Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1905 — Billion Dollar Grass. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Billion Dollar Grass.

When the John A. Salzer Seed Co., of La Crosse,_ VVis., introduced this remarkable grass "three years ago, little did they dream it would be the most talked of grass in America, the biggest, quick, hay producer on earth, but this has come to pass.

Agricultural Editors wrote about it, Agr. College Professors lectured about it, Agr. Institute Orators talked about it, while in the farm home by the quiet fireside, in the corner grocery, in the village post-office, at the creamery, at the depot, in fact wherever farmers gathered, Salzer’s Billion Dollar Grass, that marvelous grass, f;ood for 5 to 14 tons hay per acre ana ots 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 produces 100 stocks from one kernel of seed, 11 ft. high, in 100 days, rich in nutrition and greedily eaten by cattle, hogs, etc., and is good for 80 tons of green food per acre. Victoria Rape, the luxuriant food for hogs and sheep, which can be grown at 25c a ton. and Speltz at 20c a bu., both great food for sheep, hogs and cattle, also come in for their share in the discussion. JUST SEND 10c IN STAMPS and this notice to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for their big catalog and many farm seed samples. [C. N. U.j