. Illustrated and descriptive catalogue : seeds. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. GENERAL LIST OF FARM SEEDS. 31 GRASS Timothy (Herd's Grass)—Starts late and grows rather slowlv. flowering about four weeks after Red Clover. Sow twelve pounds per acre. Per lb. 10?, bu. $ Red Top—'1 'brives best on low lands, where it cuts a trood crop of rather light hay. of fair quality. Suitable for low pastures. Sow one to four bushels per acre. Per lb. 1C?, bu Fancy, per lb. 15?. K
. Illustrated and descriptive catalogue : seeds. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs. GENERAL LIST OF FARM SEEDS. 31 GRASS Timothy (Herd's Grass)—Starts late and grows rather slowlv. flowering about four weeks after Red Clover. Sow twelve pounds per acre. Per lb. 10?, bu. $ Red Top—'1 'brives best on low lands, where it cuts a trood crop of rather light hay. of fair quality. Suitable for low pastures. Sow one to four bushels per acre. Per lb. 1C?, bu Fancy, per lb. 15?. Kentucky Blue Crass (June Grass)-A very valuable pasture grass; perennial, and spreads rapidly. Is sensitive to good treat- ment and will often drive out most other grasses. Sow two bushels per aero Farinj, per lb. 15?. bu $ Superior Mixed Lawn Crass—is a mixture of t tie best quality of sued grasses as will withstand the heat, and d'yweath r of our summers. The soil should be put in good coudit ion before sowing and the lawn kept free from weeds the first season The quantity of seed required is one pound to every four hundred square feet. Per lb. 150, bu. (14 lbs.) German, or Colden MiUet-->"ot so early as. the Common Millet, but yields a much larger crop. Will grow from three to five feet high; the heads are closely cou- , densed; spikes very numerous; seeds golden yellow, round, in rough bristly shenths. The stalks are soft, and readily eaten by all kinds of stock. Twenty-five to thirty-five pounds will sow one acre. Per lb. 5?, bu. (50 Ibp.) 75?. Common Millet—Common Millet requires a light rich soil, and grows two and one-half to four feet biirh. with a fine bulk of stalks and leaves, and is excellent for forage. Sow in drills or broadcast, from May 1st until the last of July, twe-ntv-flve to thirty-five pounds to the acre. Per lb. 5?, bu. (50 lbs ) 60?. Hungarian Crass—A valuable forage plant. Suc- ceeds well on dry, light soil; withstands the
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