to fifty bushels to the acre, and weighing 
as high as 65 pounds to the measured bush¬ 
el. A careful system of breeding and selec¬ 
tion has been given the original grain by a 
prominent wheat grower of the Northwest, 
until the claims for it are in brief, first, great 
productiveness, second, unusual hardiness 
and vigor, third, unequalled milling prop¬ 
erties, many of the great Milling Kings of 
the Northwest unqualifiedly asserting that 
no other variety in existence can approach 
it in this respect. 
Champion White Pearl Corn. 
BY J. C. SUFFERN. 
After 12 years of the most careful breed¬ 
ing, by selecting, in regard to type, charac¬ 
teristics, maturity, purity, evenness in fer¬ 
tilization, weight, etc., with a view of ex¬ 
celling any other person, in the improve¬ 
ment and dissemination of a variety that 
would prove superior to any yet introduced, 
I now think my former ideal realized, hav¬ 
ing subjected it to most severe tests in va¬ 
rious parts of the country, in order to learn 
its inherent defects, and have since then 
improved them. 
I will endeavor to describe the corn hon¬ 
estly just as I know it, from 12 year’s ex¬ 
perience: It is a pure, white com. It is an 
early variety, maturing in 85 to 100 days, 
according to season, cultivation, fertility of 
soil and the climate. It is a pure dent corn, 
showing the same type and characteristics 
in almost every ear. It is exceedingly 
heavy and compact upon the cob. It is 
uniform in cross and self fertilization and 
maturity, giving an even grade of corn. 
It is very prolific and yields according to 
manner and thoroughness of cultivation, 
the season, fertility of soil and the climate. 
The grain is extra long and wide; two of 
which will more than span the cob. The 
cob is unusually small for the size of the 
corn. Being a medium-sized corn, it can 
be planted much thicker than a larger 
corn, and at the same time bear a full-sized 
ear. It contains no barren habits, and but 
little smut, these having been bred out by 
constant selection of stalk. 
Unwise Economy in Saving Seed. 
Your readers are accustomed to sound 
advice from you and many of them accept 
with little question what you recommend. 
I think though,they should take with a grain 
of salt the advice to save seed from plants 
grown in the garden. It may “save a dol¬ 
lar or two next spring,” but it may cost 
several dollars when the vegetables are 
gathered. The growing of seeds is a bus¬ 
iness which requires special training andi 
it is of great importance that seed should' 
be properly grown and cured. The cost of 
the seed bears a small proportion to the 
value of the crop. For instauces: Four 
dollars worth of cabbage seed will produce 
a crop worth from $100 to $200. The differ¬ 
ence represents the cost of land and labor, , 
plus the profit. Now it takes just as much, 
land and labor to grow a crop from poor 
seed as from good. Is it worth while for so 
small a sum to run so great a risk? I do not 
mean to say that a farmer cannot give the 
growing of seed the proper attention, but 
practically he will not, for it is, with him, 
only a side issue to his business of farming. 
Seed grown from the same stock on the 
same ground year after year deteriorates, 
unless careful selection is made to preserve 
purity. This selection the amateur will not: 
make. Let people by all means be econom - 
ical, but let them remember that there is. 
such a tiling as unwise economy.— Knicker¬ 
bocker^ Albany , N* TV 
