JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 
(Corporation). 
20 
BRKCK’S SEEKS PRODUCE PRIZE CROPS. 
A Few Forage Plants Worthy of Trial. 
(SPECIAL OFFER NO. 3 ONLY APPLIES TO THESE.) 
CRIMSON, GERMAN OR SCARLET CLOVER. 
Owing to articles in the agricultural papers a large inquiry was made last year for this clover. Tt was first 
introduced from Italy into our Southern States, and has gradually found its way north. It is recommended as 
being a valuable green manure crop and for an April green-food crop for cattle, or it can be made into hay during 
May. Sow broadcast during July or August at the rate of fifteen to twenty pounds per acre ; it may be sown among 
corn at the last hoeing, and it will make a good “ catch ” on stubble land by merely harrowing the soil with a heavy 
spading or disk harrow. Per lb., 12 cts.; 100 lbs., $10.00. 
GRAY WINTER OR TURF OATS. 
The great value of these oats is just beginning to be appreciated, because they can be sown like wheat in Fall; 
they are hardy and will stand as much cold as that crop, after they have got well started. They should be sown 
broadcast at the rate of \ l / 2 bushels per acre, in August or September in New England, and further South up to the 
middle of October. 1 'hey make a good growth before winter sets in, and furnish excellent grazing during late Fall 
and early Spring, without injury to the grain crop afterwards. Their turfing and stooling qualities are remarkable, 
and even when thinly sown, they will, under anything like favorable conditions soon spread and cover the ground 
with a thick, heavy growth. The yield of grain on good soil is frequently from 50 to 70 bushels per acre; the grain 
is a dark gray color, with distinct strip, and often weighs from 35 to 40 pounds per measured bushel. These oats 
may also be used for Spring seeding, and if put in early in April will produce a much larger crop than the ordinary 
oats. Per pk., 50 cts. ; bush., $1.50. 
WONDERFUL PEA. 
The great demand we had for this pea last season was quite 
surprising, and the supply of seed was somewhat limited. 
Following is description : 
“ Ic may be that this new variety will not find much favor 
with either market or private growers who wish to harvest a 
crop of well-filled pods only, but if it in a reasonable degree 
answers the originator’s description, we think farmers who 
desire to increase the flow of milk o r fatten stock economically, will find a valuable addition to 
their list of fodder and ensilage crops as well as a plant that will improve the soil in which it is 
grown by collecting and storing nitrogen in its roots, which gradually decay and furnish plant 
food for succeeding crops. The originator says the plants make a growth of from tw-enty to 
forty feet and are literally covered with large pods, each containing about twenty peas of excel¬ 
lent quality both in the green state and dried.” Per pkt., 10 cts.; qt., 20 cts.; pk., $1.00. 
F. A . Wolfe was awarded with the product of Ji reek's seeds at the great Oregon State 
Fair : — 
tion Tattle Beets 
Mangel Wurzel 
Sugar Beet 
Cabbages 
Largest Cabbages 
Farsnips 
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First Frize for collection Kale (Borecole) 
“ Kohl Rabi 
“ Onions 
“ Rut a Bagas 
“ Turnips 
“ Vegetables 
best ten varieties of Vegetables for family garden 
“ “ “ “ “ “ market garden 
FLAT FORAGE PEA (Lathyrus Sylvestris Wagnerii). 
This is rich food for cattle, hogs and sheep. It will grow on land too poor to pay the cost of cultivation, and 
after becoming firmly established will yield for years large crops of fodder suitable for pasture or hay. The seed 
requires several weeks to germinate, and growth is slow the first season. The land should be ploughed deeply and 
thoroughly worked. Plant the seeds very thinly in drills one foot apart. Pkt., 10 cts.; oz., 20 cts.; lb., $ 2 . 00 / 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE. 
This is very valuable for sheep pasture. It can be sown in May, and will be ready for pasturing in July or 
August, or, it may be sown in June, or even up to the latter part of July, and yet furnish, under reasonably favorable 
circumstances, a large amount of pasture or fodder. It is very suitable for sowing on land that an early crop of 
potatoes has been taken off. In drills, about 6 lbs. to the acre ; broadcast, 10 lbs. to acre. Lb. 15 cts; 100 lbs., $8.00. 
See Special Offers on third papre of cover. 
