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astodon 

 ~ Corn. 



The 



Greatest 



of all 



Yellow 



Field Corns 



In the celebrated American Agriculturist corn contest, it far 

 ontyielded every other Yellow Corn in America. Alfred Rose, 

 Yates County, N. Y., from seed purchased of me, raising on one 

 acre 15,898 pounds of corn on the ear, which made 213 bushels of 

 shelled corn. Another of my customers, George Gartner, Pawnee 

 County, Neb., reported next best yield on one acre, 11,380 lbs. on 

 ear, or 171 bushels of shelled corn. See full detailed reports in the 

 March, 1890, issue of the American Agriculturist. 



Last year my entire supply, several thousand bushels, again sold out early in 

 the season, and hundreds of dollars had to be returned to disappointed custom- 

 ers. The demand for 1893 for Mastodon promises to surpass all previous records. 

 Be sure to purchase direct from headquarters, as thousands of bushels of corn — 

 Mastodon only in name— have been sold by unprincipled dealers. 



Early Mastodon will be found to combine large.yield, large grains and extra 

 earliness to a remarkable degree, better than any other variety. It origin- 

 ated with Mr. C. S. Clark, of Ohio, probably the largest grower of field and sweet 

 corn for seed purposes in America, as Mr. Clark ships annually seed corn by the 

 hundred car-loads. Mr. Clark grows every variety of corn known to the Ameri- 

 can public, and in Mastodon he claims to have THE BEST OP Alili. In 

 describing Mastodon, I cannot do better than quote as follows from a letter from 

 Mr. Clark: 



" The Early Mastodon Corn, named Mastodon because of its large ears, is a 

 cross between the White Cap and the Early Roe Dent Corn, and has been brought 

 to its present standard by careful selection. The seed trade and large growers of 

 field corn have for many years been anxiously inquiring for a large-eared, yet 

 early Dent Corn, and to supply their wants I have for years been studying it up, 

 and until I got up this corn was not fully satisfied. Many sorts have been tried 

 and found wanting. In the Mastodon your customers will find a high-bred corn, 

 of beautiful color, and one which will please them. I claim for this corn the 

 largest number of rows on cob, and the deepest, longest grains of any corn ever 

 originated. It makes the finest appearing shelled corn I have ever seen, being a 

 cast of two colors, and such corn as brings the highest price in market. It fully 

 withstands the vigor of our Northern climate, and grows very rapid, strong and 

 rank, at a medium height, and will out-yield any corn ever grown in this section. 

 To convince your customers of its earliness, tell them it was grown and ripened 

 in from 96 to 100 days within eight miles of Lake Erie. Fields planted June 1st 

 were cut up September 15th. You cannot too highly recommend this corn to 

 your customers. My reputation as the largest grower of seed corn in this country 

 is at stake, when I say to you, as I have said before, that the Mastodon Corn is 

 the earliest in the world, taking its size and number of rows on 

 the cob. I have grown thousands of Dushels of Golden Beauty and now have 

 many fields under contract ; the Mastodon is from three week's to one month 

 earlier, growing side by side and planted the same week ; and again Mastodon 

 Corn is from one week to ten days earlier than the J. S. or any other Learning 

 Corn grown, and with us ripened up in some cases earlier than Pride of the 

 North. How can it be otherwise, when it is crossed with two of the earliest corns 

 ever grown in the North — the White Cap and Early Roe Dent? I love the seed 

 trade as well as any man, and I expect to follow its calling as long as I live, and 

 to do so successfully must recommend things just as they are. Now I want you 

 to push this corn. Mr. Sibley said before he died : ' I made a great mistake in 

 not contracting for nil of that corn.' Seedsmen who have visited me this Sum- 

 mer, one and all. congratulate yon" upon setting hold of this corn first, and I am 

 afraid I will not have half enough to supply your trade." 



As I was a contestant for the Agriculturist Corn Prize in 1889, will say my fS 

 yield was 213 bushels shelled corn, grown on one measured acre, of the Early t>» . 

 Mastodon corn. I have grown nearly all of the improved high-class bred corn % : 

 and find Early Mastodon is the most wonderful of all Dent corn, and the hand- >3- 

 somest. It grows quick, strong and powerful, has broad heavy leaves, and large S' 

 ears, 20 to 36 rows on a cob. Longer grains than any other variety. Ears gener- H' 

 ally 9 to 11 inches long, with the stalks 15 to 17 feet high. For ensilage will grow 0: 

 more fodder than any other now known, many stalks bearing 3 to 5 large ears, ™, 

 some weighing 2 pounds each, and some with 1600 kernels on a_cob. m- 



ALFRED ROSE, Penn Yan, N. Y. 



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If you wish to be abreast of the times you must put in a few acres of u. 

 Mastodon in 1893. Not a corn grower who reads this catalogue should miss §)f 

 planting the most improved Yellow Dent Corn in America • 



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this opportunity of . 



— a corn sure to outclass any other variety at present grown. 



Prices of Early Mastodon for 1893: Packet 10c; lb. $*; 

 50c; 3 lbs. $1, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, | 

 peck 75c; bushel $2 ; 2 bushel $3.75 ; 10 bushel, $17.50. n 



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 ARLY 



For years past one of my growers of field corn has offered a g; 

 large sum of money to any man who could produce and prove to r : 

 him a Dent corn as early as Flint. Mr. A. A. Chatfield, of Fulton jj: 

 county, Ohio, has won the money, and I now offer to my custo- B 

 mers the most perfect shape ear, economical grain and earliest 2 

 Dent corn in the United States. This new Extra Early ^ 

 Huron Dent will ripen with my customers in many Northern States & 

 where heretofore they have only been able to grow the flint varieties, £ 

 and is really the most valuable extra early corn ever in- g 

 troduced. It is of a bright orange color, has good size stalk and g 

 ear, small red cob, long deep grain, is very rich in oil and starch, - 

 and is the only smooth, very early Dent corn I know of. 70 pounds f 

 of ears made 64^ pounds of shelled corn, leaving only 6}4 pounds ' M 

 for the cobs ; from this all can readily judge of the unusually small 2 

 size of the cobs. Out of 7 fields grown for me last year, not one H 

 was a failure, and all topped out the middle of July, while the 9 

 Learning, Pride of the North, and King of the Earlies showed hardly £ 

 signs of it. Planted on trial grounds with King of the Earlies May g 

 4th, on account of cold nights did not come up until May 13th, and * 

 was cut down by heavy frost May 17th, which retarded growth and <* 

 put it back, but July 2d it showed tassel and the 15th silked out. « 

 August 1st ears were fit for roasting; last of August ripe and cuti* 

 up. To sum up, would say that for good size ears, grained g 

 over both ends of the cob, quick rank, strong growth and wonder- 5 

 ful productiveness, it heads the list of all other extra early » 

 varieties. My supply is genuine, strictly pure and carefully se- g, 

 lected, and will be sure to please all who give Extra Early Huron a "g, 

 trial. From the fact that I had five fields of this variety planted I 

 last season, I will of course have a large quantity of the seed for* 

 sale, so that, although this is the 2nd year of its introduction, I J? 

 take pleasure in offering Extra Early Huron Dent for the season of - 

 1893, at the following reasonable prices : lb. 50 cents ; 3 | 

 lbs. $1, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, peck » 

 75 cents; bushel, $3.25; 10 bushels, $20.00. > 



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