OSCAR H. WILL & CO 
BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA 
We have been growing and breeding seed corn 
We have in- 
in North Dakota for over fifty years 
troduced most of the really satisfactory corn varie¬ 
ties for the Northern Great Plains. We try to be 
honest with our customers in the stock we sell 
them and the stories we tell them. We are much 
more concerned with the quality of our seed corn 
than with the price, and with the origin and breed¬ 
ing of it than with the ballyhoo about it. 
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ABOUT HYBRIDS—YIELDS, ETC 
Like every new thing Hybrid Seed Corn is being over emphasized—intentionally, mis¬ 
takenly, even wilfully placed in a false and entirely incorrect light. 
Oscar H. Will & Co. has been working with inbreds for many years and sold hybrid 
seed corn which proved to have value in the Northern Great Plains ten years ago. Fur¬ 
thermore, they have tested many eastern and southern hybrids in the past two or three 
years with entirely negative results. 
The idea of hybrid vigor is as old as English cattle breeding, where it was discovered 
that the offspring of two different and pure breeds when crossed would prove larger, 
sturdier and better in every way than either parent. That knowledge, passed down, added 
to gradually, and refined, is the basis for all animal and plant hybrid work. 
Hybrid corn is not a magic preparation; there are thousands of kinds of hybrid corn, 
some of no value at all, some adapted to one type of conditions, some to another, but none 
to any and every condition. In other words, Hybrid Corn must be bred with an adapta¬ 
tion to conditions in the locality where it is to be grown. 
Tests made over North and South Dakota the past year have demonstrated that the 
Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin hybrids do not have the value in the Dakotas to 
justify their costs. 
In our own trial plots and in several otlier trial plots in western and central 
North Dakota Falconer corn has heen the lushest yielding’ of all varieties in 
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Oscar H. Will & Co. Strain—Highest 
Yielding Corn for the Northwest 
Falconer corn is grown by the hundreds 
of thousands of acres now and many thou¬ 
sands of these acres are off type, unselected 
or poorly selected scrub corn of the poorest 
type and certain to make inferior yields. 
We introduced Falconer Corn. Falconer in careful tests over 
most of our state has outyielded every variety including the best 
hybrids during the past year. 
The answer seems obvious then. Buy genuine Falconer of 
true, high yield¬ 
ing strain from 
Oscar H. Will 
& Co. and de¬ 
vote most of 
your own corn 
acreage to Fal¬ 
coner Corn. 
Lb., 30c, post¬ 
paid; F. O. B. 
here, 10 lbs., 
5 0c ; 34 bn., 
80c; bu., $1.50. 
