Helena, Montana. 
FIELD SEEDS—(Continued) 105 
Buckwheat 
(35 to 40 pounds to the acre) 
Buckwheat, because of its rapid growth, is used 
in many places as a weed preventive and while 
more commonly grown for milling purposes it finds 
quite common use in the Northwest as an added 
variety to grain mixtures for poultry feeding. 
Japanese Buckwheat— The large grains are a rich 
dark color and have a thin hull. Very hardy 
and productive. It is a cool, season crop, and 
tine which may be sown very late in the season 
and still yield good returns. About a week 
earlier than Silver Hull. 
Sunflower 
(10 pounds to the acre) 
Sunflower is often used as a fodder crop but 
more particularly for silage. For those who feed 
ensilage or have gilos, Sunflower is perhaps the 
most practical crop to grow where quick growth, 
early maturity, and large tonnage are factors. 
Sunflower ensilage is practically equal to corn 
ensilage in food value, and the tonnage per acre 
is invariably much greater. Mammoth Russian is 
the variety most in demand for feeding purposes. 
Rape 
Kaffir Corn 
Kaffir Corn 
Kaffir Corn—White Seeded — An excellent fodder 
plant, yielding two crops of fodder during the 
season. It grows 4 to 5 feet high, making a 
straight upright growth. The stem or stalk bears 
enormous wide leaves. The stalks are brittle 
and juicy, not hardening like other varieties of 
Sorghum. It makes excellent fodder, either green 
or dry, which is highly relished by cattle and all 
kinds of stock. The seed crop is also heavy, 
sometimes 50 to 60 bushels to the acre. For 
grain, sow in rows 3 feet apart, 3 to 5 lbs. to the 
acre. For fodder, sow 40 to 50 lbs. either broad¬ 
cast or in drills. 
Flax 
Bi son .—The most outstanding wilt and rust resist¬ 
ant Flax ever developed. Never has a new va¬ 
riety met with such instant and widespread ac¬ 
ceptance and popularity. A large kerneled vari¬ 
ety developed by Professor Bolley from a sam¬ 
ple of commercial Flax received from Ghent, Bel¬ 
gium, in 1910. This sample was planted in trial 
rows and single head selections were continued 
until the type became thoroughly fixed. By proc¬ 
ess of elimination the final strain selected pro¬ 
duces unusually sturdy plants with stiff straw 
and generous root system able to withstand ad¬ 
verse weather conditions as well as attacks of 
insects and disease. 
Reserve —This Flax has proven itself to be the best 
yielder of any straight variety at the Bozeman 
Experiment Station, giving an average yield over 
three years of 27.8 bushels per acre on irrigated 
land against the eight trials. Good results and 
yields are produced on irrigated land when sown 
with Spring Wheat or if sown alone on non-iri- 
gated land following Sweet Clover, or a culti¬ 
vated crop such as Corn, Beets, Potatoes. 
(Sow 2 to 3 lbs. to the acre in drill— 
5 lbs. broadcast) 
Use of Dwarf Essex Rape—Dwarf Essex Rape 
thrives best on a good soil, rich in vegetable mat¬ 
ter. Slough lands are excellent. This plant may 
be grown successfully in the following ways, viz.: 
1. In the early Spring to provide pasture. 2. In 
June or July, on well prepared land, to provide 
pasture. 3. Along with grain, using 2 lbs. of seed 
an acre, to provide pasture for sheep after harvest. 
4. Along with peas, oats, clover seed, to provide 
pasture and to get a catch of clover. 5. As a 
cover in the orchard for Winter protection to avoid 
root-killing. 6. In corn, sowing the seed with the 
last cultivation: the succulent feed produced may 
save the loss of cattle by cornstalk disease. Pre¬ 
vention is better than medicine in regard to this 
fatal disease. 7. Along with rye, sown in August, 
in sheep pasture. 8. On early plowed fields to 
shade the’land and so that the soil will not bleach, 
wash or drift. 9. To plow under as a green crop, 
adding humus to the soil, an element needed in 
grain-growing sections. 
Number of Pounds Per Bushel of Standard 
Field Seeds 
Alfalfa . 60 
Barley . 48 
Brome Grass . 14 
Buckwheat . 52 
Clover (Alsike) . 60 
Clover (Med. Red) . 60 
Clover (Sweet Hulled) .„. 60 
Clover (White Dutch . 60 
Corn . 56 
Crested Wheat Grass . 22 
Fescue (Meadow) . 22 
Fescue (other varieties) .1. 14 
Millets . 50 
Oats . 32 
Flax . 56 
Speltz . 40 
Red Top (Solid Seed) . 14 
Rye . 56 
Timothy . 45 
Wheat . 60 
Orchard Grass . 14 
Sunflower . 24 
If you have some poorly drained alkali land 
you will want to try the new Legume 
for Montana. 
ASTRAGALUS RUBYI—See Page 102 ! 
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