12 TENNESSEE NURSERY CO., CLEVELAND, TENN. 
SELECT PLUMS 
The Plum attains its greatest perfection on a medium heavy soil, where it grows most 
thriftily, and suffers least from curculio and black knot. It is one of the finest fruits grown, 
being valuable for canning, preserving, drying or dessert. The tree occupies but little room 
in the orchard or garden, comes into bearing very young, and generally bears annual crops, 
The fruit always finds a ready market and brings high cash prices, and the trees are, as a rule, 
remarkably productive. 
PRICES OF PLUM TREES 
Height Each 10 100 
2 to 3 ft $0.20 $1.75 $15.00 
3 to 4 ft 25 1.75 20.C0 
4 to 5 ft 35 3.00 25.00 
BATT'S FOUR-EAR PROLIFIC CORN 
It costs more to grow a crop for seed purposes than the ordinary planter can understand. 
It requires extra choice seeds, special preparation of the land, special cultivation, great care 
in harvesting, cleaning, preparing for shipment, bags, etc., so we are obliged to ask a consid- 
erable advance over market prices; but any intelligent farmer who appreciates the value of 
good seed will agree with us that such pedigreed seed is well worth to him the price we ask. 
It is the opinion of the authorities connected with the Department of Agriculture at Wash- 
ington (and they have given it a lifetime study) that it takes special methods and attention 
to raise good seed corn, and we quote below what Mr. C. P. Hartley, of U. S. Department of Agri- 
culture, in his Bulletin No. 415, has to say: "Well-conducted corn breeding requires special 
methods that general farmers have not time to apply If there is a corn breeder who demon- 
strates the superiority of his corn, you should pay him well for his superior seed. Five dollars 
a bushel will be a profitable margin for both parties. Such corn breeders are improving corn 
as cattle breeders are improving cattle. The general farmer is a propagator rather than a 
breeder of corn. He profits by the careful work of the breeder by adopting yielding strains 
and propagating them." 
OUR EXPERIMENTAL GROUNDS — We make provisions at our Lake Rainbow Farm 
for planting test plots of varieties of seed corn, and also to note the comparative growth of 
varieties offered by others. We also test new things as offered, and in all our testing we have 
not found any seed corn that is superior to our Four-Ear Prolific Corn. Our customers 
secure the benefit of all the painstaking care, and may be assured that this corn is suited for 
their planting. 
THIS CORN WILL GIVE YOU RESULTS. You can buy seed from us that will pro- 
duce a crop almost anywhere corn is grown. Don't think because you live 800 miles south 
or north of us that our corn will not do in your section; it will give better results than almost 
any variety you could plant because it is so prolific. 
Mr. J. H. Moore made 201 bushels on one acre of ground 
Winona, S. C, Oct. 27, 1911. 
" I gathered fodder the middle of September and measured 201 J/^ bushels as per certifi- 
cate. 
"The seed used was Batt's Four-Ear Prolific, and I consider that the yield is largely due 
to this splendid variety of earing corn. I could not have made this yield with common vari- 
eties. I only planted one acre and the value of the crop was $231.11. 
Respectfully, 
(Signed) J. H. MOORE." 
Mr. Moore entered into a contest and his corn and land were measured by outside parties 
and sworn to. 
