NSWEET SUDAN|GRASS/) 
DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS AND ENORMOUSLY PRODUCTIVE 
It's New! It's Different! It's Better! 
Since this new Sweet Sudan Grass has come on the market it has gained very rapid- a . 
ly in public favor. In making Sweet Sudan the Common or Regular was crossed with GRO-COATING 
Leoti which is a heavy yielding sweet, juicy sorghum. This crop had high resistance is low cost 
against disease and also shattering of seed. Sudan was finer stemmed and stools 
more freely. It makes wonderful hay but is not sweet. In making the cross the assurance of 
best of these two crops was put into one. It grows very much like ordinary Sudan. 
It stools even more freely and grows taller. The leaves are a little broader. It is a better stands 
sensational yielder, and in reports that we have it has outyielded the Regular or 
Common Sudan by 30%. / 
A Very Palatable Fast Growing Crop for Pasture and Hay 
You Plant this after the seed bed is warm as described below under How 
to Handle Sudan Grass. You can get two or three cuttings of hay in a year. 
» It remains palatable over a long time and you do not have to cut it at any 
certain stage. Even if you let it stand for seed it makes good feed. It has’ 
a delicious flavor and because of its sweeter content, a higher feeding value. 
Notice the photograph at immediate left. The cow eats the Sweet Sudan 
down to the ground while it nibbles the tops of the Regular. Sweet Sudan 
is a little later in maturity than Regular Sudan. It maintains its high 
feeding value in pasture up until frost. It is a great heat and drouth resister, 
It gives you sweet, palatable juicy food when many grasses are becoming 
dormant because of heat. Pasture it after it géts around 10” high. 
Sudan Grass Seed Scarcer This Year 
Due to unfavorable weather conditions the production of both Sweet and 
Regular Sudan Grass has been very sharply reduced. As a result you may 
be looking for higher prices. Sow around 20# to the acre and we strongly 
recommend that you use Gro-Coated Sudan: because that withstands unfavor- 
Photo on right shows how ca#tle able weather conditions at planting time so much better. Our prices include 
will eat Sweet Sudan very close Gro-Coating. Small lots postpaid: 1 lb. 40e; 5 lbs. $1.60; 10 lbs. $2.85. See item 
while nibbling on regular Sudan. 231 on price list. 
Best Crop I ever Raised Likes Gro-Coated Seed _ 100% Better Stand 
I have the best crop I ever raised of Alfalfa. ° I will want my seeds treated in the future. They I sowed Gro-Coated seed last year. It was the 
Clipped the crop after oat harvest. The 1st of gave better stands and more vigorously growing best seeding I had in my life. It is twice as thick . 
September, it was knee high again. Used 3 pounds plants. I will gladly pay the extra cost to get my ee Whoet Tide Lobe node eee iaeR ee 
less seed per acre. I will insist on Gro-Coated seed. seed so treated. sow any more seed anleae Fiend apes ouldn’t 
A, Nevenschwander, Grabill, Ind. J. S. Jarboe, Pratt, Iowa L. McWilliam, Deerfield, Minn. 
REGULAR SUDAN 
A Fast Growing Crop That Is Widely Adapted |“GRO-COATING” 
Sudan grass belongs to the Cane family, but it is finer H 
stemmed and a free stooler. It grows from 4 to 7 feet high. EYES Ou mee 
It will yield 4 to 7 tons of cured hay per acre. It has good {plants per square 
feeding value. Livestock is very fond of Sudan. The first 
hay crop can be cut about 60 days after seeding. Second foot. See Pages 
and third crop 30 to 40 days apart. You can sow it around 2&3 
corn planting time or just a little after, which will indicate 
how quickly you could get a valuable feed crop. Sudan is 
one of the best drouth resisting grasses known. It stands 2 
lot of heat. It supplies an abundance of fine pasture or hay during the 
dry months of summer when feed is often scarce. Since it yields so 
heavily you do not have to devote many acres to get a lot of feed from How to 
Sudan grass. It provides feed insurance, that is why every farm should Handle Sudan Grass 
have some of either the regular or Sweet Sudan. Fi : 
Do not sow until corn planting 
° time or after. Prepare a good seed bed 
Buy Your Seed Early This Year like that for Corn. Drill in close rows or broadcast. 
The seed we have for our early trade is of the very finest quality. Cover the seed about an inch deep. Sow 20 to 25 lbs. per 
Our prices, as this catalog goes to press, are low, and we hope to keep acre. Begin pasturing it when it is about 10 inches high. It 
them there. But we do recommend that you buy early to be assured of can be pastured until frost. Many consider it best not to 
getting this high quality seed at these prices. We guarantee you a sav- pasture Sudan after frost as there is some danger of prussic 
acid developing in young dark green growth that may start 
ing on the Sudan Grass seed that you may purchase from us. The true : gues 5 ae 
basis of value is the quality that you receive. We know that you will be Pe PO ORS OF eX RRESS ncen Prey aoe peste Ste 
delighted with the character of stock that we have for you. Sudan item 230 on price list. , c 
Grass is quite easily hurt by cold weather after seeding. Price in small lots Postpaid: 1 Ib., 30c; 5 lbs 
Our Gro-Coated seed gives you much greater assurance of $1.25; 10 lbs., $2.10, : 2 d 4 
satisfactory stands. 
Fine Seed—Money Saving Prices Berry's Seeds Give Best Results 
Gentlemen: Annada, Mo. eee aay, Paton rie : Goodwins Peis Va. 
I have been using your fine quality seed for a number See at I get better results from Berry’s seeds than 
eis ; "| ; with any of the other companies I’ve done business 
of years and have found it ones a Spates RAVENS DIiCo: with. They are everything they are recommended to be 
oe eb y, and more, Very good quality at a reasonable price, 
ran usch Sincerely, Eugene Doss 
