IMPROVED EARLY SWEEPSTAKES 
ENSILAGE CORN 
Ten days earlier and much more desirable in every way than the old 
Sweepstakes Ensilage Corn—a variety grown chiefly in Central Pennsyl¬ 
vania near Williamsport. The New York State College of Agriculture 
used it some years ago in plot tests and found it gave a large green tonnage 
and matured early enough to qualify as an excellent silage variety. It 
ears heavily and matures earlier than most other varieties sold under the 
name of Sweepstakes. 
Dibble’s Improved Early Sweepstakes is a blend, made by crossing 
Lancaster Sure Crop, White Cap Yellow Dent, and a red variety of the 
Bloody Butcher type. The plant is a vigorous grower, 10 to 15 feet on 
good soil, ears 8 to 12 inches in length, with 12 to 20 rows of kernels. Cob 
is usually large and rather well filled at the tip. The color of kernels varies 
from Red to White Cap Yellow Dent. 
We have been selecting for the red-kernel type and have thereby cut 
down materially on the percentage of white-cap yellow ears. Some ears, 
however, have kernels with very light-colored caps and only a tinge of 
red on the sides of the kernels. Others are nearly red. It has been an excep¬ 
tionally favorable fall for the maturing of this variety and we have some 
very choice high-germinating seed to offer. 
Dibble’s Improved Early Sweepstakes made a wonderful growth on 
our seed farms last year and the crop was thoroughly ripe right here in 
western New York four years in succession. 
OUR SWEEPSTAKES IS EARLY 
In 1934 I planted some of your W. 
B. Sweepstakes which I held over from 
1933, also some I bought here (Ej bus.), 
and your seed was so much superior I 
prefer yours. Stalks from your seed grew 
to average 12 to 14 feet, whereas the 
other averaged about 9 to 10.— Ralph S. 
Brown, W. Townsend, Mass. 
My field of Sweepstakes Corn surely is 
a sight, with 2 and 3 ears on each stalk. 
There is nothing to compare with it 
around here.— Thos. D. Nolan, Clinton, 
N. Y. 
I am sending you an order for Sweep- 
stakes Corn. We have planted your Corn 
for a number of years with great results. 
—Paul R. Giles, Waterville, Me. 
I planted your West Branch Sweep- 
stakes Corn in 1936 and had a big crop 
despite the drought.—A. N. Peterson, 
Victory Mills, N. Y. 
The Improved Early Sweepstakes 
grew 12 feet high, ripened in 110 days, 
and produced 23 tons of ensilage per acre. 
•—Michael Dailey, Sheffield, Mass. 
BIG RED DENT CORN 
Is a Com of great value and well worthy of trial. We found this Corn in northern 
Ohio several years ago, and in comparison with Improved Learning on adjoining 
farms, it has larger and more vigorous stalks. It grew more and bigger foliage 
than the Learning, with bigger ears and more of them, and ripened earlier. Experi¬ 
ence on our farms has given the same results, and a number of the leading dairymen 
in our section, after seven years’ experience, consider it the best ensilage Corn for 
western New York. There have been raised at least 100 acres of it in our town that 
would have husked 125 to 150 bushels of sound, dry Corn to the acre if it had not 
been put into the silos. A number of our customers who planted it in a small way 
last season had most satisfactory crops and will plant heavily of it this year. 
Dibble’s Big Red Dent grows tall and vigorous, with leafy stalks, and is a 
remarkable producer. The kernels when thoroughly dry are of a beautiful reddish 
tint, well set on a small, red cob. Recommended for trial in all sections where 
Improved Learning gives good results. 
Your Big Red Dent is the best ensilage Corn I have ever grown, it produced the 
most ears, as well as tons.— Emmett Hathaway, Equinunk, Pa. 
DIBBLE’S FARM SEED CATALOG • 1939 
