PETER HENPERSON^COmIMEW YORK- (4 



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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. / -^.j-v- 



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 



and 



LUXURIANT, 



making fine fodder, 



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 a new variety, having originally been 

 a white Southern Corn, yet by forty years of intelligent selection, it has become the earliest 

 large white Dent Corn we know of, and is quite distinct from the original parent. It will 

 ripen in Connecticut, New York State (except in that portion north of Rochester and Troy), 

 Southern flichigan, 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 

 sort in latitudes north of New York City, where the Eureka cannot safely be planted. 



This Corn was referred to in the New York Tribune Fanner, Nov. 7th, 1901, in an article on Mr. Wood's farm, as follows: 



relative size of this cob has been greatly reduced. 



"Corn breeding is exciting nuicli attention at this time. Here are the 

 results of forty years of experiment on tliat line, and a better object lesson 

 conld hardly be found to establish its valne and hint at its enormous possibili- 

 ties. Mr. Wood always looks for one and a half bushels of ears from twenty- 

 five liillfi. and this repre.'^ents a larger proportion of shelled corn than Is 

 usually estimated. He lias often raised 110 bushels of shelled corn to the 

 acre." 



"ZS bushel ; -lO-bushel lots, ^2.SS bushel. 



" Forty years ago Mr. Wood set out to find the most profitable variet.v of 

 Corn for him to raise. 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 41/2 to 5 feet from 

 the ground, leaving a nearly valueless bntt, and the cob was too large a por- 

 tion of the ear. For forty 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 



(See cut.) SO c:ts. qLjart, "73 cts. pe^k, ^3. 



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