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Two Crops Each Year
The high values of land throughout the corn belt make it
imperative that we secure greater returns from the acres than
have been taken in the past. Farming conditions are changing
The corn belt is now almost the only source of supply of
marketable live stock. It seems to us that while we may not
be able to produce beef, pork, or other meats at any lower
cost than at present, we can and should market double the
present number of animals from the corn belt area. This
simply becomes a question of food supply. The soil offers the
method by which the returns from our corn fields are practically
doubled. These are being erected by thousands throughout
the middle west, but we are not making the same progress
in increasing the returns from our lands planted to
crops other than corn. Every field in Iowa, Illinois,
Missouri, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma, which is now in
small grain is capable of producing yet another crop this year.
Even the corn fields can be made to furnish greater crops by
intelligent planting of rape, cow peas, or other seeds at last
cultivation.

In this midsummer catalogue we have endeavored to furnish
information about a number of items that may be utilized
as second crops, and have also listed such items as winter
wheat, rye, etc., which are planted in the fall for crops next
year. Diversified farming has been advocated in the Agricultural
press for many years, but to our mind the result has
been very disappointing, because so few items are really raised
on the average farm when a dozen different crops now but little
grown, would be found desirable and profitable, and might
be produced with only the labor cost on lands cultivated in
the regular rotation system.

We have not space in this booklet to do more than give
general directions for the growth of the various crops listed,
but we believe our farmer friends may readily grasp the advantages
offered by the use of Rape, Cane, Cow Peas, Sweet
Clover, Crimson Clover, Millet, Buckwheat, or Turnips all of
which will produce a crop if planted after July First.

We want also to increase the yield of your regular crops and
offer you the choicest seed of Winter Wheat, Rye, Alfalfa,
Timothy, Etc, that you may increase your production by sowing
only strong, pure and vital seeds. It does not pay to sow
ordinary seed any more than it does to raise scrub animals.

We wish to thank all our customers for their patronage this
season. Our friends have shown their confidence in our house
by greatly increased orders, and have taxed our capacity to its
utmost. Our real effort this season has been to secure the
stocks suitable to our trade in sufficient quantity, as the
orders seemed to come without effort on our part. We have
labored diligently to secure good seeds of summer crops, and
now have on hand a generous supply of the items listed here,
and all are of splendidly high quality or they would not be offered
by the
IOWA SEED CO.,
613-615 Locust St.
Des Moines, Iowa
7-1-12