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H. "W. BUCKBEE, KOCKFORD, ILLINOIS. 



PEDIGREE SEED CORN 



SOMZE PLAIN STATEMENTS AS TO HOW 

 AND WHY THE VABIETIES IN THIS 

 GUIDE AiE THE VEKY BEST GBOWN 



I have made a specialty for years of raising, carefully harvesting, hand sorting, fire drying, curing and preparing for planting 

 purposes BOCKBEE'S PEDIGREE SEED CORN. I wish to particularly emphasize the fact that my com U grown as Jai north as practical 

 in attaining the HIGHEST DEGREE OF PERFECTION. Do not be misled by buying cheap, inferior stock, but SEND DIRECT TO THE 

 GROWER, thereby mating sure of your crop. I cannot urge you too strongly to order at once and have your order shipped by freii-ht. 

 thereby saving excessive charges. 



UPON HONOR. TO THE. PLANTERS OF CORN EVERYWHERE 



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 Com, they could not exer- 

 cise more care than I do. I cannot afford to sen^them something they would not picfe out to fill their wants. And that is about all 

 there is to it. Years of experience in selecting aad storing Seed Corn enable me to know what to sell to the planter and what to re- 

 ject. My business success depends eQtirely 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 en- 

 deavor 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 zs square a 

 deal as I know of. 



MY TRIAL GROUND YIELDS ON FIELD CORN 



The following table shows the results of careful tests of the listed varie- 

 ties 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. SeasoD 



VARIETY Acre to Rod of Ears in 



Yield. of Row, Ounces, Days. 



Buckbee's Early Norther (Flint) 81.7 22.2 9.3 79 



New White Cap Yellow Dent 65.4 12.5 9.3 90 



Iowa Silver Mine 111.1 16.0 12.0 106 



Bnckbee's Improved Pride of the North.... 87.2 25.1 6.0 89 



Bucbbee's Prosperity 117 17.3 11.9 91 



Iowa Gold Mine 86.3 13.0 10.1 98 



Boone County Special ;...10L4 13,7 12.3 105 



Thoroughbred Learning 100.5 13.7 11.8 100 



Bnckbee's Great Western Yellow Dent 107 6 14 1 12.9 99 



Clark's New Early Mastodon 93.5 13,2 9.8 102 



Buckbee's Great Liberty 105 4 18.6 10.9 95 



Riley's Favorite 86 13.2 10.5 100 



Calico 94,7 13.7 U.2 101 



BucKbfee'a Early Illinois 116 17 2 11.1 93 



Champion White Pearl 97 3 14.2 11.7 105 



Buckbee's New Early Klondike 100.3 19.4 8.8 99 



Buckbee's Great Western 'VThite Dent. ...106.0 13.0 12.3 99 



King Philip 59.4 18.1 5.6 80 



Buckbee's Early Gold Mine 86.4 15 7 91 90 



Silver King 105.4 16.6 10.7 100 



Yellow Yankee (Flint) 16.i ISO 6.8 82 



North Dakota White Flint ..T.T.. 48.5 17.4 4.9 80 



Longfellow (Flint)....-. 73.2 20.0 6 1 81 



"The nUnois Idea" 

 of Shipping Seed Corn. 



BUCKBEE WAS THE FIRST 

 TO SHIP SSED CORN TfflS WAY. 



The Best Main Crop Vairieties 



ARE 



Buckbee's Early Illinois-AKD-Buckbee's Prosperity 



The Best White Dent The Best Yellow Dent. 



SEE THEIR. WONDERFUL RECORD ABOm 



I do not attempt this year to give an illustration of either of these WORLD BEATERS, as no artist could do justice 

 to either of them. 



Of beautiful clear color, ears large and long; well filled out over the tip and butt with a small cob, always insuring a 

 heavy crop. 



THE GREATEST YIELDING AND FEEDING VARIE.TIE^ OF .HUNDRED -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 HUNDRED-DAY DENT CORN IN THE WORLD. Originated on Rockford Seed Farms, andean be secured 

 of no other seedsman. Early Illinois and Prosperity always Grade No. 1, which means that they alwaj'S com- 

 mand 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. 



Extra Selected Ears. Price, 1 bushel, ?3.00 ; 2 bushels, ?S.75 : 5 bushels. S13.75. Lots of 10 bushels or more, S2.S0 per busheL 

 Fancy Shelled Stocl<. Postpaid 3^ lb. 15c; lb. 2 5C. By Express or Freight at Buyer s Expense, ig bu. 3 5c.; 3^ bu. 60c.: ^ in. $M0: 

 bu. S2.00; 2 bu. $3.90 ; 10 bu. lots §1.90 



DONT FAXI< TO KEAB PAGES 86 AND 87— THEY WILL SXTRELS" INTEREST YOTT 



