Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1904 — Billion Dollar Grass, [ARTICLE]

Billion Dollar Grass,

When we introduced this remarkabl* grass three years ago, little did we dream it would be the most talked of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth, but this has cornc to pass* Agr. Editors wrote about it,, Agr. College Professors lectured about it, Agr. l Institute Orators talked about_ it, while in the farm home by the quiet fireside, in the corner grocery, in the village postoffice, at the creamery, at the depot, in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer’a Billion Dollar Grass, that wonderful grass, good for 5 to 14 tons per acre, und lots of pasture besides, is always a theme worthy of the farmer’s voice. Then comes Bromus Inermis, than which "there is no better grass or better permanent hay producer on earth. Grows! wherever soil is found. Then the farmer talks about Salzer’s Teosinte, which will produce 100 stocks from ong kernel of seed, 11 feet high, in 100 days, rich, in nutrition and greedily eaten by caitle, hogs, etc., and is good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, which can be grown at 25c a ton, and Speltz at 20c a bushel, both great food for cattle, also come in for their share in the discussion. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 10a IN STAMPS to the John A. Salzer Seed Co., I.« Crosse, Wis., and receive their big catalogue and lota of farm seed sample* free. (C. N. U.>