. Spring 1897. Nursery stock Wisconsin Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs. S7 JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO.'S CATALOGUE OF PLANTS AND SEEDS, LA CROSSE, WIS. Salzer's Great Annual Fodder Plant, Teosinte. "Shades of Egypt!" we hear some one eiaculating while they are looking at the illustrations of this most marvelous plant, and magnificent it is irf every respect. It comes to us from the rich, fertile plains of the Nile, where travelers tell us the enormous yield of 300 tons of green fodder per a
. Spring 1897. Nursery stock Wisconsin Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs. S7 JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO.'S CATALOGUE OF PLANTS AND SEEDS, LA CROSSE, WIS. Salzer's Great Annual Fodder Plant, Teosinte. "Shades of Egypt!" we hear some one eiaculating while they are looking at the illustrations of this most marvelous plant, and magnificent it is irf every respect. It comes to us from the rich, fertile plains of the Nile, where travelers tell us the enormous yield of 300 tons of green fodder per acre is not uncommon. This is some- thing almost beyond comprehension. Think of it—SOO tons per acre! 600,000 pounds of green, nourishing, excellent fodder per acre. This is what it does in Egypt. What does it do in America? Almost equally as well. Give it a rich, warm, loamy soil and it will yield from 100 to 150 tons of great fodder per acre. It is simply marvelous. Down in Georgia, in Florida and North Carolina its yield is all the way from 100 to 200 tons of green fodder per acre. It grows to a height in tliose states of 18 feet, while a single kernel will produce from 60 to 100 stalks of the most nourishing g^een fodder imagmable. Our test in the North gives it an average yield of about 50 tons of green fodder per acre. On our own grounds at La Crosse, where the soil is sandy and warm, it yielded at the rate of fully 60 tons per acre, sending forth from 20 to 60 shoots from one kernel of seed. It was the most magnificent thing we had ever seen. We will call up the farmers as witnesses: B. Padberg, Mine La Motte, Mo.: •*Teosinte grew 8 feet tall, 27 shoots frem 1 ; Quinton Anderson, Whitehall, III: "The annual fodder plant or Teosinte is a wonder. Still it is branching. Equal to 40 tons per ; E. C. Grimes, Ind.: "From 5 kernels I received 5 plants, which bushed out and gave me over 300 stalks. I am sure it will yield 200,000 pounds per acr
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