. 32nd annual catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Des Moines Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide. DWARF ESSEX RAPE. The Most Popular and Profitable Forage Plant in Existence. The demand for Dwarf Essex Rape is increasing four-fold every year and everywhere it gives the greatest satisfaction. It is easily grown everywhere and is unsur- passed as a forage plant for hogs, cattle or sheep. They eat it greed- ily and seem to prefer it to any other pasture during the summer and until
. 32nd annual catalogue. Nursery stock Iowa Des Moines Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide. DWARF ESSEX RAPE. The Most Popular and Profitable Forage Plant in Existence. The demand for Dwarf Essex Rape is increasing four-fold every year and everywhere it gives the greatest satisfaction. It is easily grown everywhere and is unsur- passed as a forage plant for hogs, cattle or sheep. They eat it greed- ily and seem to prefer it to any other pasture during the summer and until late in the fall or early winter. Can he sown early in the season to provide 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 is usually sown in June, July or Au- gust with corn or potatoes, or on well prepared land alone for summer and fall pasture. Makes a wonderfully productive pasture for SHEEP, HOGS OR CflT TLE, and they gain flesh so rapidly that they soon •'weigh like lead" While it is the ideal food for sheep, still it is of equal value for hogs and cattle, as they are very fond of it,itis extremely cheap, having yielded 20 tons of fodder per acre. In the east it is usually sown in drills,. broadcast, 4 to BROMUS INERMIS —Everyone now ad- mits that this is the most valuable new grass which has been introduced into this country during the past 25 years, and it has every- where, from Canada to Texas, given the best of satisfaction. It has been very high- ly recommended by the U. S. Agricultural Department and by grass specialists in all parts of the country. It will produce a wonderful crop of hay on land which is too poor for clover or timothy, and it resists in- tense cold, and also the most hot, dry weather. Forms a quick and dense sod either on sandy or stiff clay soils, and is a permanent grass which does not kill out with any kind of-weather. Grows 18 to 36 i
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