] Sno<w White Dent as Described by the Originator, J. C. Suffern, of III 



To-day there are more than thirty commercial articles made from 

 white corn. The food products, especially, have come rapidly to 

 the front during the past three years. And the business of manu- 

 facturing white corn goods promises enormous expansion prior to 

 1910. But millers are at present greatly hampered by the poor, 

 unfitted quality of white corn that has heretofore been grown. 

 The ordinary white corn of the corn belt can merely be called 

 white cap corn, one-third of length of grain, at outer end. being 

 of fairly white color, and the remainder at tip end (see illustration 

 on preceding pagei being of a dull straw color. The bulk of the 

 white corn heretofore offered has also contained a liberal admixture 

 of yellow, red. blue and unsound grains. This mixed unsound corn, 

 with its small rough kernels, falls far short of meeting millers' 

 requirements for making the desired quality of brewers' grits, meal, 

 hominy, etc. The great proportion of the white corn heretofore 

 grown* has barely graded No. 3 even in our great grain markets. 

 In order to economically manufacture goods of the desired white- 

 ness, manufacturers of white corn goods require large, hard, smooth- 

 kerneled very white corn, as nearly snow-white as possible. Large, 

 compact-grained corn is more readily manipulated by modern milling 

 machinery. And a grain with smooth outer end is much preferred, 

 from the fact that the rough and chaffy outer end of the grain 

 now commonly offered goes into the waste. (Rough corn is also 

 hard on the hands while husking.) 



Much of the ordinary white corn of the country is too late in 

 its maturing season, therefore cannot be depended upon to produce 

 a uniformly high grade of milling corn during a series of years, 

 even if it were pure and white enough in color. Happily, I have 

 bred Snow White Dent Corn to the point where it combines extreme- 

 ly pure and very white color, with large size, compactness and 

 smooothness of grain, with sure maturity. So it is now undoubtedly 

 the king of all white corn, and worth 5 cents to 8 cents per bushel 

 more for milling. 



An extensive manufacturer of white corn goods, who uses 3.500 

 bushels of corn daily, recently told me that if I would breed up 

 such a corn as I know Snow 'White Dent to be, he would buy two 

 or three cars of it, to place with farmers for seed, at his many 

 corn buying stations. But I did not tell him that I had already bred 

 such a "corn, as I had contracted my crop of it to Mr. Maule. 



There is nothing wonderful or mysterious about Snow White 

 Dent Corn. It was not found on board of an abandoned ship In 

 the Indian ocean, or in a bag of coffee in South America, or in 

 some antiquated Indian mound. It does not produce an ear at 

 each joint, and a quart of shelled corn in the tassel, or 300 bushels 

 per acre. Neither does it require a ladder to reach its ears. Nor 

 do I claim that it will revolutionize corn growing. But after a com- 

 bined cross of three of the most noted highly bred sorts of white 

 dent corn, one of which (Champion White Pearl, of which I am also 

 the originator) by reason of its high average yield, and high quality 

 of grain, is now grown in almost every school district of every 

 county of each corn state. The combined cross I have followed up 

 with eight years' systematic breeding pressure, in regard to barren- 

 ness, survival of the fittest, uniform and extended pollenization. 

 size and character of stalk, blade, grain, cob, ear. tassel, silk, roots, 

 high germinating power, and great flexibility and prepotency of con- 

 stitution, causing it to buoyantly respond to changed conditions of 

 I i fe — soil, climate, etc. — in the way oi still further increasing its 

 yield. I may now well exclaim "Eureka ! Eureka ! I have it at last." 

 The Whitest, and in every way. the best milling corn in the world. 

 During the eight years' careful selection since the second cross was 

 effected. I have each summer very carefully destroyed in my field 

 of Snow White Dent Corn, all diseased, barren and lazy (nature's 

 weaklings) stalks before they formed their pollen — thus preventing 

 them from contaminating, and reducing the yield of other stalks 

 higher in the scale of productiveness. The most vigorous, productive, 

 typical stalks (nature's choicest) are marked, and great care taken 

 that seed is saved from the most select of nature's favorites, only. 

 Tnus the tendency towards barrenness, and its attendant degen- 

 eracy — scanty yield, low germinating power, smut and disease — 

 annually grows less, and the variety in consequence increases its 

 yield in a geometrical ratio, as the years go by. Thus. Snow White 

 Dent Corn has been as carefully bred as Poland China swine, or 

 Shorthorn cattle, and will take its place in the new corn registry 

 of the Illinois Corn Growers' Association as a pedigreed corn. 



GRAIN Besides filling millers' requirements for large, smooth- 

 grained, very pure white corn, on account of its very large size, and 

 well-bred character, the grain of Snow White Dent Corn seldom ger- 

 minates less than 100 per cent., a feature which I have established 

 by breedinig from nature's favorites only, and which I consider 

 worth more than 15 bushels per acre, in increasing our average corn 

 yield. Large-grained corn vigorously nourishes the growing plant 

 while young and passing through its most critical period, giving it 

 p strong start. I have noticed that stalks of Snoic White Dent Corn 

 growing from its largest grains, produce the largest seed yields. 



STALK — Furthermore, a very large kernel produces a single- 

 eared, short, thick, deeply-rooting stalk with very wide blades. In 

 order to spend liberally in one organ, the plant laws of compensation 

 or balancement of growth, forces nature to economize in another 

 organ. In obedience to this law of plant growth. Snoic White Dent 

 Corn, with its short, thick, wide-bladed stalk, develops a one-pound 

 ear and a large root growth much out of proportion to its size of 

 stalk. This summer I measured a stalk of it which was 7 feet 

 high, 6% inches around, with blades 7%inches wide, and having 

 a 1% pound ear on it. and which stood straight against hard storms. 

 But I do not claim this corn to be tornado or drought proof, al- 

 though, on account of its large root growth, it stands storms and 

 drought bettter than any variety that I have ever seen. I have 

 established uniform and extended pollenization in this corn, in the 

 way of great profusion and endurance of pollen and silk (the silk 

 of one ear this summer measured 18 V* inches long). To this fact, 

 much is due to its freeedom from barrenness, laziness ( nubbins I, 



smut and low germinating power, and to its high average yield : 

 90 to 125 bushels per acre being common yields. 



EAR. — I have bred this corn to the point where the corn produc- 

 ing energies of the soil are not feebly scattered in producing a large 

 stalk with two or more nubbins : but is concentrated in producing 

 one good ear to almost every stalk. It has medium sized ears, with 

 16 straight rows of very large, compact, close-setting grains well 

 filled out on medium sized cobs. Our State Experiment Station, 

 near Urbana. 111., after exhaustive tests covering many years, has 

 secured the largest average yield of merchantable shelled corn per 

 acre, from medium sized corn producing only one good ear per stalk. 

 Snow White Dent Corn produces ears 8 to 14 inches long, and which 

 average about 89 per cent, shelled corn to the bushel of ears. Many 

 ears when dry weighing 1% pounds. It matures in 100 to 110 days. 



COB. — Medium sized, very white cob, requiring two grains to span 

 it, and weighing about 7"^> pounds per 70 pounds of ears. One red 

 cob can scarcely be found in 10.000 ears. 



Your Money 'Back. 



Such faith have I that Snow White Dent Corn will give great sat- 

 isfaction throughout the whole country south of the forty-third 

 parallel of latitude, that if any customer is not satisfied with his 

 investment in its seed, having given it a fair test. I will gladly 

 refund the purchase price provided he will send a sworn statement 

 to that effect. This offer only applies to orders received prior to 

 April 15th, next. What other firm makes such an offer as this? 



$ WO. 00 for Largest Yield. 



I will give $100.00 to the person who succeeds in growing the 

 largest amount of this corn on one acre. The yield to be certified 

 to by a notary public and three responsible persons. Report to be 

 made on or before November 1. 1901. I will also give $25.00 for 

 second largest. $15.00 for third largest, $10.00 for fourth largest, 

 and $5.00 fifth largest yields. 



cA Drought Beating Corn for Dixie. 



According to the most reliable Southern authority, the largest 

 corn that can be well matured in the heart of the great Illinois corn 

 belt, if well bred, and grown not less than three stalks per hill, 

 matures a good yield of corn in the South 20 to 30 days before the 

 horrid death-dealing hot winds or drought catches and ruins the 

 Southern native corn. Snow White Dent Corn will mature a good 

 yield of high quality during droughty years, when grown alongside 

 the Southern native corn that makes little or nothing. 



What would be thought of a breeder of Poland-China swine who 

 would allow his breeding stock to breed from "culls and all'.'" He 

 assuredly would not be able to sell a hog for $5,100.00, the price 

 recently' paid at auction for a well bred hog. Yet this is exactly 

 the mode of procedure of almost all farmers and many seed growers. 

 And to this fact alone do I attribute our disgracefully low. average 

 yield of corn — less than 30 bushels per acre. 



What it Costs to Produce a Nenv Variety. 



Few people are aware of what it costs in time, labor and expense, 

 to produce a superior new variety of corn. The successful methods 

 of breeding up real novelties require a great deal of experience, 

 skill, care and patience. And even with the most skillful breeder 

 and the most favorable case, several years of selection and often 

 repeated and various crossings, are required before a new variety 

 or rare merit can be established. The most skillful and experienced 

 breeders even, have many failures to each success. No wonder that 

 high prices are asked for the seed of new varieties. An extensive 

 corn grower of Kentucky, writes that he has often said that he 

 would gladlv give $1,000.00 for a bushel of his ideal corn. From the 

 description 'of his ideal. I would consider a bushel of such corn 

 worth more than 100 times $1,000.00, provided there was not 

 another bushel as good. For in six years' time its increase would 

 plant five million acres, and during that time it would have bene- 

 fitted corn growers to the extent of more than one billion dollars, 

 in increased yields, due to its superior merit. 



One bushel of Snow White Dent Corn will plant seven acres in 

 checked rows 3*A feet apart each way. with three grains per hill. 

 And will cost you only about 72 cents per acre for seed. It should 

 be very easv to dispose of your crop of it for seed at no less than 

 $1.50 per bushel. Do not fail to order at least a pound of it. and 

 compare with the ordinary straw-colored, small-grained corn of 

 your localitv. It will be a revelation to you. 



After reading the above description, as written by the originator, 

 Mr. J. C. Suffern. of Illinois, every corn grower receiving this cata- 

 logue will make the mistake of his life if he does not immediately 

 place an oruer for Snow White Dent. I have never been so enthusi- 

 astic over any one of my introductions : my customers, as they well 

 know, have made hundreds of thousands of dollars, by getting aboard 

 early, with Mastodon Corn. Freeman Potatoes. Mortgage Lifter Oats, 

 etc., etc. : and I really think there is more money to be made on 

 Snow White Dent than on any single variety I have ever introduced. 

 It would be cheap at tSO.OO per bushel, instead of $5.00. the very 

 reasonable price at which it is first offered the American Corn Grower. 

 My supply, however, is limited to only a few hundred bushels, so 

 everyone wishing Snow White Dent by the bushel should place their 

 orders at once, as early in April I certainly expect to have to decline 

 orders for Snow White Dent in quantity. The demand for Snow 

 White Dent for seed purposes in 1902 is bound to exceed anything 

 in the corn line ever offered the American public. 



Prices for Sncnu White Dent Corn for t901 : 

 The seed I offer has been closely selected, tipped, and is bright and very sound. Testing 99 per cent, strong, vigorous germs It was 

 hand shelled, and you will not find mixed, rotten nor chaffy grains in it. Your largest sized planter-plates will plant it about right. You 

 should not fail to try it. 8 pounds will plant one acre in rows 3 J feet apart each way; 3 grains per hill. 1 Pound, postpaid, 50 cents; 

 3 pounds, postpaid, $1.10. 8 pounds, enough for J acre, prepaid, by mail or express, for $2.00. By express or freight, 

 purchaser to pay transportation charges, 14 bushel, 81.75; bushel, $3.00; bushel, $5.00. 



For reasons of my own I do not care to sell more than one bushel to any single person or firm. To all customers who live nearer to 

 Central Illinois, I will, if desired, have quantities of ; or 1 bushel shipped direct from the farm where it was bred without extra cost. 



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