Dreer's garden calendar . dreersgardencale1890henr Year: 1890 KAFFIR CORN. One of the best things offered of late j-ears for a forage plant. The heads contain small while seeds which make an excellent flour. They are greedily eaten by horses and cattle, and make excellent food for poultry either fed in the grain or ground and cooked. The foliage and stalks make excellent forage. s 5 cts. per pkt.; 40 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs., .$ BRANCHING DHOURA. (Millo Maize.) A valuable South American forage plant. It produces i large quantity of foliage, as it branches from the joints md will thrive even
Dreer's garden calendar . dreersgardencale1890henr Year: 1890 KAFFIR CORN. One of the best things offered of late j-ears for a forage plant. The heads contain small while seeds which make an excellent flour. They are greedily eaten by horses and cattle, and make excellent food for poultry either fed in the grain or ground and cooked. The foliage and stalks make excellent forage. s 5 cts. per pkt.; 40 cts. per lb.; 10 lbs., .$ BRANCHING DHOURA. (Millo Maize.) A valuable South American forage plant. It produces i large quantity of foliage, as it branches from the joints md will thrive even when corn is sufifering from drought, [t can be cut several times during the season, as it jprings up again freely from the roots. If left to ripen its leed it will bear at the rate of 50 bushels per acre. Sow in iipril in rows 4 feet apart and drop 4 or 5 seeds in hills 18 nches apart in the row. Cultivate same as corn. 20 cts. per lb., 28 cts. postpaid, i bu. $, bu. .$ SUGAR CANE. Sarly Amber. The earliest and most productive variety. Height 10 to 12 feet. Its saccharine matter is of first quality, fine and rich. One of our best green fodder plants, producing from 2 to 3 cuttings during the summer. Sow 4 qts. in drills and 8 qts. broadcast to the acre. Qt. 20 cts., postpaid 35 cts., bu. $ BUCKWHEAT. Japanese. A new variety of Buckwheat, which pos- sesses qualities that will render it much sought after. It is enormously prolific, jnelding double the weight of other sorts. It makes an excellent flour, equal in quality to the Silver Hull. Lb. 15 cts., postpaid 25 cts., bushel (48 lbs.) $ Silver Hull. Kipens 10 days to 2 weeks earlier than the common variety, a heavy yielder, and not easily af- fected by drought. The berry is of a light silvery- gray color, and the flour is whiter and more nutritious than that made from the common sort. Lb. 15 cts., postpaid 25 cts., bu. (48 lbs.) $ Common. Lb. 10 cts., postpaid 20 cts., bushel (48 lbs.) $ WINTER
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