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HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR APRIL, 1941—Henry Field Seed & 

Pleased with Our Spots 
_ “Dear Mr: Field: Here is a picture of 
the Spotted Sow I bought of you in Febru- 
ary. The name is Ak-Sar-Ben Princess. 
The pigs were 2144 months old and sure 
were dandies. We’re more than pleased 
with the buy.”—Mr. Wilbur Pluckhahn, 
Carroll, Ia. 
Hold Up Those Pig Orders 
Please don’t send me any more orders 
until fall for bred gilts or bred sows for 
either Spots or the white-faced Herefords, 
for we are just cleaned up. People have 
been begging us for stuff, but we just 
haven’t got it. 
We will have plenty of them bred for 
September and October. A postal card 
about the first of August will bring you 
complete information. 
We will have plenty of young pigs— 
and it’s a good time to get a quick cheap 
start in hogs by buying some of these un- 
related trios—two gilts and an unrelated 
boar. A trio will put you in the hog 
-business quickly and cheaply. Ready to 
ship-in May or June. 
PRICES: Same as last Seed Sense. 
Spring pigs only. 
Weather-Proof Corn Succeeds! 
(See Price List. Same Price as Other 
Mule-Hybrids) 
My special weather-proof corn has been 
a life-saver on hundreds of farms. Take 
last year. It got hot and dry just when 
corn was tasseling and lots of corn didn’t 
set a kernel because the pollen was all 
destroyed by the heat. But where my 
weather-proof blends were planted, they 
did. The reason is simply that THIS 
BLEND IS SO MADE IT THROWS ITS 
POLLEN OVER A 3 WEEK PERIOD and 
so threw pollen for a long period after the 
heat wave thereby making corn. 
Read what Geo. Miller of Sawyer, Kans. 
says. “Dear Mr. Field: 
I purchased 2 bushel of weather proof 
MULE HYBRID corn from you last spring. 
Planted it on 25 acres, it is making from 
30 to 40 bushels per acre. It is the only 
corn for miles around and hundreds of 
acres were put in here, and all dried up 
but your Mule Hybrid stood the test of 
hot dry weather. People have come for 
miles around to look at this corn as I 
have advertised it pretty thoroughly. 
Several have asked me to order seed for 
them when I order. 
Yours respectfully, 
Geo. D. Miller, Sawyer, Kansas. 
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Ido not think much of the man who is not 
week today than he was yesterday.—Lin- 


Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 13 

“Dear Mr. Field: I want to send you this picture of the wonderful pasture mixture 
I got of you. It was sowed Feb. 25 and the Brome sowed on it March 6. About June 
1, it stood 31% ft. high. Mowed 6 A. and the rest where the cattle are in the picture 
wasn’t mowed. It’s extra fine pasture now and looks like there will be plenty of 
a in it for fall and winter when the snow isn’t on.”—Clint Thompson, Vermillion, 
ansas. 

Get Your Pasture Mixture at Headquarters 

Pasture mixtures are something some seedsmen cheat on. With the seed mixed up, 
they figure you can’t tell if they load it with a lot of screenings and other chaff. But 
that never happened at Henry Field’s and I guess it’s one good reason why we prob- 
ably sell more pasture mixtures than two or three other seedsmen put together. 
Our formulas have been worked out over 50 years, our seed is carefully tested and 
full test put on each bag, and by buying seed in huge quantities, we can save you 
money on what you need. 
This year, we are pushing 5 different mixtures. 
Each bu. sows 3% A. Here’s the list. 
and made up.especially for that purpose. 
Each one is for a certain purpose 
For Quick Pasture—Field’s Hurry-Up Mix, bu. $2.65. 
For Dryland Pasture—Field’s Brome Grass Mix, bu, $6.75. 
For Hog Pasture—Field’s Hog Pasture Mix, bu. $2.50. 
For Permanent All-Around Pasture—Field’s 50-50 Pasture Mix, bu. $4.50. 
For Bargain Pasture—Field’s Good But Cheap Permanent Pasture, bu. $3.25. 
All except the hog mix are eligible to 75c per acre AAA payment and the Brome 
Grass Mix is eligible to $3 per A. 
except Hog mix. 
If reseeding, they all earn 8c lb. AAA payment 
Beware of mixtures that won’t qualify. . 

Proves Brome & Alfalfa Best 
Remember last month, I told you an ideal 
combination for permanent hay and pasture 
was to sow 10 lbs. of Brome per A. now and 
5 lbs. of Alfalfa per A. on the same ground 
later? Well here’s some official proof of 
the results of that mixttirre from the Do- 
minion Agrologist at the University of Sas- 
katchewan. Look them over carefully. 
Yield of Cured Hay in Pounds Per A. 
Brome grass Brome & Alf, 

Year of test alone Mixed 
1926 2619 2718 
1927 3750 4155 
1928 2386 4548 
1929 T8387 2201 
1930 ATS 1111 
1931 856 3985 
1932 627 4226 
They also go on to say that the mixture 
prevents the pasture becoming ‘sod-bound’ 
as Brome alone will sometimes do because 
of lack of nitrogen which alfalfa supplies. 
This year, be sure you try this mixture for 
hay and pasture. You just can’t beat it. 
Want Hybrid Corn Sign? 
We will have hybrid corn signs ready 
about the middle of June. These are nice 
big metal signs—easily put up by driving 2 
spikes which are furnished, 
Lots of you Mule-Hybrid growers have 
been wanting them. We will send them 
free, if you will send a postcard and tell us 
how many you will want. Of course, we 
prefer that they be used on fields alongside 
a well-travelled road. And naturally, we 
want them only on Mule-Hybrid fields. Too 
many companies send men down the road 
to put their signs on any corn that looks 
good to them. So send in your card and tell 
us how many you'll need. We'll send them 
right out as soon as signs arrive from the 
manufacturers, 

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Be a self-starter and don’t make a crank 
out of the boss. 
Sow Hulled Lespedeza Late 
My new hulled and scarified lespedeza 
has caught on like ‘‘wild-fire.”’ It’s sell- 
ing right and left. First reason is, it goes 
farther—takes only 2/3 the usual amount 
of seed. Second reason is it’s absolutely 
free of horse nettle which some lespedeza * 
contains. 
But I want to warn you not to sow it 
too early. Lespedeza can be hurt by late 
freezes and this starts quick so I say last 
half of April or early May is about right. 
Remember, it’s only $4.95 per bu. and 
that’s a 60 lb. bushel—absolutely noxious 
weed free. 

Clipping Sweet Clover 
So many folks have asked about how 
to clip various Sweet Clovers, ’m going 
to pass on my opinion in case you were 
wondering, but hadn’t written. 
Regular biennial Sweet Clover clipped 
on the last of May will generally produce 
more seed than that’s. unclipped. How- 
ever, clipping after this date starts to 
destroy the seed yield and clipping earlier 
doesn’t seem to help much, 
Hubam clover will recover, if clipped 
high, and will branch out and produce a 
tremendous seed crop. 
Don’t clip any of your Sweet Clover too 
low. 
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As we grow better, we meet better people. 
—Kilbert Hubbard. 
