34—Vegetable Seeds 
THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1915 | | 
. Maule’s Ideal 
Early Corn 
Do you want delicious corn on your table 
the 4th of July? Then this is what you need. 
This is what Mr. Ball the originator has to say about it: 
“About eight years ago I received a small packet of early 
sweet corn from a friend, which proved to be in the same 
class as the Earliest of All sugar corns, considerably larger, 
and best of all contained a sweetness equal to most of our 
best true sugar varieties. 
“As soon as the ear began to show the flower, I selected 
the most promising stalks and cut out those remaining. 
These selected stalks were carefully watched as they devel- 
oped, and by a careful system of carrying the pollen of plants 
showing different individual qualities, from one stalk to 
another, thus combining size, shape and earliness of ear, I 
succeeded in obtaining wonderful results, besides imparting 
vitality to the seed that is astonishing. It has the power of 
germination under conditions when all others have failed, and 
can safely be planted much earlier thafi any true sugar corn 
on account of its extreme hardiness. 
“I have produced in this new sweet corn a variety which 
stands alone, as a money maker. It is as large as Stowell’s 
Evergreen.’ The fodder will average 6 feet; no small item 
to afarmer; and as a proof of its quality and sweetness, I had 
a continuous call for ‘Ideal’ from 
the wealthiest and most fashionable 
residents of the surrounding subur- 
ban towns. In earliness, any one 
growing this corn will have the 
crop marketed and the money in 
his pocket before any of the early 
sugar corns are ready. 
“This season sugar corn had been 
a glut on the market, selling as low 
as 25 cents per hundred, but by 
planting Ideal, I was enabled to 
produce from less than one acre 
six thousand ears, which sold at 
wholesale at $1.50 per hundred, be- 
sides selecting nearly thirty bushels 
for seed. It adapts itself to any 
kind of soil, either sand or heavy 
clay. It will pay handsomely for 
every pound of manure given it. 
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Packet, 10 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 
50 cents; 2 quarts, 90 cents, postpaid. 
By express or freight, not prepaid, 
> quart, 40 cents; 4 quarts, $1.10; peck, 
$2.00; bushel, $7.50. 
MAULE’S IDEAL EARLY CORN. 
Mi ils Sees ot 
GOLDEN BANTAM CORN. 
« Golden Bantam Sweet Corn 
The Earliest and Sweetest Yellow Grained Variety 
This is a very early sweet corn from Massachusetts. Our old friend, Mr. E. L. Coy, says it | 
impressed him as the sweetest and most tender corn he had ever tasted. It is deep yellow in 
color and very early, entirely different from the old Early Orange and much earlier. Can be 
planted thickly, and with us every stalk had from 2 to 3 perfect ears. The introducer says that 
ou account of the firm substance of the cured’grains it can be planted earlier than any other true 
sweet corn. Packet, 10 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents, postpaid. By express 
or freight, not prepaid, quart, 40 cts.; 4 quarts, $1.10; peck, $2.00; bushel, $7.50. 
