


FIELD SEEDS 
Prices are given on Special Field Seed Price Lists issued 
during the season. See Yellow List enclosed with cata- 
a ALFALFA 
Sow at the rate of 12 to 15 Ibs. to the aere, drilled. 
It has always been our policy to obtain only those va- 
rieties of Hardy Northern Grown Alfalfa seed—the kinds 
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 
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SERVICE 
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BUILD UP YOUR SOIL Inoculate Your Legumes 
With NITRAGIN 
Inoculate your Legume seeds even tho planted on 
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. 
1948 NITRAGIN INOCULATION PRICES 
When Ordering, ALWAYS State Name of Seed 
ALFALFA 
Sweet, Bur, Hubam Clovers 
Size Retail 
Ly bus ete cesses 200 
2Uae DUS, Cavscceceecael 2.00 
CLOVERS 
Red, Alsike, Crimson, 
White and Ladino 
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2Ys bus ease ccs cease dO 
PEAS (All Varieties) 
VETCHES (All Varieties) 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates up 
to 100 Ibs.) ea.......$ .50 
1200 Ib. size ea...... 5.70 
(12-100 Ib. size cans) 
BEANS—Navy, Pinto, Wax, 
pid Kidney, Gr. Northern 
BU. CAs oases eed eo 
LESPEDEZA—Hulled or 
Unhulled 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates up 
to 100 Ibs. seed) .,..$ .50 
PEANUTS, COW PEAS 
Size Retail 
Small (Inoculates up to 
120 Ibs. seed) ......$ .30 
WN Bee: Sanne oGdcrs ae 
25 bu. (one can) ea.. 2.50 
30 bu. (one ctn.) ea.. 3.25 
(Contains 6-5 bu. cans) 
SOYBEANS (All Varieties, 
Including Edible) 
Small (Inoculates up to 
120 Ibs. seed) ......$ .30 
O) bus cates cere ccs 
25 bu. (one can) ea.. 2.50 
30 bu. (one ctn.) ea.. 3.25 
(Contains 6-5 bu. cans) 
LUPINES (All Varieties) 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates up 
to 100. Ibs. seed) ....$ .50 
GARDEN SIZE 
Garden Peas and Beans 
Sweet Peas, Lupines and 
Edible Soybeans 
Enough for 8 Ibs. seed 
Retail Price 10c each. 
NITRAGIN— Oldest and Most Widely Used Inoculator in America 
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that will withstand our severe Northwest climate. ‘This 
year we are happy to have a good supply of Grimm, 
Ladak and other fine Alfalfa varieties.... There is going 
to be a big demand again this year for Alfalfa seed, so 
we urge you to place your order early. See our Yellow 
Special Field Seed List for prices, 
Inoculation is necessary. Inoculation means putting 
or planting in the soil, nitrogen-fixing germs or bacteria 
without which the Alfalfa can not flourish. Where Sweet 
Clover grows wild, in the field or along the road-side, 
artificial inoculation for alfalfa may not be necessary 
as the same bacteria grows on the Sweet Clover as on 
Alfalfa and natural inoculation takes place. But there 
is no other plant which commonly grows wild in the 
North that can support the same bacteria as the Alfalfa. 
All the legumes including clover, peas and beans bear- 
bacteria but a special kind lives on each plant. These 
bacteria on the Alfalfa roots form nodules from the size 
of a pin head to a pea. Each nodule contains a colony 
of bacteria. which keep taking nitrogen out of the air 
and forming nitrates. From nitrates the plant roots 
draw their nitrogen, since the plants can not use nitrogen 
direct from the air except to a very limited extent. Thus 
the bacteria on the roots prepare plant food. There are 
several methods of inoculating Alfalfa seed but we rec- 
ommend the use of Nitragin as described on this page. 
CLOVER SEED 
Medium Red Clover 
This is the recognized standard of the clover family. 
It produces two crops each year. The first is generally 
harvested for hay when in full bloom. The second crop 
may _be harvested for seed, cut for hay, or plowed under 
for fertilizer. Sow 6 to 12 pounds to the acre. Refer to 
Special list for prices. : 
Alsike or Swedish Clover 
One of the hardiest varieties known, It is perennial 
and does not winterkill. It will do better on moist land 
than any other variety of clover, and is suitable for 
either hay or pasture. When sown with other grasses, 
it forms a thick undergrowth and greatly increases the 
yield. It is frequently sawn both with medium Red 
Clover and with Timothy, and the quality of hay thus 
produced is excellent. It is fine stemmed and leafy and 
quickly cured. It makes a very profitable seed crop in 
many sections of the Northwest. See Special price list 
for prices, 
Mammoth Red Clover 
This variety is grown mostly for pasture and for soil- 
ing. It is a very vigorous grower, but is not desirable 
for hay unless cut when quite young, Prices quoted on 
Special price list. 
White or Dutch Clover 
A low close growing clover, with round White heads 
Very fragrant and desirable for beautifying the eae 
It will stand close cutting and very rapidly throws up 
an abundance of leaves and blossoms. It is usually bet- 
ter to sow with other grasses, Does well on most any 
soil, Prices given on Special list, 
Sweet Clover, Yellow Blossom 
This variety grows finer and more s reading tha 
White and is not so tall. It matures more Gales 
the White Clover and for a second season the hay crop 
is probably preferable to White Sweet Clover because of 
its finer stems. Refer to Yellow price list for prices, 

