Earns Dollars 
A Good Stand Is Half the Battle 
Every corn grower knows the importance of securing a 
good stand. But good stands, especially for early plantings 
or when the soil is cold and wet, are hard to get. Too 
many missing hills and too many hills with only one stalk 
usually leave a stand that is only fair. That’s what cuts 
into your corn income year after year. 
New Improved Semesan Jr. should help to give you better 
stands. It generally protects the seed from decaying, and 
the seedlings from blights and root rots caused by such 
fungi as Diplodia and Gibber ell a. In most of the Iowa and 
Illinois tests reported on the previous page, treatment of 
the seed increased the stand over untreated seed by 5 
to 15%. 
In many sections last year was a poor seed corn year. 
Your seed may not be up to its usual quality. Don't take 
chances with it. A little time spent in testing it for germina¬ 
tion and a small investment in New Improved Semesan Jr. 
will usually pay big returns at harvest. 
Knee High by the Fourth of July 
An old maxim among corn growers is that, “Corn should 
be knee high by the Fourth of July.” That’s just another 
way of saying the young corn plant should get a good, 
early start if it is to make a good yield. 
'While riding the cultivator, have you ever noticed how 
many plants were only a foot high when the others were 
twice as tall? There's a reason for those small plants. 
Most of them have been stunted during the seedling stage 
by the attacks of certain fungi (molds) carried on the seed 
and in the soil. At harvest time most of those stunted 
plants w ill be barren or will produce only nubbins. 
No seed treatment can grow a big ear on every stalk, 
but New Improved Semesan Jr. can reduce the number of 
weak, stunted plants. A good stand of plants, “knee high 
by July 4th,” usually means a good crop of corn. That’s 
why Neio Improved Semesan Jr. adds 1 to 6 extra bushels 
per acre to your corn crop. 
