Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1915 — NEW FORAGE SEED GIVEN TO FARMERS [ARTICLE]

NEW FORAGE SEED GIVEN TO FARMERS

Department of Agriculture Plant* Free Dtetributibn —Reports of Teets to Be Required. Washington, D. C., Dec. 17.—The department of agriculture is offering an opportunity to Indiana farmers to obtain sVeds for new and rare forage crops. A letter which has been sent to every member of the Indiana congressional delegation says: In connection with the distribution of new and rare seeds the department respectfully solicits your co-opera-tion in its efforts to place the seed included in this distribution in. the hands of farmers who will be sufficiently interested to give it careful attention and who will report to the department the results obtained with their tests. In arranging for this distribution the most promising new and rare forage crops have been given first consideration. Since these newer crops are not equally well adapted to all sections of the country there is necessarily some difference in the number of packages of seed available for the various districts. We have available to place with farmers in your district 500 onepound packages of Sudan grass seed, 100 four-pound packages of Montana grown alfalfa seed and 200 fivepound packages of an improved variety of field peas. Each package contains a sufficient quantity of seed for a satisfactory field test.