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^ JOHNSON & STOKES, ^PHILADELPHIA jj^ 



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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 have made the SELECTION AND IM- 

 PROVEMENT OP FARM SEEDS a specialty, exercising great 

 care to secure the best varieties, thoroughlv cleaned and of the 

 finest possible quality. Our FARM SEEDS HAVE GAINED 

 A NATIONAL REPUTATION, and we supply each vear hundreds 

 of customers in every State, from MAINE TO CALIFORNIA. 



Johnson & Stokes' Thoroughbred Field Corn 



y Selected for Seed— Tested for Vitality 



Ir inFROYED LEflniNQ CORM 



We feel it a great honor to have been the first seedsmen to in- 

 troduce and call attention to the great value of the True Improved 

 Learning Corn, seventeen 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 lOO-Day Bristol Com, also first in- 

 troduced by us in 1895, are by far the earliest and best large-eared 

 Early Yellow Dent Corns in cultivation. The ears are large and 

 handsome, as shown in our photograph alongside, with good, deep 

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

 medium size (not large), with few suckers, slender and leafy, mak- 

 ing 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 com 

 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. For several j'ears past our sales 

 of this one variety have averaged more than two thousand bushels 

 annually, much of it going to the extreme Northern States and 

 Canada," where it has also become very popular for fodder and 

 ensilage purposes. Prices by mail, postpaid : pkt, lOc; lb., 25c.; 

 3 lbs., 65c.; by freight or express, bags included, qt., 15c.; peck, 

 60c.; bush., §1.75 ; sack of 2 bush. , $.3.40 ; 10 bush, and over, $1.65 

 per bush. ; ears, 50 for $2.50 ; 100 for $i.50. 



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Average ears of rsrPKOVED leamino, photographed alongside an ordinary two-foot mle to Bhow exact measurements. 



