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We Are One of the Largest Dealers of Soy Beans in the United States. 
OPEN POLLINATED CORN 
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Kelly’s Utility Type Corn 
While we do not recommend 
open pollinated corn to any of 
our customers to grow, we have 
a small amount of two of our 
best varieties. 
Kelly’s Yellow Dent 
This we believe to be the best 
open pollinated corn to grow. 
Large, rich colored, yellow ear. 
Utility type. Ears 10 to 12 
inches long, well covered. Easy 
to husk and stands up well for 
open pollinated corn having 
been sack picked from standing 
stalks for almost twenty years. 
Matures in 118 days. Prices, 
large or medium flat grains, 
$2 per bushel; medium rounds, 
$1.50 per bushel. 
Reid’s Improved 
Yellow Dent 
A little rougher type and a 
little later corn than our Kel¬ 
ly’s Yellow Dent. Requires 120 
days to mature. The best corn 
you can plant for silage. Makes 
a heavy growth of foliage and 
a good yield of corn. Prices, 
large or medium flat grains, $2 
per bushel; medium rounds, 
$1.50 per bushel. 
060 Hybrid corn standing within 
forty rods of the same field of 
open pollinated corn on left after 
a severe wind storm. 
Kelly’s Three-Way Cross Corn Containing 
Two Inbreds 
This is a corn which is top- 
crossed making a variety which 
will stand up much better than 
the open pollinated but not equal 
to our best Hybrids. It was de- 
tasseled the same as the Certified 
Hybrids. Price for large or me¬ 
dium flat grains $2.50 per bushel. 
White Cap or Red 
Ninety-Day Corn 
One of the best early feed corns 
you can grow. Matures in 95 
days, making a high yield for 
early corn. One year we planted 
some of this the 3rd day of July 
and it made 55 bushels per acre 
of marketable corn. Very good 
feed for fall and winter but gets 
rather hard by the next summer 
for feeding purposes. Prices Large 
or medium flats, $2.50 per bushel. 
Medium rounds, $1.50 per bushel. 
Left picture shows how a sixty 
acre field of 960 Hybrid corn 
grown for seed looked after a 
storm of last summer. One could 
see 40 rods down the row easily. 
Scarcely a stalk down. 
Picture on right shows how a 
neighboring field looked after the 
same storm had blown it down. 
Open pollinated corn, of course. 
Which would you rather husk? 
Krug open pollinated corn after 
a severe wind storm. 
SHELLING AND GRADING CORN 
When we first started in the seed corn business 
many years ago, we used a one-hole corn sheller 
turned by hand. Next we used a two-hole sheller 
operated by electricity. For the last nine years we 
have been shelling our seed corn in a large cylinder 
sheller, same as we shelled our commercial corn. 
This fall we put in a new cylinder sheller made 
especially for shelling seed corn. Lugs on both cyl¬ 
inder and casing are rounded in such a way as not 
to cut or scratch the seed coat of the kernel of corn. 
This sheller is also geared down to about one-fifth 
the speed of the regular sheller which helps to 
eliminate cracking and damaging seed coats. 
Our corn is all tipped and butted before being 
shelled and if there is any damage to the top of the 
grain by mice, this is shelled out by hand. We do 
not put in any corn for seed which has the seed 
coats damaged. A broken seed coat allows disease 
to enter the grain, allows decay to start in and de¬ 
stroy the plant food stored up in the grain of corn 
which is all it has to live on until its root system 
is sufficiently developed to furnish plant food. The 
damaged seed coat also often allows too much 
moisture to enter the grain of corn changing the 
starches to sugar faster than the plant can use them. 
This makes a grain of corn get a root, but often¬ 
times the sprout does not develop. 
