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36 SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

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EARLY AMBER CANE.

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Dairy farmers say that the Early Amber Cane is the most valuable fodder plant in
existence for their use. Notwithstanding its great adaptability as a food for livestock.
It is only quite recently that the real value of sorghum (or sugar cane) has attracted
general attention. Its great merit is now beginning to be appreciated. It is of the very
best quality, being sweet, tender, nutritious aud greedily eaten by cattle, horses and
hogs. Dairymen find that the cows wlll give more and richer milk from its use and it
is claimed that as high as ten tons of green fodder have been grown per acre. Sow
100 lbs. per acre for best results. It is a profitable crop also to grow for seed which
is excellent for feeding poultry, and is very frequently ground and substituted for
buckwheat flour. Price subject to market change. Per lb. 20c, 3 lbs. 50c. By freight,
10 lbs. 50c, 25 lbs. 85c, 100 lbs $2.00, 500 lbs. or more @ $1.75.

KAFFIR CORN.
This is a most excellent fodder plant, yielding two crops of fodder during a season.
It grows from five to six feet high, making a straight, upright growth. The stem or
stalk bears numerous wide leaves. The stalks keep green and are brittle and juicy,
making excellent fodder either green or dried. The seed crop is also heavy, sometimes
yielding sixty bushels to the acre. Both grain and fodder are excellent. The
stalk remains tender to full maturity of the seed. There is no failure about it as it
possesses the quality that all the tribe possess, of going without rain without any loss of
capacity to yield. The grain Is extremely valuable for feeding to poultry and will
make a flour that is like wheat. Cultivated the same as our common Indian corn requiring
five pounds of seed per acre. For fodder sow one-half to one bushel, either
broadcast or in drills. Pkt. 50c, lb. 20c, 3 lbs. 50c. By freight, peck 40c, bushel (50 lbs)
$1.00, 2 bushel or more @ 90c.

JERUSALEM CORN.
Claimed by many practical growers to be an improvement on Kaffir corn as it is a surer crop in unfavorable seasons.
Produces a large crop of fodder, which is of very good quality. Seed white and nearly flat. Yields a good grain crop

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also. Three or four pounds will plant an acre in
dri1ls, 40 to 50 lbs. broadcast. Pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs.
A fodder plant grown largely In some parts of
60c. By frelght, peck 75c, bushel (50 lbs.) $3.00, 2
the country. Somewhat resembling corn In Its
bushel or more @ $2.75.

TEOSINTE
A fodder plant grown largely in some parts of
the country. Somewhat resembling corn in its
general appearance, but the leaves are much
longer and broader and the stalks contains sweeter
sap. In its prefection it produces a great number
of shoots growing as much as 12 feet high; very
thickly covered with leaves yielding such an abundance
of foliage that one plant is considered
sufficient to feed a pair of cattle for 24 hours.
Eighty-five stalks have been grown from one seed,
attaining a height of eleven feet. Horses and
cattle eat it as freely as young sugar corn. Plant
as soon as ground becomes warm at usual corn
planting time, in hills, three to four feet apart
each way, two seeds to the hill. We advise all
those interested to give it at least a trial so as to
be ready to plant large quantities hereafter.
Teosinte is one of the heaviest yielding forage
plants known, having yielded 50 tons of fodder to
the acre. Large pkt. 5c, oz. 10c, 1/4 lb 25c, lab. 80c,
3 lbs. (sufficient for one acrre $2.00 by mail prepaid.

GIANT SPURRY.
An excellent plant for pasture and it grows so
well on poor, dry, sandy soil that it has been called
"the clover of sandy land." Several years
experimenting at the Michigan Agricultural College
has proved that it is the only plant which can
be grown on poor, sandy, dry soil that will surely
return a paying yield. In another report he says:
"The Spurry has shown wonderful productiveness.
Its value as a manurial plant on light
sands is pronounced. It seems to enrlch the soil
more rapidly than other plants. It is readily
eaten by sheep and cattle. Sow broadcast the
latter half of March or in April or May at the rate
of l0 lbs. per acre if wanted for hay. It germinates
quickly and in from six to eIght weeks is
ready to cut. Pkt. 5c, lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c, postpaid.
By freight, 10 lbs. $1.25, 50 lbs. $4.50, 100 lbs. $8.75.

SERADELLA.
When traveling In Germany we found that
SeradeJla was the most proOta.ble o( all fodder
plants grown there and almost everybody grows
It for hay. It Is speCially adapted to light, pOOl"
or sandy soli, bplng fully equal to red clover In
nutrltl\-e qualities and yields a milch larger crop.
It Is one of the bestdrollth-reslstlng plants known
and does well on high land as well as low. Cattle
are very fond of It as hay. green fodd er or for
pa~tllrltlg. It maltes a deuse,thlck, rapid growth,
covering the gronnd completply aud choking out
all wlleds. It Is not ape. enulal, bnt can be Cllt
twice and will produce good pasture balance of
year. Sow early lu spring alone or with wheat or
other grain. PItt. 5c, lb. 3Oc, 3lbs. SOc, postpaid.
By freIght 10 Ibs or more @ 10c. per lb. Bushel
of 45 Ibs. (will sow a acres) $3.75.

AUSTRALIAN SALT BUSH.
A most valuable plant for solis containing allrall
and for all regions subject to prolonged drought.
It Is highly desirable to furnish forage during the
hot, dry slimmer months, In our western and
southern states. Not hardy In the north. The
plant needs some llttle moisture to start It Into
growth, but when once started It will make a
strong growth during the hottest and driest
weather. The plant Is of spreading habit, branchIng freely and malting a thick mat of stems and
foliage 12 to 18 Inches In depth over entire surface
of the soil. Pkt. 5c, oz. 150,7.< lb. 4Oc, lib. 1&1.25.
TEOSINTE

SEED FLAX.
It will pay you to sow nice, pure high grade flax seed. It Is one of the most
v,rofltable crops, especially on new land. Price subject to market changes.
i:'er pk. 65c, bu. $1.85, 10 bu. <:Ir·more @ $1.75.

DWARF ESSEX RAPE.
The Is beyond all question the most popular and profitable of all forage
plants, and everywhere It Is gIving the best satIsfaction. It It easily grown
anywhere and stands unsurpassed 1l.S a foragp plant for hogs, cattle or slleep.
Tltey eat It greed ily and seem to prefer It to any other pasture dnrlug the
summer and till late In the fall or early winter. It can be sown early lu tile
sea.;on to provldo early pasture for sheep and swine. or sow In small grain a
week or so before cutting to provIde pasture after harvest, or sow on the stubble, but It I~ usually sown In June, July or Augllst wIth corn or potatoes or
on wull nrepared land aloLle for summer and fall pasture. Makes a wouderflllJy
productive pastnre for sheep, ho~s and cattle, and they gain flesh so rapidly
that they soon "weigh like lead.' Whll~ It Is the Ideal food for sheep slm It
Is of equal value for hogs and o!\ttle as they are very fond of It. It Is extremely ch eap and very prolifiC. having yielded twenty tons of fodder per
acre, In the east it Is usually sown In drills, two or three pounds per acre,
and cultivated, hut In western states It Is almost In\'arl"bly sown broadcast,
fonr to five pounds ]lpr acre and It grows so rapidly that weeds are quickly
smothered. The 1'Jnltpd States department of agriculture claims that It
ndds greatly to the fertility of the soli for the following grnln crop. A Nebrasl", fMmer Rays that he sowed only 3lbs. per acre on a four and one-half
acre fi eld, and five wpeks after sowing he tnrned eighty head of hogs and
forty pigs luto the field and they p a~ tured tllere constantly nRtll Octoller. The plants grew so rapldly
that at no time could he tell wherfl the hogs had heen tweut,y feet away from the gate. Per pkt. 5c, lb.8QC,
Sibs. 750, postpaid; by frt. 5 Ibs. 5Oc, 10 Ibs. 750, 25 Ibs. $1.50, 100 Ibs. $5 00. Write for circular on growing rape.

MAMMOTH RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER.

J,argestsunflower. This Is one of the best paying crops that can be raised . Seeds are the best of food for poultry
and Is much cheaper to raise than corn. Stallrs make good fire wood. Large pkt. 5c, lb. 2Oc, albs. 55c; by
fr Ight, 1O lbs.75o, bu. of 25lbs. $1.50.
PODDER AND FORAGE PLANTS ARE A PROFITABLE PART OF THE FARlIt[ PRODUCTS.