW PEAS FOR HAY 
If planted early, say by middle of May, in the central 
corn licit section, a crop can lie cut and cured for hay the 
samo as clover, then the stubble in a short time will put out 
.a new growtli to lie turned under in the fall as a fertilizer. 
The best varieties for all purposes are tho following: 
PRICES variable with tho market. 
SOUTH JOHN BRACK EYE COW PEA . . . 
EXTRA EARLY BLACK EYE COW PEA . . 
BLACK, or RAM’S HORN COW PEA. 
'WHIP-POOR-WILL and CLAY, EACH. . . . 
MIXEO COW PEAS . 
PRICES BY LETTER ON LARGER LOTS. 
PER BUSH. 
. . ##2.2/5 
. . 2.7 n 
. . 2.25 
. . 2.25 
2.00 
CANADA FIELD PEAS and Oats for Fodder 
For Dairy Cows and Hogs, Equal to Corn, 
and Six Weeks Earlier. 
Tlioso make a fodder and hay which double the pro¬ 
duction of milk. The Canada Field Pen, which we sell 
at $1.65 per bushel, is the best for this purpose. They 
should he sown in March or early April, two bushels of 
noitM and two bushels of oats to the aero. The pens Should 
be sown llrstand plowed under about four inches deep; the 
oats then sown and harrowed in. They will he ready for 
cutting about tho latter end of June, when tho oats are in 
milk and the pods formed on the pens. Farmers who have 
noversown this crop will ho surprised at its large yield. It 
Is a nutritious food and relished by all kinds of stock. 
This cron also makes an excellent soil improver when turned 
under like cow peas ns described above. Since wo first called 
attention to tho great value of Canada Field Pens for this 
purpose, some yours ago, tho demand bus become so great 
•that wo are now having thorn grown by the carload in 
'Canada and can nl ways quote LOW PRICES BY LETTER 
•when wanted in lots of 10 bushels and upwards. 
SOJA BEAN—New Early Variety 
The ordinary or late soja bean, described above, while 
valuable south of the Potomac and Ohio Rivers, is too late to 
be of value in the far Northern States. This variety ripens 
in all the Northern States, where it has been grown over four 
feet in height-, and yielded over ten tons per acre. It is a 
valuable fodder either for feeding green or for the silo. 
Being a rich nitrogenous feed, it is unsurpassed as a flesh- 
former, and, like the clovers, is a soil-improver. All who 
are interested in this class of plants should give our New 
Early Soja or Soy Bean a trial. Choice seed grown for us in 
Michigan. Lb., 25c.; 3 lbs., 60c., bv mail, postage paid; by 
express or freight, qt., 25c.; peck, $1.00; bush, of 60 lbs., $3.50. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE—EIGHT WEEKS FROM SOWING. 
TRUE DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
Dwarf E»»ex Rape, of tho Truo Biennial Variety, 
is now largely grown in this eonntrv on account of its rapid 
growtli, being ready to feed in eight to ten weeks from .sow¬ 
ing, and producing twenty-five to thirty Ions of green forage 
to tho acre, it grows to a height of three feet and covers the 
surface so densely ns to smother out all weeds. It enn he 
sown all through the season, being perfectly linrdy, with¬ 
stands drought, and will produce a crop in any soil ‘by sow¬ 
ing broadcast at the rate of five to ten pounds to tile acre. 
While unequaled as a pasture for sheep, as a food for nil 
cattle, calves or pigs, it is without a rival, its fattening 
properties being twice ns great ns clover, making a much 
relished and most succulent food from May to December. 
I.b., -5c.; 3 lbs., G0c., by mail, postpaid; by expreas or 
freight, lb., 15c.; 10 lbs., Si.00; 25 lbs., S2.00; bush, of 50 lbs. 
for $3.50; l< 0 lbs. and over at 6c. per lb. Special prices by 
letter for larger lots. 
