Archive image from page 27 of Delano Bros' seed catalogue of. Delano Bros.' seed catalogue of everything for the farm and vegetable garden for 1894 delanobrosseedca1894dela Year: 1894 iBMAN MILLET. (Fov description, see precedin-g page) SRURRY. purry is an annual plant extensively cultivated in Germany and .''â ranee, as a winter pasture for cattle, sheep and hogs, and 'milch ws, and sheep fed on it yield, according to Von Thaer, of Germany, iperior milk, hutter and mutton. For winter pasturage it is usual- ly sown broadcast on the harrowed stubble of grain crops, just re- moved from the gro
Archive image from page 27 of Delano Bros' seed catalogue of. Delano Bros.' seed catalogue of everything for the farm and vegetable garden for 1894 delanobrosseedca1894dela Year: 1894 iBMAN MILLET. (Fov description, see precedin-g page) SRURRY. purry is an annual plant extensively cultivated in Germany and .''â ranee, as a winter pasture for cattle, sheep and hogs, and 'milch ws, and sheep fed on it yield, according to Von Thaer, of Germany, iperior milk, hutter and mutton. For winter pasturage it is usual- ly sown broadcast on the harrowed stubble of grain crops, just re- moved from the ground, but it may be, and often is, sown in the .spring for spring and summer pasture. It is most admirably adapt- ed to sandy soils, so much so that it has been called the '-clover of sandy lands.' It will grow well on sandy soils that are too poor, dry and thin to bear clover: and will also, if sown in March, and then again in May, and afterward in July, produce three crops upon the «ame field in one season. These three crops will, if successfully plowed down to the depth of three or four inches, renovate or strengthen a poor or barren soil to such a degree that it will now bring clover or a crop of winter grain. Hence Scurry is largely .grown in Belgium, Germany and Denmark as a fertilizer, and also a,s a valuuble forage for cattle, both in its green anddts dried state. SPUKRY.â(Spergula arveisia.) On the sandy soils of Northern Michigan, where clover would not 'grow and cattle would sink ankle deep in the sand, Spurry hardens and fertilizes the soil so that wheat, following Spurry, yields more per acre than on land treated with 300 pounds per acre, of the best commercial phosphates. The Campine district of Belgium was a desert waste, but by the use of Spurry it has come to be the 'garden spot of Europe.' Sow 10 to 15 pounds per acre. If for hay, cut after seed is formed and before it is ripe. Ten to twenty bushels of seed, per acre, can be -harvested. Lb., 30c: 4 lbs.
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