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Seed Catalogue and Garden Guide.

Clover Seed.

For several years we have made this a specialty, and we now have our electric machinery for cleaning so perfected that we claim that our grades average better than those of any other market, and believe they cannot fail to please the most particular. Other seed dealers who happened to be in our warehouse when we were cleaning clover have often remarked that the seed looked so extra nice they should not reclean it. From these same lots of seed we were cleaning out five to ten pounds to the hundred pounds of weed seed, sand and shrunken clover seed. This makes quite a difference in real value, and our seed is really worth $1.00 to $2.00 per one hundred pounds more than that obtained from most dealers.

A price list of Clover and Grass Seeds is published every week from January until June. It gives complete descriptions of all kinds of clover and grass seeds and much information of value to farmers. Ask for a copy of it whenever you wish to purchase.

Prices on clover and grass seeds are changing almost daily, so that we are unable to quote prices which will be invariable. Don't fail to write for prices before buying. If you are in a hurry for the seed you can order it and we will send seed to full value of money sent, on the day order is received. The following are the prices we are selling seed at on the date this catalogue goes to press (Dec. 28, 1896.) We will furnish 20 lbs. or more at the 100-lb. rate:

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[column headings: Kinds. Lbs. to sow one acre. Postpaid per lb. Price per 100 lbs. Equals per bu.]

Clover, Medium Red, best. 15. 25. $7.00. $4.20.
Medium Red, 2d grade. ... ... 5.50. 3.30.
Mammoth Red. 15. 25. 7.25. 4.35.
Alsike. 7. 25. 9.00. 5.40.
Alfalfa. 20. 25. 8.25. 4.95.
Crimson (Scarlet Incarnate). 20. 25. 6.70. 4.00.
White. 6. 35. 15.00. 9.00 .
Honey. 10. 50. ... ...

Timothy, best. 12. 20. 2.70. 1.21.

Ky. Blue Grass, fancy cleaned. 15 to 60. 30. 12.00. 1.68.
Extra cleaned. 25 to 100. 25. 8.00. 1.12.

Red Top, fancy cleaned. 12. 35. 16.00. 2.24.
Prime. 20. 25. 8.00. 1.12.

Orchard Grass. 14. 35. 14.0.0 1.96.

Millet, German. 50. 20. 2.00. .96.
Common. 50. 20. 1.5.0 .72.
Manitoba. 50. 20. 2.25. 1.08.

Hungarian. 50. 20. 2.25. 1.08.

Fancy Grasses, Rhode Island Bent. 25. 40. 20.00 ...
Meadow Fescue (English Blue Grass). 20. 25. 9.00. ...
Perennial Rye Grass. 35. 2.5 7.50. ...
Crested Dogstail. 15. 50. 30.00. ...
Sweet Vernal. 20. 40. 18.00. ...
Sheep's Fescue. 25. 35. 13.00. ...
Creeping Bent. 18. 40. 22.00. ...
Wood Meadow. 25. 45. 28.00. ...

Permanent Pasture, high land. 30. 35. 12.00. ...
For medium land. 30. 35. 12.00. ...
For low, wet land. 30. 35. 12.00. ...

Two-bushel grain bags to hold seed 15c each.

Collection of Clovers.--For trial, one ounce each of the above seven kinds of clover for 25c, postpaid. One pound each of seven kinds, by express, $1.00.

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Early Harvest Millet.
Sunflower

Early Harvest Millet.--This new variety was produced by sowing the Golden Wonder and Manitoba millet together and they formed a perfect cross or so-called hybrid, the seed being different in size, shape and color from either of its parents. It is as early, if not earlier, than the Manitoba, while the head is more like the Golden Wonder, being not so long, but much fuller. The fodder stays green and in excellent condition even after the seed is fully ripe, differing in this respect from any other kind. The crop from which our seed was harvested was cut just fifty-one days after the seed was sown. Thus it would be easy to raise two crops in one season on the same ground. It ripens seed before pigeon grass or any kind of barn grass, and yields 40 bushels of seed to the acre. The hay is fully equal to Golden Wonder and is as good as any variety of millet. The stem is well filled with broad leaves instead of having leaves simply at the base and makes just as good hay when cut after seed is ripe as other millets do cut green. Prof. A. A. Crozier, of the Michigan Agricultural College, tested it very thoroughly and writes us: "Your new millet is the earliest kind of millet we have out of 73 samples from various parts of the world, and I think it will also prove productive." All things considered, we believe it to be the millet of all others for the Iowa farmers, and advise all try at least a small quantity this year. Per large pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid. By freight, 5 lbs. or more @ 6c, 100 lbs. $2.10, equals $1.00 per bushel.

The seeds you sent me are indeed more than you claim for them. The timothy is fresh and clean. Clover seed the cleanest I ever saw tested under a microscope. Please accept thanks for honorable treatment.
John Mitman, Hooper, Neb.

I was much pleased with the clover seed received from you. It was nice and clean and nothing but seed.
Henry Roseman, Muscoda, Wis.

The Timothy seed I ordered from you came all right and it was splendid. J. W. Moore, Hubbard, Ohio.

A Nice Lawn
Is easily secured by sowing our Lawn Grass Seed. Ask for circular giving full instructions for preparing a perfect lawn anywhere.

Central Park Lawn Grass.--The best mixture for general use. One pound will sow 300 to 400 square feet. Per qt. 30c, postpaid. By freight, bushel of 15 lbs., $2.25, 5 bu. for $10.00.

Shady Lawn Seed.--Specialty adapted for growing in shade. Per qt. 35c postpaid.

Terrace Lawn Seed.--For terraces and embankments. Per qt. 35c, postpaid.

Sunflower.

Mammoth Russian.--The largest of all sunflowers. This is without doubt one of the best paying crops that can be raised. The seed makes the best of food for poultry and can be raised at a very trifling cost (about one-third the cost of corn), and the stalks, which grow very large, make excellent firewood. It is also said to afford protection against malaria. Large pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 65c. By express, 10 lbs. or more at 8c per lb.

White Beauty.--A mammoth single-flowering variety with pure white seeds, which is the result of eight years of careful selection. Desirable for the flower garden and also unexcelled for poultry, outyielding the old sorts almost two to one in quantity of seeds produced to the acre. Large pkt. 5c, lb. 35c. By express 5 lbs. or more @ 20c.

Black Giant.--A monster among sunflowers; seeds black. Quite attractive. Pkt. 5c, oz. 15c.

From New Zealand--The seeds I purchased from you have done splendidly and I am sure I can obtain a large number of orders from my neigabors next season for you. Ernest C. Moon, TeUka, Auckland, N. Zealand.

Received the clover seed in good shape and am very much pleased with it, as it is so clean and bright.
Stephen Jenkins, Knoxville, Iowa.

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