BARTELDES 
Tested SEED CORN 
The difference between good seed and poor seed is a) 
ways several bushel per acre and sometimes means all the 
difference between success and failure. 
Our seed is selected in the ear, then tipped, butted, shell¬ 
ed and cleaned. Above all, it is tested for germination and 
we put the germination on the tag. 
GRADED CORN. This takes out nearly all of the uneven 
kernels. The cost of this is 25c per bushel extra. 
YELLOW VARIETIES 
KAW CHIEF. The corn is of a deep, golden yellow color, 
ears large, measuring up to 13 and 14 inches in length 
and have 16, 18 and 20 rows to the cob. A bushel of Kaw 
Chief Corn on the ear will yield 58 to 60 pounds of shell¬ 
ed corn. Kaw Chief Com matures in from 95 to 105 days, 
and ordinarily yields for 75 to 80 bushels per acre. 
REID’S YELLOW DENT (100 days). Ears medium size, 
remarkably uniform, a bright yellow color with a deep 
grain and small red cob. 
PRIDE OF THE NORTH (90 days). This variety has 
smaller ears than the late kinds, but is valuable, as it 
matures early. Planted as late as July 4th, it has fully 
matured by October 2nd. A light orange color. 
IMPROVED LEAMING (90 days). This is one of the 
earliest yellow dent corns in cultivation, ripening in 90 to 
100 days from planting. Orange yellow color and red cob. 
WHITE VARIETIES 
PRIDE OF SALINE. Pride of Saline is a medium late, 
about like Silver Mine and Reid’s. The ears are of me¬ 
dium size, the corn is pearly white, medium short, quite 
rectangular in shape and rather hard. In variety tests 
at Manhattan it outyielded every other variety for three 
straight years. If you want to fill your corn crib, plant 
Pride of Saline. 
IOWA GOLD MINE (90 days). It is early, ears of good 
size and symmetrical; color bright golden yellow. 
GOLDEN BEAUTY (100 days). The ears are of perfect 
shape with from 10 to 14 straight rows of bright golden 
yellow grains, remarkable i* size and filled out complete¬ 
ly to the extreme end of the cob. 
BOONE COUNTY WHITE (100 days). Medium late, ears 
large, well proportioned. This variety yields well, even in 
a dry season. 
IOWA SILVER MINE (90 days). The ears measure from 
10 to 12 inches in length, 16 to 20 straight rows of deep, 
pure white kernels on a small cob. 
ODD VARIETIES 
SQUAW CORN (90 days). Blue. (Semi-flint.) This va¬ 
riety grows very dwarf, resisting drought. It is early. 
Ears are rather small and the kernels are blue or white 
and blue. 
CALICO (100 days). The Old-Fashioned Red, White and 
Yellow. Ears are large, grains deep and cob small. Very 
rich in protein and a good feed for stock. 
HICKORY KING (110 days). It is a great yielder, giving 
more shelled corn to the bushel of ears than any other 
variety. 
RED CORN 
BLOODY BUTCHER (100 days). This corn resists the 
drought. Ears long, grain deep red, having sometimes a 
yellow tip. 
Sudan Grass 
SUDAN GRASS 
(Andropogon Sorghum) 
Sudan is a tall, leafy annual grass of the Sorghum family. It is 
a native of a hot, dry climate, which makes it naturally adapted 
to the dry conditions of the Middle West. It has been grown with 
marked success from South Dakota to Texas, and it also grows 
equally well through the humid regions from Maryland to Louis¬ 
iana. Under irrigation, very good results have been secured in Colo¬ 
rado, Arizona and California. 
Sudan Grass may be sown broadcast, drilled or in cultivated rows. 
Where there is sufficient moisture, broadcasting or drilling is pref 
erable; otherwise the grass is likely to be coarse. In seeding this 
way, three pecks to the acre should be used. In cultivated rows 
three feet apart, three pounds of seed to the acre are sufficient. 
Sudan makes a large crop of hay, which yields an average of two 
cuttings or about four tons of fine hay per acre, but a great many 
farmers use Sudan as summer pasture. It crosses very readily with 
all of the cultivated varieties of sorghum, so that when it is grown 
near any such variety, more or less numerous hybrid plants will 
appear. These hybrids do not harm in the fields intended for hay, 
but when a crop is to be harvested for seed, the hybrid plants 
should be rogued out. This should be done as soon as the hybrids 
are in bloom. 
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