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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 37.

[image] IOWA GROWN RED CLOVER SEED.

CLOVER SEED.
For many years we have made this a specialty, and we now have our electrical machinery for cleaning so perfected that we claim that our grades average better than those of most other markets, and believe that they cannot fail to please the most particular. Other seed dealers who have 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 three to five pounds per bushel of trash, sand and shrunken clover seed. This makes quite a difference in real value, and our seed is really worth 50 cents to $1.00 per bushel more than that obtained from most dealers.
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. We issue a price list each week from January until June. 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 day order is received. The following are the prices we are selling at on the date this catalogue goes to press (Dec. 20, 1899.) We prepay postage at the 1 and 3 pound rate; larger quantities shipped at purchaser's expense. Trial packets of any variety at 5c each.
MEDIUM RED CLOVER.--This is the most important of all clovers and the standard everywhere for hay and pasture. It is also known as Common Red or June Clover in many sections. Our Iowa grown clover seed has become widely known for its purity, strong vitality, hardiness, vigorous and healthy growth, and stooling qualities, so that now we receive many orders annually from the most distant parts of the U. S. and also from foreign countries. It has been tested by the Agricultural Experiment Stations in various parts of the country and ranks among the highest everywhere. We claim that it will produce as much if not more hay per acre and that of better quality than seed from any other section and well posted farmers are beginning to appreciate the difference between it and ordinary stock. We have many customers in Pennsylvania, New York and other parts of the east who purchase from us annually, although our seed costs them more, freight considered, than the eastern grown. Perhaps you can buy seed a trifle cheaper per bushel from some other dealer, but if you really desire to save money you will find that it does not pay to buy the inferior seed containing a mixture of weed seeds, dirt, sand, shrunken clover, etc. It pays to have the best. Sow 15 lbs. per acre. Per lb. 25c., 3 lbs. 65c, postpaid. Per peck $1.40, bushel $5.40. Bags extra 15c each.

[image] ALSIKE CLOVER.

MEDIUM RED CLOVER; Second Grade.--Useful for thickening pastures, etc. We list this for our customers who want a cheaper grade, and while we do not claim that it is equal to our best, it is as good as much of the seed furnished by other dealers. Country merchants frequently buy this grade because they can make a larger profit on it. Per bushel $4.75.
SAINFOIN CLOVER.--Also called Esparcette Clover.--An excellent but comparatively little known variety of special value for growing on light dry, sandy or limestone soils. It is very deep rooted and therefore withstands drouths. It is a good fodder plant and when made into hay is claimed to be of special value for milch cows. Seed is very large. Usually sown with oats or barley using 30 to 40 lbs. of seed per acre. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c. Peck $1.25, bushel $4.50.
COLLECTION OF CLOVERS.
One packet each of the above 8 kinds of clover for 30c, postpaid. One pound each of the eight kinds by express $1.20, purchaser to pay the charges.

MAMMOTH RED CLOVER--Also called Sapling or Pea Vine Clover. This greatly resembles the Medium Red, but is of much taller and more vigorous growth. The stems are so large and coarse that it is not valued for hay, but nothing equals it for hog pasture, as it will produce an enormous yield and is of the highest feeding quality. It gives very quick results, making an unequaled crop and is usually considered a permanent pasture grass. If your soil is poor and needs enriching there is no fertilizer as cheap and good as sowing Mammoth Clover and plowing the crop under. It is the clover for poor soils. Sow 15 lbs. per acre. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 65c postpaid. Per peck $1.50, bush. $5.75.

[image] ALFALFA CLOVER.

ALSIKE CLOVER.--Unexcelled for hay and we cannot too strongly recommend it to our customers. It is a true perennial, producing a good crop the first year and every year thereafter and the field really keeps improving each season. Highly valued also as a permanent pasture. It is hardy even in northern Minnesota and is the only variety which will produce a good crop and not kill out in low wet ground. It also adapts itself to high, upland soils and resists the drouth well. The hay is finer and better than any other, and alsike is, therefore of special value for sowing with timothy. Height 18 to 24 inches, and has round pink or flesh color heads. Seed is small and it therefore requires only 8 lbs. per acre or half that quantity if sown with timothy. Per lb. 35c, 3 lbs. 90c. Per peck $2.15, bushel $8.00.
ALFALFA, or LUCERNE CLOVER.--Very popular in many portions of the country. Under proper management it will yield ten to twelve tons to the acre. All classes of stock are exceedingly fond of it. The roots are so long and grow so deep, frost cannot heave or throw them out in winter. One sowing will stand for twenty years, and, instead of impoverishing the soil, enriches it. Grows on the thinnest sandy soil and thrives in greatest drouth. Sow broadcast about 25 lbs. to the acre. Comes up very spindling and slowly and it is necessary to mow the weeds to give it light, but when once established the weeds will be smothered. Postpaid, per lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c. Per peck $1.85, bushel $7.20.
WHITE DUTCH CLOVER.--Desirable in pasture mixtures. Also used largely for lawns. Lb. 40c, 3 lbs. $1.00. Per peck $2.25, bush. $8.25.
SWEET CLOVER.--Also called Honey Clover.--Greatly liked by bees. Fragrant. Per pkt. 10c, lb. 50c, postpaid; by freight 5 lbs. or more, @ 35c.
CRIMSON CLOVER.--Also called Giant Incarnate.--This is an annual variety in common use in the east and south for feeding green. The yield in fodder is immense, and after cutting, it at once commences to grow again, and continues until severe cold, freezing weather. It grows about one foot high, roots nearly black, leaves long, blossoms long, pointed, and of a very deep red or carmine color. Makes good hay. Sow in April or May twenty pounds of seed per acre or it may be sown in the corn at the time of last cultivation in July and will produce an excellent pasture for fall or it can be plowed under and will add greatly to the fertility of the soil. The only objection to it is that it winter-kills in this latitude. It may be sown every year in corn, wheat, oats or potatoes, and two crops obtained. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 65c. Per peck $1.50, bush. $5.75.

[image] CRIMSON CLOVER.