Special Items. Be Sure To Read 
Scarcity of red clover, sweet and alfalfa at the 
time of printing this price list, it looks as though there 
will be none of either of these important items by March 
15 and we advise placing your order by return mail. At 
the national seed meeting at Chicago January 25 nearly 
every dealer was a buyer of these items and practically 
nothing to be had. If you are going to need alfalfa seed 
for summer or fall planting do not delay but buy im¬ 
mediately. The Russian Government in the last thirty 
days have bought in the North Western part of the 
U. S. A. 25,000 bags of alfalfa seed. Think of this 
amount of our best seed going out of our country from 
one of the smallest crops ever produced and in the face 
of one of the largest demands for alfalfa seed. We 
aie in a position to know what we are talking about. 
You may be able to get Arizona, Mexico^ Texas or other* 
southern grown seed not adapted to your section but no 
good north or northwestern seed. 
Imported Red Clover 
We hear a lot of propaganda for and against im¬ 
ported red clover. The truth of the matter is all clover 
seed was imported some time or other. When our fore¬ 
fathers came to this country they found Indian corn but 
no clover. This prejudice has been caused by imported 
led clover from Italy and southern France not adapted 
to our country. We import only from north central 
Europe which seed is stained only 1% green. Italian 
Chillia.n and other unadapted seed must be stained 10% 
red. The Government will not pay you for sowing im¬ 
ported red clover and we advise if you sow it to produce 
a seed crop sow best native, but for fertilizer, pasture 
mixture and other special uses, use imported seed at the 
difference in price. 
Very Few Weeds In Our Imported Clover Seed 
Our imported clover will show a purity of 99:50 
or better ,all being double cleaned by us, first over our 
combination buckhorn and gravity mill and then over a 
big No. 29D clipper, in fact our imported shows as high 
a purity after we refine it as does the best native grown 
seed. Price on opposite side of this sheet. 
Orchard Grass 
This is a grass which does-well in the shade, also 
with other mixtures, making a very thick growth. Ex¬ 
ceptionally hardy and will last for years. Price small 
lots .25 per lb. 100 lbs. or more $22.00 per cwt. 
Seed Disinfectants 
Our catalogue printer left out a page on Ceresan 
and Semesan Jr., two important items for you. Advise 
you to treat every bushel of oats or barley with Ceresan 
and every bushel of corn you plant with Semesan Jr. 
1 pound Ceresan treats 32 bushel oats, costs 75c, in¬ 
creases yields 2 to 10 bushel per acre and makes much 
better quality. 4 ounce Semesan Jr. treats 2 bushel of 
corn. Costs 35c. 1 lb. Semesan Jr. treats 8 bushel of 
corn, costs $1.00. Semesan Jr. protects com from early 
decay, comes quicker, freerer of disease, and in¬ 
crease yields 2 to 5 bushels per acre. 
CLOVER MIXTURE 
Consists of 15 pounds red clover, 10 pounds al- 
sike 15 pounds sweet clover, 10 pounds of alfalfa and 10 
pounds of Korean Lespedeza. By sowing this mixture you 
will get better results than sowing any one separate. If 
you have never sowed this mixture try it this year using 
8 pounds to an acre. Price $16.50 per bushel subject to 
market change. 
Special Strain of Lespedeza 
W e have a small amount of a very hardy early 
strain of Lespedeza which for several years has pro¬ 
duced seed where all Lespedeza around it for 25 miles 
only made a small growth and did not mature seed. This 
strain made a growth of 18 to 24 inches last year as it 
was and produced a good crop of seed. We have con¬ 
tracted the seed again off this field for 1937 as soon as 
harvested and if you buy some of this strain and produce 
seed we would be pleased to have first chance to buy it. 
This seed was grown about thirty miles northwest of 
Peoria. The field was rogued several times and contains 
no noxious weeds. Limit fifty pounds to a customer. 
Price 30c per pound. For price on Korean Lespedeza 
seed opposite side of this sheet. 
CALIFORNIA SUDAN 
If you want real fancy, heavy weight, bright 
colored, plump sudan seed, order California grown . Su¬ 
dan will fatten quicker and show better growth during 
hot dry months of July, August, and September than any 
other pasture. Costs more, but worth much more. Price 
small lots 8 V 2 C, 100 to 250 pounds $7.50 per hundred. 
For larger lots write for prices. We also have Texas 
grown Sudan at lower price. See opposite side this sheet. 
RYE GRASS 
Earliest grass for quick pasture. Best to sow in a 
mixtuie with oats and other grasses for early pasture, 
kye grass is very palatable and rich in feed. Matures 
early and shoud have some other mixtuie with it to carry 
on through the late fall. Price $8.00 per cwt. Also see 
our pasture mixture on page 7. 
Reid’s Northern Grown Yellow Dent Corn 
Every year we have customers living north of 
Peoria who think our corn grown at San Jose which is 
only 25 miles south of Peoria matures late for them. This 
distance only makes two days difference in the maturing 
of the corn. This year we bought 1,500 bushel of extra 
fine corn which was grown thirty miles north of Peoria 
in the Illinois River bottom on what was formerly a. duck 
preserve. During an ordinary season most of this land 
would have been covered with water but last season just 
right to grow some very fine seed corn, picked early, 
trucked to San Jose where we have had it stored in our 
furnace heated seed house all winter. If you want some 
of this specify Reid’s Northern Yellow Dent. Price 
$3.50 per bushel the same as other corn. 
lowealth Hybrid Corn 
One of the best old stand-by hybrids, produced 
by the Sioux City Seed Company, Sioux City, Iowa^ who 
have five other large houses in the United States > one of 
the largest and oldest producers of Hybrid corn. Grown 
north of Bloomington Illinois where they grew 500 acres 
of this corn in 1936. Only a limited quantity to sell. 
Price graded for edge drop planted $12.00 per bushel. 
Round grains for hill drop planter $11.00 per bushel. 
KELLY SEED AND HDWE. CO. 
Peoria, Illinois San Jose f Illinois 
