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MONROE FLINT. 
The longest eared Flint Corn in existence. It is an 8 
rowed yellow variety. 
Dent varieties of corn 
as a rule yield heavier than Flint. Almost every farmer who grows corn 
wants to grow the Dent, hut those living in the New England and North- 
western Slates and Canada are unable to do so as the crowing season is not 
long enough for the Dent varieties to ripen, consequently such farmers 
have to grow the Flint instead. Of course these farmers have felt that 
they have been laboring under a disadvantage on that account. But the 
introduction of the Eight Rowed Yellow Flint will change all this as it is 
not only one of the earliest Flint varieties in existence but it is also an en- 
ormous yielder outyielding many of the Dent varieties in general cultivation. 
The ears average a considerable longer 
than any Dent corn grown, the difference in the thickness of the ear being 
offset by the extreme length, many of the ears measuring from 12 to IS 
inches and in some instances even 14 inches long. 
The stalks grow to a good height 
and nearly everyone has two ears and many of them three ears each. The 
picture of the ear was mflde from nature, but we were obliged to greatly 
reduce it. in size as the pages of our catalogue are not large enough to show 
a full sized ear. 
The Monroe Flint 
is the result of careful selection extending over a long period of years. The 
introduction of the Monroe Flint Corn will be to the history of corn what 
the introduction of the Early Rose was to the history of potatoes — an event 
to be looked back at as marking a great step in advance. 
As scores of farmers 
made anywhere from five, to hundreds of dollars each by getting into the 
seed of the Early Rose at the start and selling their crops to their neigh- 
bors for seed, so you can make money by getting into the seed of the Mon- 
roe Flint Corn and selling your crop to your neighbors, in addition to hav- 
ing the longest eared and heaviest yielding Yellow Flint Corn in existence 
yourself. This is an opportunity you cannot afford to neglect. 
One peck will easily plant an acre or more. 
One acre with a favorable season and good soil and cultivation will pro- 
duce anywhere from 100 to 150 bushels. A ten acre field of this corn has 
yielded 128 bushels per acre. One peck planted next spring will produce 
enough for all your planting the year following and enough to supply 
your neighbors also who will gladly buy every bushel you have to spare 
at a good advance over the market price when they see how far superior it 
is to the varieties they have been growing. 
We would not advise any farmer who is living in a section where Dent 
varieties can be grown, to grow the Monroe Flint, but in all sections where it is 
necessary to grow a Flint corn; the Monroe Flint is the corn to plant. It will 
outyieid any other Flint corn in existence at least 50 per cent., in fact it is an 
ENORMOUS YIELDER. 
We would like to ask every farmer who has been growing Flint varieties, how 
many bushels of shelled corn per acre have you averaged the past five or ten 
years? and how much has each bushel of shelled corn cost you per bushel to grow. 
With the MONROE FLINT you can increase your yield from 50 to 100 per cent, 
and thus decrease the cost price per bushel of growing your corn. Do not increase 
your arceage but increase your yieldjper acre by planting this wonderful variety. 
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