20 A. H. Hoffman, Inc., Seedsmen, Landisville, Lancaster Co., Pa. 
and are offering them to the trade at a price that gives them the benefit of this purchase. 
These are regular tree oats — ripen in mid-season — stand up well — yield heavily — a great 
all-round desirable variety. The stock we offer was grown in Michigan. See price list 
for quotations. When consulting same, please consider that both the cost of bags, and the 
value of our Freight Paid Offers, are figured into the price. On account of the high 
prices of bags, not less than 3 bushels of "Peerless" will be sold. Orders must be in whole 
numbers of bushels, such as 5, 6, 7, 8, etc. 
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Genuine "Swedish Select" Oats 
Our stock of Swedish Select Oats comes from a grower who makes a business of 
growing oats for seed, and the stock is heavy, sound, first-class in every respect. 
This valuable variety was brought to this country from Russia, by the Department 
of Agriculture, in 1899. It at once became popular because of its heavy yields and 
other desirable characteristics. It is early, has a stiff straw that prevents lodging, and 
is a branching variety. A few years after its introduction to this country, Mr. G. A. 
Garton took it to England, and there under his care and breeding so improved it that 
when it was again sown in this country it showed even greater yields than when first 
brought from Russia. 
The Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, in 
an official bulletin, says of this variety: "It has been shown that the ten-year average 
yield of this oats at the Wisconsin Experiment Station was eight and one-half bushels per 
acre greater than the average of all other varieties." 
A <:haracteristic of "Swedish Select" Oats is its great root development. This gives 
this variety power to carry it through with big yields on almost any kind of soils or under 
any conditions. Customers having high, dry situations or clay-loam soils on which other 
varieties have not succeeded will do well by sowing this popular variety. 
"Swedish Select" is grown with success in almost every section where oats is grown 
on a commercial scale. Farmers who want a branching variety of well tried reliable 
kind can safely put their trust in "Swedish Select," regardless of the acreage they plan 
to put out. We advise sowing 3 bushels per acre. 
See Latest Price List. Order in multiples of 3^-bushel— 2, 2j4, 3. Sy^, 4, bushels," 
etc. Not less than 2 bushels sold. 
