. Annual catalogue of celebrated trademark seeds and other specialties. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Potatoes Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis. The Giant Fodder Plant. * Teosinte {Reana Luxurians) somewhat resembles Indian Corn in appear- ance, but the leaves are much longer and broader, and the stalks contain sweeter sap. In its perfection it produces a great number of shoots, growing 12 feet high, very thickly covered with leaves, yielding such an abundance of forage that one plant is considered to be sufficient
. Annual catalogue of celebrated trademark seeds and other specialties. Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Potatoes Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs; Commercial catalogs Indiana Indianapolis. The Giant Fodder Plant. * Teosinte {Reana Luxurians) somewhat resembles Indian Corn in appear- ance, but the leaves are much longer and broader, and the stalks contain sweeter sap. In its perfection it produces a great number of shoots, growing 12 feet high, very thickly covered with leaves, yielding such an abundance of forage that one plant is considered to be sufficient to feed a pair of cattle for 24 hours. In the South it surpasses either Com or Sorghum as a-soiling or fodder plant. Eighty-five stalks have been grovm from one seed, attaining a height of _^ II feet. In the North, planted July 3, it produced from one seed 27 stalks, and A Single Plant attained a height of 7 feet by September 10, making a luxuriant growth of of Teosinte. leaves, which the horses and cattle ate as freely as young sugar com. About 3 pounds of seed are required per acre. Price of seed—Pkt. 10c, OZ. 15c, % lb- 50c,lb. $ Teosinte—The plants have made a wonderful growth. The seed was planted in mid-May. July 8 the plants were 3 feet high, with an average of 9 stems, small and large, to a seed. Several plants'were cut back to the ground. July 29 the plants were 4 feet tall, with an average of 12 stems to a seed about the size of sweet com at the same age. The cut-back plants were 2 feet high. Cut tin? back the stalks does not seem to check the growth at all. August 19 the plants were 6 feet high—the cut-back plants 5 feet. The stalks were all tender. The longest leaves were 4 feet, and in width 2>^Inches. The joints grow so close together that the plants are one mass of leaves. The stems were still small and succulent. We found the number of stems of one plant to be 17, of another 26. On September 2 the plants not cut back were 7 feet high, a mass of lea
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