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THE GREATEST OF ALL 
YELLOW FIELD-CORNS 
a the celebrated Amefican Agricul- 
turist corn contest, itfaroutyielded 
every other Yellow Cornin America. 
Alfred Rose, Yates Co.,N. Y ,fromseed 
purchased of me, raising on one acre 15,898 
Ibs. of corn onthe ear, which made 213 bus. of 
shelled corn. Anotherof my customers, 
George Cartner, Pawnee Co., Neb.. 
wg reporting next best yield on one acre, 11,380 Ibs. on ear, or 171 bushels of 
= shelled corn. See full detailed reports in the March, 1890, issue 
2 of the American Agriculturist. 
2 IS NOT THIS THE CHAMPION OF ALL ? 
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Address all 
Last year my entire supply, amounting to almost 2,000 
bushels, sold out early in the season, and hundreds of dollars had 
to be returned to disappointed customers. The demand for 1891 
for Mastodon promises to surpass all previous records. Be sureto 
purchase direct from headquarters, as thousands of bushels of corn 
—Mastodon only in name—will be 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 
American public, and in Mastedon he claims to have THE BEST OF ALL. 
In deseribing 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 andr 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 vears been 
studying it up,and until I gotup this corn was not fully satisfied. Many sorts have 
been tried and found wanting. In the Mastodon your cusiomers will fiid a 
high-bred corn, of beantiful color, and one which will pleasethem. I claim 
for this corn the larzest 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, bein 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 9¢ to 100 days‘within eight miles of Lake 
Erie. TVields planted June Ist were cut up September 14th. 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 
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its size and number of rows on the cob. [ have grown thousands of 
bushels of Go.den Beauty and now haye 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 
atalogue for 1891 of Maule's 
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ee some cases earlier than Pride of the North Howecan it be otherwise, 
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a 
‘White Gap and E:rly Roe Dent? 1 love the seed trade as well as any man, 
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recommend things just as they are. Now I want you to push this corn. 
Sibley said before he died, ‘I made a creat mistake in not contracting for all of 
¢ thatcorn.’ Seedsmen who have visited me this Summer, one and all. congratu- 
¥ late you pos getting hold of this corn first,and I am afraid 1 will not have 
e half enough to supply your trade.” 
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before, that the Mastodon Corn is the earliest corn in the world, taking — 
earlier than the J.S. or any other Leaming Corn grown, and with us ripened | 
en it is crossed with two of the earliest corns ever grown in the North—the | 
and I expect to follow its calling as long as I live, and to do so successfully at 
Mr. | 
.. If you wish to be abreast of the times you must put ina few acres of 
Mastodon in 1891. Not a corn grower who reads this catalogue should 
miss this opportunity “of planting the most improved Yellow Dent Corn in 
America—a corn sure to outclass any other variety at present grown. 
SY Fe ee 
PRICES OF EARLY MASTODON FOR 1891: Packet, 10c.; 
[b., 50c.; 8 los., 81, by mail postpaid. By express or freight, 
peck, $1.00 ; bus., 82.50 ; 2 bus., 84; 10 bus., 818.75. 
As I was a contestant for the Agricultwrist Corn Prize in 1889, will say my 
yield was 213 bushels shelled corn, grown on one measured acre, of the Early 
Mastodonecorn. 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- 
somest. It grows quick, strong and powerful. has broad heavy leaves, and large 
ears, 20 to 36 rows on acob. Longer grains than any other variety. Ears gener- 
ally 9 to 11 inches long, with the stalks 15 to17 feet high. For ensilage will 
grow more fodder than any othernow known, many stalks bearing 3 to 5 large 
ears, some weighing 2 lbs. each and some with 1600 kernels on acob, My prize 
acre was grown on a sandy, loam soil, was planted 3 feet by 1 in the row, 2 
kernels to each hill. When plowed, 490 lbs. of Mape’s Corn Manure was broad- 
casted on the acre and 400 lbs. seattered between the rows and sides. When the 
corn was earing, then cultivated and hoéd and the few bastard stalks and many 
others then setting for ears were cut-out and nidny others cut off above the ear 
sets. This was to let in more sun and air; all the stalks then had ears set on. 
We had too much rain for best results, as it rained nearly every day or night 
from June to November. When husked, the Agriculturist agent measured the 
acre and weighed most of the corn, the three witnesses the balance The net 
weight was 15,898 lbs. When the corn was in milk some unknown persons 
icked over 600 earsand carried them off. These were not counted ; if they could 
ave been would have made over 225 bushels of shelled corn to thea re. There 
were 25 tons of dry fodder. _The acre cost $200. Interest on the same 
Manure $17.50. Plowing, planting, seed, cultivating, hoeing, lopping, husking, 
etc., and witnesses and affidavits, ete., cost $61; an average cost of 28 cents per 
bushel. ALFRED ROSE, of N Y., 
in The Practical Farmer, March 8, 1890. 
#12. 
In 1889 I took pleasure in offering 
my customers for the first time, this 
new extra early Oats, confident that 
it would come upto every claim made 
for it, and knowing that every cus= 
tomer who planted Early 
Lackawanna would find it by 
ALL ODDS THE EARLIEST 
OAT THEY HAVE EVER 
SOWN. It not only made good 
OA i S every promise made, but farsurpassed 
the expectations of my most sanguit 
customers. Such heads as were sent me in competition for the S160 premium 
were never seen before. Most of my customers have planted Welcome Oats 
during the last five or six years, and have written me that they consider that 
variety the earliest oat they have ever sown. Early Lackawanna will be found 
to mature fully eight to ten days earlier than the Welcome, and at 
the same time wilt surpass this popular and profitable variety im yield. I 
am fully aware this is a broad claim to make for any oat, but Iam sure that al 
who plant Lackawanna this year will bear me out next Fall 
While these claims of earliness and great productiveness are 
EXTRA EARLY 
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for every 
are 
America. In addition to being so wonderfully early and prolit 
always stout and stiffand not liable to lodge, and abeve all is 
entirely free from rust. They grow four to five feet high, heads being lin 
and well-filled, with fine plump heavy grain. It weighs 4} pounds to ib 
measured bushel, which, while not so heavy as the Wetcome, still stamps it as 
being an extra heavy variety. Finally I would add one more strong point. and 
that is while it responds most liberally to high cultivation, it has always suc- 
ceeded wonderfully well on common or poor soil. “Supply of seed =!i)1 
limited, so would advise early orders fr _m every one desiring to sow Lackawanna, 
Pkt. 10c.; ib. 50c.; 3 ibs. $1. By express at expense of purchaser, peck $2; bus. $6. 
