THEN AND NOW 
T WO extremes, but we 
believe the old pio¬ 
neer did more for his 
Country than we are 
doing today. 
In those early days 
and before that time 
citizens of our country 
took a pride and a pleas¬ 
ure and also took it as 
a part of their duty (as 
it should be) to do 
something for their 
Country. 
Today with too many 
it is, “What can I get 
out of the Country. The 
Country owes me a liv¬ 
ing” and sorry to say 
too many such people 
are running the Country 
—and where to????? 
Our ancestors came to 
this Country in 1695. 
We are directly related 
to George Washington, 
and our people have had 
a small part in the up¬ 
building of this Coun¬ 
try, and it is with great 
sorrow that we find it in 
the condition it is today. 
Fifty years ago women 
wore hoop skirts, 
biistles, petticoats, cor¬ 
sets, cotton stockings, high button shoes, frilled cotton panties; they did the cleaning, washing, 
ironing, mending, raised big families, went to church on Sundays, had never heard of appendicitis 
and were too busy to be sick. 
0. D. Kelly, seated. Entered the business, 1923. Top right: W. G. Kelly, founder of the 
business, 1905. Middle: Arthur Kelly Miller, nephew of W. G. and O. I). Kelly. Left: 
Gordon B. Kelly, son of W. G. Kelly. 
Men wore whiskers, square hats, ascot ties, red flannel underwear, big watches, and chains, 
chopped wood for the stove, bathed once a week, drank 10-cent whiskey and beer, rode in wagons, 
buggies and sleighs, went in for politics, worked fourteen hours a day and lived to a ripe old age. 
The store burned coal oil lamps, carried everything in stock from a needle to a plow, trusted 
everybody, never took an inventory and placed orders for goods years in advance. 
But today women wear silk or no stockings, short skirts, no corsets, an ounce of underwear, have 
bobbed hair, smoke, paint and powder, drink cocktails, play bridge, drive cars, have pet dogs, no 
children and go in for politics. 
Men have high blood pressure, wear no hats, are bald, play golf, bathe twice a day, drink poison, 
play the stock market, ride in airplanes, never go to bed the same day they get up, are misunder¬ 
stood at home, work five hours a day and die young. 
The stores have electric lights, cash registers and elevators, but never have in stock what the 
customers want, trust nobody, take inventory daily, never buy in advance, have overhead, mark 
down, mark up, quote, budget, advertise, control stock, have Annual, End-of-Month, Dollar-Day, 
Rummage, Founders’ Day, Fire and Economy Day sales—and never make any money. 
THE DRYING AND STORING OF SEED CORN 
Last year some seed corn 
firms had considerable trou¬ 
ble with poor germination 
on Hybrid corn, caused by 
poor drying or improper 
storing of corn after it had 
been dried. From our ex¬ 
perience of more than thirty 
years in drying and storing 
of seed corn and with al¬ 
most twenty years’ experi¬ 
ence in the grain business, 
we have learned a few things 
about taking care of corn. 
We have found that no 
matter how dry corn is, it 
cannot be stored long with¬ 
out moving it. Never in the 
more than thirty years of 
selling seed corn have we 
offered low germinating corn. 
We have a building built for 
the drying and storing of 
corn and the germination on 
our corn this year will aver¬ 
age 98%. We have another 
seed house besides the one 
shown here, just across the 
railroad tracks, 50 feet wide 
by 142 feet long, two stories 
and basement. 
One of our seed houses at San Jose. Seed storage capacity, 113,000 bushels. Built 
and equipped for handling seeds. 
