The Newest Variety Sweet Corn on the Market 
the season we were regularly selling Aunt Mary's Sweet 
Corn to twenty-two individual stores. 
Our season began August 20, and our crop was exhausted 
September 23, and in those thirty business days we sold over 
two thousand three hundred dozen ears of Aunt Mary's 
Sweet Corn at wholesale prices of from ten to twenty cents 
a dozen, in competition with Golden Bantam, Country Gentle¬ 
men and many other favorite varieties. In addition to our 
sales to the stores, corn lovers came to the farm and pur¬ 
chased this corn by the hundred weight for drying and 
canning. 
I am publishing this fact, because I believe that a farmer 
or truck grower living near any town in the United States, 
can the first year build up as satisfactory a demand for Aunt 
Mary's Sweet Com as I have done in my home town. 
On account of the limited quantity, the price of seed for 
a few years will be higher than that of other corn, but one 
of our very live grocers told me that during the season his 
customers would buy from him no other sweet corn when 
Aunt Mary’s was available. Another grocer told me that 
the quality of Aunt Marys' corn had increased his corn sales 
above the record of any other year, and still other, that his 
customers would pay an increased price for it over any other 
corn. I am sure you will agree with me that the first grower 
of Aunt Mary’s Sweet Corn in any town will be able to out¬ 
sell his competitors and make a profit on the extra price he 
pays for the seed. 
In Van Wert the seed will be on sale in different sized bags 
containing one eighth, one quarter, one half, and one full 
pound at all three of the seed stores: Campbell's — Gun- 
sett's — Wilson & Girod’s. 
It is possible that later in the season I may find I have 
enough seed to sell it at wholesale to seedsmen in a few 
other towns, but now and until March, my main effort will 
be to sell it to cemmercial gardeners and to farmers living 
near enough to towns and cities to deliver the green corn very 
early in the morning to the local merchants. 
If any reader of this article will send me the names and ad¬ 
dresses of friends who are commercial gardeners, I will be 
glad to try to interest those friends, wherever located in 
growing Aunt Mary's Sweet Corn for market. We all know 
that every person in the world is vitally interested in food and 
also that the best foods advertise themselves quickly, as 
Aunt Mary's Sweet Com has done. 
I notice that I have neglected to say that I advertised my 
corn in our local papers, and I am glad to tell you that no 
food product was ever better advertised by the people who 
ate of it. Wherever men and women were congregated in 
friendly intercourse, someone was sure to remark upon the 
fact that Aunt Mary's Sweet Cora was better than any other 
