AUNT MARY’S SWEET CORN FARM 
these he drove 50 or more headless nails. After husking the corn 
we impaled each one of the ears on one of those nails, and until 
nearly Thanksgiving time I kept my cellar very warm and ripened 
the corn. 
The following spring I had enough seed to plant nearly 20 acres. 
When the corn was ready for the table I had my helper fill a small 
truck with it and visit every grocer and restaurant in town. To 
every helper in both grocery and restaurant he gave a half-dozen 
ears with instructions that the corn was to be taken home and eaten 
on the family table. 
The next day my helper loaded the truck again and visited the ' 
dealers, and eight of them immediately bought corn and placed it 
on sale. The following day a still greater number of them took it, 
and at the end of the season every grocer in Van Wert was selling 
AUNT MARY’S SWEET CORN at the regular price of 15c per 
dozen, for which they had paid me 10c per dozen wholesale. 
During that season I gave without charge AUNT MARY’S 
SWEET CORN to every Sunday School picnic, to every political 
gathering where a banquet was served, to every lodge for its festive 
occasions, to every family reunion, and to every public gathering 
where a meal was served all the sweet corn which they could use. 
I used the newspapers for advertising, and before the season was 
over AUNT MARY’S SWET CORN was known as no other corn 
has ever been known in this community. The fun-loving people de¬ 
lighted in calling me “Aunt Mary” as if I were that lady, herself. 
As a result, in addition to the hundreds of dozens of ears of 
AUNT MARY’S SWEET CORN which I had given away for adver¬ 
tising purposes, I sold in this small town over 2500 dozen to the 
grocers. 
By advertising it in my peony catalog last year I sold small bags 
of seed of it to several hundred persons for planting in their home 
gardens. In addition to this I sent out over 8,000 small bags of it 
to state experiment stations, county agents, corn canners, and 
vegeable growers whose names and addresses I had been able to 
procure. From these people I have had many reports which tell me 
tha AUNT MARY’S SWEET CORN is the best in the world. The 
most favorable one has been from a grower in Redondo Beach, Cali¬ 
fornia, who reports that his wife is able to sell AUNT MARY’S 
SWET CORN at 50c per dozen. I have written him asking permis¬ 
sion to publish his name and address. 
It is of my own experience, however, that I wish particularly to 
tell. The weather has not been as favorable for corn in mid-western 
states this year as last year. However, while I lost my first planting 
because the sun cooked the pollen, my second planting for seed suf¬ 
fered little loss, and I hope to be able to ripen from it during the 
next two or three months enough seed for 1938 and 1939. I have 
already seed enough for 1937. 
When the ears became edible, I went to our best grocers and told 
them that both they and their customers knew that AUNT MARY’S 
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