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Produce Wood’s Seed Grains . . . 
From these acres our Pedigree and Certified Strains of Seed 
are produced. We select only the finest Certified Seeds for 
this acreage and field inspections are made by the State Crop 
Improvement Association. When planting Wood’s Seed Grains 
you are assured of dependable seed that will produce out- 
standing crops—true to type and high quality. 
Wood’s Seed Grains Are Treated... 
All Wood’s Seed Oats, Barley and Wheat are treated with 
New Improved Ceresan, and are ready to plant when received 
by our customers. Treated seed produces healthier plants, 
stronger stalks, larger heads, more resistant to disease, and 
as a result, larger yields of better 
quality grain are obtained. 




1 GOOD ADVICE--From 
The Va. Crop Improvement Association 
There never is enough good seed to supply the farm- 
ers of the State if they all used seed of the highest 
qualiity. Much inferior seed of all kinds has been sown 
in the past and much will continue to be used. With 
a shortage of farm help facing them and the prospect 
of a shortage of nitrogenous fertilizers, it behooves 
farmers now more than ever to try to hold up their 
yields by using good seed. 
Many growers are still of the opinion that if they 
buy seed of high mechanical purity and good germina- 
tion that they have solved their seed problem. But this 
is wholly overlooking the fact that such seed may not 
be well adapted or, even if well adapted, not be from 
strains having the highest capacity to give good yields. 
Furthermore, mechanical purity does not insure free- 
dom from disease. Some diseases cannot be recognized 
in the seed stage. Yet the seed may contain disease or 
a susceptibility to disease that may be disastrous to 
the plants. 
To be safe with seed it is necessary to know the 
variety, the point of origin, the extent of seed-borne 
diseases, what noxious weeds are present and in what 
quantity, per cent of germination, per cent of mechani- 
cal purity and per cent of other crop seed. 
In addition to these precautions, seed should be 
treated before being sown by whatever treatment has 
been found to be the best agent in controlling their 
several diseases. If these safeguards are properly ob- 
served, many crop failures will be prevented and many 
losses due to low quality will be avoided.—sS. F.. Grubbs, 
Secy., Va. Crop Improvement Assn., Blacksburg, Va. 
The Va. Dept. of Agriculture 
In Their August Bulletin, says: 
Winter Grazing Most Beneficial 
This is the time to give thought to preparing fall 
and winter grazing for livestock. This will be par- 
ticularly desirable where there is likely to be a short- 
age of roughage. 
Early seeded and reasonably well fertilized crops, 
such as crimson clover, vetch, rye, rye grass, as well as 
oats, wheat or barley, may be seeded over most of the 
State during next month, and will do much to lower 
the carrying cost and general vigor for such animals 
as calves, sheep, hogs, colts and cattle. 
We know many farms in Virginia where sheep are 
practically wintered on such grazing crops, which are 
gotten in early, and under such conditions as they will 
grow rapidly and supply green grazing. 
Crimson Clover, Hairy Vetch and Austrian Winter Peas 
THE SOUTH’S BEST NITROGEN GATHERERS AND SOIL IMPROVING CROPS 
WOOD’S CRIMSON CLOVER 
U.S. Grown. 99% Pure 
There is no better soil improving crop than 
Crimson Clover, making a fine winter and spring 
growth, furnishing abundant grazing from De- 
cember to May, when green feed is so essential. 
Also makes an excellent winter crop to prevent 
loss of soil fertility. Its root nodules add large 
quantity of nitrogen to the soil (estimated about 
700 lbs. per acre). It is considered a more win- 
ter hardy, disease resistant, and surer cropper, 
besides not requiring as much lime as Alfalfa, 
Red, and Alsike Clover. Today, when acreage of 
most of our cash crops are being curtailed under 

WOOD’S HAIRY VETCH and 
AUSTRIAN WINTER PEAS 
IDEAL WINTER SOIL IMPROVING PASTURE 
AND HAY CROP 
In a 13-year Southern Experiment Station test 
they averaged 8 tons of green manure per acre, 
furnished all of the nitrogen needed, and increased 
the yield of corn 18 bus. and seed cotton 590 lbs, 
per acre. 
Farmers throughout the South are fast awak- 
ening to their great value as winter cover crops, 
as they prevent soil erosion and generally double 
the yield of succeeding crops. The U. S. Gov- 
ernment Soil Conservation program recognized 
their absolute necessity to Southern Agriculture, 
Farmers who depend entirely on commercial fer- 
the AAA program, it is of vital importance to W0od’s Crimson Clover tilizers cannot possibly compete with those who 
keep your land in the highest production state. 
Our seed is of the highest quality, domestic grown, hav- 
ing been heavily recleaned, testing over 99% pure and bright 
quality. Be sure to inoculate and sow 20 lbs. per acre on a 
firm seed bed during late August and September. 
A Fine Hay Mixture—1 bushel Beardless Barley or Ful- 
grain Oats, with 10 lbs. Hairy Vetch, 15 lbs. Austrian Peas, 
and 5 lbs. Crimson Clover. 
cut down their fertilizer bilis by planting Hairy 
Vetch and Austrian Winter Peas each fall. A 
crop of Vetch or Peas plowed under makes soils easier to 
plow, helps following crops withstand droughts or wet spells, 
and grows off faster, saving cultivation expenses. 
They thrive on nearly all soils, including acid types. Un- 
cultivated land needs preparation, but cultivated land does 
not. Sow from September to November, Hairy Vetch 25 Ibs. 
per acre, Austrian Peas 40 lbs. Cover 1 to 3 inches. 
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