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CORN, POTATOES, OATS, GRASS SEED 
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BUMPER CROP OATS 
In offering our customers this new variety of oats, we believe we are placing 
within their reach one of the most valuable varieties ever introduced. Bumper Crop 
Oats was originated b)' Mr. E. C. Detmer, of Ohio, who has been long a very succees- 
ful grower of oats. In 190fi, while Mr. Detmer was passing through a field of oats 
lodged flat on the ground he noticed a single stalk standing as straight as a saplihg. 
He conceived the idea that this single stalk must have a much stiffer straw than the 
other oats in the field. On examination he found an odd shaped head with grains 
twice as large as the other oats. This head was saved and planted. After five >-ears 
of persistent and careful selection, growing along side of the leading standard varieties, 
it proved the leader of them as a jaelder, for stiffness of .straw, earliness, and last but 
not least in resistent qualities for smut and ru.st. 
Bumper Crop Oats has fully establi.shed its rightful place among the great new 
varieties of oats. Few others can claim so many desirable qualities. While we do not 
believe that there is any variety' of Oats absolutely rust and smut proof, we believe the 
new Bumper Crop comes very near to being proof against any such diseases. The 
yielding qualities were proven in 1911 when a yield of 80 bushels per acre was secured 
on ordinary land, and in 1912, when a yield of 84)^ bushels per acre was again har- 
vested along side of varieties that yielded only 50 bushels. 
Bum])er Crop Oats is leading in vigor and productiveness year after year. This 
variety resists drouth wonderfully. The grain is extremely large, pure white in color, 
with thin husks. There can be nothing handsomer than the grain of Bumper Crop 
Oats. The straw is a rich golden yellow color, medium height, and as thick as a lead 
pencil and in some cases even thicker. The leaves are one-half inch to one inch wide. 
