. Annual illustrated seed catalogue. Seeds for Forage Grope (FQ-1UQE CROPS CONTINUED.). Red Kaffir Corn—Grows taller than the White; stalks slender, more juicy and leafy; heads long, slender and grows erect. One of the best drouth reslsters; does well on poor land, ripen* earlier and yields nearly twice as much grain and forage a* the White. Plant three to five pounds to acre. Price of seed, U cents per pound; 6 pounds for 65 cents; by mail, pound, 25 cents; 5 pounds for $1, postpaid. Yellow Millo Maize, or Yellow Branching Dhoura—Growth is eight to twelve feet, stoollng from the ground like t
. Annual illustrated seed catalogue. Seeds for Forage Grope (FQ-1UQE CROPS CONTINUED.). Red Kaffir Corn—Grows taller than the White; stalks slender, more juicy and leafy; heads long, slender and grows erect. One of the best drouth reslsters; does well on poor land, ripen* earlier and yields nearly twice as much grain and forage a* the White. Plant three to five pounds to acre. Price of seed, U cents per pound; 6 pounds for 65 cents; by mail, pound, 25 cents; 5 pounds for $1, postpaid. Yellow Millo Maize, or Yellow Branching Dhoura—Growth is eight to twelve feet, stoollng from the ground like the White "Branch- ing Dhoura;" seed head grows to great size on good land. Earlier than the White Millo; yields three to four good "cuttings" In • season. Should be planted in four to five-foot rows, and two to three feet in the drill, two plants in a hill. Cultivate like Corn; three to five pounds seed to acre. Price, 15 cents per pound; 5 pounds for 65 cents; if sent by mail, pound, 25 cents; 5 pound* for $1, postage paid. White Kaffir Corn—Plant Is stocky; perfectly erect; foliage wide; does not stool, but branches from the top joints, produc- ing from two to four heads of grain from each stalk. Heads are long and perfectly erect. If cut, shoots springs from the root. Plant in rows not over tlii ce feet apart, even on the best land. Cultivate as corn. Use three to five pounds seed per acre. Price, pound, 15 cents; 6 pounds for 65 cents; If sent by mail, pound, 25 cents; 5 pounds, $1, postage paid. White Millo Maize, or Branching Dhoura—An immense producer of fodder. Stools largely, sometimes as many as ten to fifteen shoots from one seed; can be cut for green feed several times • season, yield of grain thirty bushels to the acre on land that will make fifteen of corn. Plant in rows four to five feet apart, drop, ping three to five seed eighteen inches apart in rows; plant three to five pounds seed to acre. Cultivate as corn. Price, pound, 15 c
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