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White Blossom 
Tall Biennial Sweet Clover. 
This makes the rankest, tallest growth of any 
clover, producing the biggest hay crops and most 
luxuriant pastures. Because of its dense growth 
and the great size of its root system, it is the 
best soil enricher and green fertilizer. It is the 
best crop to grow to prepare the ground for a 
stand of alfalfa. 
The plant looks much like alfalfa, especially 
when young, but the leaves are not quite as 
smooth, and taste slightly bitter. It forms a 
main stem from which the side branches grow, 
while in alfalfa the crown sends up numerous 
shoots. 
Our seed is of fine quality, free from foui 
weed seeds, and of highest germination. See 
Blue Figure Price List. 
Yellow Blossom 
Dwarf Biennial Sweet Clover. 
This variety grows shorter and is finer and 
more spreading than the white. It makes a very 
fine quality hay and pasture. Yellow Blossom 
Sweet Clover is 10 to 15 days earlier in matur- 
ing its seed, and where seasons are very short 
or unfavorable, there is an advantage in sowing 
this strain. 
It can be cut for hay very early, and close to 
the ground, whereas the white must be cut high. 
It is also excellent for bees, supplementing the 
use of the white variety, and extending the 
season, on account of its earliness. See Blue 
Figure Price List. 
Grundy County 
Dwarf Biennial Sweet Clover. 
Grundy County Sweet Olover is preferred by 
many farmers since it does not grow quite as 
tall as the common White Blossom variety and 
it produces finer stems and a greater number 
of leaves, making it better adapted for hay pur- 
poses. 
It matures earlier so that the hay crop can 
be cut before the small grain is. harvested. 
It produces a seed crop earlier than other va- 
rieties and this is an advantage in many local- 
ities that are subjected to early frosts. The hay 
cures more rapidly than the common tall variety 
and is very palatable. d 
Grundy County Sweet Clover makes an ex- 
cellent pasture but it does not last as late in 
the season as the common tall variety. See Blue 
Figure Price List. 
Hubam 
Annual Sweet Clover. 
Hubam is an emergency pasture and hay crop 
to be sown in seasons where drought, freezing 
injury or other adverse conditions have wiped 
out pastures and meadows, leaving the farmers 
without any definite hay prospects, Hubam is 
a rapid grower and once it is well established 
can be pastured as you would pasture the bien- 
nial varieties of Sweet Olover. 
Hubam is an Annual Sweet Clover. It is best 
suited for the Corn Belt section. It grows from 
3 to 7 ft. high. It will produce as much as: 
8 tons of hay per acre, cut just before blos- 
soming time. It grows on any good non-acid 
soil, and should be sown alone the same rate 
as other sweet clovers. Hubam will produce a 
seed crop in this latitude, in favorable growing 
seasons. See Blue Figure Price List. 
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Payments 
(See Page 63) 
Legume crops such as Sweet Clover will be in greater demand 
than ever before because of increased plantings for the maintenance 
sof fertility under the U. S. Soil Conservation Program. Sweet 
Clover cannot be surpassed for soil improvement due to its rapidity 
of growth, large tonnage produced and its comparatively low seed 
cost. 
2 Sweet Clover as a Hay or Pasture Crop 
Sweet Clover is a leading crop in the United States. As a bi- 
ennial legume, it fits in with any crop rotation, besides yielding a 
very large return of hay and pasture. Sweet Clover may grow one 
to three feet the first season and may be clipped for hay or pastured 
lightly if it- makes a good growth. During the second year it grows 
very dense and rapidly and if cut for hay, it should be done early 
in the season, before the blossoms appear and the stems become 
woody. ’ 
Cut Sweet Clover six to eight inches above the ground. Allow the 
hay to wilt a few hours, then place in small cocks until it is dry 
enough to stack. One acre furnishes pasture for two to four cows 
throughout the season. Cattle rarely bloat on it. 
As a Soil Builder and Weed Control 
Sweet Clover grows on clay, sandy, alkaline, or gumbo soil. It 
prevents drifting of shifting sandy soils. The hardpan, subsoil is 
loosened by the heavy penetrating. roots, allowing the necessary 
aeration and depositing large quantities of humus and _ nitrogen. 
Sweet Clover is a rank, dense grower of great value in exterminating 
weeds such as quack grass, thistle, ete. 
Use 15 lbs. of scarified seed per acre with a nurse crop of one- 
half the usual seeding of grain or 28 to 35 Ibs. of flax per acre. 
Firm the seed bed well after planting. Inoculate with Nitragin. 
“ALL-OUT” PRODUCTION GOALS FOR 1944 
Although, farm production set a new record in 1943, the goal for 1944 is a 
greater record breaker—topping last year’s production 4% to 5%. 
It is claimed this increase is 
needed to meet war time require- 
ments for foods, fats and fibre. It 
means 16 million more acres than in 
1943 must be put to work. 
War agencies are mobilizing to 
provide adequate labor, machinery, 
fertilizers and other necessary farm 
supplies. 
The greatest increases are sought in 
crops used for direct human consump- 
tion, (rather than for feeding )—and 
in oil and fibre crops to replace 
those which cannot be imported. 
Farmers are being asked to increase 
production of milk, eggs, and mar- 
keting of meat animals. Breeding 
herds and numbers of young stock 
are to be reduced because of the de- 
pleted carry-over of heavy grain and 
the smaller feed-crop production. 
1944 ACREAGE GOALS as a Per- 
centage of the 1943 Levels are: 
WUD GEUG eae ts RARE os Oo ee 124% 
Corn Ae Gases Saeehe ee eee 104% 
Oats 2oew tear eres 2 i ee 93% 
Barley pte een os. eee 9T% 
Sorghum jfapeee  o en eeees 97% 
RUV6o. Fae. ern tes ee 84% 
Fla y—taime. i 4t@er een bes 104% 
Sugar Beets ahs ne 150% 
Sugars: Canereac sean) = ases ee 105% 
Dye UB Gansta Wet sae ee 109% 
Diry IP GAs ee eae, Siac a 121% 
SoyS Beans osteo eee 119% 
ax = SSCed2.4 ween ot ae eh eee. 94% 
Nip ee eaene. lv ORAS 4 eee Gok coolers Co 167% 
Irish Potatoes wes. ccatke: oan 114% 
Bresh— Wegetables....20.. 0... 111% 
An increase in Victory Gardens 
from 20,000,000 in 1943 to 22,000,- 
000 in 1944 is sought. 
THE AGRICULTURAL OUTLOOK 
Farm cash income is forging far 
ahead of any previous record. Oc- 
tober cash receipts were 14% more 
than the former monthly peak estab- 
lished a year earlier. For the 1943 
calendar year, the farmers’ cash pro- 
ceeds will come close to the $20,- 
000,000,000 mark, compared with 
$16,177,000,000 in 1942 and the 
1919 record year of $14,602,000,000, 
A slightly higher income for 1944 
is forecast by the U. S. Dept. of Ag- 
riculture. Before the year is over, 
war developments may check the up- 
ward surge of farm income, al- 
though relief buying and resumption 
of employment in civilian goods in- 
dustries are expected to bolster the 
demand for farm products for some 
time after the war in Europe ceases. 
APPROX. 70,000,000 LBS. OF AIR-NITROGEN 
ABOVE EVERY ACRE. THIS iS AVAILABLE 
FREE FOR SOIL AND CROP IMPROVEMENT IF YOU 
CONVERT LEGUME SEEDS 
INTO FERTILIZER PLANTS 
SS) 
BUILD UP YOUR SOi 
seeds even tho planted on 
Inoculate your Legume 

Inoculate Your Lequmes 
With NITRAGIN 
fields that have been inoculated before. Field tests_ 
have shown that better 
crops are harvested when 
Legume seeds are inoculated even when planted on 
fields where inoculated 
seeds of the same Legume 
crops had grown the previous year. 

1944 NITRAGIN INOCULATION PRICES 
When Ordering, ALWAYS State Name of Seed 
ALFALFA 
Sweet, Bur, Hubam Glovers 
Size Retail 
16 buméas = Acero s (95-50 
205 bu. €aseneencn - 1.00 
CLOVERS 
Medium & Mammoth 
Red, Alsike, Crimson & 
White Glovers 
LS buwea. fens). .00 
2a bus teaisia. co 1.00 
PEAS (Al! Varieties) 
VETCHES (All Varieties) 
100 lb. size (Inoculates up 
to 100 Ibs.) ea......$.. 
1200 Ib. size ea..... 5.70 
(12-100 Ib. size cans) 
BEANS—Navy, Pinto, 
String, Wax, Kidney 
dS buieas cece nrc 
LESPEDEZA Hulledor Unhulled 
’ 100 Ib. size (Inoculates up 
to 100 Ibs. seed)....$ .50 

“Master Farmer” Seeds from FARMER SEED & NURSERY CO 
PEANUTS, LIMA BEANS, 
COW PEAS 
Size Retail 
Small (Inoculates up to 
120 Ibs. seed).......$ .30 
DAbUrs Galt ae eee 55 
25 bu. (one can) ea.. 2.50 
30 bu. (one ctn.) ea. 3.25 
(Contains 6-5 bu. cans) 
SOYBEANS (Ail Varieties) 
Small (Incculates up to 
120 Ibs. seed) ....... $ .30 
DB. bus Gasonnes= See «55 
25 bu. (one can) ea.. 2.50 
30 bu. (one ctn.) ea. 3.25 
(Contains 6-5 bu. cans) 
LUPINES (Ail Varieties) 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates up. 
to 100 Ibs. seed) ea. $ .50 
GARDEN SIZE 
Garden Peas and Beans 
Sweet Peas and Lupines 
Enough for 8 Ibs. seed 
Retail Price 10c each. 
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