GOLDKN IIKAI'T Y. Yellow Field Corn. 



BRIAR CREST BEAUTY. — I consider this the most beautiful Yellow Com I hnve ever seen. 

 It is an improved variety of the Golden Beauty, maturing at the same time and combining all the 7fj 

 desirable qualities of that now most popular variety. It grows, however, a shorter stalk, and, if g 

 anything, is more productive. It will readily produce 100 or more bushels of shelled corn per acre, g 

 and on poor or medium land does wonderfully well. Has frequently two, and sometimes three, 

 immense ears to a stalk, which, set low, have very small cobs, and shell easily. In my eyes it is as 

 near perfection as a yellow corn can be grown, and is bound to please every one who" plants it. 

 The 825 premium offered by me last 

 year for the greatest yield from a packet, 

 was secured by Samuel H. Johnson, 

 Metropolis, 111., who raised 251 lbs. Pkt., 

 10c; lb., 30c; 3lbs., 75 c, by mail, post- 

 paid. By express or freight, peck, 65 cts. 



GOLDEN BEAUTY The ears 



are of perfect shape, with from ten to 

 fourteen straight rows of brightest 

 golden yellow grains, of rcmurkalile 

 size, mid filled out completely to 

 the extreme end of the cob. THE 

 COBS ARE UNUSUALLY 

 SMALL; when broken In half 

 the grains will always reach 

 across. The illustration is an exact 

 representation of half an ear. The 

 richness of color and fine quality of 

 grain make it very superior for grind- 

 ing into meal. The grains are not of 

 a hard, flinty type, neither are they so 

 soft as to be greatly shriveled, as is the 

 Golden Dent. The ears are easily 

 shelled, although the kernels are firm I 

 on the ear, and in every respect J 

 presents as perfect a type as 

 could be desired. The stalk takes a 

 strong hold in the ground ; grows 

 vigorously to a height of eight to ten 

 feet. The S50 premium offered in 1888 

 for the best ear, was secured by J. Smith, 

 Villa Nova, Ta., with an ear 14 inches 

 long. Pkt.. 10 cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 

 cts.. bv mail, postpaid. Bv express or 

 freight, pk., 65c; bus., 82.00 ; 2bus., 83.50. 



HICKORY KING.— Has the 

 smallest cob and largest grains 

 and is the most valuable and 

 reliable White Corn in cultiva- 

 tion. It will shell more and weigh 

 more to a given measure, make more 

 ears to a stalk ami bear plantim: closer 

 than any other field variety of white 

 Corn in the world. As the stalks arc 

 never barren, no matter how thin the 

 soil, von are always sure to get a crop 

 of the Hickory King. It ripens in 

 from 100 to 120 days from planting, 

 shells and busks easily, and makes as 

 much fodder to the acre its other kinds. 

 It is unusally productive, nearly always 

 ■J and verv. often 3 good ears to a stalk. 

 The ears have a thin husk, uncommonly 

 small cob. By breaking an ear in 

 half, one grain will cover the entire 

 end of the cob. Both ends filled full 

 out to the end of the cob. Pkt., 10 

 Cts.; lb., 30 cts.; 3 lbs., 75 cts., postpaid. 

 By express or freight, peck, 75 c. ; bus., 

 82.25 ; 2 bus. siick, 8-1.00. 



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