Salzer’s Independence or 4th of July Corn 
The Largest Eared , Heaviest Yielding , Extra Early Sweet Corn 
Our sales of this Sweet Corn have been enormous and are increasing from year to year. Our supply, although 
always larger than that of the preceding year, generally has been exhausted before the end of the season. We 
do not hesitate to say now that more of Salzer’s Independence Corn has been planted all over the country in the 
last few years than of any other extra early sort. 
Comparative tests made in our trial ground prove Salzer’s Independence far superior in size, productiveness 
and delicious quality to any other first early variety; the many testimonials we have received, a few of which are 
printed here, show the satisfaction this corn has given wherever used. 
The vigorous stalks grow about five feet high and frequently produce two fine long ears, 10 to 12 rowed, and about 10 
inches long, which are very symmetrical and handsome. The grains, which are tightly set, are large, deeper than 
broad, very white, and are of an exquisite fine quality, usually found only in the later sorts. Quite often reports have 
reached us of ears of our Independence Corn having been in edible condition in 45 to 50 days from planting the seed, 
and if sown in the fore part of May in our section in a favorable season, luscious ears of this variety should surely be 
ready for the table by July the 4th. 
Salzer’s Independence or Fourth of July Corn, an introduction of ours of over a quarter of a century ago, yields 
first place to none for extreme extra-earliness, and is the earliest white sweet corn grown. It is the LARGEST EARED 
and HEAVIEST YIELDING EXTRA EARLY SWEET CORN, bar none. A great seller at market. Sixty days from 
planting one should pluck mature sweet corn, so that at your Independence Day dinner you can serve sweet, luscious, 
tender, finest quality corn on the cob— ears 10 inches and more fn length, each having 10 to 12 rows, symmetrical, 
handsome, and with nicely rounded, rather blunt, tips. 
It is grown successfully everywhere. 
Mr. George A. Gable, Station B, R. D. 2, Box 187, Toledo, Ohio, writes, “Your Independenee or 4th of July Corn was 
really very early and very good.” Mr. A. Muellenbach, R. D. 3, Fond du Lac, Wis., writes, “Planted your 4th of July 
Sweet Corn on June 24 and had our first ripe ears on August 5. Our neighbors were much interested and asked where 
we secured the seed.” Mrs. P. W. Lamar, Box 163, Pass Christian, Miss., writes, “We hud great success with your Inde¬ 
pendence Sweet Corn. It is the earliest and finest we ever had.” Mr. David Carter, Sr., 2050 Shore Drive, Marinette, Wis., 
Writes, “Your Independence Corn is sure a money maker.” 
Let’s sum up the whole matter on Salzer’s Independence Corn. Every market gardener, every citizen, everybody 
planting same, finds that he has about the largest Earliest Sweet Corn grown, and that it is from five to twenty days 
earlier than other sorts. Then he finds it is sweeter than the sweetest Sweet Corn known to the trade today. Customers 
praise it as the very sweetest, earliest, finest White Sweet Corn offered. If you have never planted it, don’t pass it by 
this year,—be sure to give it a trial. 
373—Price of Salzer’s Independence or 4th of July Corn: Pkg., 12c; lb., 45c; 2 lbs., S3c; 5 lbs., $1.95, postpaid, 
prepaid, 10 lbs., $3.25; 25 lbs., $7.75; 50 lbs., $15.00. 
For about 30 years we have depended upon you for a fine garden. Your Inde¬ 
pendence Corn is great.—Mr. Isaac Perkins, R. D. 1, Box 20, Vanderbilt, Mich. 
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