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But One Grew Before—The Fall Bearing 
The Admiral Dewey Popcorn 
As a boy, nothing tasted better to me 
than popcorn, and so far as popcorn is 
concerned, I am a boy again. LASt year 
we planted a quantity of a new popcorn 
that w’e got hold of and it gave us such 
fine results that we offered it to our cus¬ 
tomers the past spring. We made many 
sales and the results with It were favor¬ 
able. This popcorn, which we have 
named the “Admiral Dewey,” is a dwarf 
rice variety, producing two or three ears 
to the stalk. The stalks are dwarfish, 
never growing over 3V4 feet high. The 
ears and kernels are small and it Is sure 
to pop. The past two years have been 
the most unfavorable years for corn in 
this locality that I have ever gone 
through. We planted about an acre of 
this corn the past spring about June 20th. 
It was so dry afterwards and until frost 
came in the fall that the corn had a hard 
time to come up. It struggled and strug¬ 
gled and finally was coming fine when a 
Strawberry Man. 
hard freeze that froze ice V4-inch thick 
occurred Sept. 10th. We let the corn 
stand and it hardened up, not a full 
crop, but a pretty good crop after all. 
We have about 50 bushels to sell and 
every kernel most will grrow or pop. This 
popcorn has a different taste than the 
ordinary rice and is liked better than 
the rice by most people. It will be seen 
that it took but 80 days to get a fair crop 
this year, even with the disastrous 
drouth. We think this is unprece¬ 
dented. In an ordinary season, it would 
mature two or three ears to most every 
stalk. The color is a beautiful golden 
yellow. W’e want all our customers to 
try this popcorn, especially those who 
find it difficult to mature ordinary pop¬ 
corn in their locality. Price—whole ears 
—10c each; 5 for 25c, po.stpaid: half-peck, 
75c; peck, $1.25; half-bushel, $2.00; 
bushel, $3.50. Popcorn grows better 
when not shelled until a short time be¬ 
fore planting. All our corn is shipped on 
the ear. 
L. J. Farmer's Three “Kids,” James, Helen and Mattie, After the Last Strawberries, 
November 11th, 1910. Nearly a Foot of Snow Had Fallen. 
A Valuable New Variety of Oats—“COUNT PULASKI” 
Our town was named after Count 
Pulaski, a Polish patriot who came to 
our country during the Revolutionary 
War and offered his services to Washing¬ 
ton. He was killed at the siege of 
Savannah in 1799. We have named the 
new oat which we offer this year for the 
first time “Count Pulaski,” and we be¬ 
lieve that we could not find a more 
appropriate name. 
While it is not generally known, It Is a 
fact, however, that the most of the new 
and valuable varieties of oats originate 
in Sweden, The climate of that country 
is cool and unusually favorable for the 
full development of this particular kind 
of. grain. The government carries on 
experiments with oats and has super¬ 
vision over the establishment in that 
country which makes it a specialty to 
test and originate new varieties of oats. 
A friend of mine while on a trip to 
Sweden, came across the new oat which 
we have named Count Pulaski and 
selected it as the best one out of a long 
list of new varieties. After he had made 
