THE WISCONSIN DENT. 
tlx earliest Uariety of Dent Corn in Existence. 
II I QXA Q w Every farmer knows that Dent varieties of 
I I • I \^J | \ T ” corn are more productive than Flint but 
on account of their lateness in ripening it has been safe for only those 
who are located well south where the seasons are long to raise them. 
We have had numberless calls from our customers in Wisconsin, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Maine, Vermont, New Hamp- 
shire and New York for a Dent Corn which would ripen with them 
in an ordinary season. We have been on the lookout for such a one 
for several years past and have tried and discarded a large number 
which had come to us highly recommended as being just what we 
were looking for but upon trial proved to be too late. We have a 
friend who resides in what is known as the best Corn Belt in the State 
ol Ohio, Two years ago we appealed to him to help us find what we 
wanted and lie sent us a small amount of a kind which lie said lie felt 
conlident was “just what our customers were looking for.” We planted 
part of it on our seed farms here at Rochester and sent out small 
amounts to our representatives in the territory the corn was desired for 
and received nothing but praise and commendation the first year. 
Thinking that perhaps the year had been an unusually favorable one 
for corn and that another season’s trial might not give as favorable 
returns, we decided to give it another year’s test before offering it to our 
customers as we will not under any circumstances offer them any seed 
unless we know it is exactly as represented so we wrote each man to 
whom we had sent samples requesting him to give it another year’s 
trial and to make the test more severe if possible and report results. 
We also told them to give out small amounts to their neighbors so as 
to have as large a number of trial plots as possible and the reports the 
second year (last year) were if possible even more flattering than the 
first year. We have named it 
WISCONSIN DENT 
and now offer it to our customers who have been growing Flint varie- 
ties fully assured that the long desired corn is found at last. 
SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAMED HINNESOTA DENT, 
Timothy Whalen, of Wright Co., Minn., says “ If the farmers of this state 
all grew your WISCONSIN DENT corn, it would be worth hundreds of 
thousands of dollars to them. I know of ten different small pieces of it in this 
section and they were all thoroughly ripe and cut before frost came. It yields 
nearly double what the ordinary Flint varieties grown in this vicinity do: You 
should have named it Dinnesota Dent. No other kind will be grown here as soon 
as farmers can get seed enough of this.'” 
$25 00 WORTH FROM 1 IN ONTARIO, 
H. W. Jones of Victoria Co., Ont., says:—” When your agent first asked me 
to buy some Dent corn, I laughed at him to think of such a thing as growing a 
Dent corn in Canada. He finally said ‘ Try a dollar’s worth, and if you are not 
satisfied I will give you your dollar back.’ I couldn’t kick on that, so I bought 
the dollar’s worth and I tell you what, I thought I knew all about corn, but I 
begin to think I don’t know anything about these new varieties. The WISCON- 
SIN DE^T is just as early as the Flint varieties and will outyield them every 
time, stand dry weather better, makes better fodder, and in fact is better in 
every respect. I wouldn’t take $25 for my crop from the $1 worth.” 
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