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The Earliest Large, White Dent. 
Ripens thoroughly in latitudes 
South of Albany and Buffalo. 
Extraordinarily 
Prolific, 
often yielding 
110 bushels 
shelled corn per acre. 
LARGE EARS, 
10 to 12 inches long, 
7 to 8 inches 
in circumference. 
Long Kernels, 
Small Cob. 
Ears 2 to 3 feet 
from the ground. 
PLANT LEAFY 
«PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW 
a 
Northern White DENT. 
The Climax of 40 Years’ Selection! 
While the raiser, Mr. James Wood, of Westchester County, N. Y., ex-President of the New 
York State Agricultural Society, does not claim this to be anew variety, having originally been 
a white Southern Corn, yet by forty years of intelligent selection, it has become the earliest 
and 
LUXURIANT, 
making fine fodder. 
large white Dent Corn we know of, and is quite distinct from the original parent. 
ripen in Connecticut, New York State (except in that portion north of Rochester and Troy), 
Southern [lichigan, Southern Wisconsin, etc., and being vastly superior in every respect to 
the flint varieties and the small Dent Corns usually raised, will be by far the most profitable 
It will 
sort in latitudes north of New York City, where the Eureka cannot safely be planted. 
This Corn was referred to in the New Vork Tribune Farmer, Noy. 7th, 1901, in an article on Mr. Wood’s farm, as follows: 
“Forty years ago Mr. Wood set out to find the most profitable variety of 
Corn for him toraise. He had learned that his farm was nearly on the dividing 
line between the south and the north, agriculturally considered, so he tried the 
white Southern Dent, obtaining his seed from Long Island, where it had been 
grown for twenty years. It did well, but the ear was from 4% to 5 feet from 
the ground, leaving a nearly valueless butt, and the cob was too large a por- 
tion oftheear. Forforty years he has been breeding out the butt and the cob. 
The lower ear on the stalk is now only two feet or so from the ground, and the 
relative size of this cob has been greatly reduced. 
. “Corn breeding is exciting much attention at this time. Here are the 
results of forty years of experiment on that line, and a better Object lesson 
could hardly be found to establishits value and hint atits enormous possibili- 
ties. Mr. Wood always looks for one and a half bushels of ears from twenty- 
five hills, and this represents a larger proportion of shelled corn than is 
usually estimated. He has often raised 110 bushels of shelled corn to the 
acre,” 
(See cut.) 2O cts. quart, SO cts. peck, $3.00 bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.85 bushel. 
HENDERSON’S SUPERIOR SEEDS ARE PROCURABLE ONLY FROM US DIRECT—we do not supply through Dealers. 
