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JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 



Johnson's Thoroughbred Field Corn 



SELECTED FOR 5EED— TESTED FOR VITALITY 



Fully appreciating the great importance to the farmer of GOOD 

 FIELD CROPS, we have given particular attention to this depart- 

 ment of our business and made the SELECTION AND IMPROVE- 

 MENT OF FIELD CORN AND OTHER FARM SEEDS a specialty, 

 exercising great care to secure the best varieties, thoroughly cleaned 

 and of the finest possible quality. Note our reasonable prices for the 

 quality we furnish. No better to be had at any price. 



Average ear, 100-day bbistol, ooen. 



THE 100-DAY BRISTOL FIELD CORN 



When a few years since, before naming and introducing it, I first 

 saw this corn growing in the field, with its enormous stalks and 

 fodder, one-half again as high as an ordinary-sized man, and its mag- 

 nificent ears, averaging nearly a foot in length, as shown in the photo- 

 graph, I was inclined to doubt its earliness. But after growing it our- 

 selves and on the farms of hundreds of customers, we have found it cut 

 and shocked, ready for husking in ninety-five to one hundred days from 

 the time the seed was planted. The grain is a light yellow; the cob is 

 small considering the size of the ear. It will produce as much fodder 

 and more corn than the famous Chester County Mammoth and other 

 late varieties, which require three to four weeks longer to ripen. It is 

 very high in protein, making it a fine ensilage corn. In fact, it is a 

 perfect field corn in all respects. Prices, pkt., ioc; lb., 30c; 

 3 lbs., 75c, postpaid by mail; by express or freight, shelled, peck, 

 60c; bush., $1.75; sack of 2 bush., $3.25; 10 bush, and over, $1.60 

 per bush.; 50 ears, S2.75; 100 ears, $5.00, sacks included. 



JOHNSON'S IHPROVED LEAMINQ CORN 



I feel it a great honor to have been the first to call attention to 

 the great value of the Improved Learning Corn, twenty-one years 

 ago, since which time it has grown in popularity each season, and is 

 now catalogued by nearly every seedsman in America. It is probably 

 more largely planted now, both in the Northern and Southern States, 

 than any other field corn known. This and the 100-Day Bristol 

 Corn are by far the earliest and best large-eared Early Yellow Dent 

 Corns in cultivation. The ears are large and handsome, with good 

 grain, of deep orange color and small red cob. Stalks grow to medium 

 size (not large) with few suckers, slender and leafy, making most 

 excellent fodder, producing two good ears to each stalk; husks and 

 shells easily. It ripens in 90 to 100 days, and never fails to make a 

 good crop even in dry seasons, by reason of its earliness in maturing 

 and strong, vigorous growth. One hundred and thirty-six bushels 

 shelled corn have been grown to the acre on good corn ground. It is 

 also adapted to a greater variety of soils than other varieties, producing 

 unusually well on light or heavy land, where other varieties would 

 not thrive, and also in the extreme Northern States, where it has be- 

 come very popular for fodder and ensilage purposes. Much of the 

 so-called Learning Corn of other catalogues is not the true improved 

 strain as selected and grown by ourselves in Chester County, Pa. 

 Prices, by mail, postpaid, pkt., ioc; lb., 30c; 3 lbs., 75c; by freight 

 or express, bags included, qt., 15c; peck, 60c; bush., $1.75; sack of 

 2 bush., $3.25; 10 bush, and over, $1.60 per bush.; ears, 50 for $2.75; 

 100 for $5.00. 



AUSTIN'S COLOSSAL YELLOW DENT CORN 



A WONDER IN LARGE SIZE OF EARS, UNIFORMLY OVER A FOOT IN LENGTH 



The writer first saw this new corn while visiting the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo, in 1901. 

 Of the hundreds of varieties there exhibited, from almost every State in the Union, it carried off the honors, 

 and I feel justly proud in being the first to procure the seed from its experienced originator, Mr. H. W. 

 Austin, to offer for sale. The yield on the farm of the originator in past seasons has averaged over 100 

 bushels to the acre, and in the most unfavorable seasons it has never given anything but a good yield of 

 its magnificent ears, borne two to a stalk, ripening in 115 to 125 days from planting; grain deep, rich 

 yellow, very heavy, and will sell for the highest prices on any market in the land; stalks medium, not too 

 large, and produce enormously on both light and heavy land. Prices: pkt., ioc; lb., 30c; 3 lbs., 75c, by 

 mail, postpaid; by freight or express, sacks included, peck, 60c; bush., $1.80; bag of 2 bush, for $3.40. 



