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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa. 27.

[Image: Drawing/Scratchboard illustration of Kaffir Corn with multiple stalks, Caption-Kaffir Corn.]

Kaffir Corn.--An excellent fodder plant, yielding two crops of fodder during a season. Grows four to five feet high, upright stalk, with numerous large leaves, greatly relished by cattle and horses. The seed crop is also heavy, sometimes yielding sixty bushels to the acre. It does better sown in drills three feet apart using six to eight pounds of seed per acre. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c. By freight, 10 lbs. 50c, 25 lbs. $1.00, 100 lbs. $2.50.

Soja Beans.--(Coffee Berry.) During recent years this variety has been largely sold under the name of German Coffee Berry at extremely 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 twenty to thirty 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 from eight to ten tons per acre. Sow broadcast one-half bushel to the acre, or it may be planted in drills three feet apart and one foot between plants. Per pkt. 5c, 1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 40c, postpaid. Pk. $1.25, bu. $4.00.

Dwarf Essex Rape.--A forage plant of great merit, easily grown in any part of the United States on any land that will raise turnips or corn, and will furnish abundant supplies of succulent, rich, nutritious pasture at a season when it is most needed. Is of great value for sheep and lambs and when turned in on it, to use a common expression, "they soon weigh like lead." It is also of value for pasturing cattle. One acre of rape is sufficient to pasture 10 to 15 lambs on for two and one-half months. It is often sown broadcast, about five pounds to the acre, but will yield much better if drilled about two pounds to the acre, in rows 22 inches apart and cultivated until plants are too large. Seed may be sown in May, but we do not advise sowing until June or July. It can, however, be sown with grain in the spring, and it is said to not interfere with the grain crop. The Dwarf Essex Rape is unequalled as a pasture for sheep in the autumn, and as fattening food is without a rival in cheapness. It will keep a long time in early winter if cut and put in heaps like shocks of hay. Large pkt. 5c, lb. 35c, 3 lbs. $1.00, postpaid. By express, 5 lbs. or more @ 20c per lb., 25 lbs. $4.00, 100 lbs. $12.00.

[Image: Drawing/Scratchboard illustration of a coffee bush, coffee pot and berries sitting at the base of the plant, Captions-Soja Beans, or Coffee Berry, Coffee for One Cent Per Lb.]

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Amber Sugar Cane.--The earliest sort and makes the finest quality of amber syrup, and makes good sugar. Succeeds well everywhere. Our seed is carefully selected and of superior value. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, 10 lbs. or more by express, or freight, 5c per lb., 100 lbs. $3.00.

Fodder Cane.--When sown broadcast this makes one of the most valuable crops for feeding green, and we are tempted to call it the most valuable forage crop in existence. Every dairy farmer should put in a few acres. Sow 40 lbs. per acre. Ten pounds or more at 4c per lb., 100 lbs. $1.50.

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 per acre. The beans closely resemble the White Navy. Per pkt. 5c, 1/2 pt. 15c, qt. 40c, postpaid. By freight, per pk. 75c, bu. $2.75.

[Image: Drawing/Scratchboard illustration of a forage plant, Caption-Dwarf Essex Rape.]

Mammoth White French Artichokes.--Claimed to be an improvement on the Jerusalem. The greatest hog food known. These are attracting much attention on account of their great fattening properties, great productiveness (over one thousand bushels having been grown on one acre), and ease with which they can be grown. They need not be dug in the fall; the hogs should be turned on them, and will help themselves by rooting for them. One acre will keep from twenty to thirty head in fine condition from October to April, except when the ground is frozen too hard for them to root. They are also said to be a preventive of cholera and other diseases, and they are also highly recommended for milch cows, increasing the yield of milk and at the same time improving their condition. Three bushels will seed an acre, and they should be cut the same as potaoes, one eye to a cut being sufficient. Plant in April or May, in rows three feet apart and two feet in the row, and cover about two inches deep. To destroy them they should be plowed under when the plant is about a foot high, at the time the old tuber has decayed and new ones are not yet formed. Per lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c, postpaid. By freight or express, pk. 50c, bu. $1.25, bbl. of 3 bu. (enough for one acre) $3.00.

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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, at 5c each.
American White Ash.--1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more @ 25c.
Box Elder.--1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more @ 25c.
Speciosa or Hardy Catalpa.--Oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 25c, lb. 85c, 5 lbs. or more @ 50c.
Honey Locust.--1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more @ 25c.
Black Locust.--1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more @ 25c.
Russian Mulberry.--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. Oz. 20c, 1/4 lb. 65c, lb. $2.00.
Osage Orange.--Makes a handsome and durable hedge. 1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 50c, 5 lbs. or more @ 25c.
Tree of Heaven.--Of rapid growth and tropical appearance. Hardy. Oz. 10c, 1/4 lb. 30c, lb. 75c.

Sunflower.
Mammoth Russian.--The largest of all sunflowers. This is without doubt one of the best paying crops that can be raised. The seeds 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. Large pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 65c. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 8c per lb.

White Beauty.--A mammoth single-flowering variety with pure white seed, which is the result of eight years of careful selection. Desirable for the flower garden and also excelled for poultry, outyielding the the old sorts almost two to one in quantity of seeds produced to the acre. Large pkt. 5c, lb. 35c. By express 5 lbs. or more @ 20c.

Black Giant.--A monster among sunflowers; seeds black. Quite attractive. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c.

[Image: Drawing/Scratchboard illustration of a large artichoke plant with a pig rooting at the ground, Caption-artichokes.]

A Pleased Customer
Is Our Best Advertisement.

Yours seeds are all right as far as I have tested them. I admire your colors and and assisted in 1862 in keeping them bright. Wish you success. P. Baird, Mt. Camel, Ill.

The seeds I ordered of you came in good time and shape, and I am more than pleased with them. H. E. Burnham, Washburn, Ill.
I have used your seed for the past three years, and find them superior to any others. E. J. Jackson, Eagle Grove, Iowa.

The clover seed I purchased of you last season was the finest seed I ever got from any seed firm. It was as clean as the cleanest and good as the best. M. V. Toombs, New Hampton, Mo.
The Iowa Silver Mine Corn and Ideal Barley came duly to hand. Am well pleased with both. L. W. Mickey, Plainville, Kan.
We were well pleased with the seed purchased of you last year. E. A. Carrier, La Peer, Neb.
I have purchased seed of the Iowa Seed Co. for the past three years and they have been good and true to a name. G. W. Gingery, Atlantic, Iowa.

[Image: Drawing, Scratchboard illustration of a large sunflower head and two birds pecking at the seeds, Caption-Sunflower.]