Seed Oats 
This is a leader with Holmes. We grow STATE INSPECTED CERTI- 
FIED Seed Oats on our own farms. We have found the one big step 
toward a real oats crop is quality seed. Same soil preparation—same 
work but GOOD SEED and there you have the answer 
oe ordinary oats crops and State Inspected Certified. Good Seed 
ays! 
WAYNE. A new, medium early white oats, with stiff straw, developed 
by the Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, first distributed for in- 
creaSe in 1530. This variety has led all others in yield trials at Wooster 
over a long period of years, and is now recommended especially for 
northern and northwestern Ohio. We grew these oats on our own farm. 
Write for price list. 
Velvet Barley 
This new Ssix-row variety is a heavy yielder, producing as much or 
more grain than other sorts per acre. It has a very stiff straw and is 
more disSease-resistant than other varieties. The great advantage of 
Velvet Barley over others lies in the fact that it is smooth-awned, 
having no barbs on the beards, Therefore much more easily handled 
than any other barley. In 6-year average comparative tests at the Ohio 
Experiment Station, it yielded 40 bushels per acre. Drill 2 bushels per 
acre. (48 lbs per bushel.) Write for Farm Seed Price List. 
Soy Beans 
They can be grown wherever corn can be grown; they furnish good 
forage and improve the soil. They will grow on soil too acid for clover 
and fit readily into any crop rotation. They furnish an excellent quality 
of feed, either as grain, hay or green forage. The best time for seeding 
is about corn planting time, or when the ground has become thoroughly 
warm. Soy beans should not be sown too deeply, as poor stands fre- 
quently result from too deep covering. They can be planted with corn, 
or they may be planted alone either for hay or grain, followed the next 
year with corn and wheat. Corn and soy beans grown together can be 
hogged down with profit. Soy beans are a legume, fine for soil improve- 
ment. They should be inoculated for best results. Good seed is essential 
to success. When grown for seed it requires 2% pecks drilled or 5 pecks 
sown solid; for hay, 6 pecks per acre solid; or for silage, 4 to 6 lbs. per 
acre when sown with corn; for silo, plant 1 bushel soy beans to 15 lbs. 
sudan. (60 lbs. per bushel.) 
MINGO. Yellow seeds. Medium early variety. Matures grain through- 
out Ohio and is sufficiently early to permit the making and curing of 
high quality hay in Northern Ohio. Write for price list. 
RICHLAND. Adapted for grain in Northern Ohio. Resistant to lodging, 
earlier than Mingo. Early enough to precede wheat in Northern Ohio. 
Write for price list. 
WILSON. (Early Black Wilson). A medium late (120 days) variety 
which does well on the poorer types of soil, Plant tall and slender, 
tending to twine. Probaby the best known all-around sort for silage 
and hay. Write for price list. 
Dwarf Essex Rape 
For Quick Pasture for Sheep and Hogs 
It should be sown from late March to the middle of July. It is 
ordinarily ready to graze in 7 to 10 weeks or when 12 inches high. The 
seed may be broadcast and covered lightly with a harrow or it may be 
sown with a grain drill, 4 to 8 lbs. of seed per acre, (50 lbs. per bushel.) 
Write for price list. 
Canada Field Peas 
One of the best hay and soiling crops. Usually sown with oats, which 
makes rich, nutritious hay. Splendid to cut and feed green. Sow 90 
pounds of peas to 48 pounds of oats early in the spring. Best mixture 
all around, (60 lbs. per bushel.) Write for price list. 
Hairy Vetch 
It makes good yields of green manure or hay, high in nitrogen or 
protein. Long-continued experiments have shown that hairy vetch makes 
a good stand more reliably than any other crop when sown in corn at 
the last cultivation. Rye may be improved by adding vetch for prac- 
tically any situation where it is used as a clover and green manure crop. 
Vetch is also a valuable addition to rye for pasture. It is not recom- 
mended for wet soils. Vetch may be sown any time after July 1. 
20 to 25 pounds of vetch to a bushel of rye has proven very satisfactory. 
Inoculation increases the yield. We furnish high-grade seed only. 
(60 lbs. per bushel.) Write for prices. 
Sorghum - Cane Seed 
EARLY ORANGE. The choicest variety, producing an abundance of 
good forage, Also excellent for syrup. Sorghum may be cut and dried, 
and fed to all farm livestock. Does well all over Ohio and the East. 
Plant 8 to 10 lbs. per acre. (50 lbs. per bushel.) Write for price list. 
THE HOLMES SEED COMPANY, YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO 
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Wayne Oats 



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Cyclone” 
SEED Sower 
‘SOWER THAT 
SCATTERS EVEMLY 
ZCY CLONES 
Broadcast Seeder 
A most effective 
machine for sowing 
grass seed or grain 
broadeast. It will 
sow any kind of seed, 
put it on evenly at 
any desired rate per 
acre, Very useful 
for sowing light 
grass seeds which other kinds of seeders 
do not handle well and for sowing cover 
crops, such as vetch and clover, in stand- 
ing corn. $2.50 each. Transportation paid 
Dwarf Essex Rape 

