SWEET SUDAN GRASS/ 
DELICIOUS, NUTRITIOUS AND ENORMOUSLY PRODUCTIVE 
Gro-Coated Brand Helps Insure Best Results 
Since Sweet Sudan Grass has come on the market it has gained very rapidly in GRO-COATED 
public favor. In making Sweet Sudan the Common or Regular was crossed with Leoti Brand Seed 
which is a heavy yielding sweet, juicy sorghum. This crop had high resistance against costs no more 
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 best of these two 
but may save 
crops was put into one. It grows very much like ordinary Sudan. It stools even more you hundreds of 
freely and grows taller. The leaves are a little broader. It is a sensational yielder, dollars 
and in reports that we have it has outyielded the Regular or Common Sudan by 30%. 
Item No. 231 
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 gets around 10” high. 
Seed Supplies Short—Demand Heavy 
There will be a big need for Sudan Grass in areas that have been hit by drought. 
Big, heavy hay and pasture will be needed quick, We predict a tremendous demand for 
Sudan Grass seed. This will come in face of a short seed crop: Prices will probably 
advance sharply by seeding time. Order your seed early this year. 
Photo on right shows how cattle 
will eat Sweet Sudan very close ; ; : ; = 
while nibbling on regular Sudan. Small lots postpaid: 1 lb. 50e; 5 lbs. $1.75; 10 lbs. $3.00. See item 231 on price 
list. 
Best Crop | ever Raised Likes Gro-Coated Seed 100% Better Stand 
I have the best crop I ever raised of Alfalfa. I will want Gro-Coated Brand seeds in the fu- I sowed Gro-Coated seed last year. It was the 
Clipped the crop after oat harvest. The 1st of ture. They gave better stands and more vigorously best seeding IT had in my life. It is twice as thick 
September, it was knee high again. Used 3 pounds growing plants. I will gladly pay the extra cost to as it needed to be, and was 2 feet high when I cut 
less seed per acre. I will insist on Gro-Coated seed. get my Gro-Coated Brand. eee ea Meeps ee spenes pear are foe 
A. Nevensciiwander, Grabill, Ind. J. S. Jarboe, Pratt, Iowa L. McWilliam, Deerfield, Minn. 
A Fast Growing Crep That Is Widely Adapted | GRO-COATED 
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Sudan grass belongs to the Cane family, but it is finer Brand Seed 
stemmed and a free stooler. It grows from 4 to 7 feet high. is most 
It will yield 4 to 7 tons of cured hay per acre. It has good = 
feeding value. Livestock is very fond of Sudan. The first economical to 
hay crop can be cut about 60 days after seeding. Second |yse, See Pages 
and third crop 30 to 40 days apart. You can sow it around 2 and 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 a 
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 
have some of either the regular or Sweet Sudan. Handle Sudan Grass 
Do not sow until corn planting 
Bu oa hi time or after. Prepare a good seed bed 
y Your Seed Early This Year like that for Corn. Drill in close rows or broadcast. 
You will get the best values early. Seed supplies are short. Because Cover the seed about an inch deep. Sow 20 to 25 Ibs per 
of the need for feed in drought areas, large acreages will be sown to this acre, Begin pasturing it. when it is about,10 inches high. It 
fast growing crop. The price shown on price list sent with catalog will can be pastured until frost. Many consider it best not to 
be protected as long as possible. To Save Most, Buy Now. We guarantee pasture Sudan after frost as there is some danger of prussic 
.you a saving on the Sudan Grass seed that you may purchase from us. acid developing in young dark Sreen growth that may start 
The true basis of value is the quality that you receive. We know that you after periods of extreme drought or after frost Generally cut 
will be delighted with the character of stock that we have for you. Sudan for hay when in bloom, but can be cut earlier or later. See 
Grass is ete cea puet by cold wien vier pier seeding. Our Ghost ostad item 230 on price list. : 
= rand seed gives you much greater assurance of satisfac- Price in small lots Postpaid: : 
tory stands. ; $1.75; 10 lbs., $3.00. paid: 1 lb. 50e; 5 Ibs., 
Fine Seed—Money Saving Prices Berry's Seeds Give Best Results 
Gentlemen: , Annada, Mo. Dear Sir: Goodwins Ferry, Va. 
I have been using your fine quality seed for a number _I find that I get better results from Berry’s seeds than 
of years and have found it O.K. at a money saving price. with any of the other companies I’ve done business 
Yours truly, with. They are everything they are recommended to be 
Frank Busch and more. Very good quality at a reasonable price. 
Sincerely, Eugene Doss 
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