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northern sections. The butts and 

 tips have been bred to complete 

 filling. The grain is very deep for 

 such an early corn. Its maturity 

 is assured every year. 



SILVER KING. 



EARLY MASTODON. The Early Mastodon corn originated 

 with C. S. Clark, of Huron County, Ohio, to meet the demand for a 

 large eared yet early maturing variety. It is reckoned as a lOO-day 

 corn and has a very wide field of tested adaptability. 



CHASE'S WHITE DENT. 



History. *"The original stock of Chase's White Dent corn 

 has been grown in southeastern Nebraska for 30 years or more, 

 and was known as the Tucker corn. This old strain of corn 

 is quite popular today in some localities. It has a long slender 

 ear, a universally white cob, and is an easy picking, hardy corn. 

 In 1894, the dryest season probably ever seen in this section, 

 this Tucker corn gave an average yield of 25 bushels or thereabouts. 

 Noticing the hardiness of this corn we obtained some for seed for the 

 next season. In 1894, O. E. Hall, while visiting in Arkansas, chanced 

 to find a white corn with a very deep grain and short cob well filled 

 at both ends. He brought a few ears home with him and planted 

 them. We obtained a few ears of this seed, and planted it with our 

 corn in a fertile portion of the field — a rude, but effective cross. Since 

 that the improvement has been by ear selection entirely, until the last 

 two years, when the row selection system of breeding has been prac- 

 ticed. No pedigree seed for sale however. A son in the agricultural 

 school, believing the corn a good corn for show, selected 30 ears for 

 the corn show at Lincoln in the winter of 'o3-'o4. This exhibit at- 

 tracted such favorable comment as to cause a representative of the 

 Nebraska Commission at St. Louis to come to our farm cribs and 

 examine the corn and purchase 100 bushels of it for that show, to 

 represent the state." 



Breed Characteristics. Owing to the fact that this corn had 

 no name, and as the Nebraska Corn Improvers' Association required 

 a standard, the corn was named Chase's White Dent and given a 

 standard. The standard was adopted by the Association and is as 

 follows : 



*F. W. Chase, Pawnee City, Nebraska. 



