Northern 
White 
Dent Corn. 
The Climax of 
40 Years’ Selection, 
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White Dent Corn 4 aN . 
Ripens thoroughly in latitudes south of a ; CY mee 8 | 
Albany and Buffalo. Extraordinarily ey See tif 
prolific, often yielding 110 bushels hes : 
shelled corn per acre. Largeears, eg 
zo to12 inches long, 7 to 8 inches 
in circumference. Long ker- 
nels, small cob. Ears 2 to 
3 Jeet from the ground. 
Plant leafy and luxuri- 
ant, making fine fodder. 
The Earliest Large, White Dent. 
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While the raiser, Mr. James Wood, of West- 
chester County, N. Y., ex-President of the New 
York State Agricultural Society, does not claim 
this to be a new variety, having originally been a 
white Southern Corn, yet by forty years of intele { 
ligent selection, it has become the earliest large 
white Dent Corn we know of, and is quite distinct 
from the original parent. It will ripen in Connec= 
Wood’s Northern White Dent Corn 
, was referred to in the New York Tribune Farmer, 
in an article on Mr. Wood’s farm, as follows: 
“Forty years ago Mr. Wood set out to find the most profitable 
variety ;of«Corn for him to raise. He had learned that his farm was 
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ticut, New York State (except n that -pertion nearly .on the, dividing line between the south and the north, agriculturally 
north of Rochester and Troy), Southern Michigan, considered, so-he tried. the white Southern Dent, obtaining his seed from Long Island, 
Southern Wisconsin, etc., and being vastly supe= where it had been grow for twenty years. It did well, but the ear was from 4% to 5 feet 
from the ground, leaving a nearly valueless stalk-butt, and the cob was too large a 
rior in every respect to the flint varieties and the 
portion of the ear. For\forty years he has been breeding out the butt and thecob. The 
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small Dent Corns usually raised, will ‘be ‘by far, lower ear on the stalk is;now only 2 feet or so from the ground, and the relative size of 
the most profitable sort in latitudes north of: New this cob ‘has Deen greatly, reduced. 
York City, where the Eureka cannot safely be “Corn breeding is exciting much attention at this time. Here are the results of 
forty years of experiment on that line, and a better object lesson could hardly be 
found to establish its value and hint at its enormous possibilltles. Mr. Wood always 
planted. (See cut.) 
PRICE, 20 cts. quart; 75 cts. peck; looks for one and a half bushels of ears from twenty-five hills, and this represents a 
$2.50 bushel; 10-bushel lots, $2.40 larger proportion of shelled corn than is usually estimated. He has often ruised 110 
bushel. bushels of shelled corn to the acre.’’ 
Henderson’s Superior Seeds are procurable only from us direct—we do not supply through Dealers. 
