GRAIN 
SORGHUMS 
F ESSEX 
EARLY KALO: Wouldn’t it be good business 
to plant a good part of your land to a grain you 
are reasonably sure will make a crop even if we 
have grasshoppers and drouth? 
Try Early Kalo. It has outyielded all other grain 
sorghums as well as corn at the North Platte Sta¬ 
tion. It grows about 3H feet tall. The slender, 
leafy stalks support medium sized, solid heads. 
The grain is nearly equal to com in feeding value. 
I consider Early Kalo the best grain sorghum for 
the North. Matures a crop in about 90 days. 
1 lb., I5c; 5 lbs., 35c; 10 lbs., 55c; 25 lbs., 
95c; 50 lbs., $1.55; 100 lbs., $2.75. 
GROHOMA: Matures In about 105 days. 
This new dry-weather forage plant of the Kaffir 
family has made a good crop of fodder and seed 
when corn was a total failure. 
Grows from 6 to 8 feet high with leaves clear to 
the bottom of the stalks. The heavy heads are 
nearly a foot long and sometimes weigh 1 pound 
each. Grohoma will outyield any other grain 
sorghum. There are record yields of over 100 
bushels per acre. 
1 lb., 15c; 5 lbs., 35c; 10 lbs., 60c; 25 lbs., 
$1.00; 50 lbs., $1.70; 100 lbs., $2.95. 
ATLAS SORGO (Not State Certified) : This is 
good Atlas Sorgo grown by a reliable grower, and 
should be as good for fodder as the State Certified 
seed, and it is a lot cheaper. 
10 lbs., 60c; 25 lbs., $1.05; 50 lbs., $1.80; 
100 lbs., $3.25. 
Plant Sorghum for grain in rows at the rate of 
4 to 6 pounds per acre. For fodder, use 10 pounds 
per acre in rows, and from 50 to 75 pounds broad¬ 
cast. Plant 1 to 1)^ inches deep after the ground 
is warm. 
Rape is one of the best pasture crops, and much 
more of it should be planted. 
Sow Rape in the spring with your small grain. 
It will make wonderful sheep, calf, and hog pasture 
after your small grain is harvested. Sow it with 
Fall Rye in the Spring for Summer Pasture. Most 
important of all, sow it with your last cultivation 
of corn. This is the most profitable place to sow 
Rape seed. If you are hogging the corn down, the 
hogs will clean the Rape as well as the corn. 
At the South Dakota Agricultural College, they 
divided 96 lambs into 8 lots of 12 each, put them 
on eight different kinds of pasture, including Rape, 
Sudan, Soy Beans, Sweet Clover and many others. 
THE LOT PASTURED ON RAPE gained 16 
lbs. per head in 30 days, which was much BET¬ 
TER THAN ANY OTHER LOT. At the Iowa 
Station, lambs pastured on Rape made better gains 
than those on Alfalfa pasture. LIGHT FROSTS 
DO NOT HARM RAPE, and it will continue to 
grow and make good pasture until the snow flies. 
Do not pasture dairy cows 
on Rape as it will taint 
the milk. 
Dwarf Essex Rape is the 
only variety that is valu¬ 
able for pasture. 
1 lb., 20c; 5 lbs., 70c; 
10 lbs., $1.25; 25 lbs., 
$2.55; 50 lbs., $4.75; 100 
lbs., $8.75. 
SUDAN GRASS 
In many parts of the country, 1939 was dry and hot. Between the lack 
of moisture and damage by grasshoppers, corn was a failure — pastures 
were gone—but Sudan kept right on growing, and made good pasture and 
a lot of hay. 
DON’T TAKE CHANCES ON ANOTHER DRY YEAR 
PLANT SUDAN GRASS 
Vergas, 
Sudan Grass is unquestionably the best forage crop that can be raised in the North. It 
should be cut when about 3 feet high. Handled this way you will always get two cuttings 
a year and generally three, yielding from 4 to 6 tons of dry hay per acre. Even if left to 
grow 8 or 9 feet high, the stalks will seldom be any thicker than a lead pencil. The greatest 
value of Sudan is in green pasture for the cows in the summer when pastures are poor and 
the milk flow is low. 
You will find very little if any mixture of Cane in our Sudan Grass seed, as it is grown 
in the South in districts where they do not raise any other kinds of sorghums. Most of the 
Northern grown Sudan is badly mixed with Cane and may be danger¬ 
ous to use for pasture. 
Our seed is of extra good quality, well cleaned, plump, and of 
good germination. Our price is very low for this fine quality peed. 
Plant 25 pounds per acre. 
Sudan Grass should not be planted until the ground has warmed 
up thoroughly after com planting season. 
1 lb.. 15c; 5 lbs., 40c; 10 lbs., 65c; 25 lbs., $1.20; 50 lbs., $2.20; 100 lbs., 
$3.95. 
100 lbs. 
$3.95 
The House of Gurney. 
pear Sir: snaV shot of my- 
l a m beside some 
self sitting from your seed. 
Sudan Grass gi' f to u er than the 
You can see ? hai ' e of the tallest 
horses' heads. tall, and it 
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