54: JOHNSON SEED COMPANY 
Johnson’s Thoroughbred Field Corn 
SELECTED FOR SEED—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 businessand 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. 
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., $2.50; sack of 2 bush., $3.60; 10 bush. and over, $1.75 
per bush.; 50 ears, $2.75; 100 ears, $5.00, sacks included. 
JOHNSON’S IMIPROVED LEAMING CORN 
I feel it a great honor to have been the first to call attention to 
the great value of the Improved Leaming 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 Leaming 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., 1oc.; lb., 30c.; 3 lbs., 75c.; bv freight 
or express, bags included, qt., 15c.; peck 60c.; bush., $1.90; sack of 
c 2 bush., $3.75; 10 bush. and over, $1.70 per bush.; ears, 50 for $2.75; 
Average ear, 100-DAY BRISTGL CORN. 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 éxperienced 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., 10c.; lb., 30c.; 3 lbs., 75c., by 
mail, postpaid; by freight or express, sacks included, peck, 65c.; bush., $2.00; bag of 2 bush. for $3.75. 
