R. H. Shumway—"The Pioneer American Seedsman"'—Established 1870 
Forage, Hay and Poultry Crops—All Annual Crops—They Will Assure You Suffi- 
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1593 Canada Field Peas 
~ Cow Peas (60 tbs. Bu.) 
1583 Mixed—Whippoorwill 
Type 
When danger of frost is over sow 
broadcast 1 Bu. per acre or 45 Ibs. 
Cowpeas 
produce one of the largest and the 
most nutritious forage crops grown. 
they furnish 
nitrogen and generally enhance the 
fertility of the soil. They make a fine 
feed for work and beef-stock and for 
dairy herds, and are nearly equal in 
value to alfalfa and wheat-bran. Post- 
‘paid, lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 70 cts.; 5 lbs., 
Not Prepaid, 4 bu., $1.20; 
% Bu., $2:15; Bu., $4.10; 2 Bu. and 
in drills 36 inches apart. 
‘When turned under, 
95 cts. 
over: @ $4.00 per Bu. 
Sunflower 
in waste corners. 10 Ibs. 
:10 Ibs., 
$7.00; 100 Ibs. $13.50. 

cient Supply of G 
1662 Mammoth Russian 
A small patch of cultivated sun- 
flowers will produce a great quantity 
of the very best poultry feed for win- 
ter. Drill. in rows, cut with a corn 
harvester, dry thoroughly and let the 
‘fowls do the threshing. If you can’t 
-spare land for cultivating, plant them 
per acre. 
Postpaid, % Ihb., 25 cts.; lb., 40 cts.; 
3 Ibs., $1.00; 5 lbs., $1.50. Not Prepaid, 
Si5605 720 e1DS., -63:7503-.:50 tlbs., 
1593 Canada Field Peas 
(60 Ibs. Bu.) 
Every season we get hundreds of 
letters from farmer friends asking 
that we suggest the best annual 
early hay crop. Well folks, there 
just isn’t anything that equals a 
mixture of Canadian Field Peas and 
Oats seeded in the early spring at 
the rate of one bushel of each per 
acre. This combination hay makes 
an average yield of 2-18/100 tons of 
excellent feed per acre. Almost 
equal pound for pound with Clover 
hay. Relished by all classes of 
stock. Canadian Field Peas are very 
hargy; therefore may be seeded just 
as soon as it is safe to sow Oats. 
We _ prefer sowing with a grain 
drill although good results may be 
obtained by sowing broadcast. Post- 
paid, 1 lb., 35 cts.; 3 lb., 90 cts.; 
5 _Ibs., $1.25. Not Prepaid, %4 bu. 
$1.60; % bu., $2.90; bu., $5.50; 2 bu 
and over @ $5.40 per bu. 
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1662 
Mammoth 
Sunflower 
Russian 
“ Forage Crops Every One Should Grow 
One Acre Will Produce Tons of High Quality Feed 
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3 1631 Milo-Maize 
1631 Milo-Maize 
Forage Plant of Great Merit. 
Belongs to the Non-Saccharine 
- Sorghums. It is pronounced the 
~ best and surest grain crop for 
- dry countries and seasons, even 
better than Kaffir corn. It grows 
‘several smaller heads on side 
shoots, often as many as eight 
heads on a stalk. Very valuable 
f 
he best poultry foods. Plant 15 
pounds per acre in drills. Post- 
paid, 4% Ib., 15 cts.; lb., 25 cts.; 
Peta oats pe oe Ret 
repai 0 Ybs., cts.; Ibs., 
$1.45 50 Ibs. $2.65; 100 lbs. 


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5.00. 

for feeding stock, also_one of. 
1623 Kafhir Corn : 
Makes splendid feed for poultry, fed 
either in the grain or ground and cooked. 
Foliage and stalk make excellent forage. 
Cultivate the same as common corn. Re- 
quires 15 pounds of seed per acre in 
drills. Postpaid, % Ib., 15 cts.; Ib., 25 
cts.; 3 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 85 cts. Not 
Prepaid, 10 lbs., 70 cts.; 25 lbs., $1.45; 50 
Ibs., $2.65; 100 Ibs., $5.00. 
1591 Feterita 
The great advantage Feterita has over 
Kaffir corn and all other plants of that 
class is its extreme earliness and great 
drought resisting qualities. Feterita is 
from 20 to 30 days earlier than Kaffir 
corn, makes excellent fodder and pro- 
duces a large grain crop. Plant 15 
lbs. per acre in drills. Postpaid, % Ib., 
15 cts.; lb., 25 cts.; 3 Ibs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 
85 cts. Not Prepaid, 10 lbs., 70 cts.; 25 
Ibs., $1.45; 50 lbs., $2.65; 100 lbs., $5.00. 
1592 Hegari 
This is a sweet sorghum somewhat sim- 
jliar to cane. Very nutritious. Valuable 
for grain, dry fodder, ensilage and pas- 
ture. Yields up to 5,000 lbs. of grain per 
acre and up to 18 tons of ensilage. Live 
stock, especially cattle, are very fond of 
it due to its sweet taste. For grain pro- 
duction drill like Kaffir 6 to 8 Ibs. per 
acre. For hay drill in close rows at 75 to 
90 lbs. per acre. Postpaid, % Ib., 15 cts.; 
Ib., 25 cts.; 3 Ibs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 85 cts. 
Not Prepaid, 10 lbs., 70 cts.; 25 Ibs., 
$1.45 ; 50 Ibs., $2.65; 100 lIbs., $5.00. 
1594 Grohoma 
A Cross Between Cane and Kaffir. Great- 
est drought resister. Very heavy pro- 
ducer. Cattle like it. Wonderful feed. 
Grows strong and erect. Most popular 
forage of recent introduction. Excellent 
pasture. Drill in double rows using 18 
‘to 20 Ibs. per acre. Postpaid, % Ib., 15 
cts.; Ib., 25 cts.; 3 Ibs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 
85 cts. Not Prepaid, 10 lbs., 70 cts.; 25 
Ibs., $1.45; 50 Jbs., $2.65; 100 lbs., $5.00. 


RAPE 
1640 Dwarf Essex 
A Quick, Profitable Crop— 
Thrives Everywhere 
In the spring when you are 
sowing small grains, sow it 
at the rate of 4 pounds per 
acre with your grain. This 
will furnish valuable pasture 
after harvest. Plant it by it- 
self at the rate of 5 lbs. per 
acre and see the immense 
yield of forage it wiil pro- 
duce. After the last cultiva- 
tion of corn sow 8 lbs. per 
acre broadcast. This is un- 
doubtedly the most profitable 
place to sow rape seed. If 
you are hogging the corn 
down, the hogs will clean the 
rape as well as the corn. If 
you husk your corn and pas- 
ture the cornstalks, all kinds 
of stock eat it readily, and 
this gives them green food 
with the dry. Postpaid, lhb., 
30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs. 
$1.00. Not Prepaid, 10 Ibs, 
$1.65; 25 Ibs., $3.75: 50 Ibs., 
$7.00; 100 lbs., $13.50. 
1613 Sudan Grass 
The Wonderful Hay Crop 
One of the best annual forage 
plants ever introduced, suitable for 
almost any locality. Sudan Grass 
thrives best on rich loam, but has 
been successfully grown on almost 
every kind of soil, from heavy clay 
to light sand. Cold, wet, boggy soils 
are not suited to Sudan Grass. 
Sudan Grass is a sorghum, and an 
annual, without underground root 
sprouts. It grows 4 to 5 feet high in 
drilled seedings, and 5 to 8 feet in 
cultivated rows. Do not sow Sudan 
Grass before corn planting time. 
Like corn, it is a warm weather crop. 
In favorable seasons, the growing 
period is long, and several cuttings 
can be obtained in one season. For 
hay it is ready to cut in 60 to 75 
days, when it is in full head. It con- 
tinues its growth, and in to 45 
days it is ready for another cutting. 
Sudan Grass is an enormous 
yielder, producing 3 or 4 tons of hay 
at the first cutting. The second cut- 
ting is lighter, and the hay is much 
finer. Live stock of all kinds will eat 
the hay readily. 
For hay, sow at the rate of 20 to 30 
lbs. per acre, using a grain drill, and 
cover from one to one and one-half 
inches deep. Heavy seeding makes 
finer quality hay. Postpaid, 1b., 30 

ood Cattle and Poultry Feed at a Very Small Cost Per Acre. 







Millet 
When Corn fails you or when 
Season is too wet for Corn on low 
bottom ground here is the one 
crop you can sow as late as July 
and harvest a Big Crop of ex- 
celient hay. 
1625 Golden Beauty Millet 
(50 Ibs. Bu.) 
Few other grasses or forage 
plants have been able to produce 
the enormous yields of this plant. 
It has produced four to five tons 
of hay to the acre and from sev- 
enty to eighty bushels of seed. It 
may be sown on newly broken 
ground in the spring and as late 
as July. Leaves the ground in ex- 
cellent condition for the following 
crop. Plant 30 pounds to the acre. 
Postpaid, lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 60 
cts.; 5 lbs., 85 cts. Not Prepaid, 
% bu., 95 cts.; % bu., $1.65; bu., 
p00: 2 bu. and over @ $2.90 per 
ve 
60 Ibs. Bu. Sow 
Spring Wheat 50 ibs. bev soe 
1664 New Marquis Beardless 
The King of the Spring Varieties. Marquis is su- 
preme. It outyields anything and everything in beardless 
wheat. By far the best variety for the corn belt. 
This wheat has very stiff straw of medium height, 
which does not lodge easily. The heads are bald and 
quite heavy having smooth yellow chaff. The kernels 
are flinty, more round than those of other spring 
wheats, thicker and more plump, and of dark 
red color. Postpaid, lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 
85 cts. Not Prepaid, % bu., $1.45; bu., $2.75; 5 bu. @ 
$2.70 per bu.; 10 bu. and over @ $2.65 per bu. 
1665 Progress Bearded 
This is an extremely hardy, bearded variety of won- 
derful productiveness, generally yielding at least 10 bu. 
more per acre than other kinds of Spring Wheat. 
Postpaid, lb., 25 cts.; 3 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 85 cts. Not 
Prepaid, % bu., $1.45; bu., $2.75; 5 bu. @ $2.70 per 
bu.; 10 bu. and over @ $2.65 per bu. 

Barley * (Bu. 48 Ibs.) 
1516 Wisconsin No. 38 Barbless 
Originated by the Wisconsin Experiment Station. Re- 
markably heavy yielder, producing over 70 bushels per 
acre. The very finest for malting purposes. Its smooth 
beards, resistance to hot weather and heavy yielding 
qualities make it the most outstanding variety. Post- 
paid, lb., 25 cts.; 3 lIbs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 85 cts. Not 
Prepaid, 1% bu., $1.10; bu., $2.00; 5 bu. @ $1.95 per 
bu.; 10 bu. and over @ $1.90 per bu. 

1642 Rye—Mammoth Spring 
(56 Ibs. Bu.) 
A Most Profitable Crop. Quite different from Winter 
Rye; highly valued as a catch crop. It is not only more 
productive, but the grain is of finer quality. Grows in 
any latitude. Straw is of special value as it stands 314 
to 4 feet high, being better than that of Winter Rye and 
producing nearly four times as much straw as Oats. 
Produces 30 to 40 bushels of grain to the acre. As it 
does not stool like Winter Rye, not less than two bushels 
to the acre should be sown. Postpaid, lb., 25 cts.; 3 Ibs., 
60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 85 cts. Not Prepaid, % bu., $1.35; bu., 
$2.50; 5 bu. @ $2.45 per bu.; 10 bu. and over @ $2.40 
per bu. 

Buckwheat (50 lbs. Bu.) 
Buckwheat can be easily grown wherever 
wheat will grow, producing a good yield on light 
or poor soils. Sow 36 pounds per acre in drills, 
50 pounds broadcast, 
1523 Japanese Buckwheat 
The very finest Northern Grown High yielding 
Buckwheat. Postpaid. lb., 25 cts; 3 lbs., 60 cts.; 
5 lbs., 85 cts. -Not Prepaid, % bu., $1.35; bu., 
$2.50; 2 bu. and over @ $2.45 per bu. 
cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., 
Prepaid, 10 lbs., $1.00; 25 lbs., $2.10; 50 Ibs., $3.90; 100 Ibs., $7.50; 
200 lbs. and over @ $7.25 per 100 Ibs. 

1613 Sudan Grass 
$1.00. Not 
1627 Billion Dollar Grass 
(35 Ibs. Bu.) 
All things considered, we call this the most valuable thing in our 
whole list of forage plants. We recommend it for the following rea- 
sons: First, it makes more hay than German Millet or any other. 
Second, although it grows so large, sometimes seven or eight feet 
high, the hay is of the most excellent quality, superior to corn fodder. 
Third, it is adapted to all sections and a great success wherever tried. 
It does well on low ground. Fourth, two crops a season may be cut 
from it, or, if left to ripen, it will yield almost as many bushels of 
seed per acre as oats. Plant 20 to 25 pounds per acre. Postpaid, Ib., 
30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.00. Not Prepaid, % bu., $1.25 bu, 
$2.25; 2 bu. and over @ $2.15 per bu. 
A valuable grain, closely related to wheat; the kernels, however, 
are tightly enclosed in the hulls or husk, and these adhere to the 
grain when it is threshed. It produces good crops even under adverse 
circumstances 
weather than any other grain, and produces more food value per acre 
than any other cereal, while it is a most valuable feed for all kinds 
of stock. It can be fed to horses, the same as oats, with the hulls on. 
Speltz can be grown on most any kind of soil, rich or poor, wet or 
where other grain fails. It withstands more dry 
dry, as it will not lodge like other grain because of the 
stiff and strong straw. Sow 80 lbs. per acre. Postpaid, 
Ib., 25c.; 3 Ibs., 60 cts.; 5 Ibs., 85 cts. Not Prepaid, 
1% bu., $1.25; bu., $2.25; 2 bu and over @ $2.15 per bu. 
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SEED-OATS 2 bs. Bu) 
1635 Columbia (Type) 
Missouri State Experiment Station Development. 
Columbia is a strain of Fulghum, originated by the 
Missouri Station. Columbia Oats are recognized as one 
of the hardiest and most productive of the early va- 
rieties. The grain is brownish-gray color; panicle 
open, straw short and stiff. Farmers report unusual 
success in getting good catches of Red Clover when 
seeded with Columbia Oats. 
1634 lowar (Type) 
Iowa State Experiment Station Development. A sin- 
gle plant selection from Kherson (Sixty-Day) made by 
the Iowa Station in 1910. First distributed in 1919. 
Slightly later than Sixty-Day; grain white, small, usu- 
ally awned; panicle open; straw somewhat taller and 
stiffer than Sixty-Day. 
1637 Gopher Minn. No. 674 (Type) 
Minnesota State Experiment Station Development. 
Gopher is a white early maturing variety with straw 
so stiff and strong that it does not lodge even on well- 
manured farm land. It is also adapted for growing 
on peat land. It is without any question the best oats 
for the rich dairy farms of southern Minnesota, Iowa 
and Wisconsin. 
1636 Improved Swedish Select (Type) 
Wisconsin State Experiment Station Development. 
Considered by many to be the most valuable oats 
raised today. It possesses striking features, the grain 
is short, plump, white, and very heavy, under favorable 
conditions averaging about 40 pounds to the measured 
bushel. Owing to its great root development it stands 
very high for its drought resisting qualities. 
1638 New Vanguard (Type) 
This remarkable high yielding, rust resistant new Oat 
is a cross between Banner and Hajira and was origi- 
nated by the Canadian Rust Research Laboratory, Uni- 
versity of Manitoba. In checking the results of Van- 
guard Oats sown in the Central States last year, we 
find that it was the highest yielding variety at the 
University of Illinois trial plots at DeKalb, Illinois. In 
other plantings close to Rockford, it really stood at 
the top of the list in quality and yield. Some reports 
show yields from 75 to 160 bushels per acre but it is 
our judgment, based on experimental comparisons, that 
an average yield of 65 to 70 bushels per acre in this 
clea of the country is about the top that you could 
expect. 
SPECIAL LOW PRICES 
ON ALL SEED OATS 
Postpaid, Ib., 20 cts.; 3 Ibs., 50 cts.; 5 Ibs., 65 cts. 
Not Prepaid, ¥% bu., 70 cts.; bu., $1.25; 5 bu. 
na per bu.; 10 bu. and over @ $1.15 per 
u. 
