Lilly's complete annual catalog : seeds fertilizers stock foods bee supplies spray materiels poultry supplies . ltry During Winter Thousand Headed Kale, or CowKale, as it is sometimes called, is oneof the most useful crops for the Pa-cific Coast. It belongs to the cag-bage family, is succulent and nu-tritious, and is unequaled as greenfood for stock, especially poultry andcows. W est of the Cascade Moun-tains it is left in the field all winterand cut as required for feeding. The seed is generally sown indrills three feet apart early in spring,and the plants transplanted when sixto eighteen inc
Lilly's complete annual catalog : seeds fertilizers stock foods bee supplies spray materiels poultry supplies . ltry During Winter Thousand Headed Kale, or CowKale, as it is sometimes called, is oneof the most useful crops for the Pa-cific Coast. It belongs to the cag-bage family, is succulent and nu-tritious, and is unequaled as greenfood for stock, especially poultry andcows. W est of the Cascade Moun-tains it is left in the field all winterand cut as required for feeding. The seed is generally sown indrills three feet apart early in spring,and the plants transplanted when sixto eighteen inches high. They may betransplanted to ground from which anearly harvested crop has been re-moved, providing sufficient moisturecan be depended upon. One poundof seed will prcduce sufficient plantsfor one acre. The plants should beset three feet apart each way. Theygrow about four feet high, with awide spread of leaves, and a singleplant often weighs 30 to 40 pounds. For summer feeding, the seed maybe sown in fall and the plants trans-planted in spring, but it seldom yield;kale requires nch soil and thorough. as heavy as that grown for fall and winter feeding. Like cabbage. cultivation. Under favorable conditions it will sometimes yield as high as sixty tons of green feed per is not only an economical food, but by supplying succulent greed food will keep stock in perfect solves perfectly the difficult problem of supplying green food for poultry. Several good articles in regardto the culture and uses of kale are contained in the Crop Book, which we will furnish free with any order ifrequested. Price: 10c; lA 20c; lb., 35c; 10 lbs., 30c per lb. Postage additional. Marrow Cabbage CHOU MOELLIERWhite Stemmed Marrow Kale Marrow Cabbage is a valuable dairy and poultryfood, very similar to Thousand Headed Kale, buteven more prolific. The plants average four to sixfeet in height, with stalks five to six inches indiameter, and weigh fourteen to twenty pounds. Th
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