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GAME BIRDS 
Virginia Superintendent of Game Propagation 
says: “Any farm can be economically stocked 
with quail, wild turkey and other game birds if 
suitable food in variety and abundance is fur¬ 
nished adjacent to nesting and protective cover. 
Food patches planted in open fields more than 100 
feet from cover are little used by quail. Farms 
so intensively cultivated or pastured that there 
is no cover, or farms with ample cover, but no 
food, cannot have quail. Planting only one crop 
like cow peas will not establish a permanent covey 
range. A mixture of several kinds of foods to 
furnish year round nourishment is necessary. 
Planting long strips, 10 to 14 feet wide beside 
woods, branches or fence rows will furnish food 
and cover for many more coveys than planting 
the same area in one or two-acre plots every half 
mile or so. 
On large areas plant a network of cultivated strips, 
clearing lanes through dense woods where necessary. The 
land should be disked and the quail planting mixture 
broadcast and covered lightly with a harrow. It is prefer¬ 
able to plant in rows as close as possible and cultivated 
once or twice. Apply fertilizer. To save trouble in cul¬ 
tivation plant in several of the outside rows of a culti¬ 
vated crop (like corn, cotton, etc.), either when the crop 
is planted or laid by. Let brush and thickets grow along¬ 
side. When brush is cut leave it on the ground for cover. 
Spread old straw or other fodder on top of seed on poor, 
barren ground. 
Wood’s Quail Planting Mixture 
The best seed mixture to produce permanent year round 
feed for partridges, wild turkey, pheasants, doves, etc. 
Also superior to cut down the feed bill of domestic fowls. 
If planted according to above instructions, will attract and 
multiply numbers of coveys and furnish good hunting. For 
quail plant in long strips next to cover; for turkeys and 
pheasants larger strips or patches; for doves, one or two- 
acre plats. The mixture includes practically all cultivated 
crops relished by game birds for quick growth and to keep 
them in plump, vigorous condition. Composed of ses- 
banie, bene, Florida beggarwood, brown top and Tennessee 
millet, sericea, Korean and common lespedeza, cow peas, 
laredo soy beans, rape, shallu, kaffir corn, sorghum and 
buckwheat. Sow 15 lbs. per acre in cultivated rows, or 
30 to 35 lbs. broadcast when seeding or laying by other 
crops. However, it is better to seed alone after the ground 
in early summer . Apply 300 lbs. per acre of WOOD’S SUPER 
STANDARD FERTILIZER. Will reseed itself, furnishing a 
permanent growth, but it is better to disk, harrow and sow every 
year if possible. The legumes in this mixture will enrich the soil. 
Rl'nwn Tan IVTillpt Seeds relished by quail and turkeys. 
AJlUWtl iTliiict Excellent bird cover or summer hay 
crop. Culture same as Tennessee millet, which it resembles, 
but is taller, has larger heads and produces more hay and 
seeds. Every hunting preserve should plant it. 
SESBANIA 
Tennessee 
German Millet 
Excellent for quail and soil improving. It av¬ 
eraged 6 tons of hay per acre and more seed than 
any other crop in the Georgia 6-year test. 
GAME BIRDS are attracted from a distance by 
the seed which remains on the ground all winter 
without decaying. It makes a tall upright growth 
with long, slender leaves, furnishing good bird 
cover, but easv for hunters to penetrate. Every 
farmer who likes bird hunting and every game 
preserve should plant it, preferably on rich bot¬ 
toms. Broadcast 15 to 30 pounds per acre in t«he 
SESBANIA is easily destroyed by cultivation. 
Does well on any soil, wet or dry, but prefers 
heavy bottom land. Plant only scarified seed. 
Cover lightly if convenient. Apply 100 lbs. per 
acre of WOOD’S SUPER STANDARD FERTIL¬ 
IZER. Our seeds is of the highest quality and 
scarified. 
SOIIi IMPROVING. It produces an immense 
amount of humus rich in nitrogen for building up 
cultivated or waste land. Sown at the last cul¬ 
tivation of corn, cotton, etc., it grows 6 to 7 feet tall in 
to 10 weeks. Roots have heavy nodule formations. 
Stalks decay readily. Fopular with truck farmers and 
citrus growers. Sow 30 to 40 lbs. per acre from April 
15th to July 15th. 
TENNESSEE GERMAN MILLET 
Big head, large yielding type. Makes a bumper crop of 
nutritious, easily cured hay in 60 days. Our seed is Ten¬ 
nessee grown. .We have tested German millets grown in 
other states but none is equal to Tennessee seed in growth 
or quality, they usually .have very small woody stalks, un¬ 
suitable for hay. One of the easiest grown summer catch 
crops when feed is short. It smothers out weeds, leaving 
ground in fine condition for fall crops. 
Plant one bushel per acre broadcast on disked or harrowed 
wheat or oat land from May through July. (Bushel 
50 lbs.) Apply 300 lbs. per acre of WOOD’S SUPER 
STANDARD FERTILIZER. Thin seeding makes coarse 
stems and poor quality hay. Broadcasting 25 lbs. with a 
bushel of cow peas produces a higher yield of more nu¬ 
tritious hay and is better for the land. Cut when the 
millet blooms. After that woody fibre forms, making the 
hay coarse and unpalatable. 
JAPANESE or BARNYARD MILLET 
JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT 
Most prolific and largest grained buckwheat. A good summer 
poor land crop. No grain crop can be grown easier or in less 
time, maturing 8 to 10 weeks. A good summer soil improving 
crop for orchards or to smother weeds before seeding grass. 
Its flour makes delicious cakes. Bees give more honey when 
fed on its blooms. Requires little preparation. Sow 50 lbs. per 
acre broadcast or with grain drill from June through August. 
Bushel 48 lbs. 
KOREAN LESPEDEZA Planted Late 
Late planting of Korean Lespedeza is equally as good if not 
better than early planting as the young seedlings thrive in warm 
weather and grow vigorously. It can be planted any time up 
to June 15th and make hay the same season. Paul Hubert, 
Guilford Co., N. C., says: “Probably the best crop I have ever 
gotten from Korean Lespedeza were planted June 14th, after 
harvesting small grain, planting 20 lbs. per acre with i bushel 
of Laredo soy beans to act as a shade crop. The Korean made a 
perfect stand, stooled out and by July 25 was 8 inches tall. By 
September 18th it was knee high and made a heavy cutting of 
hay, over a ton per acre, still leaving plenty for reseeding.” 
Called Billion Dollar Grass 
Distinct from other millets; grows 4 to 6 feet high, yielding an 
enormous crop that in quality is equal to cornfodder and is rel¬ 
ished by stock. Sow in May, June or July 20 lbs. to the acre 
broadcast; or plant in 15-inch drills and cultivate until it is 18 
inches high. When green feed a moderate quantity at first, 
gradually increasing the quantity as the animals become ac¬ 
customed to it. 
CHUFAS 
With the increasing in¬ 
terest in hog-raising in 
the South, there should 
be a corresponding in¬ 
creasing interest in hog¬ 
feeding crops that are 
about equal to corn in 
feeding value, and that 
can be fed cheaper. Hogs 
not only fatten quickly 
on them, but the meat is 
sweeter than when corn- 
fed; some claim it is 
equal to that of peanut- 
fed hogs. 
Any land suitable for 
corn, cotton or peanuts 
will make a profitable 
crop of chufas, but they 
do best on light sandy 
soils. Plant till July 1st 
in 2\ to 3-foot rows, 
cropping three to five 
inches apart in the row, 
and cover 2 inches deep. 
In the fall pull a few 
plants with the roots and 
give your hogs and poul¬ 
try a taste, and they will 
go over the entire field 
and will attend to the 
harvesting. 1 to 1J pecks 
plant an acre. 
Chufas or Grass Nuts. 
LESPEDEZA SERICEA—Perennial 
Can be Planted Till July—Broadcast 25 lbs. per acre. 
. Adapted to any type of soil, wonderfully resistant to drought, 
large yielding hay crops, good pasture, and a fine soil improver. 
It will produce two to four tons of field-cured hay per acre an¬ 
nually. Actual feeding trials have proved it equal to alfalfa. 
Sericea enjoys many advantages over the annual lespedeza; it 
will thrive on much poorer land, comes back year after year 
from the roots, furnishes two to three cuttings per season and 
yields much more abundantly. During the most severe drought 
years Sericea, due to its deep, vigorous root system, maintained 
a beautiful rich green color, when other forage crops were com¬ 
pletely burned up. 
Game Preserves will find Sericea affords splendid cover and 
feed for birds, far superior to other lespedezas in this respect. 
WARNING ABOUT LESPEDEZA —Dodder or lovevine 
as well as Johnson grass are very serious pests, and 
thrive to a greater extent in Lespedeza than in any 
other crop. We do not handle cheap Lespedeza con¬ 
taining those noxious weeds—our stock testing 98% 
to 99J% pure. 
INOCULATE ALL LEGUMES 
W WITH A 
NITRAGIN 
The 0'iqmal tequ«ne Inoeulitor v 
HARVESTING LESPEDEZA HAY 
Cut Sericea and other Lespedezas when 12 to 14 
inches high after dew drys off in the morning, rake up 
and haul in before night. It is much easier to harvest 
than other crops as it does not heat if put in the barn 
immediately. However, if left on the ground overnight, 
dew causes the leaves to fall off. 
