FAMOUS ROCK RIVER VALLEY SEED FARMS 
55 
Pedigreed, Fire Dried Hortliern Grown Tested Seed Corn 
This Is the best year In ten to change your Seed Corn. 
Quality never better. Our stock Is all Hand-Selected. Flrp- 
D-led, Thoroughly Tested and GUARANTEED TO BE OF 
STRONG, VIGOROUS GERMINATION. 
SILVER KING 
Wisconsin No. 7 
Famous corn. Best loved 
corn in Wisconsin; a corn 
that stands ready to give a 
glad account of itself when- 
ever planted, and for South- 
ern Minnesota. South Da- 
kota, Northern Iowa and 
Northern Illinois, as also the 
lower two-thirds of Wiscon- 
sin, it will yield more bushels 
of fine corn than any other 
white Dent. 
This corn originated in 
northern Iowa. Prof. Moore 
brought it to Wisconsin a 
few years ago and has de- 
veloped and improved it and 
sent it out over the state 
through the members of the 
Wisconsin Experimental As- 
sociation. 275 members of 
the Wisconsin Experimental 
Association tested it and re- 
ported an average yield of 
59.2 bushels of shelled corn 
per acre, which was nearly 
double the corn average for 
the whole state. On the Ex- 
perimental Station farm that 
year 22 acres yielded 75 
bushels per acre. In 1907, a 
poor crop year, the average 
yield of SILVER KING 
throughout the state was 
54.5 bushels per acre, while 
the breeding plot on the sta- 
tion farm gave the remarka- 
ble yield of 98 bushels per 
acre. In 1908 the entire 
acreage of the Wisconsin Ex- 
perimental Station, 22 acres, 
gave the very high average 
of 93 bushels shelled corn per 
acre. At the National Corn 
Exposition in 1907. Silver 
King took 8 straight prem- 
iums, and at the 1908 show 
at Omaha it took practically 
all the premiums In the Wis- 
consin class. 
Description: Ears averag- 
ing 8 to 9 inches, always 
filled out clear to the tips, 
and very uniform in size and 
type. The corn is pure snow- 
white in color with good 
length kernals set com- 
pactl.v in ver.v straight rows. 
The corn is a strong grower, 
and is early enough to ma- 
ture as far north as Osh- 
kosh, Wisconsin, and espe- 
cially adapted to resist cold 
weather. It has a decided 
d o u b 1 e-e a r characteristic, 
one reason' for its fine yield 
records. 
Silver King has almost 
revolutionized corn - gi'owing 
in Wisconsin. 
IOWA SILVER MINE CORN 
The introducer of this variety of corn says: 
"The most marvelous variety of corn ever of- 
fered, and which will surprise everyone who 
plants it. If the farmers take hold of this as 
they should, it will revolutionize the corn grow- 
ing of the country. Stalk grows to a height of 
about seven or eight feet and sets the ears about 
three and one-half to four feet from the ground. 
Just the right height for easy picking. It is 
early, matured last year in less than ninety-five 
days. The cob dries out rapidly, so that It is 
ready for the market very earl.v. 
This variety is more generally grown through- 
out the corn belt, and is more widely and favora- 
bly known than any other white corn. It is a sure 
cropper, very early, deep grain, pure white, and 
a good corn in every way. It seems to have the 
faculty of producing a better crop on old, thin 
land than any other corn, as it seems to adapt 
itself to unfavorable conditions. This seems to 
be a characteristic of most white corns. 
IOWA GOLD MINE CORN 
A SPLENDID YELLOW DENT VARIETY 
This corn is identical in appearance and habit 
of growth, in size of ear and earliness. and in 
productiveness with the Iowa Silver Mine, and 
everyone who has tried it is enthusiastic in 
praise of tliis splendid variety. It is early, 
ripening but a few days later than the Pride of 
the North. Ears are not excessively large, but 
of good size and symmetrical. Color, a bright 
golden yellow, shining like a new coin direct 
from the mint. Grain is very deep, cob small, 
and therefore dries out nearly as soon as it 
ripens. 70 pounds of ear corn makes 60 to 62 
pounds of shelled corn. 
The kernals are deep, wedge-shaped. Our corn 
has been careiuUy grown, selected, cleaned and 
tested. 
GIANT RED COB FODDER CORN 
A tall growing southern variety which is very 
popular all over the country. In Canada it seems 
to have the preference over any other sort, per- 
haps because it has been very widely grown and 
will produce a large tonnage in a short space of 
time. It grows very tall and very leafy, and is ex- 
ceeded in this respect by none. The seed is 
white and grows on red cobs, thus giving it the 
name. Drill 1!4 bushels to the acre in rows 3'/i 
feet apart. 'A bushel, 30 cents; % bushel, 45 
cents; bushel, 75 cents; bushel, $1.40; 2 to 5 
bushels, »1.35 per bushel; 6 to 10 bushels, $1.25 
per bushel. 
EARLY LONGFELLOW FLINT 
The most popular of all flint varieties. It is a 
beautiful 8-rowed yellow flint, with slender, 
ears, 10 to 15 inches long. Kernels are large and 
wide, and cob very small. Ripens in 75 to 85 
days, and very prolific. Well adapted to the 
northern stated and largely grown in Wisconsin 
and Minnesota, '/e bushel, 35 cents; % bushel, 
60 cents; 'A bushel, $1.10; bushel, $2.00; 2 to 5 
bushels, $1.90 per bushel; 6 to 10 bushels, $1.85 
BOONE COUNTY WHITE CORN 
This famous Illinois corn is, in our opinion, a 
better variety than Roid's Yellow Dent, but Is 
not so well known. It is being grown to a con- 
siderable extent here now and is becoming quite 
popular. 
It is a very large white corn, somewhat like 
Silverine. lai'ger and later. 
Description. Ear 10 to 11 inches long, cylin- 
drical, 18 to 22 rows, generally 20. Grain very 
deep and rather rough. Well filled at both ends. 
Cobs always white and medium size. Very large 
and a heavy yielder. Season 110 to 120" days. 
Not safe for planting north of Rockford. hut for 
anywhere south of there it is a very valuable 
corn. 
WISCONSIN NO. 7 
PRICES : 
All tested Seed Corn listed on pages 54 and 55 at the following Uniform 
price, unless othcrwi.se noted; '/a bushel, 40 cents; 54 bushel, 75 cents; 
bushel, $1.45; bushel, $2.75; 2 to 5 bushels, at $2.65 per bushel; 6 to 10 bushels, 
at $2.50 per bushel. 
