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SPRINGFIELD SEED COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MO 
FARM and FIELD SEEDS—(Cont'd) 
FODDER CANE SEED. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 75 to 100 
pounds per acre. For fodder. Leading varieties used: Early 
Orange, Standard Orange, Early Black Amber, Grohoma, Red 
Top, Texas Seeded Ribbon, Japanese Honey Drip, Darso. 
MILLET. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 25 pounds per acre. The 
German type is most widely grown. WHITE WONDER is also 
very popular, produces even larger heads than the German 
type. HOG MILLET or Manitoba not so much for hay but 
yields enormous quantities of seed. JAP MILLET or Billion 
Dollar Grass, a wonderful hay producer, adapted to all sections 
and especially fine for low ground. 
MILO MAIZE. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 40 pounds to the acre. 
A bigger grower, noted for its drouth resisting qualities. 
WHITE KAFFIR CORN. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 25 pounds 
per acre. Standard of all kaffirs. 
DOMESTIC RYE GRASS. 24 pounds a bushel, sow 40 to 50 
pounds per acre. A perennial, fine leaved grass, valuable as a 
green forage plant on land not easily cultivated. 
BROME GRASS or BROMUS INERMIS. 14 pounds a bushel, 
sow 20 pounds per acre. Noted for its drouth resisting qualities 
and is adapted to many soils. Big producer, makes good pasture. 
BUCKWHEAT. 52 pounds a bushel, sow 25 pounds per acre. 
There are two distinct varieties, Japanese and Silverhull. The 
Japanese variety is regarded earlier. They can be sown as 
second crop following Barley, Rye, Wheat and Oats. Good 
for bees. 
WINTER BARLEY. Mo. Early Beardless. 48 pounds a bushel, 
sow 95 to 100 pounds per acre. It makes a quick growing crop 
of most excellent and nutritious feed either to use green or 
cure for hay. About ten days earlier than other Winter Barley. 
WINTER BARLEY. Beardless, 48 pounds a bushel, sow 95 to 
100 pounds per acre. A good grain and pasture plant but not 
as good producer as the bearded variety. 
WINTER BEARDED BARLEY. 48 pounds a bushel, sow 95 to 
100 pounds per acre. A very hardy variety and is used for 
heavy pasturing during the winter months, from which large 
yield of grain may be harvested. The best winter pasture 
variety. 
BROOM CORN. 48 pounds a bushel, plant 5 to 8 pounds per 
acre. We handle the four standard varieties, Improved Ever¬ 
green, Dwarf Evergreen, Black Spanish and White Italian. 
RAPE. Dwarf Essex, 56 pounds a bushel, sow 8 pounds per 
acre. Provides pasture for all kinds of stock. Makes a large 
yield of green forage per acre and is very fattening. A good 
green manure crop. 
SUNFLOWER. Mammoth Russian, sow 7 pounds per acre. 
Produces heads of an immense size, 15 to 20 inches in diameter, 
fine for poultry. 
RYE. Winter and Spring, 56 pounds a bushel, sow 1 to 1 V 2 
bushels per acre. Has long been recognized as one of our best 
grains for winter pasture. 
VETCH. Sand or Hairy and Spring, 60 pounds a bushel, sow 
60 pounds per acre. Splendid variety of forage plant, hardy, 
valuable winter cover crop. Land builder. 
FLAX FOR SOWING. 56 pounds a bushel, sow 35 pounds per 
acre. Grown in several states for the seed. 
FETERITA. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 25 nounds per acre. The 
grain is white, large and softer than Kaffir. Matures early. 
TEOSINTE. 2 to 3 pounds plants an acre. Can be cut several 
times during the season yielding enormously in warm climates. 
MUNG BEANS. 8 pounds of seed plant an acre. Seeds are 
small, matures about 15 days earlier than Soy Beans or Cow 
Peas and produce larger cuttings of hay. 
EGYPTIAN WHEAT or SHALLU. 10 lbs. of seed to the acre 
in drills. Makes large heads and famous for hen feed. 
OATS. 32 pounds a bushel, sow 1 to 2% bushels per acre. Lead¬ 
ing varieties for the Ozarks: Texas Red Rustproof, Lincoln 
White, Kanota, Winter Turf, Columbia, Fulghum. 
WHEAT. 60 pounds a bushel, sow 90 pounds per acre. Ful- 
caster, recleaned winter soft. Fulohio, recleaned winter soft. 
HEGARI. 50 pounds a bushel, drill 8 to 12 pounds per acre. 
Resembles White Kaffir but the heads are larger, stalks con¬ 
tain more sugar. 
SUDAN GRASS. 40 pounds a bushel, sow 25 pounds per acre. 
A tall, leafy, annual grass of the sorghum family. Wonderful 
hay and pasture crop. 
COW PEAS. 60 pounds a bushel, plant broadcast 60 pounds to 
an acre. Drilled % bushel per acre. There is no cheaper way 
to improve poor land than by growing Cow Peas. They add 
nitrogen and improve the mechanical condition of the soil. 
Leading varieties are: Whippoorwill, Black Eye, Mixed, New 
Era, The Clay, Canada Field, Red Ripper, Sugar Pea, Blue 
Goose, Brown Eyed, Lady Pea. 
VELVET BEANS. i/ 2 bushel to the acre. 
JOHNSON GRASS. 25 pounds a bushel. Sow 20 pounds to the 
acre. (Prohibited in some states.) 
SOY BEANS. 60 pounds a bushel, plant 1 bushel per acre. 
They make poor land good, they make good land better. Soy 
Bean hay contains a high per cent of protein, is superior to 
Cow Peas in feeding value and as a milk and butter producer 
is equal to Alfalfa and superior to Cotton Seed meal. The beans 
and bean meal contain about 35% of digestible protein and 
stock eat them with relish and thrive on them. Virginia, Early 
Yellow, Wilson (Early Black), Illini, Laredo, Manchu. 
TREAT BEFORE PLANTING, with 
FORM ACIDE 
ALL VEGETABLE SEED, ALL GRAIN SEED, CORN 
AND POTATOES. 
To control Oat Smut and Covered Smut of Barley, as well as 
seed borne diseases of grain crops, mix 3 ounces of FORMA- 
CIDE very thoroughly with each bushel of grain. After several 
minutes of thorough mixing, resack the grain and let stand 
over night—fifteen to twenty hours. 
FORMACIDE is easy to use, inexpensive and effective. 
FORMACIDE really controls damping-off. FORMACIDE keeps 
indefinitely in a tightly closed container at ordinary tempera¬ 
tures. 
FORMACIDE stimulates growth of plants. 
FORMACIDE allows immediate planting 
of seeds. 
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