MARKET GARDENERS AND FLORISTS PRICE LIST—1938 
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Welschkorti ( Ger.) SWEET CORN Mais (It.) 
One pound of seed will plant 350 to 400 hills; 10 to 12 lbs. will plant an acre. A bushel weighs 48 lbs. 
At the prices here quoted, sweet corn is not prepaid. Purchaser pays transportation on 
sweet corn except as follows: If your order for vegetable seeds, including corn, amounts to $20.00 
or more we will prepay the FREIGHT charges. Write for special prices on larger lots than quoted here. 
Harris’ Northern Grown Sweet Corn 
For many years we have made a specialty of growing sweet corn seed of the highest quality 
here in the North and due to our efforts in careful scientific selection and breeding to improve the 
earliness, yield and quality, the demand for Harris’ Sweet Corn has grown so that we are now large 
producers of the best market varieties. 
Hybrid Sweet Corn 
Hybrid sweet corn has become very popular among growers, especially those whose market 
is large enough to dispose of large pickings at one time. The large number of hybrids (many of 
which are of doubtful value) now offered make it difficult for the grower to choose the best. Good 
hybrids can be produced only from carefully selected pure line parent stocks. In the production 
of hybrid seed corn constant detasseling of the seed parent is absolutely necessary. Many seed 
fields of hybrid corn are detasseled only three or four times but we find that it is necessary to go 
carefully through each of our fields twelve to fifteen times in order to do a complete job. This is 
expensive work but is the only way that first class hybrid stocks can be grown. 
Hybrid sweet corn cannot be saved for seed the next year as it will break down. 
Northern Cross 
A New Tremendous Yielding Hybrid 
See photograph on front cover 
This new corn is without doubt the best hybrid of the 
Whipple’s Yellow type. Growers who had this corn last 
year were first struck by the fine stand and vigor of the 
young plants, and as their crops matured were greatly im¬ 
pressed by the earliness and large yield of fine big ears, more 
often than not getting two good big ears to a plant and 
sometimes three. It is truly a tremendous yielder of fine 
large ears and fills the gap between the extra early kinds 
and Whipple’s Yellow. 
These large ears are very uniform in size, fully eight 
inches long with 12-14 rows of bright yellow kernels and are 
very attractive in appearance. The quality is exceptionally 
high. 
This corn matures a few days before Whipple’s Yellow 
and from 10 to 12 days earlier than Golden Cross Bantam. 
Northern Cross is a product of our own breeding here 
in the North, being a cross between two of our own pure 
line inbreds and can be produced only by us. We are 
confident that this fine corn will continue to be the out¬ 
standing market variety and urge our customers to make 
a planting this year. See prices on page 15. 
* ‘ We find that Northern Cross Corn is the best corn to follow Golden Early 
Market. It ripens about one week later but is a much better yielder. It yields 
two and three full size ears on a stalk. We averaged about 1200 doz. per acre.” 
Nov. 15, 1937 Hafner Bros., North Syracuse, N. Y. 
Early Bancross 39 
A New Early Crossed Corn 
This new crossed corn has proved a winner to growers 
who want a large uniform ear maturing before Golden 
Cross Bantam. 
The ears are similar to this variety but mature 10 days 
earlier. The plant is rugged and prolific, with the majority 
of the plants producing two good ears. 
Our seed of this new hybrid has been produced under 
our careful supervision by a top cross of Purdue 39 on our 
own selected stock seed of Harris’ Extra Early Bantam. 
This corn should be sown at the same rate as the open 
polinated varieties. 
See prices on page 15. 
Early Bancross 39 
