American Field Seed Co., Chicago, Ill 
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aND or HAIRY VETCh 
These prices are bargain prices on the seed of a very valuable crop. It is a legume, 
a nitrogen gathering soil building crop. It is a heavy gatherer of root tubercles, and one 
of the best fertilizing crops you can grow. Vetch grows on poor lands where clover will 
fail. FOr sandy soil it does better than other legumes. Give it a good seed bed, and it 
will accomplish wonders. 
Sand Vetch makes a fine growth through spring, summer and fall and 
remains green the greater part of the winter. The following spring it 
grows rapidly, maturing in the early summer. Supplies green feed over a 
long penod. It is equal or superior to Alfalfa in food value. Sow it in 
spring or fall and it will moduce the first bite of green next spring. The 
crop stands cold and drought. 
Sow 20 to 25 lbs. per acre with small grain. Sow with rye or wheat if 
you sow it in the fall and cut them together for hay the next spring. 
The demand for Sand Vetch is growing. We urge you to grow it. 
SPRING VETCH 
$1.85 25 lbs. $3.60 50ibs. $7.00 ioolbs. 
Similar to Winter Vetch. Is an annual crop. Can be sown early. 
Grows anywhere. Is a soil builder. If you want quick summer pasture or 
hay crop, use Spring Vetch. It’s an emergency crop. When sown alone 
use 50 to 60 lbs. per acre. Most farmers sow with Oats or Canada Field 
Peas or both. Sow about. 30 to 40 lbs. Vetch and IV 2 to 2 bushels oats 
per acre. Or sow about 25 lbs. Vetch. 20 lbs. Canada Field Peas with iy 2 
to 2 bushels of Oats. High germination and low price guaranteed. 
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$ 2*5 
25 lbs. 
$fis° 
^^100 lbs. 
30 
* 50 lbs. 
One of the most valuable forage crops grown in this 
country. Extra good for pasture. Exceedingly rich in 
protein. Enormously productive especially on moist rich 
soil. Phenomenal results have been secured by pasturing 
sheep and hogs on rape pasture. It is succulent and 
palatable. 
Rape is economical to sow. Use about 8 lbs. per acre. Can be sown 
from early spring till in August. Many sow in corn at last cultivation. 
May be seeded alone or in small grain. Does its best in cool weather. 
Produces pasture weeks after other forage plants are killed by frost. 
Sometimes used for plowing under to add humus to the soil. 
Rape will help you reduce the cost of growing live stock. Puts on a 
fine finish. Stock is ready for market in shorter time. It is fine for all 
animals, especially young ones and you can’t beat it for hogs and sheep. 
Grow some rape pasture this year. It will pay you. We have cut our 
prices to bed rock. It will only cost you around 50c an acre for seed. 
Ours_ is the genuine Dwarf Essex variety and is bright, clean, high 
germinating and guaranteed to satisfy. 
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SEE PAGE 32 FOR STAR BARGAIN PRICES 
Cowpeas are legumes or soil builders. They make fine feed because they are rich in protein. They mature early. They will 
grow on poor soils and are especially well adapted to sandy or light clay loam. Like other croDs they will yield more on rich 
land than poor but nevertheless make a profitable crop for poorer soils and make such soils richer. 
The yields of hay are heavy, nutritious and palatable. Stock are very fond of Cowpeas for hay. You get more fertilizing 
benefit when you nlow under a full croD but even with the crop removed as hay they help the land considerably. 
Do not plant till the ground is warm. They are best drilled in at the rate of 1 to 1*A bushels per acre, closing every 
other spout in the drill, or may be put in wider rows with corn planter. Cut for hay when pods are full grown and beginning 
to turn. May be fed green or cut green and mixed with corn silage. 
VARIETIES 
Whip-poor-will Type —Medium early maturing and a popular variety. Brown speckled seed. A prolific yielder. 
New Era Type —Very early (about 75 days). Often sown after small grain crop is taken off. Makes splendid hay. 
Grey Goose Type —Grown in Northern Indiana. Prolific growers of hay and peas. Very early. See Page 32. 
Mixed —Different varieties grown mixed together or mixed at country points. Very valuable for plowing under and extensively grown for hay. 
Anyono wishing large quantities of cowpeas should write for the special reductions. 
Rodden, Ill. 
Gentlemen: I have bought seed of you since . 
, — f . If) 10 and am well pleased so far, and as long 
. as 1 g e t the quality I have been I will continue. 
Yours respectfully, 
(Signed) Albert M. Taylor. 
Milmme, Ill. 
Gentlemen: I got 3 bushels of your Clover, 
Alsike and Timothy Mixed last year, and be¬ 
lieve every seed grew, and I have a fine hay crop. 
I have ordered 3 bushels more of the same seed. 
(Signed) Howard Virtue. 
