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FIELD CORN. 



DENT VARIETIES. 



If wanted by mail, add 15 cts. per quart for postage. Corn 

 planted in hills requires eight to ten quarts per acre. 



Henderson's Eureka. 



A PERFECT YELLOW DENT CORN. 

 The Heaviest Yielder. Large Handsome Ears. 



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 Pennsylvania farmer who makes Corn 

 his hobby and his pride. For sixteen years he has, 

 from a planting of 80 to 100 acres, selected only the 

 best ears at husking time, planting these by them- 

 selves and continuing this selection. 



He began by offering his huskers five cents for 

 every ear weighing two pounds and over, but that 

 soon became ruinous, and in later years a man was 

 appointed at husking to do nothing but look out for 

 ideal ears. 



The ear, always set low on the stalk, is im- 

 mense, 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 York City, and even further north in 

 favorable locations. As an indication of its pro- 

 ductiveness, a nine-acre field yielded at the rate of 

 14.4 bushels per acre. (See cut.) 



C. S. Clark, the well-known Seed and Corn grower of Huron 

 Co., Ohio, writes : 



"In your new Eureka Corn you hare'the largest-eared Corn 

 in cultivation; it's a wonder." 



" I was surprised how the Eureka Corn yielded. It is the best 

 lever planted." — John C. Oley, Katonah, N.Y. 



" The Eureka Corn is the best I hare ever seen." — L. L. Lee, 

 Marion, Ala. 



20 cts. quart, 75 cts. peck, S2.50 bushel; 10 bushels 

 and upwards at $2.40 bushel. 



Wood's Northern White Dent. 



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 origin- 

 ally 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), 

 Soutnern Michigan, 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 Farmer, 

 Nov. 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 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 4V4 to 5 feet from the ground, leaving a nearly valueless butt, and 

 the cob was too large a portion of the ear. For forty years he has been 

 breeding out the butt and the cob. The lower ear on this stalk is now 

 only two feet or so from the ground, and the relative size of tiie 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 establish its value and hint at its enormous 

 possibilities. 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.) 25 cts. quart, $1.00 peck, $3.50 bushel. 



