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Peter Henderson & Co., New York. — Farm Seeds. 



Extra Early Hi 11*011 Detlt COITl. 



A " Ninety Day" Corn. 





Very Small Cob. 



Handsome Ears. 



The Earliest Dent 

 Corn. 



Outyields all the 



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Three bushels of ears 



Flint Corns. shell two bushels of corn 



§£?fl*E regard this as one of the most valuable introductions of recent years in the 

 &>$U> way of a Dent Corn, being the earliest Dent Corn in existence, quite as 

 early as the Plint varieties, and can be grown almost as far North, in sections 

 where before the introduction of the Extra Early Huron it was impossible to raise 

 any but the small Flint varieties. It is fully ten days earlier and much better eared 

 than " Pride of the North," and will far outyield that variety or the Flint corns. 



It is a large yielder, having frequently given over two hundred bushels of ears per acre 

 with ordinary field culture. It has a good-sized stalk and ear, small red cob, with long 

 deep bright orange grains, well filled out over both ends of the cob. It will shell a 

 greater proportion of grain from a given amount of ears than any 

 other ; one hundred lbs. of ears giving over ninety lbs. of shelled 

 corn, which is a good illustration of the unusually small size of the cobs. 



The stalk is closely jointed, generally bearing two ears, and has a heavy growth of 

 broad leaves. (See cut.) 50c. per peck, $1.75 per bushel; lO.bushel lots, $1.60 per bush. 



I P1PB0VED YELLOW FLINT CORN.- 



The result of years of careful selection by one 

 of the most experienced growers in Connecticut, 

 which shows a great improvement on the old 

 yellow Flint. The plant is of unusually early 

 and vigorous growth, and the ears are re- 

 markably handsome, large and well filled. 



This selection is the heaviest crop- 

 per we have ever seen among the 

 Flint coins. (See cut.) 50c. per 

 peck, $1.75 per bushel; 10-bushel 

 lots, $1.60 per bushel. 



Spring 

 = Wheat = 



Wellman Fife. 



EXTB0 early Huron 



Dent Corn. 



We consider this to be the best of all the spring wheats, 

 being an improvement on the well-known and favorite 

 Saskatchewan, having larger heads and grain, and the straw 

 taller and stronger, with white chaff heads and dark amber 

 kernels. The grain is very hard and produces the finest grade of 

 flour and is eagerly sought after by millers. It is enormously pro- 

 ductive, outyielding all other spring wheats, and is invaluable for spring sowing 

 where the winter wheat has been killed, or where it was not sown, owing to excessive 

 drought or other causes in the fall. (See cut.) $2.25 per bushel ; 10-bushel lots, $2.00 

 per bushel. 



Saskatchewan Fife Spring Wheat. 



The favorite variety in the great spring wheat sections of the Northwest, where it is much esteemed by the 

 ■farmer for its earliness, productiveness, vigorous growth and freedom from smut and diseases, and by the miller WEI.LMAN FIFE 

 ■on account of its unsurpassed milling qualities. $2.00 per bushel ; 10-bushel lots, $1.75 per bushel. SPRING WHEAT 



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J\J EW WHITE HULLESS BARLEY. I JAPANESE BUCKWHEAT. 



A valuable new variety, which should be sown at the rate of \}i bushels per 

 -acre, about the time of sowing Oats. It is two or three weeks earlier than 

 ordinary Barley, grows about the same height, and will not shatter in the 

 field, even when very ripe. The grain is not unlike Wheat, and weighs about 

 60 lbs. per bushel, Instead of 48 lbs., as other Barley. For feeding to horses 

 and hogs, when ground, it is unequaled, and is also exceedingly valuable as 

 hay, if cut and cured just before ripening. 75c. per peck ; $2.00 per bushel 

 ■of 48 lbs.; 10-bushel lots, $1.85 per bushel. 



-(Introduced into cultivation by us in i8S7.i- 



We would advise all who are growers of Buckwheat to give this distinct Japa- 

 nese variety a trial in preference to any other. The kernels are at least twice 

 the size of any other variety, and of a shape peculiar and distinct from all 

 others. The color is a rich dark shade of brown. The straw is heavier ; it 

 branches more and ripens a week earlier than the Silver Hull and yields two 

 or three times as much. $1.50 per bushel ; 10-bushel lots, $1.40 per bushel. 



