Fall Crops 
President Roosevelt could not call the South the “Country’s 
No. 1 Economic Problem” if all our fields were producing in 
winter as well as summer.. Mild Southern winters let us pro¬ 
duce two crops a year on the same land, or graze livestock 
the year round. Yet every year millions of dollars are sent 
out of the South to buy grain and feed which could be grown 
here by labor and on land that is idle all winter. 
“GROW MOKE SMALL GRAINS” 
The Virginia Experiment Station gives 5 reasons: 
1. The additional labor cost is negligible. Small grains are 
seeded when other crops need little attention and can be 
quickly harvested with modern machinery without interfer¬ 
ing with summer cultivation or hay harvest. 
2. Small grains are splendid cover crops, reduce soil ero¬ 
sion, and pay most of the seeding cost in soil conservation. 
3 Grasses, clovers and lespedeza may be sown on them at 
no extra cost of soil preparation. 
4. Besides the grain yield they furnish winter pasture and 
straw for roughage and bedding, keeping animals clean and 
comfortable and saving manure better. 
5. They produce grain crops without soil erosion on land 
too steep for com. 
The seed bed does not require plowing, but should be disk¬ 
ed, harrowed and mellow 2 or 3 inches deep. It is economical 
to buy seed, as most seed grain saved on farms goes through 
a heat, loses germination and requires 2 or 3 times as many 
bushels per acre to get a normal stand. Farm saved seed 
usually is badly mixed and contains disease and noxious 
weeds, which reduce the yields and value of the crop.. The 
small extra cost of Wood’s Certified or Pedigree Seed pays 
big dividends in yield and value of the crop. Wood’s Pedi¬ 
gree seed is grown from the highest yielding Certified strains 
and carefully field inspected by state inspectors. Wood’s 
seed wheat, oats and barley are treated free with Ceresan. 
CERESAN SEED TREATMENT IS CROP INSURANCE 
U. S. Department of Agriculture: “Treating seed wheat, 
oats and barley with Ceresan improves the germination, yield 
and quality of the crop. It controls seedling blight, loose 
smut, and most other diseases. It has no effect on drill 
action or rate of sowing. Most other treatments cause in¬ 
jury to the seed and do not protect it as effectively. 
Sow Oats and Barley before frost, 2 bus per acre for grain, 
3 bus. for hay or pasture. Sow Wheat and Rye near the time 
of the first killing frost, 1% bus. for grain, 2 bus. for pasture. 
Use 300 lbs. Wood’s Grain Fertilizer per acre. 
“Wood’s Super-Abruzzi made the highest yield I ever heard 
Rye make. Although planted late, it started growing imme¬ 
diately, stooled out unusually well and made more fall and 
winter growth than any other grain crop I ever saw. It 
never stopped growing from the time it came up until it 
ripened. Its strong stalks, 6 feet tall, stood up well under 
its large heavy heads.” 
ABRUZZI RYE is attacked by fewer insects and diseases 
than other small grains, does better on light acid land with 
less fertilizer, can be sown over a longer period, is more 
winter hardy and furnishes more winter pasture in cold 
weather. U. S. Dept, of Agriculture tests show 45% of the 
Abruzzi Rye sold in the South is misbranded. Northern or 
Rosen Rye,, which is unadapted and practically worthless. 
To be sure of getting genuine Abruzzi, buy Wood’s Certified 
Abruzzi Rye or W’ood’s Super-Abruzzi, an improved strain 
that produces one-half more fall and winter grazing. 
OATS. Wood’s Improved Lee No 5 is the best oat for hay 
or pasture throughout the South, and best for grain in the 
Piedmont and Mountains. It is extremely winter hardy. It 
stools out and makes more fall and winter growth than other 
varieties. Many customers report yields of over 100 bus. 
per acre. It has large, plump, meaty kernels, weighing over 
40 lbs. per struck bushel. In the deep South Wood’s Fulgrain 
yields more grain but not as much pasture or hay. Wood’s 
Improved Winter Turf is a good old reliable cold-proof oat. 
“Wood’s Certified Beardless Barley made over 50 bushels 
per acre in a severe season when other grains yielded only 
10 to 12 bus. It should be the chief grain crop in this sec¬ 
tion.”—D. H. Crosby, Co. Agent, Essex, Va. 
BARLEY produces more grain than wheat, has a higher 
feeding value than corn, and is as good as hay for roughage. 
Beardless Barley is the most popular but usually contains 
25% to 50% bearded heads and is badly infested with disease 
and noxious weeds. .Wood’s Certified Beardless Barley is free 
of bearded heads, noxious weeds and disease. Wood’s Bearded 
Winter Bariey makes very high yields. Many farmers are 
changing to Wood’s Nobarb Barfley, which has smooth beards. 
WHEAT is the safest winter grain crop, is more winter 
and storm resistant than oats or barley, and produces more 
and better grain than rye Wood’s Redhart 3 resists loose 
smut and rust and is the heaviest yielding and earliest ma¬ 
turing smooth wheat in the Southern Coast and Piedmont. 
Wood’s Leap’s Prolific is the most popular smooth wheat 
in the East, especially in the Piedmont. .Wood’s Forward 
resists loose smut and rust and is the most cold-proof smooth 
wheat for higher elevations. Wood’s V. P. I. 131 is the high¬ 
est yielding and most winter resistant bearded wheat. 
WINTER LEGUMES are as profitable as cash crops, build 
up soil, stop erosion, and double the yield of following crops. 
Plant Wood’s Crimson Clover 20 lbs. per acre. Hairy Vetch 
25 lbs., Austrian Winter Peas 40 lbs. Inoculate. 
Wood’s Grain Pasture or Hay Mixtures are the quickest, 
cheapest and best crops to furnish an abundance of nutri¬ 
tious feed, especially where corn and other feed crops fail 
WOOD’S GRAIN TIME OF GRAZING 
PASTURE MIXTURE Oct. Nov. Dec. Jan. Feb. Mar. Apl. May 
Lee Cold Proof Oats.. - 
Crimson Clover . - 
Bur Clover. - 
Abruzzi Rye . — 
Winter Barley . - 
Redhart Wheat. ■ 
Vetch & Austrian Peas - 
Rape . 
Black Medic . . 
Wood’s Permanent Hay Mixtures produce better stands 
and more tons of hay over a longer period at less seeding cost. 
Wood’s Permanent Pasture Mixtures furnish more grazing 
in every season of the year. We have a permanent Hay or 
Pastutre Mixture for every soil or climate, developed by our 
61 years’ experience. Fall sowing eliminates summer weeds. 
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