. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm and garden, 1902. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. General List o* Agricultural Seeds. 71 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 cat
. Descriptive catalogue : Wood's high grade seeds and guide for the farm and garden, 1902. Nursery stock Virginia Richmond Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. General List o* Agricultural Seeds. 71 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 some- what resembles Indian corn, but the leaves are much larger and broader, and the stalks contain sweeter sap. In its perfec- tion 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 enor- mously after being cut, as many as forty- five stalks having been grown from a single seed. The following extracts from letters from customers give some idea of its enor- mous yielding qualities: Southampton Co., Va., Oct. 24, 1901.—I con- sider Teosinte far superior to any crop I ever used as a long feed. Horses and cows are very fond of it. It is a splendid feed, either green or cured. H. T. Gbtzzaed. Catawba Co., N. C., Oct. 30,1901.—The Teosinte grown from the seed purchased from you has given satisfactory results. I think it not too much to say that from eight to ten tons of green feed can easily be grown per acre. All kinds of stock relish it. All other seeds purchased from^you have given Rood results. J. A. ,ewbebry Co., 8. C—I planted your Teosinte, and was very highly pleased Cut over it seven times. I wouldn't do without it. I also dried it like fodder. All kinds of stock love i
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