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HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR AUGUST, 1945—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 




Sugar Lumps in Jan. 
“Dear Mr. Field: This is my husband 
eating Sugar Lump Watermelons on the 
16th of January. Behind him is the 3 yr. 
old 5-in-1 apple tree which had 5 apples 
on this last summer, and banked with 

snow is the 2 yr. old Beta grape vine from 
which we canned over a dozen qts. of 
grapes last fall.’—Mrs. James A. Rupe, 
Ingomar, Montana. 
Fall Pasture Mixture 
Here is the best combination of five 
permanent grasses to fall plant. Ky. 
Blue, Red Top, Rye Grass, Timothy and 
Reed Canary. All mixed in just the right 
proportions to give lots of feed and pas- 
ture on all soil types. Clovers can be 
added in the spring. The most profitable 
step you can make this fall is to clip your 
present pasture to help control weeds and 
sow this special Fall Pasture Mixture of 
grasses to help reseed your present pas- 
ture. Use one bushel to each 38 or 4 acres. 
97 Bu. Per Acre 
“Dear Mr. Field: I am well pleased with 
your seeds of all kinds, especially your Mule 
Hybrid corn. I planted your 129 1 ear and 
it yielded 97 bu. to the acre.’—Loren Bur- 
bank, Jr.. Box 29, Saverton, Missouri. 
My Uncle Says: Every American has 
two ends—one for thinking—one for 
just sitting. Victory will depend on which 
end we use the most. 
Fall Plant Your Brome 
Fall is the perfect time to make that 
planting of Brome. Brome is the _ best 
sod-forming perennial grass you can find 
anywhere, regardless of whether you 
want it for pasture or hay. Equally good 
for both. Brome greens up first in the 
spring for quick pasture. Later a hay 
erop can be cut, or harvest for seed as a 
cash crop. 
Drought resistant, winter hardy, hai 
atable and higher in protein than any 
other grass. Outyields bluegrass fully 
two to one. Plant your Brome on a well 
packed seed bed 15 to 20 pounds per acre. 
With Alfalfa, use 12 to 15 lbs. of Brome 
to 4 lbs. of Alfalfa. No danger of bloat 
with this combination. All of our Brome 
is extra high quality, free of noxious 
weeds and high germination. Best No. 1 
Northern grown seed only $17.95 per 100 
pounds. Seed that field of Brome this 
fall sure. 
Harvest Your 
White Dutch Clover 
Never saw so much White Dutch Clover 
in midwestern. pastures. Last of June 
you had to look twice at a lot of our Iowa 
pastures to be sure they weren’t covered 
with snow. White Dutch Clover has been 
short in supply and high in price for years 
and it will pay to go out and harvest that 
seed from many pastures. The money 
you get from that will be like a Christmas 
present for you will have had the use of 
the pastures and the White Dutch Clover 
money you get will be all velvet. 
Just get a windrower or buncher at- 
tachment to your mower, then stack it if 
possible because it is such valuable seed 
but if you haven’t time to stack it, you 
can let it cure in the windrow and thresh 
with a combine. You will lose a lot of 
seed this way as compared to stack seed 
but it is a cheap way to get some extra 
money from your.pasture if it is covered 
with White Dutch Clover. Don’t try to 
r combine the standing crop in your pas- 
ture. There is usually too much other 
green stuff in the pasture and the White 
Dutch gets ripe too uneven. 
Country Is Cleaned Up > 
on Alfalfa me 
Have never seen Alfalfa seed cleaned 
up like it was last spring. We have al- 
ways had a supply to take care of our big 
fall demand, but this year there is no 
earryover of seed, and what we will have 
in the way of northern-grown seed is still 
in the ground, and not harvested yet. 
Wish I could be optimistic about the 
situation, but with the tremendous 
amount of rain we’vé had this summer, 
the prospects for a big alfalfa seed crop 
are not good. Let’s hope we, get some 
good dry weather this month. 
On account of the shortage of North- 
ern seed from Montana and Dakota, more 
and more farmers in Iowa, Illinois and 
Wisconsin are turning to Kansas seed. 
Missouri, Indiana, Ohio and such states 
are finding Oklahoma Approved Alfalfa 
very satisfactory. 
The Oklahoma Approved is from old 
established fields. 
dled much of it in the past, because we 
could always get a supply of northern 
seed, favorable reports from Agricultural 
Colleges and farmers are changing our 
minds this year on both it and the Kan- 
sas strains. We have handled none of 
the imported, and less*hardy, Argentine 
Alfalfas, and don’t intend to. 
Put Your Name on Order 
You wouldn’t believe me if I told you 
how many people send us orders and then 
forget to include their name. When the 
order comes in with a check or money or- 
der, we can naturally find out who sent 
ate 
when they do, there just isn’t a way in 
the world we can discover their name. So 
put your name on your order. 
plainly. Print it if you have the time. 

Yellow sweet corn varieties are better 
quality than white varieties because they 
contain a higher vitamin content. 

Old asparagus plants cannot be trans- 
planted satisfactorily. 

Rhubarb should be dug up, pulled apart — 
ee small sections and replanted every 4 
5 years. 
new crop seed of both Kansas and Okla 
be limited, too. 

| the Midwest and both are far } better: than 
While we never han- | Winter and spring working with the Wa 
But lats of people send in cash, and | 
“Write it 
of December, 
“in the fall 5 to 6 Ibs. per acre. 

“ALFALFA’’ J ou 
SAYS . 
Get that seed 
and get it early. 
Bi Flee Sar ee 
Hybrid seed 
corn production is 
hard hit this year. 
Thousands of 
acres have been 
flooded out. — 
All of it is 
late, and if 
we get an 
early frost, 
a serious sit- 
uation will 
turn into a ‘Alfalfa’ John Nicolson 
calamity. a 
Buy your seed early. 






ciel seiner uaa 4 ts SANT 
With a complete sell out last spring and — 
no carryover at all, Northern-grown Al. 
falfa is certain to be short again thi 
year. We are listing and hope to have 
homa Improved, but the cupply. here will 
x x # pe Hy 
‘Both are giving wonderful oeaiiad in | 
imported Agentine seed. = 
Cahis  atae OR ies. 
Fall is Brome Grass planting ine SM: 
time from the middle of August up toy, 
November is fine. Pack and roll cee 
seedbed firm. 

* * * * 
Legume seed situation as a hele is: 
even more serious than last year. Alfalfa, oe 
Red Clover, Sweet Clover and Alsike were ne 
all sold out this year, and with another _ 
wet season like this one, the PrOspoe of 
a big crop are not good. ¢ 
$5 ee ee 3e 
Want to encourage all of our custont 
ers to harvest as much legume seed as 
possible. The country needs it badly. zi 
URE et aah ote 
I made several trips to Washinetow last. 

Food Administration and leaders in Con 
gress getting through a bill for 12 mil-— 
lion dollars for legume seed incentive pay- 


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ments. County Agent can roll you about 
payments. genie 
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With OPA ceiling priees for legume 
seeds what they are, plus the AAA in 
centive payments, this should be a profit 
able year to harvest for seed. 
eS are oe 
Our Allies are still making big a2 
for legume seeds that could not be filled | = 
last year. 
& * * - i 
Doesn’t look like there can possibly. aoe 
enough seed to go around, so I want to 
make a “two-way” appeal to all you 
good friends. First, harvest all the leg- 
ume seed you possibly can. Second, send 
in your order for seed early to be sure 
you’ll have it. You can order right now 
from Seed Sense, and we will ship your ~ 
order from new crop seed about the first 
* Oo i 
I looked after the harvest in Minnesota — 
myself of our fine Reed Canary grass for ~ 
‘the low wet spots. Used our own specially 
built machines. You plant Reed. Canary 
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