18 SPRINGFIELD SEED COMPANY, SPRINGFIELD, MO. 

FARM and FIELD SEEDS—(Cont’d) 

SERICEA PERENNIAL LESPEDEZA. 
Land Alfalfa.”’ 
Often called ‘‘The Poor 
It comes each year from the crowns like Al- 
falfa, has an enormous root system and is a good soil builder 
when seeds are inoculated at planting time. Sow only scarified 
seeds at rate of 20 pounds per acre during April and May, pre- 
paring the seed bed as for Alfalfa and covering lightly. 
DOMESTIC RYE GRASS. 24 pounds a bushel, sow 25 to 35 
pounds per acre. A perennial, fine leaved grass, valuable as a 
green forage plant on land not easily cultivated. 
PERENNIAL RYE GRASS. Used in permanent pasture mix- 
tures. Best seeded in the fall and offers early grazing when 
other grasses are becoming established. Sow 20 to 25 pounds 
per acre alone. 
BROME GRASS or BROMUS INERMIS. 14 pounds a bushel, 
sow 20 pounds per acre. Noted for its drouth resisting qualities 
and is adapted to many soils. Big producer, makes good pasture. 
BUCKWHEAT. 52 pounds a bushel, sow 50 pounds per acre. 
There are two distinct varieties, Japanese and Silverhull. The 
Japanese variety is regarded earlier. They can be sown as 
eenoud crop following Barley, Rye, Wheat and Oats. Good 
or bees. 
WINTER BARLEY. Mo. Early Beardless. 48 pounds a bushel, 
sow 95 to 100 pounds per acre. It makes a quick growing crop 
of most excellent and nutritious feed either to use green or 
cure for hay. About ten days earlier than other Winter Barley. 
WINTER BEARDED BARLEY. 48 pounds a bushel, sow 95 to 
100 pounds per acre. A very hardy variety and is used for 
heavy pasturing during the winter months, from which large 
vicldeer grain may be harvested. The best winter pasture 
variety. 
RENO BARLEY. A bearded barley equal or superior to other 
varieties in ability to withstand winter killing. Has a medium 
Pde straw and stands for the combine without excessive shat- 
ering. 
BROOM CORN. 48 pounds a bushel, plant 5 to 8 pounds per 
acre. We handle the four standard varieties: Improved Ever- 
green, Dwarf Evergreen, Black Spanish and White Italian. 
RAPE. Dwarf Essex, 56 pounds a bushel, sow 8 pounds per 
acre. Provides pasture for all kinds of stock. Makes a large 
yield of green forage per acre and is very fattening. A good 
green manure crop. 
SUNFLOWER. Mammoth Russian, sow 6 pounds per acre. 
Produces heads of an immense size, 15 to 20 inches in diameter, 
fine for poultry. 
RYE. Winter and Spring, 56 pounds a bushel, sow 1 to 1% 
bushels per acre. Has long been recognized as one of our best 
grains for winter pasture. 
BALBOA RYE. Introduced in the last few years, grows much 
faster than any other rye. Stools much heavier, which means 
doubling the amount of grazing per acre. Also a much heavier 
grain producer, starts earlier and keeps green longer. Sow 1 to 
1% bushels per acre. 
VETCH. Sand or Hairy and Spring. 60 pounds a bushel, sow 
50 pounds per acre. Splendid variety of forage plant, hardy, 
valuable winter cover crop. Land builder. 
FETERITA. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 50 pounds per acre. The 
grain is white, large and softer than Kaffir. Matures early. 
MUNG BEANS. 8 pounds of seed plant an acre. Seeds are 
small, mature about 15 days earlier than Soy Beans or Cow 
Peas and produce larger cuttings of hay. 
OATS. 32 pounds a bushel, sow 1 to 2% bushels per acre. Lead- 
ing varieties for the Ozarks: Texas Red Rustproof, Lincoln 
White, Kanota, Winter Turf, Columbia, Fulghum. 
OATS, WINTER TURF. When sown early will furnish winter 
grazing crop as well as a good crop of grain in the spring. 
WHEAT. 60 pounds a bushel, sow 80 pounds per acre. Clarkan 
recleaned winter soft. Dunbar recleaned winter soft. 
FODDER CANE SEED. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 75 to 100 
pounds per acre. For fodder. Leading varieties used: Early 
Orange, Standard Orange, Early Black Amber, Grohoma, Red 
Top, Texas Seeded Ribbon. Jasanese Honey Drip, Darso. 
MILLET. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 25 pounds per acre. The 
German type is most widely grown. WHITE WONDER is also 
very popular, produces even larger heads than the German 
type. HOG MILLET or Manitoba not so much for hay but 
yields enormous quantities of seed. JAP MILLET or Billion 
Dollar Grass, a wonderful hay producer, adapted to all sections 
and especially fine for low ground. 
MILO MAIZE. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 40 pounds to the acre. 
A bigger grower, noted for its drouth resisting qualities. 
WHITE KAFFIR CORN. 50 pounds a bushel, sow 45 pounds 
per acre. Standard of all kaffirs. 
HEGARI. 50 pounds a bushel, drill 50 pounds per acre. Re- 
sembles White Kaffir but the heads are larger, stalks contain 
more sugar. 
COW PEAS. 60 pounds a bushel, plant broadcast 60 pounds to 
an acre. Drilled 50 pounds per acre. There is no cheaper way 
to improve poor land than by growing Cow Peas. They add 
nitrogen and improve the mechanical condition of the soil. 
Leading varieties are: Whippoorwill, Black Eye, Mixed, New 
Era, The Clay, Canada Field, Red Ripper, Sugar Pea, Blue 
Goose, Brown Eyed, Lady Pea. 
JOHNSON GRASS. 25 pounds a bushel. 
acre. (Prohibited in some states.) 
SOY BEANS. 60 pounds a bushel, plant 1 bushel per acre. 
They make poor land good, they make good land better. Soy 
Bean hay contains a high per cent of protein, is superior to 
Cow Peas in feeding value and as a milk and butter producer 
is equal to Alfalfa and superior to Cotton Seed meal. The beans 
and bean meal contain about 35% of digestible protein_and 
stock eat them with relish and thrive on them. Virginia, Early 
Yellow, Wilson (Early Black), Illini, Laredo, Manchu. 
Sow 25 pounds to the 

Reduce Wastage of Seed, Fertilizer and 
Labor by Protecting Seed with 
GHD 

SEED DISINFECTANTS BEFORE PLANTING 
SEMESAN. Treat your seeds, corms, bulbs, and seedlings with 
Semesan. Use as a dust or in solution with water. Semesan 
helps reduce seed rotting and damping-off, is highly effective 
against many seed-borne diseases, even reduces contamination 
of the soil by certain seed-borne diseases. One ounce treats 15 
to 30 pounds of seed. '/g oz., 20c; 2 oz., 45c; 12 oz., $2.10; 4 Ibs., 
$10.10; 25 Ibs., $58.28. 
This dry treatment for hybrid 
or open-pollinated field, sweet, 
or pop corn seed helps reduce 
seed rotting and checks seed- 
ling blight and certain seed- 
borne rots of root and stalk— 
gives the corn a healthy start 
so necessary for a satisfactory 
yield. Nine years’ tests by one 
experiment station gave an average yield of 4 bushels per acre 
from the treatments used. Only 1% ounces of Semesan Jr. 
needed per bushel. 1% 0z., 17c; 12-0z. can, 62c; 25 Ibs., $13.85. 
15 CENTS AN ACRE FOR 
SEMESAN JR. 
eG ys FAN Oo 
RETURNS 2? TO 12 BUS. MORE 

This easy dip disinfectant gen- 
erally reduces the seed-borne 
scab and Rhizoctonia, and seed 
decay, thereby helps to improve 
yields and lower production 
costs. Average increase of 13.6 
per cent in yields was obtained 
in tests. No mussy soaking. 
Treat your seed about as fast as you can dip it. One pound 
treats 60 to 80 bushels of seed—easily, quickly, inexpensively. 
2 oz., 35c; 1 Ib., $1.83; 4 Ibs., $6.33. 
Use this dry treatment on seed 
wheat, oats, barley, rye, and 
peas, to reduce seed-borne dis- 
eases and to help improve your 
yield and thereby increase your 
profit. Tests by experiment sta- 
tions prove its effectiveness 
against covered and black loose 
smut of barley, loose and cov- 
ered smut of oats, stinkin 
smut of wheat, seedling blight of all three. Usually, increase 
yields repay its small cost. Easily applied. One pound treats 32 
bushels of grain. 4 oz., 35c; 1 Ib., 90c; 4 Ibs., $3.00. 
Ceresan-treated cottonseed usu- 
ally produces better stands of 
more vigorous plants and larger 
yields. Treatment allows earlier 
planting, reduces damping-off 
and seed decay, which occurs 
under cold, wet soil conditions. 
It checks the several seed-horne 
diseases, 3 ounces treat a 
Sark of fuzzy seed. 1-Ib. size, 85c; 1% Ibs., $1.25; 25 Ibs., 
Prices of DuPont Disinfectants are subject to change without 
pclae fet orders will be filled contingent upon supplies being 
available. 
TREAT WITH QUICK, EASY 
SEMESAN BEL 
DIP FOR LARGER POTATO CROPS 

TREAT ALL CEREAL SEED WITH 
CERESAN 
FOR GREATER YIELDS 

TREAT COTTON SEED WITH 
2° CERESAN 
tO uw S PAT OFF 
FOR BETTER STANDS AND YIELDS 

