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T. W. Wood & Sons 
WOOD’S QUAIL 
CROTALARIA 
Planting Mixture 
The best seed mixture to 
produce permanent year 
round feed for partridges, 
wild turkeys, pheasants, 
doves, etc. Also superior to 
cut down the feed bill of domestic fowls. If 
planted according to instructions, will attract 
and multiply numbers of conveys 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 
plots. The mixture includes practically all cul¬ 
tivated crops relished by game birds for quick 
growth ant' to keep them in plump, vigorous 
condition. Composed of Sesbania, Bene, Flor¬ 
ida Beggarweed, Brown Top and Tennessee 
millet, Sericea, Korean and Common Lespe- 
deza, Cow Peas, Laredo Soy Beans, Rape, 
Shallu, Kaffir Corn, Sudan Grass, 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 bet¬ 
ter to sow alone after the ground warms in 
early summer. Apply 300 lbs. per acre of 
WOOD’S STANDARD GRAIN FERTILIZER. 
Will reseed itself, furnishing a perma¬ 
nent growth, but is better to disk, har¬ 
row and sow every year. The legumes in 
this mixture will enrich the soil. Rich¬ 
ard Eppes, Martin Co., N. C., says: “It 
is the finest feed for partridges. I plant¬ 
ed it in long strips near cover and it 
attracted and multiplied twice as many 
coveys as I ever had before. I will 
plant it every season.” 
Virginia Superintendent of Game Prop¬ 
agation says: “Any farm can be eco¬ 
nomically stocked with quail, wild tur¬ 
key 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 intensive¬ 
ly cultivated or pastured that there is 
no cover, or farms with ample cover, 
but no food, cannot have quail. Plant¬ 
ing only one crop like cow peas will 
not establish a permanent convey range. 
A mixture of several kinds of foods to 
furnish year round nourishment is neces¬ 
sary. Planting long strips, 10 to 40 
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. 
On large areas plant a network of cul¬ 
tivated 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 preferable to plant 
in rows as close as possible and culti¬ 
vated once or twice. Apply fertilizer. 
THE BEST SOIL BUILDING LEGUME for 
Federal Soil Conservation Compliance because: 
1. The seed cost is only 76c. per acre, sowed 
in rows, one-third the cost of seeding lespedeza. 
2. It makes 3 times as much vegetative 
growth and root nodules as soybeans or cow- 
peas on sandy land, and twice as much on 
heavier soils, frequently 40,000 pounds per 
acre. When turned under the cash value ol 
nitrogen is estimated at $20 per acre, besides 
the untold value of humus, which prevents ero¬ 
sion, and holds moisture. 
3. It smothers out summer weeds, nematodes 
and other soil diseases. It does not harbor 
dodder. It is not attacked by insect pests. 
4. Requires no lime or fertilizer. 
5. Grows well on any soil, good or waste 
land, and is better adapted to light, sandy soils 
than lespedeza. Resists heat and drought. 
SOW from corn planting time through July, 
8 lbs. per acre in 3-ft. rows, or 18 lbs. broad¬ 
cast. Cover 1 y 2 inches. Prepare the seed bed 
as for any other crop. In the fall disk down 
the plants or plow under. 
DO NOT PLANT UNSCARIFIED SEED as 
it germinates poorly and requires twice as 
much seed per acre. Be careful from 
whom you buy seed, as very few seeds¬ 
men in the South have machinery to 
properly scarify Crotalaria. Our seed is 
properly scarified, germinates readily, 
and is 99% pure. Inoculate. 
Late Crotalaria Spectabilis 
The best of all soil building crops. 
Grows taller and furnishes more humus 
than any other crotalaria. 7 feet tall, 
yields 15 tons or more of green manure, 
equal to 700 to 1,000 lbs. of nitrate of 
soda per acre. Stalks are pithy, easily 
plowed under and decay readily. It is 
not eaten by livestock or attacked by 
insect pests, nematodes or soil diseases. 
As its early growth is slow it pays to 
plant in rows and cultivate twice. After 
mid-summer it will completely smother 
out all weeds. It does not reseed. 
Early Carolina Spectabilis 
Similar to Late Spectabilis but makes 
Vs less growth, matures earlier and re¬ 
seed before frost in the Southern Coastal 
Plain, furnishing another soil improving 
crop the following summer even though 
a winter crop is grown in the same field. 
Intermedia Crotalaria 
EDIBLE. The only palatable Crotala¬ 
ria relished by livestock. Furnished sev¬ 
eral cuttings of fine quality hay easily 
cured. Its root nodules laden with nitro¬ 
gen gathering bacteria enrich the soil. 
2 weeks earlier than Late Spectabilis. 
Eate Crotalaria Spectabilis dou¬ 
bled the yield of Corn in North 
Carolina. 
SESBANIA 
Excellent for quail, duck marshes, and 
soil improving. It produced more seed 
than any other crop in the Georgia 5- 
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 cov¬ 
er. Every farmer who likes bird hunting 
and every game preserve should plant it, 
preferably in rich bottoms. Broadcast 25 
lbs. per acre from April to July. Does 
well on any soil, wet or dry. Plant only 
scarified seed. Our seed is of the high¬ 
est quality and scarified. Inoculate. 
SOIL IMPROVING. It produces an im¬ 
mense amount of humus rich in nitrogen 
for building up waste land. Sown at the 
last cultivation of corn, cotton, etc., it 
grows 6 feet tall in 8 to 10 weeks. Stalks 
decay readily. Popular with truckers. 
CHUFAS 
Earth Almoncls 
or Grass Nuts 
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 from April 1st till July 1st in 
2i to 3-foot rows, dropping three to five 
chufas together, 15 to 18 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 poultry a taste, and they 
will attend to the harvesting. 1 to li pecks 
plant an acre. 
FLORIDA BEGGARWEED 
Produces a large quantity of rich nourishing seeds that remain 
on the bush or ground all winter without decaying, and is rel¬ 
ished by game birds. Makes an upright growth, 6 feet tall, 
furnishing ideal cover for birds. Excellent for hay or pasture; 
relished by livestock. It averaged over 7 tons of hay per acre in 
the 5-year Georgia test; rich in protein and more fattening than 
alfalfa or cow peas. A wonderful notrogen gathering soil 
builder, thriving well on thin, sandy land and pine barrens. A 
fine legume cover crop for orchards. Sow after frost 3 to 5 
lbs. per acre in 3-foot drills or 12 lbs. broadcast. Inoculate. 
BROWN TOP MILLET 
Seed relished by quail and turkeys. Excellent bird cover. 
Will draw doves many miles. Similar to Tennessee millet, but 
is taller, has larger heads, and produces more seed, hay and 
grazing. Cam be grazed constantly in dry summers, starting 
when 3 to 4 inches tall; one plant stooling out about 30 stems 
and is relished by poultry and all livestock. Furnishes more 
hay than Sudan Grass, equal to Timothy in feeding value, al¬ 
lows several cuttings, yielding 5 to 6 tons per acre. Broadcast 
20 lbs. per acre from April to July. 
Crotalaria Intermedia’s fine leaves and Immense gTowth 
