. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. General List op Agricultural Seeds. 69 Teosinte. A most Valuable and Enormous Yield- ing Continuous Cutting Forage Crop. We strongly recommend our customers who have not done so to sow this splendid forage crop. If a sufficient quantity is sown it will furnish a continuous daily supply of most nutritious green food for horses and all kinds of cattle a
. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm & garden. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. General List op Agricultural Seeds. 69 Teosinte. A most Valuable and Enormous Yield- ing Continuous Cutting Forage Crop. We strongly recommend our customers who have not done so to sow this splendid forage crop. If a sufficient quantity is sown it will furnish a continuous daily supply of most nutritious green food for horses and all kinds of cattle all through the summer. It also makes splendid dry fodder, yielding enormously, and being more nutritious and even better relished by all kinds of stock than corn fodder. In appearance it somewhat resembles Indian corn, but the leaves are much larger and broader, and the stalks contain sweeter sap. In its perfection it produces a great number of shoots, growing ten to twelve feet high, very thickly covered with leaves, yielding an abundance of forage. It stools out enormously after being cut, as many as forty-five stalks having been grown from a single seed. The following extract from a letter from one of our customers gives some idea of its enormous yielding qualities: Newberry Co., S. C, Jan. 17, 1898.—T planted your Teo~iL telast yeax and was very highly ph a-ed. Cut over it seven times. I wouldu t do wi bout it. I also dned it lik*1 fodder. All kinds of stock love it. Neighbors beard of my patch and requested me to have your catalogue sent to t em Mrs. T. J. Moffett. Sow in May or June, at the rate of two to three pounds per acre, in drills 3£ to 4 feet apart. Oz. 10c.; £ lb. 25c.; lb. 75c. Sorghums, Millo Maize, Kaffir Corn. Rural Branching Sorghum. (White Millo Maize.) A wonderful branching sorghum, which produces on enormous amount of excellent fodder, and is highly recom- mended for that purpose. It branches wonderfully after the first cutting. On our trial grounds t
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