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36. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] EARLY AMBER CANE.

EARLY AMBER CANE.
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 and greedily eaten by cattle, horses and hogs. Dairymen find that the cows will 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.

KENNEY'S IMPROVED AMBER CANE.
An improved variety which will make the very finest grade of beautiful amber syrup of delicious flavor and many persons will prefer it for table use to either maple syrup or honey. It is said that over 250 gallons have been produced per acre, and when boiled down making over 3200 lbs. of sugar. Why not supply your own table in this way, as it is as easily grown as a crop of corn and succeeds well in all parts of the United States from Minnesota to Texas. It requires only 5 lbs. of seed per acre. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 65c. By freight, 10 lbs. $1.00, 25 lbs. $2.00, 50 lbs. $3.50, 100 lbs. $6.00.

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. 5c, lb. 20c, 3 lbs. 50c. By freight, pk. 40c, bu. (50 lb.) $1.00, 2 bu. or more @ 90c.

[image] KAFFIR CORN.

TEOSINTE.
A fodder plant grown largely in some parts of the couniry [country]. Somewhat resembles corn in its general appearance, but the leaves are much longer and broader and the stalks contain sweeter sap. In its prefection [perfection] it produces a great number of shoots growing as much as 12 feet high, very thickly covered with leaves. 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 larger 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, ¼ lb. 25c, lb. 80c, 3 lbs. (sufficient for one acre) $2.00, by mail prepaid.

SERADELLA.
When traveling in Germany we found that Seradella was the most profitable of all fodder plants grown there and almost everybody grows it for hay. It is specially adapted to light, poor or sandy soil, being equal to red clover in nutritive qualities and yields a larger crop. It is one of the best drouth-resisting plants known and does well on high land as well as low. Cattle are very fond of it as hay, green fodder or for pasturing. It is not a perennial, but can be cut twice and will produce good pasture balance of year. Sow early in spring alone or with wheat or other grain. Pkt. 5c, lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 80c, postpaid. By freight 10 lbs. or more @ 10c, per lb. Bu. of 45 lbs. (will sow 3 acres) $3.75.

SEED FLAX.
It will pay you to sow nice, pure high grade flax seed. It is one of the most profitable crops, especially on new land. Price subject to market changes. Pk. 65c, bu. $1.85, 10 bu. or more @ $1.75.

[image] TEOSINTE.

JERUSALEM CORN.
Claimed by 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 also. Three or four pounds will plant an acre in drills, 40 to 50 lbs. broadcast. Pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c. By freight, pk. 75c, bu. (50 lbs.) $3.00, 2 bu. or more @ $2.75.

GIANT SPURRY.
Excellent plant for pasture, 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 it the only plant which can be grown on poor, sandy, dry soil that will surely return a paying yield. It is readily eaten by sheep and cattle. Sow broadcast the latter half of March, April or May at rate of 10 lbs. per acre if wanted for hay. Pkt. 5c, lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c, postpaid. By freight, 10 lbs. $1.25, 50 lbs. $4.50, 100 lbs. $8.75.

AUSTRALIAN SALT-BUSH.
A valuable plant for soils containing alkali and for all regions subject to prolonged drought. It is highly desirable to furnish forage during the hot, dry summer months, in our western and southern states. Not hardy in the north. The plant needs some little 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 making a thick mat of stems and foliage 12 to 18 inches in depth over entire surface of the soil. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c, ¼ lb. 40c, 1 lb. $1.25.

[image] GRAINS OF SPELTZ.

SPELTZ--A Valuable New Grain From Russia.
This most wonderful new grain was first introduced in this country by the Iowa Seed Co., and has proved of great value, and is now listed by almost all of the leading seedsmen. It is botanically known as Triticum Spelta or Emmer, and is supposed to be the grain grown in Egypt in the time of Moses. It is mentioned several times in Bible. For centuries past it has been grown in a limited way in Eastern Russia near the Caspian Sea, its value not being known to the civilized world. Is of high value for feeding and will make a fair grade of flour similar to rye. Will grow well and produce immense crops on poor soil, and dry weather appears to have no effect on it; will make a good crop with almost any condition of soil climate. It makes excellent pasture and good hay if cut at proper season. Yields 70 to 100 bushels of grain to the acre besides several tons of straw for feeding. The grain is much richer than corn for feeding and of superior quality for fattening hogs, cattle, sheep, poultry, etc. May be sown in the spring or fall, 50 to 75 lbs. per acre. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid. By freight, pk. 50c, bu. (40 lbs.) 90c; 2 bu. or more @ 85c; 10 bu. or more @ 80c.

PENCILARIA.
This wonderful fodder plant has proved a great boon to farmers, especially in dry sections of the country where they have been delighted with it. It does not do so well during wet seasons being particularly a dry, hot weather plant. It is an improvement on the Penicillaria Spicata (Pearl Millet) being much better adapted to growing in the north and producing a good crop where Pearl Millet is a failure. The seed is very small, and when it first comes up it looks like grass, but very soon changes its appearance so that it more nearly resembles corn, growing very rapidly and having broad, succulent leaves. It stools out wonderfully, our customers reporting as high as 75 stalks grown from one seed. Sow in May or June in drills 24 to 36 inches apart, using 2 lbs. seed per acre or broad cast 15 lbs. per acre. Per pkt. 5c, ¼ lb. 15c, lb. 35c, 3 lbs. $1.00 postpaid. By express per lb. 25c, 5 lbs. $1.00, 25 lbs. $3.75, 100 lbs. $13.50.

[image] PENCILARIA.

FODDER AND FORAGE ARE A PROFITABLE PART OF THE FARM PRODUCTS.