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gEureka Dent Corn 



HENDERSON'S 



EvireKa 



Yellow Dent 



Corn. 



"I ordered some Ea- 

 reka Field Corn from 

 you last year ana was 

 surprised howit yield- 

 ed. It is the best Corn 

 I ever planted, and 

 I am farming boh' 

 .iboat 25 years." — 

 John C. Olney, Ka- 

 tonah, X. Y. 



TKe finest Field Com 

 Gro^wn. 



Large, Handsome Ears, 12 to IS inches 

 long, weighing f to 2 lbs. each. 



Heavy Yielder, ISO bushels Shelled 

 Corn per acre not unusual. 



The photograph gives a very inadequate 

 idea of the magnificent appearance of this 

 Corn. It is the result of the most careful and 

 persistent selection by a wealthy Pennsylva- 

 nia farmer who makes Corn his hobby and his pride. For 

 sixteen years he has, from a planting of 80 to 100 acres, 

 selected onl}' the best ears at husking time, planting 

 these by themselves and continuing this selection. 



He began by offering his buskers five cents for every 

 ear weighing two pounds and over, but that soon be- 

 came ruinous, and in later years a man was appointed 

 at husking to do notliing but look out for ideal ears. 



The ear sets fairly low on the stalk, is immense, 

 with small red cob, the grain a clear bright reddish 

 yellow, large and of great depth, filled out full over 

 both ends. It runs 18 to 22 rows, and an important 

 feature of the selection clearly shown in the photograph 

 is that the rows run even, the same number at tip 

 and butt, thereby materially' increasing the amount of 

 shelled Corn per acre. 



May be planted with safety in latitudes as far north as 

 New YorkCity, and even further north in favorable locations. As an indication of its pro- 

 ductiveness, a nine-acre field yielded at the rate of 144 bushels per acre. [See cut.) 

 C. S. Clark, the well-known Seed and Corn grower of Huron County, Ohio, writes : 



"In your new Eureka Corn you have the largest-eared Corn in cultivation ; ifsa wonder. 

 ••I bavesucb a tremendous erop of your Yellow Dent Field Corn that it attracts general attention, and several 

 farmers have asked me where I got the seed; the stalks average 14 feet higb. some are IT feet, and none 

 less than 12 feet. 30 percent, of the stalks bore two large ears eati."— H. de B. Schenxk, per VVm. C. Nash, 

 Manager, Eidgefield, Conn. 

 •'The Eureka Corn is the best I have ever seen."— li. L. Lee, Marion, Alabama. 



20 cts. quart, 65 cts. peck, $2.25 bushel; 10 bushels and upwards, $2.15 bushel. 



