. Annual catalogue. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. Agricultural Equipment and Supplies Catalogs. Cottonseed 37 FORAGE CROP SEED— Continued. Teosinte—This plant largely excels all other known plants in size of growth and great amount of forage productd. It throws up fifteen to thirty stalks from a grain, and on rich land reaches fifteen feet in height, a solid mass of foliage. Cut for green feed in any stage. It is found good and wholesome, and the second and third growth come promptly in equal vigor and abundance. Nothing equals it for an enormous mass of valuable fo
. Annual catalogue. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. Agricultural Equipment and Supplies Catalogs. Cottonseed 37 FORAGE CROP SEED— Continued. Teosinte—This plant largely excels all other known plants in size of growth and great amount of forage productd. It throws up fifteen to thirty stalks from a grain, and on rich land reaches fifteen feet in height, a solid mass of foliage. Cut for green feed in any stage. It is found good and wholesome, and the second and third growth come promptly in equal vigor and abundance. Nothing equals it for an enormous mass of valuable forage. Plant three pounds seed to the acre in April, five by six feet, and cultivate as corn. Soak seed twenty-four hours before planting. Ounce, 10 cents; 1-4 pound, 25 cents: 1-2 pound, 3s cents; pound, 65 cents. Postage, 10 cents per pound. Three pounds for$ Pearl Mil let—Known throughout the South as Cat-Tail Mil- let, Horse and Egyptian Millet It stools largely from the ground and makes a great mass of foliage, can be cut several times in a season, furnishing fresh growth as long as season suits. Useful only for gieen feeding, does not cure into good fodder. Sow in April or after in drills four feet apart, or drop a few seed in hills two by four feet. Cultivate as corn. Price of clean seed, 15 cents per pound; 6 pounds, enough for acre, 70 cents; 10 pounds and over, at 10 cents per pound; 100 pounds, at 8 cents per pound. By mail,' -50 cents per pound; 4 pounds for $, postpaid. Write for prices in quantity. German or Golden Millet—Best Southern Grown—Beware of cheap Western seed. When conditions are favorable, we have known five tons of hay to the acre to be made with German Millet. Should be sewn after danger of frost, up to the middle of June. Weighs fifty pounds to bushel. One bushel or fifty pounds, will sow an acre; 5 cents per pound. If by mail, 15 cents per pound. 8 pounds for $1 00, postpaid; peck, 60 cents. Bushel price on application. Hungarian
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