H. W. BUCKBEE, EOCKI'OED, ILLIHOlS. 



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SOME PLAIN STATEMENTS AS TO HOW 

 AND WHY THE VARIETIES IN THIS 

 GUIDE ARE THE VERY BEST GROWN 



PEDIGREE SEED CORN , ^ 



I have made a specialty for vears of raising, carefully harvesting, hand sorting, fire drying, curing and preparing for planting purposes BUCK- 

 BEE'S PEDIGREE SEED CORN. I wish to particularly emphasize the fact that my corn is grown as far north as practical in attain- 

 ing the highest degree of perfection. Do not be misled by buying cheap, inferior stock, but send direct to the grower, thereby [flaking 

 sure of your crop. 1 cannot urge you too strongly to order at once and have your order shipped by freight, thereby saving < ycessiye charges. 

 Remember that I prepay charges on quarts, half pounds and pounds. Quantities of one-eighth, one-fourth and one-half bushels or more, will be 

 shipped at buyer's expense. Prices include bags for shipping. My seed will grow with more vigor, be earlier, return larger crops, and in every 

 particular be superior to seed produced elsewhere. These points alone make my seed cheap at double the price asked. Even so, is it not better 

 to pay a fair figure and know you are right, than take chances on southern and eastern seed as a gift? 



Important — Prices on all farm seeds subject to change without notice. 



Please Remember — If prices are lower the day your order is received, more seed will be added; if higher, the amount will be decreased. 

 Safest \Ya> — If you require considerable amounts of Farm Seeds, send me a list of your actual requirements and by return mail I will quote 

 you lowest market prices. . . 



UPON HONOR- TO THE, PLANTERS OF CORN EVERYWHERE, 



I have but one object in view when I grow, select and sell seed corn 

 — and that is, to give the planter who buys from me precisely the same 

 quality that I would demand if I were buying from him. It would not 

 pay me to sell inferior Seed Corn any more than it would pay him to 

 buy that kind of Seed Corn. With him it would be a loss of nis crop; 

 with me it would be a loss of customers. In that event he would lose 

 less than I would lose, for my Seed Corn customers are located in every 

 Corn growing state in the Union, and if I made the business mistake 

 of selling Seed Corn that is the least bit below the very top grade, I would 

 soon find my Seed Corn business numbered among the things that were. 

 Consequently, if I did not want to be honest about it, I am compelled 

 to be. I have no desire to throw stones at the Seedsmen who promise 

 all sorts of impossible crops — that is a matter for them to settle with 

 the customers they delude. For my part I am satisfied that Buckbee's 

 Seed Corn will come up to all promises I make for it — but it must have 

 the proper opportunity to make a crop. I cannot guarantee w;eather 

 conditions, etc. But, if your land is good corn land, and you give the 

 growing crop the proper care, there will be nothing on your part but the 

 highest praise for Buckbee's Seed Corn. 



SELECTING SEED CORN AT ROCKFORD SEED FARMS. 



If every one of my customers came here to select the ears of corn 

 from which they wanted their Seed Corn, they could not excercise more 

 care than I do. I cannot aSYord to send them something they would 

 not pick out to fill their wants. And that is about all there is to it. 

 Years of experience in selecting and storing Seed Corn enable me to 

 know what to sell to the planter and what to reject. My business success 

 depends entirely upon doing unto the seed buyer as I would want the 

 seed buyer to do unto me. In the Seed Corn department, as in every 

 other department of the Buckbee business, the only plan of action is 



"The Square Deal." I endeavor to make prices right. I know the Seed 

 Corn is right. I know that it will please every buyer. And if any buyer 

 does not like the looks of any Seed Corn that I may send him, he is at 

 liberty to return it in 10 days and get his money back. That's as square 

 a deal as I know of. 



PEDIGREE SEED CORN— WHAT ABOUT IT? 



These are some of the things that no one can possibly get away 

 from regarding Buckbee's Pedigree Seed Corn, that are bred for 



High Yield, High Oil, High Protein, High Prepotency: 



1 "Like produces like." Offspring partakes of physical and chem- 

 ical characteristics of both parents. 



2 Prepotency increased by breeding. 



3 Purity maintained by selecting for seed only ears which are true 

 to type; and by isolation. 



4 High Oil corn finishes beef and pork more rapidly and requires 

 fewer bushels than ordinary corn. 



5 Oil is the most valuable by-product of the glucose factories. 

 They will pay you a premium on high oil corn. 



6 High Protein makes corn a balanced ration for growing cattle. 

 Ordinary corn contains 10 per cent, protein; increase 12.80 per cent. 



7 A corn high in both oil and protein is the ideal feeding corn. 

 Ordinary corn contains 4.25 per cent, of oil; increase 5.60 per cent. 



8 The yield Of high bred corn is from 10 to 40 per cent, greater 

 than that of ordinary corn. In pedigree corn the per cent, of barren 

 stalks is reduced to the minimum, while the per cent, of good ears 

 is raised to the maximum. 



9 One hundred bushels and more of high bred corn have been pro- 

 duced where ordinary corn yielded sixty bushels. 



MY TRIAL GROUND YIELDS ON FIELD CORN. 



The following table shows the results of careful tests of the L..3ted varieties of Field 

 Corn on this and the following pages of this Guide. I used good land, well prepared, 

 and the corn was given good attention. 



Bu. Per Ears Av.Wt. Season 

 VARIETY. Acre to Rod of Ears, in 



"THE ILLINOIS IDEA" 

 OF SHIPPING SEED CORN 



Riley's Favorite 



Yield. 



of Row.Ounces, Days. 



81.7 



22.2 



9.3 



79 



65.4 



12.5 



9.3 



90 



111.1 



16.0 



12.0 



105 



87.2 



25.1 



6.0 



89 



117.0 



17.3 



11.9 



91 



86.3 



13.0 



10.1 



98 



101.4 



13.7 



12.3 



105 



100.5 



13.7 



11.8 



100 



107.6 



14.1 



12.9 



99 



93.5 



13.2 



9.8 



102 



105.4 



16.6 



10.9 



95 



86.0 



13.2 



10.5 



100 



94.7 



13.7 



11.2 



101 



116.0 



17.2 



11.1 



93 



97.3 



14.2 



11.7 



105 



100.3 



19.4 



8.8 



89 



1060 



13.0 



12.3 



99 



59.4 



18.1 



5.6 



80 



86.4 



15.7 



9.1 



90 



105.4 



16.6 



10.7 



100 



76.4 



19.0 



6.8 



82 



48.5 



17.4 



4.9 



80 



73.2 



20.0 



0.1 



81 



BUCKBEE WAS THE FIRST TO 

 SHIP SEED CORN THIS WAY 



TWO VARIETIES ORIGINATED BY H. W. BUCKBEE 



BUCKBEE'S EARLY ILLINOIS— The Best While Denl. BUCKBEE'S PROSPERITY— The Bes< Yellow Den! 



THE GREATEST YIELDING AND FEEDING VARIETIES OF ioo-DAY DENT CORN IN THE WORLD 



These two varieties, which my own tests and the plain, every-day, farm-cropping tests of my customers, convince 

 me are just what I claim them to be— THE GREATEST YIELDING AND FEEDING VARIETIES OF 100-DAY DENT 

 CORN IN^THE WORLD. Originated on Rockford Seed Farms, and can be secured of no other seedsman. Early Illinois 

 and Prosperity always grade No. 1, which means that they always command the highest price on the market, a point no 

 corn grower can afford to overlook. Manufacturers of Corn Products will pay more money for them than for any other corn. 



Sold on the ear only. Not less than one bushel of each 

 variety will be sold. 



Price. 1 bushel, $3.00; 2 bushels, $5.75; 5 bushels, $13.75. 

 Lots of 10 bushels or more, $2.50 per bushel. 



As a special favor I will fill orders for 1 bushel of each 

 variety for $5.75; or 5 bushels or more of each variety (10 

 bushels or more in all) at $2.50 per bushel. 



SHELLED TO GREAT GAIN. TESTED HIGH 



E. G. Labo, Harvard, 111., writes: — "/ thought I would let you 

 know how the Prosperity Seed Com Grows. It stood the lest go in 

 PS- 1 never had a nicer stand than I have now. All 3 bushels of 

 the seed com overrun in weight after it was shelled." 



SEE SEED CORN PAINTING FROM NATURE INSIDE FRONT COVER OF THIS CATALOGUE 



