THE NEBRASKA SEED C0„ OMAHA, NEB, 
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PEDIGREE SEED CORN 
THE COST OF GOOD SEED AND 
ITS VALUE 
The extra expense m growing our seed corn is 
not the largest item in its cost. Once harvested 
It must be carefully hand picked three times be¬ 
fore shelling. After picking and grading it is 
seldom that more than 15 per cent of the crop is 
left for seed. Hence it is apparent that our mar¬ 
gin of profit is not large. A bushel of corn will 
plant six to eight acres. It usually costs less 
than 35c to plant one acre. 
If the yield is increased one bushel to the acre 
the cost of good seed corn has been paid. Prof. 
Holden shows a difference in yield due to the 
seed planted of from twenty to eighty bushels 
per acre. This difference in yield is the difference 
between planting common crib corn and planting 
our selected, graded, hand picked, pedigree seed 
corn, with a history of big yields behind it. 
IMPROVED LEAMING. The Learning, in its 
various types, is probably more largely planted, 
now, both in northern and southern states, than 
any other field corn known. The ears are very 
handsome, of good size, with fair-sized grain of 
a deep orange color and small, red cob. The 
stalks grow to medium size (not large), with few 
suckers, slender and leafy, making most excel¬ 
lent fodder, and usually produce two good ears to 
a stalk. It husks and shells easily; ripens in 
from 90 to 100 days, and never fails to make a 
good crop. Over 100 bushels per acre is not an 
unusual crop for this corn. It is also adapted 
to a greater variety of soils than many, produc¬ 
ing unusually well on light land. 
REID’S YELLOW DENT. The great prize- 
winning Show Corn. Now the most popular and 
most uniformly distinct type of Yellow Dent fer 
Northern Central Nebraska (in fact for the whole 
state) and similar corn belts. Fifty years of 
careful selection has resulted in remarkable even¬ 
ness in appearance of ears. It is more accurately 
described as follows; Ear 9 to 10 inches long, 
7 inches around, 18 to 24 rows with narrow space 
between rows; deep grains with small cob well 
filled at butt and tip. We offer a very choice se- 
'ection of seed grown from pedigree seed selec¬ 
tions for years—our stock. This strain is slightly 
rough, tapering very slightly; cob medium. It 
has won first prizes at most all state fairs and 
corn shows. It was grown with the view of 
breeding it up to an average size of ear eliminat¬ 
ing barren and inferior stalks which produce only 
nubbins, and increasing the amount of oil and 
protein in the corn for feed purposes. We believe 
In this corn we have corn in which two bushels 
will do as much towards developing farm animals 
as with an ordinary corn, 2 y% bu. will do. It 
ripens in 120 days easily. 
cobs, instead of 14 pounds, the usual proportion 
Stalks about medium height—6 to 8 feet. 
IOWA SILVER MINE. Stalks grow to a height 
of seven or eight feet and set the ears about three 
and one-half to four feet from the ground, just 
the right height for easy picking. One peculiarity 
we noticed in going over the field was that there 
were no barren stalks, every one had an ear, many 
stalks had two good ears, and the originator says 
that that has been the characteristic every year 
that he has grown it. It has not a large growth of 
fodder, having been bred essentially for grain, 
though it has plenty of blades to support the growth. 
Ask Por Prices. 
IMPROVED LEAMING REID’S YELLOW DENT 
PRIDE OF THE NORTH (16-Rowed, Matures 
in 90 days). Ears 8 to 10 inches in length and 1^4 
inches in diameter. Kernels closely set, above 
medium size, long, narrow, thin, of deep orange 
color, shading to pale yellow at the tip. Cob very 
small and red. In a test, 70 pounds of ears, not 
selected and but imperfectly dried, produced 60^4 
pounds of shelled corn and only 9*4 pounds of 
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