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Forage and Hay Crops—These Are All Annual Crops—They Will Assure You 
Sufficient Supply of Good Cattle Feed At a Very Small Cost Per Acre. 
1593 Canada Field Peas 
I am of the opinion from experi¬ 
ence and observation that Canada 
Field Peas planted at the rate of 
50 lbs. per acre, with 1% bushels of 
oats, will produce the most val¬ 
uable hog and other stock fodder 
for fall and winter feeding and for 
early summer pasture that you can 
possibly plant. Valuable, I will say, 
first on account of its earliness, 
maturing four to six weeks earlier 
than corn. Second, the immense 
yield of rich, dry fodder. We ad¬ 
vise sowing with the peas, the 
Kherson or Iowa 103 Oats, as they 
mature at about the same time. If 
you are going to plant the peas on 
high, poor land, the Swedish Select 
or taller growing late oats would 
be better. Plant a field of these 
oats and peas near your home yards 
and at the right time turn the hogs 
in and let them do the harvest. 
They will pay you for it. If planted 
alone sow 90 lbs. per acre. Lb., 25 
cts.; 3 lbs., 66 cts.; 5 lbs., 85 cts., 
postpaid. 
1593 Canada Field Peas 
Cow Peas 
1583 Improved Whippoorwill 
Sow broadcast 1 Bu. per acre or 
45 lbs. in drills 36 inches apart when 
danger of frost is over. Cowpeas 
produce one of the largest and the 
most nutritious forage crops grown. 
When turned under, they furnish 
nitrogen and generally enhance the 
mechanical condition of the soil. 
They make a fine feed for work and 
beef-stock and for dairy herds, and 
are nearly equal in value to alfalfa 
and wheat-bran. Cowpeas contain 
four times as much digestible pro¬ 
tein as timothy hay. The United 
States Department of Agriculture 
says: "No one thing can add more 
to' the agricultural wealth of the 
South than the growing of Cowpeas.” 
1 lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 66 cts.; 5 lbs., 85 
cts., postpaid. 
1640 Rape Dwarf Essex 
1626 Hungarian Millet 
Often called Hungarian Grass. 
Very similar to German Millet, 
only finer. 1 lb.. 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 
60 cts.; 5 lbs., 75 cts., postpaid. 
Special Crops for Poultry Food 
Sunflower 
1662 Mammoth Russian 
A small patch of cultivated sun¬ 
flowers will produce a great quantity 
of the very best poultry feed for win¬ 
ter. Drill in rows, cut with a corn 
harvester, dry thoroughly and let the 
fowls do the threshing. If you can’t 
spare land for cultivating, plant them 
in waste corners. 10 lbs. per acre. Vs 
Ib„ 15 cts.; 1 lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 60 cts.; 
5 lbs., 85 cts., postpaid. 
1631 Milo Maize 
1631 MILO-MAIZE Forage Plant 
of Great Merit. Belongs to the 
Non-Saccharine Sorghums. It is 
pronounced the best and surest 
grain crop for dry countries and 
seasons, even better than Kaffir 
corn. It grows several smaller 
heads on side shoots, often as 
many as eight heads on a stalk. 
Very valuable for feeding stock 
and proves a gold mine for 
chicken feed. Plant 15 pounds 
per acre in drills. Vs lb,, 15 cts.; 
1 lb., 25 cts. | 3 lbs., 66 cts.; 5 lbs., 
85 cts., postpaid. 
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1662 Mammoth" Russian 
Sunflower 
1623 Kaffir Corn 
Makes splendid feed for poultry, fed 
either in the grain or ground and cooked. 
Foliage and stalk make excellent forage. 
Cultivate the same as common corn, re¬ 
quiring 15 pounds of seed per acre in 
drills. Vs lb., 15 cts.; 1 lb., 25 cts.; 3 
lb s., 66 cts.; 5 lbs., 85 cts., postpaid. 
1591 Feterita 
The great advantage Feterita has over 
Kaffir corn and all other plants of that 
class is its extreme earliness and great 
drought resisting qualities. Feterita is 
from 20 to 30 days earlier than Kaffir 
corn, makes excellent fodder and pro¬ 
duces a large grain crop; in some in¬ 
stances it made an excellent yield of grain 
in the semi-arid regions without having 
received any rain from the time it was 
planted until it was harvested. Plant lo 
per acre in drills. lb., 15 cts.; 
25 cts.; 3 lbs., 66 cts.; 5 lbs., 85 
postpaid. ___________ 
Buckwheat 
Buckwheat can be easily grown wher- 
ever wheat will grow, producing a good 
yield on light or poor soils and under fa¬ 
vorable conditions, it is very profitable, 
being in big demand for milling, also the 
best "Bee pasture.” Sow 36 pounds per 
acre in drills, 50 pounds broadcast. Buck¬ 
wheat is an excellent poultry feed. We 
know of one case where one-quarter acre 
field furnished seed for over three hun¬ 
dred chickens for three months. 
1523 Japanese Buckwheat—Larger seeded 
than Silver Hull. Seed black, good yielder. 
About equal to Silver Hull in all ways for 
all purposes. 1 lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 60 
cts.; 5 lbs., 75 cts., postpaid. 
1524 Silver Hulled—This is a later va¬ 
riety. used extensively as a late crop, and 
as a smothering crop for land badly in- 
tested with weeds. X lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 
60 cts.; 5 lbs., 75 cts., postpaid. 
lbs 
1 lb 
cts., 
1640 Dwarf Essex Rape 
I want to impress it on you 
that the Dwarf Essex Rape 
will grow and thrive, and be 
profitable in many places on 
your farm. In the spring 
when you are sowing small 
grains, sow it at the rate of 
4 pounds per acre with your 
grain. This will furnish val¬ 
uable pasture after harvest. 
Plant it with fall rye at the 
rate of about three pounds to 
the acre in the months of 
April or May, and it will 
make you a good pasture 
with the rye in summer. 
Plant it by itself at the rate 
of 5 lbs. per acre and see the 
immense yield of forage it 
will produce. Sow it at the 
rate of 3 lbs. per acre with 
your cultivation of corn. This 
is undoubtedly the most 
profitable place to sow rape 
seed. If you are hogging the 
corn down, the hogs will 
clean the rape as well as the 
corn. If you husk your co.rn 
and pasture the cornstalks, 
all kinds of stock eat it 
readily, and this gives them 
green food with the dry. 
Dwarf Essex Rape is the only 
variety that is valuable. Lb., 
25 cts.; 3 lbs., 66 cts.; 5 lbs., 
85 ets„ postpaid. 
1613 Sudan Grass 
The Wonderful Hay Crop 
One of the best annual forage 
plants ever introduced, suitable for 
almost any locality. Sudan Grass 
thrives best on rich loam, but has 
been successfully grown on almost 
every kind of soil, from heavy clay 
to light sand. Cold, wet, boggy soils 
are not suited to Sudan Grass. 
Sudan Grass is a sorghum, and an 
annual, without underground root 
sprouts. It grows 4 to 5 feet high in 
drilled seedings, and 5 to 8 feet in 
cultivated rows. Do not sow Sudan 
Grass before corn planting time. 
Like corn, it is a warm weather crop. 
In favorable seasons, the growing 
period is long, and several cuttings 
can be obtained in one season. For 
hay it Is ready to cut in 60 to 75 
days, when it is in full head. It con¬ 
tinues its growth, and in 40 to 45 
days it is ready for another cutting. 
Sudan Grass is an enormous 
yielder, producing 3 or 4 tons of hay 
at the first cutting. The second cut¬ 
ting is lighter, and the hay is much 
finer. Live stock of all kinds will eat 
the hay readily. 
For hay, sow at the rate of 20 to 30 
lbs. per acre, using a grain drill, and 
cover from one to one and one-half 
inches deep. Heavy seeding makes 
finer quality hay. X lb„ 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 
66 cts.; 5 lbs., 85 cts., postpaid. 
1613 Suilam Grass 
Millet 
When Corn fails you or when Season is too wet for Corn on 
low barren ground here is the one crop you can sow as late 
as July and harvest a Big Crop of excellent hay. 
1625 German or Golden Millet 
Sometimes called Golden Millet. 
Few other grasses or forage 
plants have been able to produce 
the enormous yields of this plant. 
It has produced four to five tons 
of hay to the acre and from sev¬ 
enty to eighty bushels of seed. It 
may be sown on newly broken 
ground in the spring and as late 
as July. Leaves the ground in ex¬ 
cellent condition for the following 
crop. Plant thirty pounds to the 
acre. 1 lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 60 cts.; 
5 lbs., 75 cts., postpaid. 
1627 Japanese Millet or Billion Dollar Grass 
All things considered, we call this the most valuable thing 
in our whole list of forage plants. It has been sold under 
different names, as "Billion Dollar Grass,” "Steel Trust Mil¬ 
let,” etc. We recommend it for the following reasons: First, 
it makes more hay than German Millet or any other. Sec¬ 
ond, although it grows so large, sometimes seven or eight 
feet high, the hay is of the most excellent quality, superior 
to corn fodder. Third, it is adapted to all sections and a 
great success wherever tried. It does well on low ground. 
Fourth, two crops a season may be cut from it, or, 11 leit to 
ripen it will yield almost as many bushels of seed per acre 
as oats Fifth, it requires less seed per acre than any other 
millet 20 to 30 pounds being sufficient. Sixth, it makes fine 
silage, especially if mixed with soy beans or sand vetch. 
Seventh, it is highly endorsed and recommended by the 
U. S. Department of Agriculture, by all Experiment Stations 
and by seedmen generally (40 lbs. per bu.). 1 lb., 25 cts.; 
3 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., 75 cts.. postjiaid. 
Spring Wheat 
1664 New Marquis Beardless 
The King of the Spring Varieties. Marquis is su¬ 
preme it outyields anything and everything in beardless 
wheat. By far the best variety for the corn belt. 
This wheat has very stiff straw of medium height, 
which does not lodge easily, the heads are bald and 
quite heavy, have smooth yellow chaff; the kernels 
flinty, more round than those of other sm'mg whicits, 
thicker and more plump, and of dark red color. Sow 
90 lbs. per acre. 
1665 Velvet Chaff Spring Wheat 
This is an extremely hardy, bearded variety of won¬ 
derful productiveness, generally yielding at least 10 bu. 
more per acre than other kinds of Spring Wheat. Sow 
90 lbs. per acre. 
Barley 
1518 Barley—Wis. Pedigree Bearded 
The Sweepstakes Barley of the World 
This is the barley that won First, Second, Third and 
Fourth Prizes in the “Open to the World Contest at 
Omaha a few years ago, besides a number of special 
prizes It was also awarded First, the only prize offered, 
in “Barley in Sheaf, Open to the World.” 
Wisconsin Pedigree Barley is a selection from Oder- 
brucker and comes from the foremost state in the Union 
in the production of Barley. It is the result of many 
years’ selection and breeding, starting with a single per¬ 
fect stalk. Sow 2 bu. per acre. 
1516 Barley—Wisconsin No. 38 Barbless 
Originated by the Wisconsin Experiment Station. Re¬ 
markably heavy yielder producing over 70 bushel per 
acre The very finest for malting purposes. Its smocitn 
beards, resistance to hot weather, and heavy yielding 
qualities make it the most outstanding variety. 
1642 Rye-—Mammoth Spring 
A Most Profitable Crop. Quite different from Winter 
Rye: highly valued as a catch crop. It is not only more 
productive, but the grain is of finer quality, grown m 
any latitude. Straw is of special value as it stands 5 or 
6 feet high, being better than that of Winter Rye and 
producing nearly four times as much straw as Oats. 
Produces 30 to 40 bushels of gram to the acre. As it 
does not stool like Winter Rye, not less than two bushels 
to the acre should be sown. 
Special Postpaid Prices on Seed Wheat 
—Barley, Rye, Speltz and Oats as de¬ 
scribed above: 1 lb., 22 cts.; 3 lbs., 57 
cts.; 5 lbs., 75 cts., postpaid. 
See Special List Enclosed for Low 
Prices on Quantities of Above. 
1658 Speltz or Emmer 
Sow 80 Lbs. per Acre 
A valuable grain, closely related to wheat; the ker¬ 
nels, however, are tightly enclosed in the hulls or husk, 
and these adhere to the grain when it is threshed. It 
produces good crops even under adverse circumstances 
where other grain fails. It withstands more dry weather 
than any other grain, and produces more food value 
per acre than any other cereal, while it is a most valu¬ 
able feed for all kinds of stock. It can be fed to 
horses, the same as oats, with the hulls on. Speltz can 
be grown on most any kind of soil, rich or poor, wet 
or dry. as it will not lodge like other grain because of 
the stiff and strong straw, and will always bring the 
best returns. 
Oats 
1636 Improved Swedish Select 
Considered by many to be the most valuable oats 
raised today. It possesses striking features, the grain is 
short, plump, white, and very heavy, under favorable 
conditions averaging about 40 pounds to the measured 
bushel. Owing to its great root development it stands 
very high for its drought resisting qualities. At the Wis¬ 
consin Experiment Station it has stood at the head of 
the list for several years, having been distributed by 
that station as Wisconsin No. 4. Sow 2 bu. per acre. 
1635 Silver Mine 
This oat has made for itself a reputation as an ex 
traordinary heavy and reliable yielder. It is very hardy 
and prolific and yields beautiful white kernels, which 
are especially desired. 
The heads are very larg-e in proportion to its stiff, 
bright, clean straw. Sow 2 bu. per acre. 
1634 White Bonanza 
This year’s experimental tests again prove our claim 
that “White Bonanza” is the Greatest All Around Oat 
of the country. It is extremely vigorous, stiff straw, 
not too heavy, stands up remarkably fine; in fact 
during heavy windstorms this summer it proved big 
enough for the job. Sow 2 bu. per acre. Yield 65 
to 75 bu. per acre. 
1633 White Kherson 
One of the earliest oats in cultivation. It was intro 
dueed by the Experiment Station of Iowa, adapted to 
sections that are subject to drought. It is a vigorous 
but not rank grower, producing shorter straw than other 
varieties, with branching heads and very broad leaves 
1637 Gopher Minnesota No. 674 
Gopher is a white, early maturing variety with straw 
so stiff and strong that it does not lodge even on well- 
manured farm land. It is also adapted for growing on 
peat land. It is without any question the best oats for 
the rich dairy farms of southern Minnesota, Iowa and 
Wisconsin and unequalled for sowing with clover and 
alfalfa as a nurse crop. 
