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WOOD’S QUAIL PLANTING MIXTURE 
Sown in Food Patches Attracts and Multiplies Game Birds. 
Contains Bicolor and Scarified Sericea Lespedezas. 
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This wildlife border is a living symbol of better land use. 
In the days of the pioneer, quail thrived due to the extensive method of 
cultivation. However, with the rapid transition to modern machine farm- 
ing and increased livestock production, the quail has often found it difficult 
to maintain his numbers. Clean farming has caused a sharp decline in the 
bobwhite population and unless more is done to benefit him there will 
be a further decline in this valuable ally of the farmer. 
Game birds are an asset on any farm and it costs very little to provide 
for their needs. Wood’s Quail Planting Mixture will furnish both seed 
and greens the year ‘round for both local birds and doves, insuring you 
many hours of hunting pleasure during the fall and winter months. 
The Virginia Game Commission recommends it: ‘““Ample food is necessary 
throughout the year. Scarcity of food and cover in winter definitely 
limits the number of quail that survive. Cover is any vegetation giving 
protection from enemies, the elements, and a refuge for roosting and 
nesting. Quail eat a variety of seeds, almost all legumes, preferably 
lespedezas, cowpeas and small soybeans. The 15 to 30 feet of field next 
to woods produces a small, stunted crop, grown at a loss as the return 
seldom equals the cost of plowing, seed, fertilizer, cultivation and harvest. 
The only practical land use is to sow field borders in wildlife food and 
cover which controls erosion, retards tree growth, and furnishes turnrows.” 
Following the advice of the Game Commission, we have incorporated 
in our Planting Mixture 18 kinds of seeds most frequently found in quail 
crops. These include both bicolor and sericea lespedezas, cowpeas, millet, 
milo, small seeded soybeans, bene, sudan grass, sesbania, buckwheat and 
rape. These seeds mature at different times, providing a constant food 
supply. It furnishes low cover to protect birds from their enemies, 
predators and the elements. Our formula is based on years of testing 
on our own and on some of the largest hunting preserves in the South. 
How to Plant. Broadcast 25 lbs. per acre May to July on prepared land. 
400 lbs. of fertilizer per acre is desirable. It pays to disk, harrow and 
sow each year. For Quail, sow in long strips near cover, fences, ditches 
or hedgerows, in old tobacco beds, or in openings of fire lanes in woods. 
For a 15 ft. by 400 ft. strip, use 5 pounds. For Wild Turkeys or Pheasants, 
sow in wider strips in secluded spots. For Doves, sow one or two acres 
in the center of open areas. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
One of the most valuable, quickest growing and cheapest pasture crops 
that can be planted, especially for hogs, sheep and poultry. An acre will 
graze 30 hogs for 6 weeks. Ready to graze in 6 to 8 weeks after seeding. 
Rape is most winter-resistant, growing vigorously and furnishing a great 
abundance of palatable, nutritious green feed high in vitamins when most 
needed. Rape pasture equals alfalfa for hogs and pigs pastured on rape 
require less grain per 100 lbs. gain than when grazed on alfalfa. Rape 
does well on any good soil. Sow in February, March, August or September 
6 to 8 lbs. per acre broadcast alone or 4 to 6 Ibs. in 18 to 24 inch drills. 
To insure against bloat, sow 5 to 6 Ibs. with 11/2 bushels of oats. 
PRICES IN FRONT OF CATALOG 
T. W. WOOD & SONS 
Seedsmen Since 1879 ° 
WOOD’S BIRD SCATTER FOOD 
Attracts doves, quail, turkey and other game birds to your farm, ducks and 
geese to your marshes, or song birds to your home. Feed it regularly 
in winter, especially during snows when little native food is available. 
It furnishes nourishment and warmth in the coldest weather. Birds will 
range far to find it. Native birds will remain and repay you many times 
over by killing insects. Migratory birds will return to your marshes the 
following winter. Birds never forget where they found food when needed. 
A variety of foods is needed by birds to keep healthy. Our formula, 
prepared by highest authority, has a wide assortment of seeds sought by 
wild birds. Used by many bird clubs and other conservation organizations. 
SESBANIA—Excellent for quail, duck marshes or soil 
Made more seed than any other crop in a 5-year Georgia Coastal Plain 
test. Game birds are attracted from a distance by the seed. Does well on 
any soil if cultivated, best on bottom-land if broadcast. Quick, vigorous 
growth. Furnishes excellent cover. A superior soil-immoroving crop. With 
moisture it creates more nitrogen and humus than mest other plants. Sow 
20 to 25 lbs. per acre after ground warms, April’to July. 
BICOLOR LESPEDEZA No. 101, Perennial. 
Ideal quail food. Should be included in every wildlife program as its stiff 
stems stand up during winter storms, shedding seed on top of snow, 
furnishing food to quail when they might otherwise perish. The bark 
and leaves are excellent food for rabbits, the blooms attract honeybees. 
Grows well on all but wet or very acid soils. Use as field borders or 
hedgerows. 1 Ib. plants strip 15 by 400 ft. Broadcast or plant in 2 ft. 
rows on prepared land. 500 lbs. complete fertilizer desirable. Sow as far 
north as southern Pennsylvania after ground warms. April to July. 
MAMMOTH RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER, poultry, game, hogs 
Good grain crop. Profitable cash crop as it yields 1,000 to 1,500 lbs. per 
acre of seed rich in oil and protein. Plant and cultivate like corn in 2Y/2 
foot rows. For feed or silage plant 15 to 20 lbs. per acre; for seed pro- 
duction, plant 12 inches apart in the row at the rate of 8 Ibs. per acre. 
When ripe, cut off the heads and pile loosely under cover to dry. 
JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT 
A good summer grain crop for feed or 
flour, poor land or soil improving crop 
to smother weeds, or for bees. No grain 
crop can be grown easier or in less time, 
maturing in 2 months. Its flour makes 
delicious cakes. June through August, 
sow 50 lbs. per acre. 
BENE, Game Birds Love It 
Makes an enormous amount of nutritious 
fattening seeds for poultry. Adapted to 
most soils; upright growth, covered in 
fall with long okra like pods. These 
gradually open all winter, dropping the 
seeds which attract quail and other game 
birds. Drill 5 Ibs. per acre in 2/2-ft. rows 
and cultivate; or broadcast 15 lbs. acre. 
BROWN TOP MILLET 
Draws doves many miles. Relished by 
quail and turkey. Excellent bird cover. 
Similar to Tenn. millet, but taller, has 
larger heads, produce more seed, hay 
and grazing. Can be grazed constantly 
in dry summers, starting when 3 in. tall. 
One plant stools out about 30 stems, 
relished by poultry and livestock. Makes 
more hay than Sudan, equal to Timothy 
in feeding value, allows several cuttings, 
yielding 5 or 6 tons per acre. Broadcast 
20 lbs. per acre, April to July. 
PEARL or CAT-TAIL MILLET 
Grows 10 to 12 ft. tall, stooling out luxuriantly. For greatest amount of 
nutritious green feed or hay, cut at 3 to 4 ft. Will give 3 or 4 cuttings 
a season, growing till frost. It does well even on poor land and in dry 
seasons. Fertilize heavily. All stock eat it greedily and flourish on it. 
Makes excellent silage. When the ground is warm, April to July, plant 
8 lbs. per acre in 3 ft. drills near the feeding lot. Cut some daily. 
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA 57 
Pearl or Cat-Tail Miflet 
