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SELECT VEGETABLE, FIELD AND FLOWER SEEDS 
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THOROUGHBRED FIELD CORN 
These splendid varieties have all been grown especially for seed, and will be found well-cured and true to name, —in fact, 
first class in every respect. We would ask our customers to place their orders as early as possible while our stocks remain 
unbroken. 
True Yellow Learning 
An extensively grown large Yellow Dent variety which we 
have sold with the greatest satisfaction for years. Our improved 
strain we do not believe is excelled, if equaled, by any other 
now offered. It has pure, glossy yellow ears, growing low, on 
very strong, heavy stalks ; grains square and deep ; ripens 
quite early — frequently in ioo days Tom planting. Yields from 
75 to ioo bushels per acre. Adapted to rich soils. Bus. $1.50. 
Pride of the North 
The very earliest Yellow Dent Field Corn in cultivation, and 
can be successfully grown farther North than any other Dent 
Variety. Ripens readily even in New England. Matures per¬ 
fectly in ninety days, and is very frequently safe from frost in 
seventy-five days. Very hardy, ears of uniform size ; too small 
for a main crop, but the right size for stock or cattle feeding; 
cob small, kernels set closely on the cob, and are long and 
compact. This variety is planted quite largely for early crop to 
feed stock while jet green; and is also planted late, when 
larger varieties could not possibly mature before the frosts. 
Bus. $1.50. 
Early Mastodon Yellow Field Corn 
This is one of the earliest of the very large yellow field Corns. 
It originated in Ohio, and it is a high-bred Corn and .a great 
yielder, one report from New York state giving over two hun¬ 
dred bushels of shelled Corn to the acre, and in Nebraska one 
hundred and seventy-five bushels of Corn. It matures in 100 to 
no days. The fodder grows to a good height, and the ears are 
well filled out both at the butt and tip. Bus. $2. 
Reid’s Thoroughbred Yellow Dent 
If any seed grain can truly be called pedigreed, the Reid’s 
Yellow Dent Field Corn is certainly entitled to be known as 
such. It has been bred-up and selected with painstaking care 
to what is at the present time one of the best varieties of yellow 
Corn grown. Ear medium in size, remarkably uniform, and of 
a bright yellow color, with solid deep grain and small red cob. 
Has from 18 to 24 rows of kernels on the cob, 50 to 60 grains in 
the row, and is well-filled over the ends, and especially the butt, 
leaving a small shank, which makes it a great favorite with 
huskers. Best shredding sort, as it shatters the least of any by 
actual test. In some of the principal Corn-growing states of the 
West it has no equal, and reports from many other states are 
very flattering. The Iowa Experiment Station report gave the 
Reid’s Yellow Dent an average of 100 bushels per acre. Bus. $2. 
Iowa Gold Mine 
It is a very strong grower with heavy fodder and large ears. 
An enormous yielder. It is of a reddish yellow in color ; aver¬ 
aging a little larger, and maturing a little earlier than the well- 
known True Yellow Learning. It is noted for its hardiness and 
vigorous habit of growth. On this account it will stand quite 
early planting, even when the ground is still too cold to risk 
planting many other good sorts. It shows very little, if any 
damage, should it become wet after being husked. It is a very 
heavy and sure cropper. Bus. $ 2. 
FODDER AND ENSILAGE 
CORN 
Red-Cob Ensilage Corn 
A southern type of large white Corn, with strong, leafy stalks 
and short joints. Farmers growing the Red-Cob Ensilage for 
the first time tell us they hardly know what to do with the 
enormous yield of fodder. Bus. $1.25. 
Sweet Corn for Green Fodder 
There is nothing better or more greedily eaten by stock of 
all kinds. Can be planted same as other Corn, or sown thickly 
in drills or broadcast. Bus. $2.50. 
DOUBLE YOUR CORN CROP. ADVANTAGES of CHANGING SEED CORN. There is perhaps no other crop that we 
‘ raise that is so much benefited by the introduction of fresh seed from time to time as a 
field Corn, provided the change is to a well selected stock. Our best customers will not plant their own raising of seed at all, but buy of us 
every year. They can grow nearly double the crop on the same land that they can from their own raising, and of better quality and more sal¬ 
able in the markets. “Change your seed” is the motto ©f all prosperous farmers. 
