NEW KL0NOIKE FIELD e©RN. 



A Thoroughbred Yellow Field Com, a Perfect Wonder in Yield, Earliness 

 iind Smallness of Cob. 



A Veritable Gold Mine on the Farm of every Corn Grower in America who plants the 

 New Yellow Klondike Field Corn in J 898. 







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DOZEN 



REASONS 



WHY YOU 

 SHOULD 

 PLANT 

 KLONDIKE 

 THIS SEASON. 





IfSlL. 







T>Jo J. Two weeks earlier than 

 the Mastodon. 



No. 2. Many stalks contain twc 

 or more ears. 



No. 3. An abundance of fodder, 



but not heavy and coarse. 

 No, 4. Ears low on stalk. 

 No. 5. Cob very small, deep grain. 

 No. 6. Will yield J 25 bushels per acre 



on ordinary ground. 

 No. 7. Cures very readily on account 



of very small cob. 



No. 8. Can be ground almost as early as 



it is husked. 

 No. 9. Color very deep yellow^. 

 No. JO. Makes a good corn to take off early 



in Fall, in order to seed ground for wheat. 

 No. J J. Cob being so small it quickly dries out, 



and leaves corn sound and sweet. 

 No. J2. You will be glad to dispose of your enMre 



crop in 1898 to your neighbors for seed. The\ 



will all want it. 



OUTCLASSES ALL OTHER VARIETIES. I 



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With ordinary cultivation will yield 125 bushels to the acre. 3 

 Matures two weeks earlier than Mastodon, Cob a little larger I 



than the length of one of its own grains. « 



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I originally named and offered the Early Mastodon Field Corn in 1889 s 

 Smce that time 1 have recommended it to my customers as the verv best 5 

 Yellow Field Corn lu America, and to-day Mastodon is more widely • 

 known than any other field corn in the country. It has been plant- 2 

 ed to the entire satisfaction of hundreds of thousands of corn erowers § 

 and has been endorsed by the Experimental Stations and Agricull ? 

 tural press at large. The credit for its introduction has alwavi gone t 

 where It belonged, consequently, with the enviable reputation that SH 

 introducing such a corn as Mastodon has given me 1 have been « 

 in receipt the last eight years of hundreds of samples of corn from « 

 all over the country, which growers have sent me for trial in the » 

 hopes that they might have a second Mastodon. The New Klon- 1 

 <, •! I. , I, t cauae to my attention two years ago, and after a thor- § 

 u.'ii 1 rial I became convinced that I had a Corn I could at last > 

 li III mend as the equal of Mastodon. To make assurance dou- S 

 1 \ re, I did not offer it last year; but had one of my Seed a 

 < I 1 growers, who has been growing, on an average, 1 000 "^ 

 I > lels of Mastodon a year for me, plant this corn on a large S 

 ■ lie, deciding if it proved superior to Mastodon, to offer m 

 M mdike this year. The results surprised us all. Mas- S 

 1 Jon on this farm has yielded for years never less than H 

 ) and up to 125 bushels of shelled corn per acre, while S 

 Klondike the past season equalled any record previously m 

 ' made for Mastodon on this farm, yielding 125 bushels of ' 

 shelled corn per acre with ordinary field cultivation, > 

 '',.^,^ and at the same time matured its crop two weeks a 

 earlier. It is not as large an eared variety as Mas- S 

 todon, but bears considerably more ears to the stalk, • 

 and notwithstanding that it will yield as much £ 

 as Mastodon; it matures at least ten days earlier, f 

 Another point, on account of its small cob it dries ° 

 out very quickly, which is also a great recom- S* 

 mendation. The illustration herewith is an ex- 2 

 act reproduction of an average ear, not a small © 

 ear or a large one, but an average specimen 4 

 ear, of which two and sometimes three will be S 

 found on a stalk. I have selected the name ^ 

 Klondike, because there is no question that B 

 on every farm it is planted the coming year, S 

 it will prove a veritable gold mine, not only » 

 outyielding all others but those planting i't >< 

 will be able to sell every grain they raise S 

 at an advanced price "for seed. 'There *• 

 is no seedsman in America who has ^ 

 given the opportunity to his customers to H 

 make more money than I have. My T^ 

 friends have made hundreds of thou- « 

 sands of dollars out of Freeman and n. 

 I Thoroughbred Potatoes, Mastodon 2 

 Corn, Mortgage Lifter Oats, etc., etc., '1 

 from getting in early and supplying 2 

 their neighbors with seeds. Every » 

 bushel of Klondike raised this ? 

 year should readily bring $1.50 next Z 

 season. Your neighbors will all ? 

 want it. I have made this predic- S 

 tion before, and those of my friends * 

 ~who have followed me have found p 

 they have not made a mistake. S 

 Remember the old adage— The early g, 

 bird catches the worm — Plant Klon- Z 

 dike in 1898, be one year ahead of your 1. 

 neighbors, and reap the benefit. As I have y 

 h'li vested an enormous crop, I am able to offer * 

 Kloauike this year at the following reasonable prices : J? 



JPkt., 10 cts.; lb., 50 cts.; 3 lbs., $1.00, by mall, postpaid. Peck, $1.00; half bushel, $1.75; bushel,$3.00t ^ 

 2 bushels, $5.00; 10 bushels, $20.00, by express or freight, at purchasers expense. f 



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