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Standard - Field - Seeds. 
Maaule’s [mproved EARLY [UASTODON CORN. 
In the Celebrated American Agriculturist corn contest, it far outyielded every 
other yellow corn in America. Alfred Rose, Yates Co., 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 Cartner, Pawnee Co., 
Neb., reported next best yield on one acre, 11,380 pounds on ear, or 171 bushels 
of shelled corn. See reports in 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 customers. The demand for 1896 for Masto- 
don 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 re- 
2 markable degree better than any other variety. It originated with Mr. C. S. Clark, of Ohio, prob- 
- ably the largest grower of field and sweet corn for seed purposes in America, as Mr. Clark ships 
annually seed corn by the hundred carloads. Mr. Clark grows every variety of corn known to 
the American public, and in Mastodon he claims to have the best ofall. 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 care- 
ful selection. The seed trade and large growers of field corn have for many years been anxious- 
ly inquiring for a large eared, yet early Dent Corn, and tosupply 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 beauti- 
ful 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 every 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, 
3 strong and rank, at a medium height, and will outyield 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 Ist were cut up September l5th. You 
= cannot too highly recommend this corn to your customers. My reputation as the largest grow- 
er 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 thecob. I 
have grown thousands of bushels of Golden Beauty, and now have many fields under contract. 
The Mastodon is from three weeks 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 Leaming corn grown, and with us ripened up in some cases earlier than the 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 Karly Row 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 youto pushthiscorn. Mr. Sibley said before he died: ‘I 
made a great mistake in not contracting for all that corn.’ Seedsmen who have visited me 
this summer, one and all, congratulate you upon getting 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, willsay my yield was 213 bushels shelled 
corn, grown on one measured acre, of the Early 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 handsomest. 
It grows quick, strong and powerful, has broad heavy leaves and large ears, 20 to 36 rowson acob. Longer 
grains than any other variety. Ears generally 9 to 11 inches long, with the stalks 15 to 17 feet high. For 
ensilage will grow more fodder than any other now known; many stalks bearing 3 to 5 large ears, some 
weighing 2 pounds each, and some with 1,600 kernels on a cob. ALFRED ROSE, Penn Yan, N. Y. 
If you wish to be abreast of the times, you must put in a few acres of Mastodon in 1896. 
Not a corn grower who reads this catalogue should miss this opportunity of planting the 
most improved Yellow Dent in America—a corn sure to outclass any other variety grown. 
PRICES OF EARLY MASTODON FOR 1896: Packet,10 cents; pound, 
30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, by mail, postpaid. By express or freight, 
peck, 75 cents; bushel, $2.25; 2 bushels, $4.0C; 10 bushels, $17.50. 
m—__ $50.00 Oct. 15, 1896__ 
For ear of Maule’s Improved Early Mastodon Corn sent me, raised from seed 
purchased of me this season, from which can be shelled the largest number of 
grains of corn. In the competition last season many ears sent me shelled 1500 to 
1600 grains; the prize was finally secured by an ear containing the enormous 
quantity of 1770 grains. Now who can raise the ear that will shell the most 
grains in 1896? Whoever does will obtain that $50.00 next October. 
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Extra Early Huron Dent Corn. 
For years past one of my growers of field corn has offered a large sum of money to an 
man who could produce and prove to him a Dent Corn as early aS Flint. Mr. A.A. Chat. 
field, of Fulton county, Ohio, has won the money, and I now offer to my customers the 
most perfect shaped ear, economical grain and earliest Dent corn in the United States. 
This new Extra Early Huron Dent will ripen with my customers in many Northern States 
s where heretofore they have only been able to grow the Flint varieties, and is really the 
™= most valuable extra early corn ever introduced. It is of a bright orange color, has good 
© sized stalk and ear, small red cob, long deep grain, is very rich in oil and starch, and is the 
6 only smooth, very early Dent corn I know of. 70 pounds of ears made 63% pounds of 
shelled corn, leaving only 6% pounds for the cobs; from this all can readily judge of the un- 
usually small size of the cobs. Out of7 fields grown for me last year, not one was a failure, 
and all topped out the middle of July, while the Leaming, Pride of the North and King of 
Earlies showed hardly Signs of it. Planted on trial grounds with King of the Earlies May 
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 lst ears were fit for roasting; last of August ripe and cut up. 
To sum up, would say that for good sized ears, grained over both ends of the cob, quick, 
rank, strong growth and wonderful productiveness, it heads the list of all other extra 
early varieties; and I have no hesitancy in recommending it to all my customers as 
worthy of a thorough trial. My supply is genuine, strictly pure and carefully selected, 
and will be sure to please all who give Extra Early Huron Dent a trial. 
Packet, 10 cents; pound, 30 cents; 3 pounds, 75 cents, by mall, post- 
paid. By express or freight, pk., 6O cents; bu., $2.00; 10 bus., $15.00. 
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