. FIELD, FORAGE AND SILO «~«d Sunflower, Mammoth Russian. (See cut.) May be grown to great advantage in waste ground. An excellent and cheap food fur fowls. All farmers should plant this, if only for feeding chickens. It is enormously productive of seed, as the heads grow to a large size, sometimes measaring as much as 18 inches in diameter, and are full of seed. It can be planted aiiy time from early spring until the end of June. Plant 4 quarts to-acre. Qt, !K) cts.; by mail, 17 cts.; peck, 40 cts.; bu. (25 lbs.), $; 100 lbs., $ Wild Rice {Zizania Aqiiniiio). The Ziznnia is v
. FIELD, FORAGE AND SILO «~«d Sunflower, Mammoth Russian. (See cut.) May be grown to great advantage in waste ground. An excellent and cheap food fur fowls. All farmers should plant this, if only for feeding chickens. It is enormously productive of seed, as the heads grow to a large size, sometimes measaring as much as 18 inches in diameter, and are full of seed. It can be planted aiiy time from early spring until the end of June. Plant 4 quarts to-acre. Qt, !K) cts.; by mail, 17 cts.; peck, 40 cts.; bu. (25 lbs.), $; 100 lbs., $ Wild Rice {Zizania Aqiiniiio). The Ziznnia is valuable as a forage plant on inundated lands and along the shores of marshes. As an attraction for wild fowls it is invaluable. The seed should be sown in the fall in 6 inches to 6 feet of water, having soft mud bottom where there are few weeds. Lb., 35 CIS.; Ijy mail, 43 cts.; 10 lbs. or more at 25 cts. per lb. White Branching Dhoura {White Millo Maize). A valuable forage plant. Will thrive even when com is suffering from drought. Use 4 to 5 pounds to acre. Lb., 10 cts.; by mail, 18 cts.; 10 lbs., 80 cts.; 100 lbs., $ Broom Corn (Improved Evergreen). Extensively grown on account of the color and quality of its brush, which is long, fine and straight, and always green; grows 7 feet high. Use 6 to 8 quarts to acre. Lb., 10 cts.; by mail, 18 cts.; 100 lbs., $ Sorghum, or Early Amber Sugar^Cane. This is the sorghum of the Nunhern Stales; makes the finest quality of syrup. The earliest and most productive variety. Height 10 to 12 feet. For ensilage or fodder it posses'^es good qualities; stock of all kinds relish it. Sow 4 quarts in drills, or 8 quarts broadcast to acre. Per lb., 15 cts.; by mail, 23 cts.; 100 lbs., $ MILLET. Prices variable. German, or Golden Millet {Sonihem-groum). A valuable annual hay and lodder crop, more productive and coarser than Hungarian Grass, medium early, 4 to 5 feet high. Sow 1 bushel to the acre. Lb., 10 cts.; by mail, 18 cts.; bu. (
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