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34. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] HAYNES' PEDIGREE WHEAT.

Seed Wheat.
No crop is more important and profitable than a good wheat. If farmers would pay more attention to having the proper soil conditions, securing the right kind of seed and getting it in properly they would find it as profitable a farm crop as can be raised. A great many have grown our improved varieties the past few years and have received yields of from 30 to 50 bu. per acre. The following varieties we are confident are the best and most profitable to grow.
HAYNES' PEDIGREE WHEAT.--We cannot too highly recommend this grand new variety as being the best kind of spring wheat and we are sure it will please every one who tries it. It was originated by Mr. L. H. Haynes, who spent eight years in selecting and improving it in his garden, each year choosing all the largest and best heads and discarding all the balance. This continued selection has had the effect of improving it in vigor, size of head, and quality. For the past few years he has been growing it as a farm crop, taking the greatest pains each season to keep it strictly pure, and by going through the fields and removing everything that was not of ideal quality, he now has a variety which is sure to please all wheat growers. The heads are very large, well filled out, the kernel is hard, the plant stools greatly, and under ordinarily favorable conditions will yield 40 to 50 bushels per acre. It is an improvement on Blue Stem Wheat and fully five days earlier in maturing. We most highly recommend this variety to customers everywhere in the wheat growing belt. Not only in the northwest where wheat is the main crop, but everywhere and under all conditions has this Pedigree Blue Stem Wheat proved itself superior to other varieties, outyielding them all. Lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid; by freight, peck 65c, bushel $1.75, two bushels or more @ $1.65.
"I was very much pleased with Haynes' Pedigree Blue Stem Wheat last year. The weather was very unfavorable for small grain, but it yielded nearly double the crop that my other wheat did and of much better quality."--G. Rubes, Dickinson county, Iowa.
VELVET CHAFF OR BLUE STEM WHEAT.--This is now the standard variety for growing in Iowa. It has proved much superior to Scotch Fife, Saskatchewan and other sorts; being fully equal in quality, earlier, more sure and yielding much larger crops. It is now the main crop in the northwestern states and the great milling kings use it for their highest grade flour. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid; by freight peck 50c, bushel $1.50, 2 bushels or more @ $1.40.
MACARONI WHEAT.--This wheat has proved to be a great money maker to the farmers of Minnesota, Montana and the Dakotas, about 150,000 acres being sown to it by Dakota farmers alone last year and they report yields 80 per cent greater than other varieties of wheat. One farmer reported 49 bushels per acre. Few people have any idea of the immense quantity of macaroni used in this country and, until recently, it has all been imported. It requires a special kind of wheat to make it--the best being known botanically as Triticum Polonicum. It is a very heavy yielding variety and does especially well in the semi-arid plains. It seems to be always a sure crop and will mature in a shorter season than any other wheat and is therefore desirable for Minnesota, Dakota, Manitoba and the northwest. It does well on good soil, but the yield is larger and quality better when grown on poor land. The grains are very hard and glossy, often translucent, yellowish white in color, occasionally inclining to reddish, and rather large. In the field Macaroni Wheat is often mistaken for barley, as it resembles this very much. It grows rather tall and the leaves are broad and smooth, aud [and] have a peculiar whitish color. The heads are compactly formed and are bearded. This wheat is hardy and not attacked by smut or rust and is a sure crop. Sow seed early in the spring, about 1½ bushels per acre. Don't fail to try it. Per lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c, postpaid; by freight, ½ pk. 40c, pk. 65c; bu. $1.75, 2 bu. or more @ $1.50.

[image] IDEAL BARLEY.

Mr. Zavitz, of Ontario, writes us that he has grown it for eight years past and the average yield has been 39 bushels per acre.
CORN WHEAT.--An immense grained variety, sometimes called Wild Goose Wheat. Quite curious and a heavy yielder. Per pkt. 5c, lb. 50c, 3 lbs. $1.20, postpaid.

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[image] MACARONI WHEAT.

EARLY JAVA WHEAT.--A new variety of spring wheat about ten days earlier than Velvet Chaff or other standard sorts, and thus escapes the extreme hot weather so injurious to small grain. It is usually ready for harvest as early as winter wheat, and thererefore [therefore] desirable to sow on land where winter wheat has partially failed. A good crop can this way be secured from fields which would otherwise be unprofitable and the wheat would be all right for milling purposes but would not do for seed. Yields in this locality ordinarily about 35 bu. per acre. Per lb. 25c; 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid; by freight, pk. 75c; bu. $1.65; 2 bus. or more @ $1.50.
DEFIANCE WINTER WHEAT.--(Improved Turkish Red.)--Introduced by the Iowa Seed Co. and we claim for this new wheat that it is unequaled in hardiness, stooling qualities, productiveness, rust proof qualities, strength of straw, quality of grain, quality of flour and the best in all respects of any wheat ever offered. It has a record of over 59 bushels per acre, and many crops are reported of 35 to 45 bushels. Flour is equal to the world-famed Hungarian product. Everyone is delighted with it. Ask for price in the fall. Price for shipment now by mail, per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c; by freight pk. 50c, bu. $1.50; 2 bu. or more @ $1.35.

IDEAL WHITE HULLESS BARLEY.
Is an ideal that pleases all who try it. The heads are large and well filled with big plump kernels which are hulless and of great value for feeding. Those who have grown it say that it produces a very much larger crop than any other. It weighs 60 to 65 pounds to the measured bushel, while ordinary barley weighs only 48 lbs. The straw is very stiff and strong. It is the handsomest, most productive and best variety that we know of. The kernels shell out without the hulls and are the prettiest and handsomest white berry, plump and oval in shape, that has ever been grown. Is not a malting barley, but can be used for feeding only, and as a fattening feed for hogs it has no equal. Is a vigorous grower and can be sown after all the other grain is sown, and it will mature before wheat or oats will. Per lb. 25c; 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid. By freight pk. 65c, bu. (48 lbs.) $2.00; 2 bu. or more @ $1.85.

SUCCESS BEARDLESS BARLEY.
Earliest barley known. The straw is about the height of common barley, but better, and will stand up on any land; on good land will produce 80 bushels per acre. Sow as early as you can; frost does not hurt it. Many farmers will not grow barley on account of the long, harsh beards which are so disagreeable in threshing, although it is a profitable crop. This is beardless and as easy to grow and handle as oats. It has hulls like the Mansury or any other old variety, and is a heavy cropper, yielding from 50 to 75 bushels per acre, and the quality is excellent both for malting and for feeding hogs. Seed is scarce this year. Per lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c. By freight, pk. 50c, bu. $1.25; 2 bu. or more @ $1.10.

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