1895

A Gold Mine for Farmers

YIELDS: MORE SHELLS: MORE SELLS for MORE

Most Profitable Corn Grown--Bright Golden Yellow, Early, Handsome, Deep Grained, Small Cob, Immense Yielder.

Read What Our Customers Say.

Costs Only 25 cts. per Acre for Seed.

The largest seed corn grower in the United States says: The Iowa Gold Mine Field Corn bought of you turned out nicely. We are very much pleased with this corn. It grows rank and strong and beat out the drouth and made a good crop. C. S. CLARK, Huron Co., O. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn is the best I ever saw and it is well adapted to this climate. S. F. REYNOLDS, Dane Co., Wis. As you know the corn crop was a failure here this year, and if I had not had the Iowa Gold Mine I would not have had any. It made a good average crop in spite of the dry weather. J. W. McCLEARY, Polk Co., Ia. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn this year yielded more and is far ahead of any variety ever before tried in this locality, and I believe is the best suited to this country of any variety. R. ECKHARDT, Weld Co., Col.

The Iowa Gold Mine is good corn, was well matured before frost and will go about 50 bushels per acre. C. O. SCHUDT, Stephenson Co., Ill. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn did very well this year and will make more pounds of shelled corn than any other raised here. SENECA FINN, Louisa Co., Ia. We have grown Iowa Gold Mine Corn for three years and it has always done well with us, and the past season it was the only corn in our locality that made a good crop of sound corn. Cattle feeders pay as high as 60 cents per bushel for it, while other corn is selling for 42 cents per bushel, claiming that it is well worth the difference as it is much stronger and not so flinty as most varieties besides the difference in weight of cob. POWNALL BROS., Cedar Co., Ia. The Gold Mine Corn I bought of you done well, making a yield of 75 bushels per acre. W. J. SHAFFER, Guthrie Co., Ia.

The Iowa Gold Mine is the best grained corn I ever saw. I sold all that I raised to my neighbors and could have sold more. F. E. BELL, Van Buren Co., Ia. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn I got last year is the best of its kind, in fact your seeds have always given satisfaction. GEO. B. FLINDERS, O'Brien Co., Ia. Am well pleased with the Iowa Gold Mine Corn, also the White Pearl Dent Corn purchased of you. Think these are as good varieties as I ever raised. J. J. CRODDY, Wapello Co., Ia. I am much pleased with your Iowa Gold Mine Corn which I received. HENRY HELM, Wabaunsee Co., Kas. I have been a customer of yours for two years past, and the Iowa Gold Mine Corn I bought of you did well in spite of the dry weather we had. GUST LAGERQUIST, Riley Co., Kas.

One of the largest seed firms of the country writes: The Iowa Gold Mine is ahead of anything for the latitude of northern Iowa as a yielder, is rich in fattening substance, and one that will sell for the highest price upon any market in the land. Will ripen well in southern Minnesota and will outshell to a bushel of ears any corn we ever knew, often shelling as much as 64 lbs. of shelled corn from 70 lbs. of ears. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn turned out specially well and made good sound corn, although not planted until May 27th. E. COURTRIGHT, Cherokee Co., Ia. I had three varieties of field corn this year and for beauty, size of ear and yield the Iowa Gold Mine beats them all. W. W. CAMPBELL, Buchanan Co., Ia.

[image] IOWA GOLD MINE CORN.--(From a Photograph.)

I am well pleased with the Iowa Gold Mine Corn. C. E. KUARR, Nodaway Co., Mo. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn comes the nearest being all corn and no cob of any variety I ever grew. H. F. JACOBS, Calhoun Co., Ia. My Iowa Gold Mine Corn was excellent. I could not supply the demand of my neighbors for seed. THOS. CUNNINGHAM, Grundy Co., Mo. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn proved very satisfactory. It eared better than any other variety I have ever seen. The ears are better filled with deep grains of golden yellow corn, and I can say that it is more than it is claimed to be. D. A. ROSE, Washington Co., Ia.

The Iowa Gold Mine Corn has done splendidly here in Northwestern Iowa and is now (September 1st) out of danger of frost. It is a yellow dent variety with large well formed ears, much larger and finer than our native corn in this part of the state. P. R. BAILEY, O'Brien Co., Ia.

The Iowa Gold Mine Corn is a grand variety, and we were well pleased with it. W. D. BALLANTYNE, Hamilton. Co., Ia. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn I purchased of you last spring is the best yielder I ever planted. O. E. HUGHES, Butler Co., Ia.

Don't fail to try it this year. Price, large packet, 5c; lb., 25c; 3 lbs., 60c, postpaid. By express, peck 65c; bushel, $1.75; 2 bushels or more at $1.65; 10 bushels or more at $1.50.

THE GREAT NEW ZEALAND OATS. This grand new variety which we offer this year for the first time originated as follows: About seven years ago, a farmer living in New Zealand sent a few grains of a new variety of oats to a friend in Dallas County, Iowa. They were planted in his garden and the crop carefully selected and saved from year to year until he had sufficient to sow a good sized field and thus give them a practical test in comparison with other sorts. They have proved to be far superior in quality and yield to any other kind and have been grown on the same farm ever since, yielding 8 to 12 bushels more to the acre than any of his neighbors and weighing 36 to 45 lbs. to the bushel. The entire stock has been kept in the hands of two men in Dallas and Madison counties, and they unite in pronouncing them excellent. They are a side-oat with long, heavy, full head. It averages a trifle higher than other sorts, has very stiff, strong straw, never known to lodge. It has never rusted and does well on all kinds of soil. About one week later in maturing than the common round head oat, thus giving time to harvest the hay crop. Tested 40 lbs. to the bushel from the machine without recleaning and gives an extraordinary large yield. They stool out remarkably well and thus require less seed to the acre. The Dexter Sentinel says: "The New Zealand Oats tested 36 lbs. to the bushel in 1893, when other varieties grown in the same locality weighed only 18 to 24 lbs. This was partially due to their being rust proof." E. M. Croswait, of Madison County, says: "I have sown this oat for several years and had an extra yield in measure and in weight, 36 to 40 lbs. every year. It never rusts or lodges and yielded more to the acre than any of my neighbors. It is first-class and iron-clad." J. H. Shober says: "The New Zealand Oats is the best variety I ever saw, and you are safe in assuring your customers an average yield of 25 per cent more per acre than any of the common varieties, and also that they will weigh more to the bushel. They are rust proof, are a surer crop and better adapted to this country than other varieties." We have purchased the entire stock and you cannot obtain them elsewhere, as this is the first year that they have ever been offered for sale. Stock is quite limited, so don't fail to send order early. Price per large packet, 10c; lb., 40c; 3 lbs., $1.00, postpaid. By freight or express, peck, 75c; bushel, $2.60.

EARLY HARVEST MILLET. Millet is one of the most important of our cultivated grasses and is constantly becoming more popular wherever known. In 1885 the crop of millet hay in Iowa reached six million tons, being greater than that of timothy. This new variety was produced by sowing the Golden Wonder and Manitoba Millet together and they formed a perfect cross or so-called hybrid, the seed being different in size, shape and color from either of its parents. It is as early if not earlier than the Manitoba, while the head is more like the Golden Wonder, being not so long but much fuller. The fodder stays green and in excellent condition even after the seed is fully ripe, differing in this respect from any other kind. The crop from which our seed was harvested was cut just fifty-one days after seed was sown, thus it would be easy to raise two crops in one season on the same ground. It ripens seed before pigeon grass or any kind of barn grass and yielded 40 bushels of seed to the acre. The hay is fully equal to the Golden Wonder and is as good as any variety of millet grown. The stem is well filled with broad leaves instead of having leaves simply at the base and makes just as good hay when cut after seed is ripe as other millets do, cut green. Prof. A. A. Crozier, of the Michigan Agricultural College, tested it this last season and writes us: "Your new millet is the earliest kind of millet we have out of 73 samples from various parts of the world, and quite different from either the Common Millet and Hungarian, and I think it will also prove productive." A. J. Doore, of Butler County, Iowa, on whose place it originated, says: "The millet is all that I expected it to be, and beats all and every kind of millet I have ever seen. Is extremely early and while not of mammoth growth is very compact and yields a splendid crop of most excellent hay, the best, in fact, that I ever saw. Will produce two crops in one season and seed is very heavy, weighing nearly 60 lbs. to the bushel." All things considered, we believe it to be the millet of all others for the Iowa farmers, and advise all to try at least a small quantity this year. Price per large pkt., 10c; lb., 30c; 3 lbs., 75c, postpaid. By freight, peck, $1.50; bushel, $5.00. ORDER EARLY. It pays to send orders early for everything you need in the seed line. Crops are short this year.

IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 33.

[image] LEGAL TENDER.

EARLY LONGFELLOW DENT.--For several years one of our growers has been at work originating this new sort, the object being to obtain a variety fully as early as Pride of the North and much larger. He succeeded so well that now we take pleasure in introducing it. The accompanying engraving was accurately made from an ear of the corn and well shows its shape, which is different from any other sort in existence and suggested the name. We recommend it highly to our many customers in northern Iowa and Minnesota as the best early corn ever offered. The grower who has had it for several years claims that it yields as well as any of the large sorts. Stalks of medium height, strong and not easily blown down. Ears have 12 rows, and are 10 to 14 inches in length, kernels rather shallow. Per large packet 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, pk. 60c, bu. $1.50, 10 bu. or more $1.40 per bushel.

[image] EARLY LONGFELLOW DENT.--From a photograph.

LONGFELLOW FLINT.--This is an eight-rowed yellow flint variety, the result of careful selection. The ears are from 10 to 15 inches long, 1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches in diameter, and are well filled out to extreme end of cob. The cob is small and the kernel large and broad. This corn is well adapted to the northwest, and is said to have produced two hundred bushels of ears to the acre in Massachusetts. In ordering, be sure and put in the word flint, to distinguish from our Longfellow Dent. Per large pkt. 5c, lb. 30c, 3 lb. 75c, pk. 75c, bu. $2.50.

[image] LONGFELLOW FLINT.

CLARK'S EARLY MASTODON.--Quite popular in some sections of the country, and in one test by special culture it yielded the enormous crop of 213 bushels to the acre. However we consider it a very poor variety and do not recommend it to our customers, but will furnish pure seed of it if desired, as we have some direct trom Mr. Clark, the originator. The word "early" is an anomaly, as it is too late for Iowa farmers in an average season. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, pk. 65c, bu. $1.75, 2 bu. or more at $1.50 per bushel.

$10.00 PRIZE For the best ear of corn of any color or variety sent us by April 10, 1895. Anyone can compete. Ask for particulars, or mail an ear of corn and it will be entered.

LEGAL TENDER.--With the exception of our Iowa Gold Mine, we consider the Legal Tender the best variety of yellow dent corn for Iowa, Illinois, Nebraska and the south. It is the result of about ten years' selection by a seed corn specialist in Mills county, Iowa, and has taken first premium at many state and county fairs. The corn is of uniform pure yellow color, a long ear and a deep grain on a small cob, while the stalk does not grow too large. The introducer says: "Our ideal ear is an ear two-thirds as large around as it is long, containing sixteen to twenty rows, and small shank. The kernels are deep, the cob is small at the butt and the ear holds its bigness toward the point until near tapering off. It should be capped over and the kernels should hold their bigness toward the point and the butt run out straight and not crinkle." It matures fairly early, but we do not recommend it for the extreme northern portion of the state. Per large pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, pk. 65c, bu. $1.75, 2 bushels or more $1.65 per bushel, 10 bushels or more at $1.50 per bushel. PRIDE OF THE NORTH.--This variety has been grown and improved in the extreme northern part of Iowa. The ears are 8 to 10 inches long with small cob and kernel; seventy pounds of ears will make sixty pounds of shelled corn; color bright orange, and very uniform. Will ripen in ninety days and matures in this latitude when planted in June. Per large pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, pk. 60c, bu. $1.50, 10 bu. or more at $1.40. STAR LEAMING.--The Leaming corn, which originated with Mr. Leaming, of Ohio, was always a good variety, but it had some serious faults for culture in this state, and we have refrained from giving it our endorsement. A few years ago we found an extra nice lot in the hands of an enterprising Iowa farmer, who had been selecting it for several years. We were greatly pleased with it, but were not willing to offer it to our customers without still further selection. We now have a corn which is a great improvement on the Leaming, but it retains all the valuable characteristics of that variety, so that instead of giving it a new name, we call it Star Leaming to distinguish it from other strains. It will ripen in 100 days, has medium size ears, grains of good depth, and rich golden yellow color. Many of the corn growers who attended the state corn show here saw several hundred bushels of this variety cribbed up in our store and said it was the handsomest lot of corn they had ever seen. It really does stand second only to our Iowa Gold Mine in handsome appearance. It is very productive when compared with the common varieties of field corn, and we are sure will please our customers. Remember it can only be obtained by ordering direct from us. Don't put up with the old variety of Leaming when you can obtain this great improvement. Per large pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, pk. 60c, bu. $1.50, 10 bu. or more at $1.40 per bushel. POP CORN.--See pages 14 and 29 of this catalogue.

Your Legal Tender corn took first premium for the best yellow corn at the Cass county fair. It was very fine. F. B. VAN ORMAN, Cass Co., Ia. We purchased of you last spring 2 bushels of Star Leaming and 1 of Legal Tender seed corn and we had good results. Get good seed corn of the Iowa Seed Co. and success is insured. HILL & DIGGS, Madison Co.

[image] STAR LEAMING.

34. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] HICKORY KING

CHAMPION WHITE PEARL.--True merit has won laurels for this corn, and it is now universally recognized and catalogued as the leading standard variety of thoroughbred, pure white, medium sized early white dent corn, suitable for general crop. Matures in ninety to one hundred days; is very prolific; the grain is extra deep and wide, with small cob. Will grade No. 1 white in any market, if sound and well cleaned. The stalk is short and thick, and roots very deeply, with ear growing very low upon it, thus standing our severe storms and drouth well. Large packet 5c, lb. 25, 3 lbs. 60c. Peck 60c, bu. $1.50, 10 bus. or more at $1.40. HICKORY KING.--A white field corn, which has the largest grains, with the smallest cob, of any white corn ever introduced. So large are the grains and so extremely small the cob that on an ear broken in half a single grain will almost completely cover the cob section. No other variety of field corn that we have ever seen will do this. Of strong, vigorous growth, and yields splendid crops on light soil, and is undoubtedly the best and most productive white field corn for the south. We do not, however, consider it a safe crop for this state. Large packet 5c, lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c. Peck 75c, bu. $2.00. PRIMITIVE OR HUSK CORN.--It is from this wild variety that all of our cultivated kinds have sprung. The ears are of fair size and each individual kernel or grain is covered with a husk and all enclosed in an outer husk, like common corn. It is stated that the ancient inhabitants of Mexico used to thresh their corn as we thresh wheat or rye, to rid the grains of the husks or chaff. After years of culture the husk became smaller and lighter each year until it entirely disappeared, leaving the grain clear except the outer husk as we now see it. In some of the wild and uncultivated parts of Mexico the Primitive or natural corn can still be found growing wild. One farmer in the northwest part of this state has, for a number of years, been cultivating this variety and now says that no better corn can be grown for feeding cattle. It is quite curious and valuable for exhibition purposes and attracts great attention wherever seen. Some stalks bear as many as 20 ears. Large packet 10c.

[image] IOWA YELLOW DENT CORN.

[image] CHAMPION WHITE PEARL.

IOWA YELLOW DENT.--We always advise farmers to buy the best named varieties in buying seed corn, and believe it pays them in the long run. This year, however, there are thousands of farmers in need of seed corn who are short of money, and their main object is to secure at a low price a nice grade of common yellow corn which is well matured, of strong vitality, and will produce a good crop of sound corn. While this corn is not equal to our best named varieties, still we believe you would find it superior to nine-tenths of the corn in your neighborbood. At our price it will cost you only obout [about] 12 cents per acre to plant your fields with this variety and it will pay you well to order sufficient for your planting. Peck 40c, bu. $1.10, 10 bus. or more at 90c, bags included. EVERGREEN FODDER SWEET CORN.--Valuable for feeding hogs and milch cows. Cows yield more milk and are in better condition if fed on it. Dairy farmers will find that our Evergreen fodder corn is fully double the value of field corn for fodder purposes. It has a good stalk filled with large succulent leaves, which are greatly relished by stock. Sow in drills or broadcast. Quart 25c, pk. 75c, bu. $2.00.

If you want a large lot of Clover or Grass Seed Send for Samples and Prices.

Large Customers. Our orders range from five cents upward and the small orders have just as careful attention as the large ones. Our largest retail order was for $1,370.77 worth of seed. We had another customer whose purchases amounted to $1,487.33 for the season, but it was divided up into several orders. Both were perfectly satisfied. We have large customers in the east also. W. P. Turner, of Crawford county, Penna., last year bought seeds of us to the amount of $1,397.54 and he says: "I am very well pleased with all the seed received from you." Again in the fall he wrote: "All the seed has given perfect satisfaction."

[image] THE PRIMITIVE CORN

ROTARY CORN PLANTER.--Decidedly the best hand corn planter made, and a very desirable implement for those who have but a small field or need to replant their ground. It puts the corn exactly where you want it and at the proper depth. It is easily worked and is a most satisfactory tool in every way. Price $1.50.

Odds and Ends. CHINESE TEA.--We are sure that many of our customers will be glad to grow it as a curiosity, if nothing else. The plant is of a shrubby nature, with beautiful shiny foliage and fragrant blossoms, requiring the same treatment as any tender shrub. Is hardy in any of the southern states, and has been grown successfully as a crop in North Carolina. Can be grown as a house plant in the north and kept in pots through the winter. Per pkt. 10c. ALPINE STRAWBERRIES.--Have peculiar rich flavor, superior to our native sorts. Perfectly hardy and easily grown from seed. Packet 10c. COTTON.--Grown as a curiosity in the north, and if started early in the house plants will be loaded with cotton bolls in autumn. Pkt. 5c.

I intend to make an exhibit at our county fair of the products of your seeds, which were A 1 this year. W. B. FOX, Portage, Wis.

[image] ROTARY CORN PLANTER.

IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 35.

THEY SAY LAST year there was a great drouth and failure of crops in Nebraska, but the Lincoln Oat is all right as usual. Under date of September 20, 1894, Mr. H. M. Dickinson, of Douglas county, Neb., wrote us: "Last spring I sowed ten bushels of Lincoln oats on six acres of ground, from which was threshed 498 bushels, or 83 bushels per acre. We had a severe drouth this year and other oats yielded only 6 to 10 bushels per acre." The Lincoln oats went about 25 per cent more to the acre than other white oats on the same kind of ground. I sowed them just as I did the others. C. F. HERRICK, Buchanan Co., Iowa. The Turkish Red wheat I got from you last fall made 42 bushels to the acre. JNO. ALTHOUSE, Clinton Co., Mo.

[image] LINCOLN OAT

[image] WHITE DAKOTA OATS.

OATS. THE LINCOLN OATS.--When we introduced these oats to our customers in 1893 they had never been tested in this state, but had done so exceptionally well in Minnesota that we had much faith in them. Seven prizes, amounting to $500, were offered for the largest crops grown from one bushel of seed sown, and in our last year's catalogue we published the list of awards, the first prize going to a man who grew 174 bushels from one bushel sown, and the average of the seven successful competitors was 116 bushels each. What we claim for the Lincoln is that it is a very heavy yielder, is comparatively early, has proven to be entirely rust proof, and stands up exceptionally well. On account of its soft nib, heavy meat and thin hull it is unsurpassed for feeding and for making into oatmeal. Our price is low this year and you should try them. Pound 25c, 3 lbs. 65c, postpaid. Peck 50c, bushel $1.25, 2 bushels or more at $1.15, 10 bushels or more at $1.00. EARLY WHITE DAKOTA OATS.--This new early variety originated in Dakota, but has been thoroughly tested in this state during the past seven years, and proved in all respects to be desirable. Very plump, heavy kernel, large heads, and stools out exceptionally well. It has a record on Dakota soil of 159 bushels to the acre. Is of medium height, with a strong stiff straw fully capable of supporting the heavy weight; entirely free from rust and yields an immense crop. It will pay every farmer to try it. Pound 25c, 3 lbs. 65c, pk. 50c, bu. $1.00, 10 bus. $9.00. NEW ZEALAND OATS.--A new variety which we are introducing this year and which we believe to be superior even to the Lincoln. Stock is quite limited, but we would like to have all our customers try at least a small quantity. See description on back of colored plate. Large packet 10c, lb. 40c, 3 lbs. $1.00, postpaid. Peck 75c, bu. $2.60.

WHEAT. VELVET CHAFF OR BLUE STEM WHEAT.--Several years' test has proven that this does the best of any sort throughout Iowa. It is a remarkable, semi-hard spring wheat, yielding large crops free from rust. The millers here pay five to six cents per bushel more for it than for any other sort. Pound 25c, 3 lbs. 60c. Peck 50c, bu. $1.25, 2 bus. or more at $1.15, 10 bus. or more at $1.10. TURKISH RED WINTER WHEAT.--Has proved invincible, every year without exception producing a good paying crop. It is strictly IRON CLAD and almost entirely free from rust, blight and scab, and lives through the winter in the most exposed places. The straw is stiff enough to hold up the heavy heads well and it rarely fails to stand up well in all parts of the field on any kind of soil. It has a record of 44 bushels to the acre under favorable circumstances, and the seed which we are now offering was from a crop which yielded 35 1/2 bushels to the acre. The grains are plump and handsome and quite hard. It stools out the best of any variety we know of, its manner of growing somewhat resembling rye. It is a certain crop in all parts of Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois and Missouri, and has given excellent results in some parts of Minnesota. Price $1.00 per bushel, 10 bushels for $9.50, 20 bushels for $18.00, sacks included. FALL WHEAT.--Send for list in August.

PRICES include bags and delivering on cars. There is no premium given on field seed orders.

TREE AND HEDGE SEEDS. As tree seedlings make but a small growth the first season, it is best to plant in rows or beds, and transplant to permanent places at one or two years old. It is well to protect the first winter with straw or hay. Postage prepaid except at the five-pound rate, at which purchaser pays the charges. Packets of any, 5c each. ASH, American White.--1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more at 25c. BOX ELDER.--1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more at 25c. CATALPA, Speciosa or Hardy Catalpa.--Oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 25c, lb. 85c, 5 lbs. or more at 50c. LOCUST, Honey.--Used largely for hedges. 1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more at 25c. LOCUST, Black.--1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more at 25c. MAPLE, Soft.--Seed ready June 1st, and should be planted within two or three weeks. 1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more at 25c. MULBERRY, Russian.--Its rapid growth, beautiful form and foliage, and more than all, the excellence of its timber and fruit, make it a valuable tree for the northwest. Pkt. 10c, oz. 20c, 1/4 lb. 65c, lb. $2.00. OSAGE ORANGE.--Makes a handsome and durable hedge. Lb. 50c, 3 lbs. $1.25, pk. $2.00, bu. $7.00. TREE OF HEAVEN.--Introduced from Japan. Of rapid growth and tropical appearance. Hardy. Oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 30c, lb. 75c.

[images] TURKISH RED. VELVET CHAFF.

36. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] SOJA BEANS, OR COFFEE BERRY.

SOJA BEAN.--(Coffee Berry.)--During recent years this variety has been largely sold under the name of German Coffee Berry at extravagantly high prices, but we prefer to offer it under its correct name. The berries ripen in about four months from time of planting and produce a crop of 20 to 30 bushels to the acre and are as easily grown as other beans. When roasted and ground it closely resembles coffee and tastes quite similar. Some mix half and half with coffee when using and claim it is superior. Its great value to the farmer lays in the fact that when ground it makes one of the most valuable crops for feeding stock and adds greatly to the milk production. Claimed also to be much superior to clover for fertilizing the soil and for pasturing, or feeding the green fodder, of which it frequently yields 8 to 10 tons per acre. Sow broadcast 1/2 bushel to the acre, or it may be planted in drills 3 feet apart and one foot between plants. Per large pkt . 10c, lb. 40c, postpaid. Peck $1.00, bu. $3.50. JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT.--About a week earlier than the Silver Hull, and yields almost as much again. From one grain planted in the garden the product was 850 ripe kernels, and the kernels are at least twice the size of those of any other variety. In color they are also distinct, being of a rich, dark shade of brown. The flour made from it is equal in quality to that of any other buckwheat, while it is much more productive than any other, and succeeds well far north. As the straw is heavier and it branches more, it does not need to be sown as thickly as the other kinds. Per lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c. By freight, 10 lbs. 40c, 100 lbs. $3.00. EUROPEAN SILVER HULL BUCKWHEAT.--The grain is of a beautiful light silver gray color, husk is thinner which saves from 15 to 20 per cent waste in the process of manufacturing into flour, which is whiter and more nutritious. Per lb. 30c. By freight, 10 lbs. 40c, 100 lbs. $3.00. COMMON BUCKWHEAT.--Selected. By freight, 10 lbs. 35c, 100 lbs. $2.50. MANSHURY BARLEY.--Is one of the best six-rowed sorts grown, with kernels plumper and fuller than the best Scotch barley, while for malting it is the very best known. It is early in ripening, which helps it to fill well, thus it always fills plump. It has a strong, upright straw, and yields from 50 to 70 bushels per acre. The heads of this barley are very long, and contain from 75 to 100 great, plump, heavy kernels of grain. Professor Henry, at the Wisconsin Agricultural College, in its report, says: "The Manshury still heads the list in productiveness." Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, pk. 50c, bu. $1.25, 10 bu. $10.00. SPRING RYE.--This grain is often planted by the farmers especially for the paper makers, who prefer it to any other. The straw is shorter and stiffer than the winter variety and is always easily secured, while the grain, although smaller, is of equal value. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, pk. 65c, bu. $1.50, 10 bu. $12.50. WINTER RYE.--Per pk. 45c, bu. $1.00, 10 bu. $9.00. MONSTER WINTER RYE.--A great improvement. Per bu. $1.50, 10 bu. or more at $1.35.

[image] AMBER CANE.

SEED FLAX.--It pays to own your own flax seed, instead of raising it on contract. It pays to raise flax; in many cases a single crop will pay for the farm on which it was raised. We have a nice supply of seed flax this year. Prices are subject to change during the season; present price is per pk. 65c, bu. $2.00, 2 bu. or more at $1.85, 10 bu. or more at $1.75. AMBER SUGAR CANE.--This popular variety has very nearly taken the place of all other sorts. It is the earliest and makes the finest quality of amber syrup, and also makes good sugar; succeeds well both north and south. From 100 to 280 gallons of syrup, or from 700 to 1,500 1bs. of sugar can be made from an acre of this cane. Our seed is carefully selected and of superior value. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 65c, 10 lbs. or more by express or freight, 5c per lb., 100 lbs., $3.50. IOWA HYBRID CANE.--This is the resuIt of a cross between the Amber and the Hondulas, which ripens about ten days later than Amber, but can be made up while greener, which recompenses for the lateness. It is of very strong, robust growth, and will make from one-fourth to one-third more sorghum to the acre. Lb. 35c, 3 lbs. $1.00, 10 lbs. or more by express at 15c per lb. FODDER CANE.--When sown broadcast this makes one of the most valuable crops for feeding green. Every dairy farmer should put in a few acres. Sow 40 lbs. per acre. 10 lbs. or more at 4c per lb., 100 lbs. $2.35.

We are highly pleased with the Lincoln Oats we received of you last year. J. E. BRECKENRIDGE, Winnebago Co., lllinois. The clover seed I purchased of you is the finest I ever saw. WARD D. WALROD, Welton, Clinton, Co., Iowa.

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FIELD PEAS.--Each year there is a large increase in the number of our best farmers who sow field peas, and they claim they are one of the most profitable crops for fattening stock, and especially for hogs. Also profitable for marketing as dry or split peas. Sow two bushels to the acre, or if with oats, one bushel of each. GOLDEN VINE FIELD PEAS.--The best variety of all as they yield the largest crop, are not affected by weavel, and stock does as well on them as when fed on clover hay. If you have heretofore used only the common field peas, you will be greatly pleased with the Golden Vine. Per pk. 85c, bu. $3.00. WHITE CANADA FIELD PEAS.--More used than any other. Per pk. 65c, bu. $2.00, 2 bu. or more at $1.75. BLUE OR GREEN FIELD PEAS.--Like above except that color is a bluish green. Per pk. 75c, bu. $2 25, 2 bu. or more at $2.00. PROLIFIC TREE BEANS.--Quite a valuable variety for field culture; grows about 20 inches high, has stiff, upright branches and bears immensely, sometimes yielding 45 bushels to the acre. The beans closely resemble the White Navy. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 40c, postpaid. By freight, pk. $1.25, bu. $4.25.

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MAMMOTH RUSSIAN SUNFLOWER.--The largest of all sunflowers. This is without doubt one of the best paying crops that can be raised. The seed makes the best of food for poultry, and can be raised at a very trifling cost (about one-third the cost of corn), and the stalks, which grow very large, make excellent firewood. It is also said to afford protection against malaria. Try a pound and see what great results may be obtained. Lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 10c per lb.