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USE MORE LIME 
We strongly recommend the use of more Limestone. On most soils you cannot afford to © 
farm without using Limestone. The lime content has been so depleted by continuous crop- 
ping from anywhere from 25 to 200 years that the Supply is inadequate to grow legumes 
profitably. You get a thin stand, often more weeds, then blame thé seed for the poor results. 
Limestone does not cost much and we recommend more hauling and spreading of Limestone 
and less time spent loitering around in town. To farm profitably, it still takes some work. 
We often hear farmers brag about how many miles they have put on their cars in a year, 
and we do not wonder why their farms and crops look as they do. 
All legumes must have lime. Have your soil analyzed; and, if deficient in lime, supply it 
at once. It is best to spread your lime at least four months before you do your seeding. Lime 
increases both the quantity and quality of the legume. Here again is where Uncle Samuel 
pays most of the bill. Even on swamp land which still contains a lot of lime and snail 
Shells, we still find it has paid us well to spread from 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of Limestone 
per acre. 

KENTUCKY BLUE GRASS 
We are the largest buyers of Kentucky Blue 
Grass in Central] Illinois, buying our seed di- 
rect from the cleaners in Kentucky and Mis- 
souri. We do not buy light, chaffy seed. Most 
of our seed weighs 21 lbs. to the bushel while 
the regular weight of one bushel of Blue 
Grass is 14 lbs. Light chaff and hulls so often . 
received in Blue Grass is of no value what- 
ever, but used by many concerns as a filler. 
Prices: Single lb. 30c; 5 lbs. or more, 28c; 10 
Ibs. $2.70; 50 lbs. or more $12.50; 100 lbs. or 
TIMOTHY 
The standard hay of commerce. In order to get a meadow 
or pasture started it is necessary to use some timothy which 
is a good plant to sow on all soils. 
If you sow with clover 
.| seed a sprinkling of two quarts per acre, this will hold the 
| clover from lodging and also from falling down and mould- 
ing. When the clover is plowed the timothy roots keep the 
soil from running together and getting hard. 
AW geo fie At the present low price it is well to sow a good acreage 
a Sei i/ of timothy. For prices see page 
met Ro” Seed g 
ut 3 lbs. per acre is very good to sow with Alfalfa. 
RED TOP 
Red Top belongs to the Blue Grass family. 
Will grow on the poorest soil and it is said 
red top is the last thing that will grow be- 
fore soil is abandoned. 
Southern Illinois, in the Hard Pan section, 
red top is grown profitably. Red Top makes 
a good pasture, and a fine mixture with blue 
grass for a lawn. When blue grass dries and 
burns up, red top stays green and thrives. 
Red Top will also grow in shady places 
where other grasses will not grow. : 
more $23.00. Special prices quoted on large 
quantities. 
KOREAN LESPEDEZA 
On our good land in North Central Illinois we find it does not pay to grow Lespedeza 
for a crop, as other legumes such as red clover, alfalfa and sweet clover do much better. 
On thin lands in other sections Lespedeza has proven to be a great crop. We recommend 
12 pounds hulled seed.and 20 pounds unhulled seed per acre for best results, but some do 
well with less seed. We recommend hulled and scarified Lespedeza which can be cleaned and 
sown like clover or alfalfa. 
RAPE SEED 
‘For the past 17 years we have imported rape from Holland and Japan, mostly from Hol- 
land, a million pounds or more of rape seed, furnishing most of the central west jobbers rape 
seed. Last year we were unable to import from either of these countries and as these jobbers 
looked to us for rape seed we tried for four months to get some information on Argentine 
Rape which was being offered, but no one in this country seemed to know anything about it, 
no more than it was a dwarf rape. We imported some of this which proved to be unadapted 
for spring sowing for feed. We then contracted for our rape seed to be grown in the north- 
western part of the United States and offer you some of the finest genuine Dwarf Essex 
Rape seed we ever saw, shows a purity of 99.80 and a germination of 98%. ) 
For 1943 we have growing for us on contract 285 acres of this same variety of rape. More 
rape should be seeded, as rape produces an abundance of rich feed for sheep, hogs and cattle, 
equal in food value to alfalfa. Few people realize the real value of rape, especially for hogs 
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