
LET ONE OF THESE SPRING-SOWN 
GRAINS PROVIDE SOME EXTRA 
HOME-GROWN FEED FOR YOU! 
“WISCONSIN 38” BARLEY 
The best-yielding strain of its type—grows 
smooth beards without the sharp barbs: 
The six-row type; very resistant to stripe 
disease, which badly injures some barleys. 
Grain matures early. Straw good. Useful 
nurse crop. Many stock feeders claim that 
barley is similar to corn in feeding value. 
“ALPHA” (2-ROW) BARLEY 
A good yielder, developed at New York 
experiment station and popular through- 
out New York and Northern areas. Has 
firm straw, nice grain. Hardy. 
BUCKWHEAT 
Yield is good, even on thin soils. Buck- 
wheat will do very well on fallow land. 
Can be seeded all of June and first half of 
July. A quick, sure emergency crop for 
other fields in case a bad spring ruins 
other earlier seedings. 
Some folks use buckwheat to choke out 
weeds and grass. To tame wild land—idle 
ground—sow buckwheat. Applying 200 
pounds superphosphate steps up yields 
maybe 5 to 8 bushels. 
Buckwheat is often a help in solving 
feed-shortage problems. Also makes good 
flour. The middlings, have a good protein 
content. 
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“HENRY” SPRING WHEAT 
A heavy yielder, bred in Wisconsin. Seems 
to be most worthy of the spring wheat 
varieties yet developed. Resists attacks of 
rust. A good flour type. Adapted to those 
higher altitudes in the East where spring 
wheat is grown. 
SPELTZ 
A poor-land crop. Resists drought, rusts. 
Fed to cows, horses, cattle, hogs . . . some- 
times mixed with bran shorts. Ripens me- 
dium early. 
Prepare Land Ahead 
When crops are planted on land that has been 
prepared well ahead of seeding, weed competi- 
tion is reduced, moisture is conserved, and 
nitrates are developed to stimulate early and 
rapid seedling growth. The young plants extend 
their roots deep into the soil and become well 
established to withstand adverse weather later 
in the season. 
Abundant Grazing 
Sudan grass is most useful in providing abun- 
dant grazing at a time when producing cows 
need it most. An extra few acres seeded to 
Sudan about May 20 will keep up the milk flow 
in July and August, when a mid-summer drought 
would otherwise be certain to limit it. In New 
Jersey tests, a Sudan grass pasture provided 52 
“cow grazing days” per acre at a time when the 
permanent pastures were least productive. 

