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Henry Field's Spring Catalog—Field Seed Department. Henry Field Seed and Nursery Company, Shenandoah. Iowa 
FIELD SEED 
"SEED SENSE" 
If you have any questions about field seeds— 
how, when or what to sow, send them in. Glad 
to answer best w ay we know. 
Also glad to give you special quotations on big 
quantities of field seeds. Just write Henry Field, 
Shenandoah, Iowa. 
NOTE: 
Lust year f>0 million pounds of Red Clover 
were sowed in U. S. This year there are only 
30 million pounds in the country. (Government 
figures.) Only as much as normally sown. 
Alfalfa is not quite as scarce, although 
NORTHERN' grown seed is VERY scarce. Alsike 
is just ijj a crop. Sweet Clover is going to be $4 
higher by spring. 
All this combined with heavy demand because 
of secdings lost last summer means advancing 
prices. The situation is serious. Stock up NOW 
and be safe. H.F. 
Red Clover—Warning 
Red Clover seed is scarce—therefore high. No 
higher now for the early buyer than it was last 
March at seeding time. But it IS going higher— 
and that means buy what seed you want now. if 
you want to save money and IF YOU WANT TO 
GET SEED. 
Remember, with what the Government pays 
you for seeding Red Clover, your seeding costs 
no more to you than if the price was down to $8 
a bushel, or less. And the fellow with Red 
Clover is going to be the one to cash in on the 
high prices that will be paid for Red Clover seed 
the next 2 or 3 years. 
But buy early this year OF ALL YEARS. 
You’ll never regret it. (Special early prices on 
enclosed price list.) 
Adapted Seed Only 
I have for Sale and will offer for sale only 
HARDY, ADAPTED Red Clover and alfalfa com¬ 
plying with government Soil Conservation re¬ 
quirements. 
I have NO unadapted foreign seed and I do 
not recommend it. The Government will not 
make any payment if you sow it. 
Beware of seedsmen offering seed too cheap. 
LOOK CAREFULLY FOR STAINED SEEDS. 
The Government stains all UNADAPTED SEED 
so you can tell it easy. Stay away from it. 
Back to Alfalfa 
Somehow Alfalfa and rich farmers go together. 
You never see one without the other. The sooner 
we get ground sowed back to Alfalfa the better 
for everybody. 
You all know I have good alfalfa seed. 
Preached it since before most of you knew what 
alfalfa was. But I want you to notice especially 
the REGISTERED State-Sealed Grimm on the 
price list. It’s from Alfalfa John’s alfalfa ranch 
and is about the prettiest seed I’ve ever seen. 
Dry Weather Grass 
(Brome Grass) 
Out in Nebraska, about all they are sowing is 
Brome Grass. They’ve had it so hot and dry, 
nothing else would grow, but Brome Grass just 
seems to like it that way. 
Besides that, Brome Grass stands cold weather 
like an Eskimo. It just won’t kill out. There are 
fields right around Shenandoah, 17 years old and 
the finest looking pasture you ever saw. Stays 
green all summer. 
(irilHh" 
Brome Grass will 
carry 50% more cattle 
than Blue Grass and 
makes 3 to 4 tons of hay 
in 2 cuttings. It’s ex¬ 
tremely high in feeding 
value and cattle like it. 
What more could you 
ask? 
All the State Colleges 
urge that every farm 
have 10 A. or more for 
sure feed. They’re right. 
No farm should be with¬ 
out it. 
Sow alone 14 lbs. per 
A. or sow 5 lbs. per A. 
with 10 lbs. of any of 
my Permanent Pasture 
Mixtures. Big seeded, so 
you usually sow it sep¬ 
arate. ( Early prices on 
enclosed price list.) 
ATLAS SORGO—The Giant Fodder Crop 
This is a picture I took out at Sleepy Hollow 
when we harvested our Atlas Sorgo this fall. 
Stew wanted to show how tall it grew, so he 
climbed up on the car while Alfalfa John and 
Pate held up a couple stalks so you could see it 
better. 
1 tell you, folks, this Atlas Sorgo is a miracle 
crop. Drought doesn’t faze it, grasshoppers 
won’t touch it and it grows up ten and eleven 
feet high making tons of the best feed ever. Cat¬ 
tle eat it like I eat chicken. It’s sweet and they 
don’t leave a bit of it. 
If every farm don’t have ten acres of Atlas, it 
won’t be my fault. (Free leaflet on request.) 
CERTIFIED SEED 
STATE-SEALED STATE-REGISTERED 
Every pound of my Atlas Sorgo is CERTIFIED 
AND REGISTERED BY THE STATE and is 
SEALED in bags to insure your getting GEN¬ 
UINE SEED. 
All the original seed stock is carefully selected 
from hand-rogued fields and is REGISTERED 
BY THE STATE. There can be no mixtures or 
off-type seed when the state registers it. 
This is service performed to protect YOU. 
Even if the seed cost you mor.e to sow (which 
it doesn’t), it would be worth it 500 times over. 
My sealed seed is packed in 100 lb., 50 lb., 
25 lb., and 10 lb. bags. Any of the above sizes 
or multiples of them are STATE-SEALED. Where 
else can you get seed that way? 
92% Germination Guaranteed 
I absolutely guarantee that my Atlas Sorgo 
will germinate 92% or better. Try and find 
ONE other seedsman who can do this. 
Atlas Sorgo, you know, has a light seed-coat 
which allows it to take up moisture easily. Here, 
in this climate, local grown seed is often so high 
in moisture that just a light freeze cuts the 
germination down to 50% or even lower. I 
know. I’ve seen it happen. 
But, my Atlas is, every bit, stored under con¬ 
trolled heat and moisture conditions. I want the 
seed you get of me to GROW. 
Don’t Take a Chance 
Now and then somebody offers ATLAS for sale 
for a cent or two cheaper than I sell it. Usually, 
it’s just odds and end lots picked up helter skel¬ 
ter over the country. 
In the first place, you don’t know for sure it’s 
GENUINE Atlas — the kind that makes tons and 
tons of sweet, palatable fodder. Chances are, it’s 
full of mixtures and won’t yield as much as corn. 
GENUINE Atlas will yield twice as much fodder 
as corn! 
In the second place, even if you could buy that 
seed cheaper, (chances are you can’t) that’s only 
10c to 20c less per acre and, if GENUINE Atlas 
won’t yield enough MORE, to pay that 10c back 
50 times over, I’ll eat my hat. 
In other words, I know my seed is good and 
know lots of Atlas seed offered is mighty poor. 
I leave it up to you. Which is the smartest to 
buy? ' 
WHAT IS 
SAFE FROM DROUGHT? 
SAFE FROM GRASSHOPPERS? 
SAFE FROM CHINCH BUGS? 
The answer is Atlas Sorgo. It likes dry 
weather and grasshoppers and chinch bugs won’t 
touch it. It’s really insurance on a sure feed 
supply. 
Right now Atlas is the answer to most farmers’ 
feed problems. A bigger acreage went into Atlas 
Sorgo last summer than ever before. This year, 
I predict twice as much will be sown as last year. 
Atlas gives twice as much fodder as corn and 
cattle like it. They don’t leave a bit, because it’s 
sweet. 
Colleges Recommend Atlas 
The popularity of Atlas Sorgo spreads from 
one state to another, just as fast as seed is 
available. Kansas introduced it, then Missouri 
and Nebraska picked it up and recommended it 
100 %. 
Prof. C. A. Helm, professor of Field Crops at 
the University of Missouri, wrote Alfalfa John 
and said, “. . . WE RECOMMEND ATLAS IN 
PREFERENCE TO ALL OTHER SWEET SOR¬ 
GHUMS FOR SILAGE OR FORAGE.” And when 
Prof. Helm says that, it means something be¬ 
cause he knows sorghums backwards and for¬ 
wards. 
And when state colleges get behind something 
like they are behind Atlas, it means it MUST be 
good. 
How to Sow Atlas 
Sow 6 to 10 lbs. per Acre. The more you sow 
the finer the stem and the easier to cure. Plant 
shallow—not over an inch deep or less. Use 
large corn plate running full speed and plant 
single rows, same distance apart as corn. 
Harvest with corn binder. 
10 Acres on Every Farm 
The Universities of Missouri and Nebraska are 
urging every farmer to have at least 5 to 10 acres 
of Atlas for feed. They say it’s insurance. If 
drought and grasshoppers take the rest of your 
feed you will always have a bumper crop of 
Atlas. 
Even if the other crops do well, the Atlas fod¬ 
der or silage will be mighty welcome. 
50c This Coupon Is Worth 50c 
50c 
On Any Order of 100 Lbs. or More of 
GENUINE REGISTERED STATE 
SEALED ATLAS 
Received Before March 10, 1938 
(Special offer for early orders 
IT A A on| y. not good after March 10, 
OUU 1938) DUG 
Read What Your Neighbors Say 
“We can’t say too much for your Atlas Sorgo. 
We have 20 A. of it and it stands 10 to 11 feet 
high. It is the best all-around feed you can have. 
You can feed it to all the stock. And the seed 
makes fine feed. It will yield 20 Ton to the Acre. 
Tell everybody to plant Atlas Sorgo.” 
Arthur H. Reuther, Route 1, Argyle, Iowa. 
“To say I am pleased with your Atlas Sorgo is 
putting it mild. The yield is wonderful. Grew 
9Vz to 10 feet tall.” 
Arthur T. Boney, Cairo, Mo. 
“Your Atlas Sorgo is the best looking fodder I 
ever grew and will make three times as much 
fodder as corn on the same ground.” 
Win. Stewart, Fairfax, Mo. 
