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Description of Early Wonder. 
This, together with Oats and Corn, Is the greatest of all the fa mer's crops, and no bright, intelll- 
?:ent man who wants to make his farm pay looks at the few extra cents that he has to pay for care- 
ully improved seed stock of any kind. Our Early Wonder Wheat is the result of years of testing and 
experimenting with all the different varieties which have been offered the past few years, and out of 
the entire lot this wheat was selected, and has been improved each .season until we now offer it with 
the feeling that we have secured a wheat which will in time take the place of all other varieties. It 
bas proven to be the most prolific, heaviest stooling and finest milling wheat ever offered, and this is 
enough to recommend it to any farmer who is a wheat grower. Its being grown for years in the ex- 
treme North assures all of its hardiness. This, with its heavy yields and its earliness, will make it 
the most desirable variety for all sections cf America, if you want to get a heavy yield and make 
money this season, you can do it by sowing the Early Wonder Wheat, Bonanza King Oats and flasta- 
don Com, the three heavy cropping farm favorites. 
FIVE GOOD REASONS WHY "EARLY WONDER" SHOULD BE 
SOWN BY EVERY FARMER IN AMERICA. 
1— It's the heaviest yielding wheat in the world. 2— It's perfectly hardy and 
can be grown in any section. 3 — It's early, and this alone is a valuable point. 4 — 
It makes the choicest flour and is the best milling wheat we know of. 5 — It will 
increase your crops and bring yoi' more money per acre than any other wheat. 
Prices: By mail, pkt. (2 oz.) lOc, lb. 30c, 4 lb. $1.00, postpaid; by 
freight or express, pk. 6Sc, K bu. SI.OO, bu. SI. 75, bag (2^ bu.) S4.2S, 
5 bu. S8.00. 
THE NEW SPRING WHEAT. 
MINNESOTA No. 163. 
This variety of wheat known as Minnesota No.^63, introduced by us last season 
I tlirough Prof. Hay OS of the expermental department at St. Anthony Park, Minn., 
I was the means of bringing out one of the most prolific, heaviest stooling varieties 
of Spring Wheat wo know of. The ear is lon^, well filled to the jjoint with fine 
pluinp keriuds. Our stock last season was so limited that we offered it as a premium only. But the amount of wheat produced to the 
acre and the tmoouniging reports from all s(H;tions of the country have put us in shai>e tn offer this wheat at a very reasonable price. 
Shows a (creater yield than tne other varieties, grades equally well, shows a great deal lower percentage of ru.st, and is not near as liable 
to lodge, l)eing a more robust and stronger grower. The gluten test of flour being gre^ler than the other sorts. The baker's .sponge test 
all being in favor of Minnesota No. 16.^, 
SEED CIRCULAR NO. I. 
Minnesota Experimental Station, St. Anthony Park, Minn., Mar. 28, 1899. A certified variety of wheat, Minnesota No. 163. 
This circular is sent out with a new wheat named Minnesota Ko. 16B, which was originated under a system of rigid 
selection. Its parent variety, Minn. No. 168 (Glyndon 811), is thought to be a variety of lied Fife wheat, though its name was lost by the 
burning of the station building in 1890. 
This parent wheat was grown at Warren, 
Marshall County, Minn., in 1890; at Glyn- 
don, Clay Coiuity, Minn., in 1891 ; and at 
Power, Kichland County, N. D., in 1892. 
At the last named place -100 kernels were 
plant-ed in hills 12 inches hy 18 inches apart, 
one grain in a hill. Plant 2001 yielded 15.4 
grams of fine wheat. Tliis being the heavi- 
est yielder among the -iOO plants, it was 
cho.sen as the mother plant of this new 
variety. 
In 1893, 100 of the hardest seeds from 
this parent were planted at the College 
Farm, Fargo, N. D. (centgener 14301). 
After securing the best plants with which 
to continue the breeding experiments, and 
after discarding several of the poorest 
plants, the grain from the remaining plants 
of the plot was harvested in bulk. In 1894 
this setMi was planicd in a small plot on 
University Farm, St. Anthony Park, Minn., 
and was increase<l so that in 1895 there was 
sufficient seed for a one-twentieth acre plot. 
In liSff it was in the variety tests at Uni- 
versity Farm, at Northwest Farm, Crooks- 
ton, and at College Farm, Fargo, N. D. 
Owing to excessive rains in the Red River 
Valley just before harvest time, the condi- 
tions were so lacking in uniformity that 
the records of yi(>lds at Fargo and Crooks- 
ton in 1897 have not been u.sed in making 
up the avi-rage yield.s. In 1898, this wheat 
was in the variet.v tests at University Farm; 
at Northwest Farm, Crookst<m ; at North- 
east Farm, Grand Rapids; at College Farm, 
Fargo, N. D.; at College Farm, Brookings, 
3. D., and at College Farm, Ames, Iowa, 
all proving it to be a heavy yielding va- 
riety, superior to all others. 
Lb. 20c; by express or freight, pk. 
60c. bu. S2.00. 
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