SOW HOLMES’ FIELD SEED 
FOR BETTER CROPS 
The quality and size of crops you grow are largely predetermined by 
the seed you sow—and Holmes’ Seeds are bred to result in satisfying 
harvests. 
Holmes selects varieties and strains to provide you with improvements 
as plant breeders and experiment stations reveal them. 
All Holmes’ Seeds are analyzed to determine the weed seed content and 
impurities, and all lots that do not meet the highest standards are thor- 
oughly recleaned to remove obnoxious weed seed and impurities. 
We contract with the ablest of seed growers in many parts of the country 
for the production of many kinds. ° 
We breed and produce some seeds to give you extra value. 
After production, seed is cleaned, graded, and tested. 
All these and many other factors are for just one result—to provide you 
with seed capable of producing better crops. 
In every bag, Holmes’ Northern Grown Seeds are of the highest quality. 
Clovers 
Ladino Mammoth Red 
Alsike White Blossom Sweet 
Northern Medium Red Yellow Blossom Sweet 
Alfalfas 
Grimm Variegated Common 
Korean Lespedeza @ Hairy Vetch oe Grasses 
Write us jor latest FIELD SEED PRICE LIST 
Reed Canary Grass 
Sown in swampy ground into worthwhile grazing, sometimes with a good 
hay crop besides. Not for acid soils. Has been good on uplands, too. Per- 
ennial stems spread underground. Makes a tough sod. Lasts years, but easily 
turned under with deep plowing. Best if kept closely grazed. Leaves broad, 
smooth. With limited pasturing, two cuttings annually may take place. 8 
to 12 pounds per acre. Write for price list. 3 
Holmes’ Pasture Grass Mixture 
There is probably no other means of so greatly increasing the net farm 
income on livestock farms at so low a cost as by the production and grazing 
of farm pastures. Pasture renovation surface tillage of old pasture with a 
disc or spring tooth harrow is better than plowing. 
Highland Mixture; Lowland Mixture. 
Write for price list. 
Bromegrass—‘“Lincoin” Type 
Bromegrass is the best grass to mix with Alfalfa if it is planned to harvest 
it partly or entirely by pasturing with cattle or sheep. 
The best time to sow Bromegrass, according to the Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, is early spring or late summer. 
Bromegrass seed may be sown with the grain drill by mixing the seed 
with fertilizer. Sow through the fertilizer attachment very shallow. It is 
desirable for some seeds to be on the surface. Deep seeding is one of the 
most common causes of failure. 
Bromegrass (1 part by weight) may be mixed with Oats (4 to 6 parts) 
and sown shallow through the grain feed, but this should not be done for 
summer and fall seeding because the Oats grow so vigorously they crowd 
out the Bromegrass. 
Bromegrass in mixture should be sown at 5 to 10 pounds per acre, with 
8 pounds of Alfalfa as a safe standard. Write for prices. 
Ladino Clover 
Excellent for Grazing 
““Ladino Clover is one of our most valuable pasture plants. It is highly 
productive and nutritious, and comparatively easy to grow,” says D. R. 
vedd of the Agronomy Department at the Ohio Agricultural Experiment 
tation. 
A giant type of white Clover. Is very much larger and much more 
drought resistant. It should be included in every seeding that is to be 
used for pasture alone, or for hay and pasture. That means that whenever 
an Alfalfa-Grass-Clover mixture is being seeded on crop rotation land that 
is to be used in part for pasture, 4 to 1 pound of Ladino per acre should 
be in the mixture. 
Ladino Clover seed, like that of other legumes, should be inoculated 
crops, so makes a greater contribution as a pasture plant than as a con- 
stituent of a hay mixture. 
Ladino Clover seed, like that of other legumes, should be inoculated 
before seeding and the land should be well limed and fertilized. Write for 
price list. 
THE HOLMES SEED COMPANY, CANTON, OHIO 
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Alfalfa 
inoculate all Legume Seeds with 
-1898—FIFTY-ONE YEARS OF SERVICE 1949 
When ordering, Always state mame of seed. 
ALFALFA (A) 
Swt., Bur, Hubam Clovers 
1ze Retail 
1 bu. each...$ .50 
2% bu. each... 
SOYBEANS (S) 
Size 
2 bu. 
5 bu. 
25 bu. 
(One can) 
30 bu. each...... 
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CLovERs (B) 
Red, Alsike, Crimson, 
White and Ladino. 
1 bu. each...$. 
2, bu. each... 1.00 
LESPEDEZA (L) 
(6-5 bu. cans) 
BEANS (D) 
Navy, Pinto, Wax, 
String, Kidney and 

Great Northern 
100 Loita terior 1 bu. each ..... 
up to 100 Ibs.) ..$ . PEANUTS, 
c) | COW PEAS (E) 
PEAS, (C) 
VETCHES (All Varieties) | < DU. Cach...... 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates 
up to 100 Ibs.) ea.$ .50 
LUPINES (All Varieties) 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates up to 100 lbs. seed) ea. $ .50 
GARDEN SIZE—Peas, Beans, Sweet Peas, Lupines, Lima 
Beans and Edible Soybeans i i 
Enough for 8 Ibs. seed — Retail Price 15c each 
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30 bu. each...... 
(6-5 bu. cans) 

EFFECT OF WINTER COVER CROP ON CORN 
The corn on the right was grown without a cover crop, 
that on the left followed a winter cover crop inoculated 
with NITRAGIN. 
