SPRING WHEAT 
“Marquis” type. Good for flour. Early, and not 
often subject to rust and disease. Smaller grain 
than winter wheat. Sown mostly in higher alti- 
tudes of Pennsylvania. 
SPRING RYE 
A grain-producing Rye not as tall or plump as 
Winter Rye. Sow early. Handle about like Oats. 
Good for spring pasture, soiling purposes. Supply 
very short. 
SPELTZ 
Speltz grows on poor land. Resists drought, smut, 
rust. Not readily damaged by rain. Adaptable to 
wide range of soil and climate. Fed to cows, 
horses, cattle, hogs. Often mixed with bran shorts. 
Ripens medium early. 
“CERESAN” (Dust Treatment) 
for Oats, Barley, Wheat 
Seed doesn't have to be smutty to need this new, 
improved “‘Ceresan.”’ Extensive tests have proved 
that ‘‘Ceresan’’ treatment increases yield even 
where there is no sign of smut. In 65 tests with 
oats, over a three-year period, yield from 
“Ceresan” treated seed increased 18 bushels for 
every 100. Barley and wheat yields increased six 
bushels for every 100—a big return when you 
consider that ‘‘Ceresan” costs you only about 2 
cents a bushel of grain seed treated. 
With an effective treatment available at such a 
cost, it just doesn’t pay to gamble with losses 
through stripe and seeding blight, covered or 
black loose smut, or seed rotting caused by soil 
fungus. 
Use it on your oats, wheat and barley seed 24 
hours BEFORE planting—'¥2 ounce of dust per 
bushel of seed. Postpaid prices: 
4 oz., $0.35; 1 lb., $0.80; 5 Ibs., $3.40. 
EXTRA FEED FROM HOFFMAN 
BUCKWHEAT 
If you have a field or section of your farm that has 
been loafing because it couldn't be depended on 
for any kind of crop, we recommend that you sow 
it to Buckwheat this June. Buckwheat flour is a 
very valuable human food—you'll have a market 
for your grain if you want to sell it. Buckwheat 
middlings have a very high protein content—par- 
ticularly valuable now in this shortage. Buck- 
wheat grain is an exceptionally good feed for 
poultry. Even the blossoms are valuable for bees 
—they help make rich, dark honey. 
You don’t even need to plow for buckwheat. 
Just run your disc over the land and seed—one 
bushel to the acre. Yield in grain and straw is 
heavy—even on thin soils. Buckwheat will do 
very well on fallow land. Seeding may be done 
all of June and first half of July, so it makes a 
good standby for other fields in case a bad spring 
ruins earlier seedings. 
While some folks use Buckwheat to choke out 
weeds and grass, it now has a bigger job in adding 
extra bushels of feed. It can be used, for instance, 
in Southeastern areas to follow an early maturing 
crop. Or in a worn-out hay field after cutting or 
spring grazing, develop a grain crop and still leave 
time to sow a late fall crop. State authorities are 
recommending it for every otherwise useless acre, 
and we are preparing for your needs with some 
choice plump seed of high germination and thor- 
oughly cleaned. Look over your planting map and 
see if you can add several extra grain acres with 
Buckwheat. 
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Fertilizer Recommendations for 1944 
In 1938 a survey showed that for every dollar the 
farmer put into fertilizer for his land he got back $3.60 
more return. Since then farm crops have greatly risen 
in value—but fertilizer has advanced but little. At today’s 
comparative prices, every dollar’s worth of fertilizer 
brings back $5 to $6 in increased crop value. 
This big return would be desirable any year. This year 
it’s doubly important when those crops are so badly 
needed. 
Restrictions on the use of nitrogen for 1944 are lower 
than last year. There should be reasonably adequate sup- 
plies of superphosphate but less potash than normal. 
Fourteen grades have been authorized for Maryland, 
twelve grades for Pennsylvania. General recommenda- 
tions follow for: 
Pennsylvania 
Corn on well-manured, fertile soils can do very well 
with 18 or 20 per cent superphosphate. Otherwise, one 
can use a 3-12-6, 4-12-4 or 2-12-6. 
Oats and soy beans following manured corn or pota- 
toes also can do well enough on good land with super- 
phosphate. Otherwise, some potash may help as in 
0-14-7, especially where the oats is to be seeded with a 
legume. An 0-12-12 also is authorized but should be used 
only where one feels that maximum potash is essential, 
as perhaps on alfalfa. Complete fertilizers, such as 
3-12-6, 2-12-6, or 4-12-4, also may be used on oats. 
Superphosphate should be the standby for pasture im- 
provement, although, without manure, on poor soils the 
0-14-7 sometimes may bring in clover more rapidly. The 
high-nitrogen top-dressers should be used on pasture 
only on a limited acreage of good sod, perhaps an acre 
for every 3 or 4 cows, with the idea primarily of making 
earlier grazing and more of it during May and early 
June. Where a heavier crop of timothy hay is desired, 
200 to 300 pounds of one of the nitrogenous top-dressers 
per acre should give results. 
. Maryland 
. Ohio 
Space here prevents listing details for all states. Readers 
located in other states . . . won’t you please consult 
your Experiment Station, or County Agent, where full 
details will cheerfully be supplied. 
In all states .. . It would be well to consult your 
County Agent for specific recommendations if you have 
any unusual soil conditions. 
New York . . . New Jersey . . 
Delaware .. . West Virginia . . 
