34 — Vegetable Seeds 



THE MAULE SEED BOOK FOR 1914 



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Ideal 

 Early Corn 



Do you vv^ant delicious corn on your table 

 the 4th of July ? Then this is what you need. 



This is what JNIr. Ball the originator has to say about it : 

 "About eight years ago I received a small packet of early 

 sweet corn from a friend, which proved to be in the same 

 class as the Earliest of All sugar corns, considerably larger, 

 and best of all contained a sweetness equal to most of our 

 best ti'ue sugar varieties. 



"As soon as the ear began to show the flower, I selected 

 the most promising stalks and cut out those remaining. 

 These selected stalks were carefully watched as they devel- 

 oped, and by a careful system of carrying the pollen of plants 

 showing different individual qualities, from one stalk to 

 another, thus combining size, shape and earliness of ear, I 

 succeeded in obtaining wonderful results, besides imparting 

 vitality to the seed that is astonishing. It has the power of 

 germination under conditions when all others have failed, and 

 can safely be planted much earlier than any true sugar corn 

 on account of its extreme hardiness. 



"I have produced in this new sweet corn a variety which 

 stands alone, as a money maker. It is as lai-ge as Stowell's 

 Evergreen.' The fodder will average 6 feet ; no small item 

 to a farmer ; and as a proof of its quality and sweetness, I had 

 a continuous call for 'Ideal' from 

 the wealthiest and most fashionable 

 residents of the surrounding subur- 

 ban towns. In earliness, any one 

 growing this corn will have the 

 crop marketed and the money in 

 his pocket before any of the earlj'^ 

 sugar corns are ready. 



"This season sugar corn had been 

 a glut on the market, selling as low- 

 as 25 cents per hundred, but by 

 planting Ideal, I was enabled to 

 produce from less than one acre 

 sixty hundi'ed ears, which sold at 

 wholesale at $1.50 per hundred, be- 

 sides selecting nearly thirty bushels 

 for seed. It adapts itself to any 

 kind of soil, either sand or heavy 

 clay. It will pay handsomely for 

 everj^ pound of manure given it. 



Packet, 10 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 

 50 cents; 2 quarts, 90 cents, postpeiicl. 

 By express or freight, not prepaid, 

 qucirt, 40 cents; 4 quarts, $1.10; peck, 

 $2.00; bushel, $7.50. 



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MAULE'S IDEAL EARLY CORN. 



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Golden Bantam Sweet Corn 



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GOLDEN BANTAM CORN. 



The Earliest and Sweetest Yellow Grained Variety 



This is a very early sweet corn from INIassachusetts. My old friend, j\Ir. E. L. Coy, says it 

 •mpressed him as the sweetest and most tender corn he had ever tasted. It is deep yellow in 

 color and very early, entirely different from the old Early Orange and much earlier. Can be 

 planted thickly, and with me every stalk had from 2 to 3 perfect ears. The introducer says that 

 on accotmt of the firm substance of the cured grains it can be planted earlier than any other true 

 sweet corn. Packet, 10 cents; pint, 30 cents; quart, 50 cents, postpaid. By express 

 or freight, not prepaid, quart, 40 cts.; 4 quarts, $1.10; peck, $2,00; bushel, $7.50. 



