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Title: Childs' rare flowers vegetables and fruits
Identifier: childsrareflower00john_21 (find matches)
Year: 1918 (1910s)
Authors: John Lewis Childs (Firm); Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Commercial catalogs Seeds; Nurseries (Horticulture) Catalogs; Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Catalogs; Vegetables Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; John Lewis Childs (Firm); Commercial catalogs; Nurseries (Horticulture); Seeds; Flowers; Vegetables; Fruit
Publisher: Floral Park, N. Y. : John Lewis Childs
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Mands* Wonder Forage Plant (IMPROVED PENCILARIS) Most productive hay or rodder plant known. Grows twelve to fourteen feet high and ripens a heavy crop of seed in 100 days from sowing-. It can lie mown down when it reaches live or six feet for hay, and will grow up again so quickly that three to Ave mowings are secured in a season. Three pounds of seed covers an acre sown broadcast, or In drills twelve to thirteen Inches apart, dropping seed six Inches apart. The broad, dark green leaves closely resemble corn and it surpasses in nutritive -value any other forage plant, it i- greatly relished by all kinds of stock, either green or cured. For seed purposes plant three feet apart each way and cultivate. There will be forty stalks to each plant and twenty seed heads which are from twelve to fourteen Inches long and cov- ered with seed. Besides a heavy crop of fodder; it will yield 3,ooo pounds of seed per acre, unequalled Tor poultry food, and will ripen in any latitude that will ripen corn. Our Beed Is Northern grown. PRICE - Oz., 10c; lb., 75c; 3 lhs., $2.00, or in larger quantity, 05c per lb., prepaid. Sudan Grass NEWEST AND GREATEST OF ALL FORAGE PLANTS This wonderful forage plant was introduced from the Sudan about six years ago by the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Farm Bulletin .No. r.n:., issued by the Agri- cultural department at Washington, discusses Sudan Grass from every point and asserts that It is bound to take the place or Johnson Grass In the South and Millet in the North. It Is a most wonderful annual Crass, growing live to eight feet high with an abundance of broad leaves and stools to the extent, sometimes, of 1 ()0 stalks from one seed. Seed panicles, loose and open and the seed Is larger than Millet. Should be sown about corn planting time, sixteen to twenty-Tour pounds to the acre. Two or three fine crops oT hay may be cut in one season, making, under favorable conditions, five to eight
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tons of extra fine hay to the acre. Unsurpassed also for < soiling and silage. lor seed purposes Sudan'Grass yields j In Virginia 500 pounds, Ohio, suo pounds; Minnesota and I Dakota, 1200 pounds, and Texas. 800 pounds to the * acre. Under irrigation in California and the Southwest it goes over looo pounds. These are all facts reported by i\ty days, however, the plants stood five feet high and were ready for the first cutting; seed was ripe end r September;' it stnuled marvelously and was a wonderful crop in both hay and seed, but what struck us as a most vital and valuable point, and one! that has not yet been brought out was, the grass stood J erect all summer, in a single row fully exposed to heavy* winds and storm-, one (.r which leveled all Ileitis oi' com to the ground. Sudan Grass, with nothing to pro-1 tect It, failed to blow down or lodge. "We have grown Teosinte. Wonder l inage Plaid, Johnson Grass. Sorghum and all the Millets, but none of these can compare to2 Sudan Grass as a forage crop. The Department of Agri-* culture also points out this same fact. Give It a trial at least. It possesses great value to every farmer In the United States. Seed per ox.. 10c; lb., 50c; 5 lb?.,, *2.00, postpsld; peck, not prepaid, *3.00.

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