SAND or WINTER VETCH. 
(Vida Villosa .) 
Though it succeeds and produces good crops on poor, 
sandy soils, it is much more vigorous on good land and 
grows to a height of 4 to 5 feet. It is perfectly hardy 
throughout the United States, remaining green all winter, 
and should be sown during August and September, mixed 
with Rye, which serves as a support for tne plants, or in 
spring with Oats or Barley. 
It is the earliest crop for cutting, being nearly a 
month earlier than Scarlet Clover, and a full crop can be 
taken off the land in time for planting spring crops. 
Being much hardier than Scarlet Clover, this is the forage 
plant to sow in the Northern States, where Scarlet Clover 
winter-kills, though it is equally valuable in the South. 
Every dairyman and stock-breeder in the United States 
should have a field of it, and if you try it once you will 
never be a season without it. 
It is exceedingly nutritious, much more so than Clover, 
is eaten with a relish and may be fed with safety to all 
kinds of stock. 
It will also prove valuable fpr a Hay crop in the South 
and dry Western regions, as it may be sown in the fall 
and will make a luxuriant growth during the fall and 
spring months, and will yield a heavy crop, which may 
be cut and stored before the droughts set in. Owing to 
scarcity of forage in the section where Sand Vetch is 
grown, most of the crop was cut for feed, and seed is, in 
consequence, very scarce and high in price this year. 
Sow one bushel per acre, with one-half bushel of Rye 
or Wheat. (See cut.) Price, 12c. lb., $6.50 bush, of 60 
lbs.; 100 lbs., $10.50. If by mail, add 8c. per lb. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE. ~ 
Under favorable conditions Rape is ready for pasturing 
sheep or cattle within six weeks from time of sowing, and on 
an average one acre will carry twelve to fifteen sheep six weeks 
to two months. When on the Rape they should, at all times 
have access to salt; but water is not necessary. In the Northern 
States it should be sown from May to the end of August for fall 
pasturing, but as it thrives best in cool weather, it should not 
be sown in the Southern States until September or October for 
winter pasture. In the latitude of New York, July or August 
is the best time to sow. Its fattening properties are probably 
twice as good as those of Clover, and for sheep the feeding value 
of Rape excels all other plants we know of. Sow 4 lbs. per acre 
broadcast, 2 to 3 lbs. per acre in drills. (See cut.) Price, 10c. lb., 
$3.25 bush, of 50 lbs., 100 lbs.. $6.00. If by mail, add 8c. lb. 
FARM SEEDS we do NOT deliver free, but when small 
quantities are wanted WE WILL PREPAY CARRIAGE IN 
UNITED STATES If 8c. per pound Is added to prices. 
Prices of Peas for Fodder and Green Manuring. 
Peck 
Bush, of 
60 lbs. 
10 bush, 
lots, at 
Peas, Canada White. (See cut.) . 
60c. 
$2.00 
$1.90 
“ Canada Blue. 
70c. 
2.50 
2.40 
“ Large Marrowfat. Of immense growth, the best of 
the Field Peas for fodder. .. 
75c. 
2.75 
2.65 
COW PEAS. Of great value in the Southern States and also 
in the Northern States as a green summer feed for sheep, 
and as a green crop for plowing under. 
75c. 
2.70 
2.60 
I PNG'S WHITE TARTAR OATS . 
^•TIIIS grand Oat has fully maintained its reputation as the earliest, heaviest and most 
i I prolific domestic-grown Oat in cultivation. It is suitable for all soils; of robust 
and vigorous constitution, is remarkably early and an immense cropper; the 
straw is long and stout, stands up well and does not readily lodge or twist. The 
heads are very long measuring from 8 to lOV* inches, and the kernels are of im- 
mense size, thick, plump and heavy, and is undoubtedly the heaviest cropping domestic 
wmte oat ever offered. Planted alongside some of the older varieties in a neld of 40 acres, 
it yielded more than double the number of bushels per acre of any of the other sorts. 
Its extreme earliness, great length and strength of straw, thick,plump grains and the 
heavy yields it is capable of producing gives Long’s White Tartar all the necessary quali- 
$1^0 Q per'bu.sh.f O 100^bush. a iots! e $i. < 45 t 'per > busli^^ C ' Pk> ' $K6 ° bUSh ' < 32 lbS ' ): lo ^ 
Henderson's Imported CLYDESDALE OATS 
THE MOST POPULAR HIGH-' 
PEAS 
For Fodder and 
Oreen Manuring. 
“Peas could be made to bring more nitrogen to the soils of this 
country every year than is now purchased annually bv the farmers 
at a cost of millions of dollars .” — (Yearbook of the U. S. Department 
of Agriculture.) 
For the Northern States there is no crop of greater value than 
Field Peas, and none is more neglected, which can only be attributed 
to a lack of knowledge as to its merits. Whether for fodder, in 
mixture with oats, sown at the rate of two bushels each per acre, or the Peas sown alone at the rate 
of three bushels per acre for plowing under, there is no crop that we can so stronglv recommend for 
more extended culture. 
Like all leguminous crops, Peas have the power of extracting nitrogen from the air, and 
the soil from which a crop of peas has been harvested is richer in nitrogen than before the Peas 
were sown upon it, and there is no kind of live stock on the farm to which Peas and Oats in mix 
ture cannot be fed with positive advantage. The Canada varieties and Marrowfat should be 
sown early in the spring, but Cow Peas are more tender and should not be sown until corn¬ 
planting time. Cow Peas, being of very rapid growth during the warm weather, can be 
sown as late as the middle of July with reasonable assurance of a profitable crop, either for 
harvesting or plowing under. 
URADE WHITE OAT IN THE UNITED STATES. 
The climate of America is unsuited to the pro¬ 
duction and maintenance of the highest grade of 
oats, and unless a heavy imported oat be used for 
seed purposes at least every second or third year, 
they become light, “chaffy,” inferior in quality 
and unprofitable. The financial benefit to the 
American farmers by the annual distribution of 
several thousand bushels of HENDERSON’S 
IMPORTED CLYDESDALE OATS is in¬ 
estimable. These oats weigh naturally 
50 lbs. per measured bushel, and they deterio¬ 
rate in weight only from three to four lbs. each 
year they are grown here, so that the produce is 
worth for seed purposes at least double the 
market value of ordinary oats. We offer these 
oats for sale at the weight of 50 lbs. per bushel, 
exactly as grown for us in Britain, so that those 
purchasing will actually receive for every bushel 
over one and one-half bushels according to 
the American standard, which reduces the price 
of “ The Clydesdale ” to $1.44 per standard 
bushel of 32 lbs. Another most important ad¬ 
vantage of Henderson’s Clydesdale Oats to the 
farmer is the fact that they have been thoroughly 
cleaned by our most improved machinery and 
are absolutely free from weed seeds. (See cut.) 
Price, by express or freight. $1.00 per peck, 
$2.50 per bushel (of 50 lbs.) Or W e will simnlv 
3 bushels (150 lbs.), the quantity to seefan 
acre, for $7.00. 10 bushels and upwards, 
$2.26 per bushel; 
100 -bushel lots, 
$2.15 per bush. 
