The Use of Inoculation Often Increases Yields 10% and Pays 1,000% Profit on Cost. 
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This picture was taken on 
one of our farms where we 
cut more than two tons per 
acre of good stubble hay 
from seed seeded on the 
wheat last spring. We sel¬ 
dom sow anything as a fer¬ 
tilizer except our clover 
mixture which gives much 
better results than sowing 
any one clover. This hay 
makes fine feed for cattle 
during the winter. If not 
cut for hay makes a lot of 
good fall pasture. This was 
on rich black swamp land 
which should produce 100 
bushels per acre Hybrid 
corn next year. 
CLOVER MIXTURE 
Our best legume to sow. From our many years of experi¬ 
ence in growing clovers of all kinds, we find this mixture to 
be the best of any thing we can sow, especially where it is 
used for a crop of hay to be cut from the stubble in the fall 
and then to be turned under the next spring; or, if you want 
to let it stand over, it is equally as good. 
We can really sell this at a lower price than you can buy 
these clovers separately and mix them as we often buy Red 
Clover and Alsike mixtures. Red Clover and Sweet Clover 
mixed and often Sweet Clover and Alfalfa mixed. These can 
be cleaned up in good shape, but they cannot be separated. 
They can be used in a clover pasture mixture just as well as 
pure seed. 
This is a three-story crop. Lespedeza and Alsike make a 
thick stand close to the ground. Red Clover grows a little 
higher, and the Sweet Clover grows to be the tallest, above 
all the other clovers. On rich, well-limed land, with the 
average season, we believe it is the best plan to sow a mix¬ 
ture of this kind where you grow wheat. Let it stand until 
the next spring and plow it under instead of allowing your 
land to lay idle the second year. Most of these clovers are 
biennial plants and the nature of them is to store up the plant 
food in the roots the first year. About all they do the next 
year is translocate this plant food from the roots to the top 
making a big top growth which is not worth as much to you 
as the nitrogen in the roots which you can plow under in the 
spring. It is best to be plowed early before it gets more than 
4 inches high. 
We sell this Mixture, 60 pounds to the bushel, and it con¬ 
sists of the following; 
15 lbs. Red Clover 15 lbs. Sweet Clover 
10 lbs. Alsike 10 lbs. Alfalfa 
10 lbs. Korean Lespedeza 
While we would not recommend that anyone in North Cen¬ 
tral Illinois, of this latitude, to seed Lespedeza alone as a 
crop, it certainly is well worth the cost in a mixture of this 
kind as it is a legume, a good fertilizer and produces a fair 
amount of good pasture late in the fall during August and 
September when oftentimes the drouth has reduced the other 
plants and pasture. Approximate price, subject to change, $8.50. 
Timothy 
Timothy seed is again very cheap this year and a lot of it it from falling down and lodging. A small amount—about 
should be used. While it is not much of a fertilizer, it is a two pounds per acre—seeded with Alfalfa adds to the tonnage 
good thing to sow a small amount—two or three pounds per and makes very good feed. It acts as a preventive many times 
acre with your clover which will hold the clover up and keep in bloating in cattle. For prices see price list enlosed. 
Alfalfa 
Alfalfa seed crop is very small, in fact about 17% lees than the very short crop of last year. It is the shortest seed 
crop of any we have this year. Price much lower though than last year. Expect alfalfa to go higher and advise order- 
I s * yoUr ,^ e ?'] er once - The best grades usually go first so why wait and take what is left ? 
Most of our alfalfa this year came out of Northern Nebraska and Southern South Dakota. For years we have secured 
some of our best alfalfa from this section which is unusually free of weeds. We want to call your attention to the special 
price of our Dakota No. 12 which is one of the best you can buy and on which 
the crop is very short again this year. Every year we sell out of Dakota No. 12 
long before the season is over. 
We always have one or two fields of Alfalfa and think any farmer uses poor 
judgment in not having sufficient acreage to furnish all the Alfalfa hay that he 
can use. It will pay him better than any other crop he can put in. 
There is no need in trying to raise Alfalfa on sour land, better save your 
money. Buy lime and then try seeding Alfalfa. We never fail to get a good 
stand of Alfalfa, but we put it in in such a way that we naturally expect to 
get a good stand. In seeding Alfalfa, we do not use a nurse crop of any kind 
and usually sow it early in the spring soon as the danger of frost is past, work¬ 
ing the ground thoroughly, having a good seed bed, usually on land which is 
fall plowed. The best way is to drill it both ways. This takes a little more 
time, but a good Alfalfa field will last you 
for several years and it certainly pays to take 
a little more time in the seeding and get a 
good stand than to produce only half a crop 
—the* other half probably a good share of 
weeds which ruins the hay as well. 
The Alfalfa seed crop this year is very 
short-'—much below the 6-year average. This 
is true especially in the west and northwest. 
The drouths of 1934 and 1936 ruined mil¬ 
lions of acres of the best Alfalfa in the 
United States, in North and South Dakota 
and Montana; and it will be many years be¬ 
fore much of this acreage will be in produc- 
From the chart above you ean see tion. This year we purchased most of our 
the value of alfalfa. Alfalfa seed from Northern Nebraska and 
Southern South Dakota, where good, hardy 
seed is produced and usually very free of noxious weeds. This seed is well adapted for all 
of Illinois or any other section in this same latitude. 
In seeding Alfalfa the amount required to secure a good crop varies greatly according to 
soil types. Some soils require twice as much seed to get a stand as others. We recommend 
sowing 20 pounds per acre on thin or high clay land. On medium fertility levels 15 pounds 
usually produce a good stand. On rich black soil or brown silt, high fertility levels, 10 to 12 
pounds are sufficient. In seeding any kind of Alfalfa, it is very essential that the seed be 
inoculated. Use Kelly’s Jelly Inoculator. For prices see price sheet enclosed. 
Buy Only Verified Origin Seed 
The same condition exists this year as last year, a serious shortage of good western and 
northwestern Alfalfa but a big crop in the southwestern states where more seed is being 
produced every year—seed not adapted to our section. New Mexico, Texas, Arizona and 
southern California usually produce a lot of good Alfalfa seed which is very good to reseed 
in these sections but we think not fit for seeding in the Corn Belt. All alfalfa is packed in bu, 
We are Verified Origin Dealers, and, if you buy Alfalfa from us, you buy seed in sealed sealed bags. No charge for 
bags with a Verified Origin Tag which gives you the state in which it was produced. bags containing alfalfa. 
