_ __R.H. Shumway—“The Pioneer American Seedsman”—Rockford, Illinois 
is . 1649 Lincoln Soy Beans = (105-Day Bean) 
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_ High yields and larger oil content are fast making Lincoln one of the 
most popular Soy Bean varieties throughout South Central, Central and 
North Central Illinois, Indiana and Iowa. It does well farther south and 
‘north than lini. Well adapted both east and west. Lincoln resists both 
lodging and shattering. Of medium height, 4 to 6 inches shorter than 
| Illini, has a strong tendency to produce large branches. Lincoln was de- 
veloped by the United States Department of Agriculture. It is a natural 
oss between Mandarin and Manchu. Pods are dark brown containing 
three seeds. Postpaid, 1 lb., 35 cts.; 21/2 lbs.; 75 cts.; 5 Ibs., $1.35. 
1650 Hawkeye Soy Beans (100-Day Bean) 
Hawkeye plants grow 4 to 6 inches taller than Richland and ‘stand 
| equally well. Developed at the Iowa Agricultural Experiment Station. 
Pods are light color and usually contain two seeds. There is little or no 
Shattering. Seed is large and yellow in color. Hawkeye yields average 
of 32 bushels per acre over a 4-year test. Also has high oil content. 
|) Postpaid, 1 Ib., 35 cts.; 21% Ibs., 75 cts.; 5 Ibs., $1.35. 
| For Larger Quantities On All Soy Beans See Wholesale Green List Enclosed 
| 1593 Canada Field Peas (60 Ibs. Bu.) 
i Every season we get hundreds of letters from farmer friends asking that 
e suggest the best annual early hay crop. Well folks, there just isn’t any- 
ing that equals a mixture of Canadian Field Peas and Oats seeded in the 
early spring at the rate of one bushel of each per acre. This combination 
hay makes an average yield of 2-18/100 tons of excellent feed per acre. 
Almost equal pound for pound with Clover hay. Relished by all classes of 
| stock. Canadian Field Peas are very hardy; therefore may be seeded just 
| as soon as it is safe to sow Oats. We prefer sowing with a grain drill al- 
'| though good results may be obtained by sowing broadcast. Postpaid, 1 Ih., 
| 45 cts.; 214 Ibs., $1.00; 5 lbs., $1.75. 
For Larger Quantities See Wholesale Green List Enclosed 
Cow Peas (60 Ibs. Bu.) . 
| 1583 Mixed—Whippoorwill Type 
i} _ When danger of frost is over sow broadcast 1 Bu. 
drills 36 inches apart. Cowpeas produce one of the 
f nutritious forage crops grown. 
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argest and the most 
When turned under, they furnish nitrogen 
and generally enhance the fertility of the soil. They make a fine feed for 
work and beef-stock and for dairy herds, and are nearly equal in value to 
i | alfalfa and wheat-bran. Postpaid, 1 Ib., 45 cts.; 214 Ibs., $1.00; 5 Ibs., $1.75. 
re le ; For Larger Quantities See Wholesale Green List Enclosed 
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1662 Sunflower Mammoth Russian 
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at. For Seed or Bird Food 
a | _.._A small patch of cultivated sunflowers will produce a great quantity of 
! the very best poultry feed for winter. Drill in rows, cut with a corn har- 
- vester, dry thoroughly and let the fowls do the threshing. If you can’t 
' spare land for cultivating, plant them in waste corners. 10 lbs. per acre. 
_ | Postpaid, % Ib., 30 cts.; 1b., 50 cts.; 21% lbs., $1.15; 5 lbs., $2.00. 
y ih i) For Larger Quantities See Wholesale Green List Enclosed 
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. Forage Crops Every One Should Grow 
| One Acre Will Produce Tons of High Quality Feed 
1676 Sugar Drip 1623 Kafhr Corn 
RAPE 
1640 Dwarf Essex 
A Quick, Profitable Crop— 
Thrives Everywhere 
In the spring when you are 
sowing small grains, sow it 
at the rate of 4 pounds per 
acre with your grain. This 
will furnish valuable pasture 
after harvest. Plant it by it- 
self at the rate of 5 Ibs. per 
acre and see the immense 
yield of forage it will pro- 
duce. After the last cultiva- 
tion of corn sow 3 Ibs. per 
acre broadcast. This is un- 
doubtedly the most profitable 
place to sow rape seed. If 
you are hogging the corn 
down, the hogs will clean the 
rape as well as the corn. If 
you husk your corn and pas- 
ture the cornstalks, all kinds 
of stock eat it readily, and 
this gives them green food 
with the dry. Postpaid, Ihb., 
45 cts.; 24% lbs., $1.00; 5 lbs., 
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\ Forage, Hay and Poultry Crops—All Annual Crops—They Will Assure You Suffi- 
'Pcient Supply of Good Cattle and Poultry Feed at a Very Small Cost Per Acre. 
1613 Sudan Grass Wonderful Hay Crop 
One of the best annual forage plants ever introduced, suitable 
for almost any locality and any kind of soil. Like eorn, it is 2 
wari weather crop. Several cuttings can be obtained in one sea- 
son. For hay it is ready to cut in 60 to 75 days, when it is in full 
head. It continues its grewth, and in 40 to 45 days it is ready 
for another cutting. 
An enormous yielder, producing 3 or 4 tons of hay at the first 
cutting. The second cutting is lighter, and the hay is much finer. 
Live stock of all kinds will eat the hay readily. For hay, sow at 
the rate of 20 to 30 lbs. per acre, using a grain drill, and cover 
from one to one and one-half inches deep. Postpaid, lb., 40 cts.; 
2% lbs., 85 cts.; 5 Ibs., $1.50, 
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1642 SWEET SUDAN GRASS 
This new introduction in Sudan will produce more sweet, juicy, 
palatable forage for your livestock. Developed by Texas Agr. 
Station but up to the present time only limited supply of seed is 
available so, please order promptly that we may serve you on 
some of this new forage crop before supply is exhausted. It is 
more disease resistant than the old Sudan and being of sweeter 
quality the stock eat it down first. Produces more plant growth 
than common and remains green longer. Sow 20 Ibs. of seed per 
acre. Postpaid, lb., 45 cts.; 214 Ibs., $1.00; 5 lbs., $1.75. 
For Larger Quantities See Green List Enclosed 
Sorghum Cane Makes splendid feed for poultry, fed 
a aa 
either in the grain or ground and cooked. 
For Making Delicious Syrup 
This new Sorghum Cane grows 
much heavier stalks than Amber 
Cane and withstands storms and 
wet weather without lodging. 
It produces an outstanding qual- 
ity of syrup and more of it per 
icre. We believe our strain to 
“as pure as any obtainable but 
wing to the peculiar hybridiza- 
m of Sugar Cane varieties, we 
é ot guarantee beyond the 
alue of the purchase price, Av- 
‘age yield per acre, 175 to 200 
allons of delicious rich quality 
up. Golden yellow color. Sow 
lbs. per acre in drills. Post- 
aid, lb. 45 cts.; 214 lbs., $1.00; 
5 Ibs., $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.25. 
Por Larger Quantities See 
fholesale Green List Enclosed 
~ 1631 Milo-Maize 
rage Plant of Great Merit. 
ongs to the Non-Saccharine 
hums. It is pronounced the 
and surest grain crop for 
ountries and seasons, even 
sr than Kaffir corn. It grows 
tal smaller heads on side 
ts, often as many as eight 
iS on a stalk. Very valuable 
feeding stock, also one of 
best poultry foods. Plant 15 
ds per acre in drills. Post. 
‘Ib., 40 cts.; 244 lbs., 85 cts.; 
+, $1.50. 
x Larger Quantities See 
esale Green List Enclosed 
Foliage and stalk make excellent forage. 
Cultivate the same as common corn. Re- 
quires 15 pounds of seed per acre in 
drills. Postpaid, lb., 40 cts.; 2% Ibs., 85 
ets.; 5 lbs., $1.50. For Larger Quantities 
See Wholesale Green List Enclosed. 
1660 Sugar Cane 
Early Amber Cane makes a very satis- 
factory summer pasture for all kinds of 
stock. When used before it heads out 
there is but little waste. The hay is very 
palatable and nutritious and is relished 
by all kinds of stock. The yield of cured 
hay is about 12 to 15 tons per acre. Sow 
broadcast 60 Ibs. per acre or 15 lbs, per 
acre in drills. Postpaid, lb..45 cts.; 2% 
Ibs., $1.00; 5 Ibs., $1.75. For larger 
Quantities see Wholesale Green List En- 
closed. ' 
1592 Hegari 
This is a sweet sorghum somewhat sim- 
ilar to cane, Very nutritious, Valuable 
for grain, dry fodder, ensilage and pas- 
ture. Yields up to 5,000 Ibs. of grain per 
acre and up to 18 tons of ensilage. Live 
stock, especially cattle, are very fond of 
it due to its sweet taste. For grain pro- 
duction drill like Kaffir 6 to 8 Ibs. per 
acre. For hay drill in close rows at 75 to 
90 Ibs. per acre. Postpaid, Ib., 40 cts.; 
2% tbs., 85 cts.; 5 Ibs., $1.50. For Larger 
Quantities See Wholesale Green List En- 
closed. 
1594 Grohoma 
A Cross Between Cane and Kaffir. Great- 
est drought resister. Very heavy pro~- 
ducer, Cattle like it. Wonderful feed. 
Grows strong and erect. Most popular 
forage of recent introduction. Excellent 
pasture. Drill in double rows using 18 
to 20 Ibs. per acre. Postpaid, lb., 40 cts.; 
2% Ibs., 85 ets.; 5 Ibs., $1.50. For Larger 
Quantities See Wholesale Green List En- 
closed, 
$1.75. 
For Larger Quantities See 
Wholesale Green List 
Enclosed 
Millet 
When Corn fails you or when 
Season is too wet for Corn on low 
bottom ground here is the one 
crop you can sow as late as July 
and harvest a Big Crop of ex- 
cellent hay. 
1625 Golden Beauty Millet 
(50 Ibs. Bu.) 
Few other grasses or forage 
plants have been able to produce 
the enormeus yields of this plant. 
It has produced four to five tons 
of hay to the acre and from sev- 
enty to eighty bushels of seed. It 
may be sown on newly broken 
ground in the spring and as late 
as July. Leaves the ground in ex- 
cellent condition for the following 
crop. Plant 30 pounds to the acre. 
Postpaid, lb., 45 cts.; 214 Ibs., 
$1.00; 5 lbs., $1.75. 
For Larger Quantities See 
Wholesale Green List Enclosed 
developed 
states. 
1627 Billion Dollar Grass 
(35 Ibs. Bu.) 
All things considered, we call this the most valuable 
thing in our whole list of forage plants. We recommend 
it for the following reasons: First, it makes more hay 
than German Millet or any other. Second, although it 
grows so large, sometimes seven or eight feet high, the 
hay is of the most excellent quality, superior to corn 
fodder. Third, it is adapted to all sections and a great 
success wherever tried. It does well on low ground. 
Fourth, two crops a season may be cut from it, or, if 
left to ripen, it will yield almost as many bushels of 
seed per acre as oats. Plant 20 to 25 pounds per acre. 
Postpaid, lb., 45 cts.; 2% Ibs., $1.00; 5 Ibs., $1.75. 
For Larger Quantities See Wholesale Green List En- 
closed. 
1664 Henry Spring Wheat (Bearded) 
We consider this the finest Spring Wheat in cultiva- 
tion at the present time. The straw is stiff. The kernels 
are medium red in color, softer in texture and larger 
than any other Spring Wheat. Can be used as a feed 
Wheat but it is also satisfactory for baking. Postpaid 
lb., 35 ets.; 2% Ibs., 75 ets.; 5 Ibs., $1.25. For Larger 
Quantities See Wholesale Green List Enclosed. 
1516 Barley, Moore Certified 
(Bu. 48 Lbs.) 
A superior variety of Barley developed by the 
Wisconsin Exptriment Station released in 1948. 
It is white-seeded, smooth awned, spring variety 
with a compact head. It is resistant to mildew, 
stem rust, and spot blotch. Outyields Wisconsin 
Barbless and Oderbrucker, Postpaid, lb., 30 cts.; 
24 lbs., 60 cts.; 5 lbs., $1.00.. For’ Larger Quan- 
tities See Wholesale Green List Enclosed, 
1523 Japanese Buckwheat 
Buckwheat can be easily grown wherever 
wheat will grow, producing a good yield on light 
or poor soils. Sow 36 pounds per acre in drills, 
50 pounds broadcast. 
The very finest Northern Grown High ylelding 
Buckwheat, Postpaid, lb., 40 cts.; 21% Ibs., 85 
cts.; 5 lbs., $1.50. 
For Larger Quantities See 
Wholesale Green List Enclosed 
1634 Certified Nemaha Oats 
A New Variety of Oats that is 5 days earlier than Clin- 
ton; a reddish-seeded Oat about 2 inches shorter than Clin- 
ton but very stiff strawed. It is resistant to all the common 
races of leaf rust, also to stem rust and smut. Nemaha was 
cooperatively between Jowa, Nebraska and 
Kansas Experiment Stations. It is a double cross of (Vic- 
toria-Richland) X (Morota X Bond). In the 1948 trials at 
Mt. Morris, Illinois, it outyielded all other varieties. Aver- 
age yields per acre in this test was 78.6 bushels per acre. 
Supplies of this new Certified Seed Oat will be very scarce 
this year as it is in big demand, so please order early. 
1633 Certified Clinton 11 Oats 
This variety is in big demand throughout the Corn Belt 
It is an improved strain of the original Clinton. It 
is resistant to disease, the same as the original Clinton was. 
Ripens very uniformly and also is uniform in plant height. 
This improved strain in official yield tests 
showed an increase of 30% in yield over the 
original variety. Do not take a chance of seed- 
ing bin run Oats. Select only recleaned Cer- 
tified Seed Oats. The small additional cost will 
more than pay for itself in increased yield. 
Uniform Prices on Oats: 
Postpaid, 1 1b., 35 cts.; 21 lbs., 80 cts.; 5 Ibs., 
$1.50. 
For Larger Quantities— 
See Wholesale Green List Enclosed 
1535 LLespedeza-Korean—Annual 
Hulled Scarified Seed FREE from Dodder— 
Bu. 60 lbs. 
Greatest Annual Pasture or Hay Crop 
The abundant growth and deep penetrating 
roots covered with nodules make it an outstand- 
ing grazing and soil building legume. The strong 
root growth penetrates about 8 inches deep, mak- 
ing it highly drought resistant, and capable of 
thriving on poor, wornout soils where altalfa 
and clovers would fail. In feeding value it is 
about equal to alfalfa; has no woody stem; holds 
its leaves well and produces a full crop the first 
season. A harrowing before sowing is the only 
preparation necessary. When sown alone broad- 
east 15 lbs. to the acre. Postpaid, lb., 45 cts.; 
2% Ihbs., $1.00; 5 lbs., $1.75. For Larger Quan- 
tities See Wholesale Green List Enclosed. 
1537 | espedeza-Sericea—Perennial 
Hulled Scarified Seed FREE from Dodder— 
Bu., 60 lbs. 
The new permanent Clover introduced by the 
U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. It grows on poor, 
acid or sour land as well as rich land. It is a 
great drought resister with an enormous root 
system. It enriches the soil‘and gives at least 
8 cuttings a season with as high as 3 tons per 
acre at one cutting. Stock relish the hay and 
it may be closely grazed. 
Sow rather shallow in the sgprine or fail in 
well prepared, warm soil 4 lbs. per acre in drills 
or 12 Ibs. per acre broadcast. Postpaid, lb., 55 
cts.; 2% Ihs., $1.25; 5 lhbs., $2.25. For Larger 
Quantities See Wholesale Green List Enclosed. 
