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Title: American farmers' manual
Identifier: americanfarmersm19pete (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Farms Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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Often, through pressure of other work, the seeding of Winter Wheat is neglected until too late and is either not sown at all or results in failure. With the two varieties of Spring Wheat here offered, this difficulty can be overcome by Spring sowing. They are the best of the Spring Wheats, yield well, and the milling quality of the grain surpasses even the best of the winter varieties. Spring wheat is also a satisfactory crop to. sow along with grass seed. WELLMAN FIFE. The best of all the Spring Wheats, having large head s and grain,and tall, strong straw, with white chaff heads and dark amber kernels. The grain is very hard and produces the finest grade of flour, and is eagerly sought after by millers. Enormously productive, and is invaluable for spring sowing where the Winter Wheat has been killed, or where it was not sown. (See cut.) $2.25 per bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.10 per bushel. SASKATCHEWAN FIFE. The favorite variety in the great Spring Wheat sections of the Northwest, where it is much esteemed by the farmer for its earli- ness, productiveness, vigorous growth and freedom from smut and diseases, and by the miller on account of its unsurpassed milling qualities. $2.10 per bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.00 per bushel. WINTER WHEATS. Prices on Application. RURAL NEW YORKER No 6. (Bald.) Succeeds and produces heavy crops on poor, thin land, where Wheat could not be successfully or profitably grown, and it also has extreme hardiness to recommend it. One of our growers sa3's : "It stools as strong as any wheat I ever saw. It had a vigorous, healthy growth all the season and stood well without lodging." GOLD COIN. (Bald.)—A very productive variety which has yielded over 60 bushels per acre and even on large acreages has seldom run under 40 bushels per acre. The grain is white, the had long and well filled, frequently having five kernels abreast. BEARDED WINTER FIFE.—Has all the splendid milling qualities of the celebrated Winter Fife. One of the earliest Wheats, and is a very strong, healthy grower, stooling rapidly in the Fall. RURAL NEW YORKER No. 57. (Bearded.) Has heavily bearded heads, straw is unusually tall and strong and stools freely, frequently having 35 to 40 stalks from a single grain. JONES' LONGBERRY No. 1.—Will soon take the place of the old popular Longberries now no longer profitable, through light yield and weakened vitality. From the fact that it is a blending of red and amber wheat in one berry, millers will quickly recognize its high milling quality. PRIDE OF GENESEE. (Bearded.)—Has a long, well-filled head, and will give a reasonably good crop on land so poor that common sorts would be a failure.

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