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REASONS WHY YOU WILL 
PROFIT FROM SOWING 
HOLMES’ FIELD SEEDS 
Desirable and adapted inheritance is assured by selection, breeding and 
controlled production. 
Exceptionally high purity is the result of skillful and thorough cleansing. 
High vigor is assured by testing each lot for germination and distributing 
only lots that have it. 
Chemical treatment of small grains and seed corn to control disease organ’ 
isms on the seed or in the soil results in more uniform stands of healthy 
seedlings. 
Bacterial inoculant is included with all legume seed. 
Accurate practical grading permits uniform, efficient planting or sowing. 
All Holmes’ Seeds are analyzed to determine the weed seed content and 
impurities, and all lots that do not meet the highest standards are thoroughly 
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. 
Ladino 
Alsike 
Medium Red 
Grimm 
Korean Lespedeza @ Hairy Vetch © Grasses 
Write us for latest FIELD SEED PRICE LIST 
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 
Clovers 
Alfalfas 
Variegated 
Reed Canary Grass 
Mammoth Red 
White Sweet 
Yellow Sweet 
Common 
Sown in swampy ground into worth-while grazing, sometimes with a good 
hay crop besides. Not for acid soils. Has been good on uplands, too. Per- 
to 12 pounds per acre. Write for Price List. 
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 disc 
or spring tooth harrow is better than plowing. 
Highland Mixture; Lowland Mixture. 

PEAS, 
VETCHES (All Varieties) 
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inoculate all Legume Seeds with 
1898 — FIFTY-TWO YEARS OF SERVICE — 1950 
When ordering, Always state name of seed. 
ALFALFA (A) 
Swt., Bur, Hubam Clovers 
Size Retail 
1 bu. each...$ .50 
2% bu. each... 1.00 
SOYBEANS (S) 
(One can) 
30 bu. each...... 
(6-5 bu. cans) 
cLovers (B) 
Red, Alsike, Crimson, 
White and Ladino. 
1 bu. each...$ .50 
2% bu. each... 1.00 
BEANS (D) 
Navy, Pinto, Wax, 
String, Kidney and 
Great Northern 
1 bu. each...... $ 
COMBINATION (AB) 
1) bu. cach... $ .50 
LESPEDEZA (L) 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates 
up to 100 Ibs.) ..$ .50 
PEANUTS, 
(C) | cow peas (E) 
2 bu. each...... 
100 Ib. size (Inoculates anemeacheen 
up to 100 Ibs.) ea.$ .50 
GARDEN SIZE—Peas, Beans, Sweet Peas, Lupines, Lima 
Beans and Edible Soybeans 
Enough for 8 Ibs. seed — Retail Price 15c each 



Good Pasture Makes Healthy Livestock 
Bromegrass—“Lincoin” Type 
Bromegrass is the best grass to mix with Alfalfa or Ladino if 
it is planned to harvest it partly or entirely by pasturing with 
cattle or sheep. 
The best time to sow Bromegrass is early spring or late summer. 
of failure. 
Bromegrass seed may be sown with the grain drill by mixing 
the seed with fertilizer. 
very shallow. Deep seeding is one of the most common causes 
Sow through the fertilizer attachment 
Bromegrass (1 part by weight) may be mixed with Oats (4 
to 6 parts) and sown shallow through the grain feed. 
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-Brome Pasture 
Growers have established pasture by seeding two pounds of Ladino and twelve pounds of 
Brome to the acre in the spring of 1949 with excellent results. 
Ladino Clover 
Excellent for Grazing 
Ladino Clover is one of our most valu- 
able pasture plants. It is highly produc- 
tive and nutritious, and comparatively easy 
to grow. 
A giant type of White Clover. Is very 
much larger and much more drought re- 
sistant. 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, 
one-half to one 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 constituent of a hay mix- 
ture. 
Ladino Clover seed, like that of other 
legumes, should be inoculated before seed- 
ing and the land should be well limed and 
fertilized. Write for Price List. 
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Sudan Grass 
