Our Corn Often Increases Yields Ten Bushels Per Acre 
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Seed Corn $2*50 Bushel 
Good Seed Corn is costing us more this year than in 1929 when we sold it for $4.50 to 
$5.00 bus. All our corn is sack picked, which was a slow expensive job on the 1933 
crop. The cost of picking in some fields was more than the cost of the corn. We were 
fortunate in having some fields yield as much as 60 bu. per acre which helped to reduce 
the average cost. All our corn is fire dried on wire racks or open bins, from disease 
free seed, hand tipped, every ear examined by two men, shelled and graded. Sack 
picked corn is higher yielding, has stronger vitality, stands up better, earlier maturing 
and produces a better grade of corn. 
Our Seed Corn has been sack picked for 17 years. Picked from standing stalks and 
will stand up where often times common husked seed corn goes down badly. This ad¬ 
vantage our corn has, is more to you than the cost of the corn which is only 30c per acre. 
HIGH YIELDING AND EARLY MATURING CORN 
Another advantage of sack picked corn is that we do not pick ears off the late green 
stalks and by doing this we get earlier maturing corn and corn which is much higher 
yielding than common corn which is picked out of a wagon at husking time or out of 
the crib in the spring. 
The same old story. Notiee the difference in the early picked fire dried corn. This 
is a pictnre we always use because it shows better than we can tell 
the different results of proper storage of seed corn 
Too many farmers for their own interests figure it economy to buy seed corn which 
is picked out of a wagon at husking time because they save 50c or $1.00 bus. on it. At 
$1.00 bus. it amounts to only about a dime an acre. 
Or worse still, they will plant seed corn which has been picked out of a crib, or corn 
that has hung in a driveway or tool shed where it has been subject to freezing and 
thawing during the winter. Everytime corn freezes and thaws it lessens the vigor of the 
plant. 
An Example of What Good Seed Corn Is Worth 
We seldom put a testimonial in our catalog: but just received one at the time we were 
writing- this catalog which is characteristic of many we receive. We have not asked the 
writer of this inquiry to use his letter but it proves so well the value of good seed corn that 
we ask his pardon and using it. 
Gifford, Ill., Dec. 26, 1933. 
Kelly Seed Co., 
San Jose, Ill. 
Gentlemen: 
What is your price on your Kelly Seed Corn? Three years ago I got some of your seed 
at Peoria, when the Grain Dealers’ Convention was there, and sure had real success with 
it. 69 bu., 76% bu., and 51 bu. has been the average for the three years. What would be 
your price on 3 bu. extra select seed corn for project work? Please let me hear from you. 
Send me your catalog. Fred Mennenga, Jr. 
