Most Popular Crib-and-Silo Variety 
“In all my silo experience 
which now covers about 45 
years the Lancaster County 
Sure Crop is the best all- 
around corn for both silo and 
the corn crib that I have ever 
raised. It is surely well 
named Sure Crop. It never 
disappoints you wet or dry.” 
— F. I. Heim, Alliance, Ohio. 
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“For the last 5 years I used 
your Lancaster Sure Crop 
with good results.”— Wm. 
Hambrecht, Millington, Md. 
“Lancaster County Sure Crop 
is the best ever. No ears less 
than 12 and 14 inches long, 
and some that were 16 inches 
long of hard corn.”— E. Ens- 
minger, Geneva, Ohio. 
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“We appreciate your prompt 
service. For the past several 
years we have been planting 
your Lancaster Sure Crop 
and have always had success 
with it .”—Paul E. Kohler, 
Churchville, Pa. 
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Northampton County, Pa- 
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Hoffman Sure Crop to fill hi< 
crib and Red Cob Ensilage 
for his silo. 
"LANCASTER COUNTY SURE CROP” 
"—We have taken over 4600 bushels, or over 92 bushels 
to the acre. The corn is of excellent quality, the best ever 
grown on this farm.”—C. P. Stokes, Chestertown, Md. 
"—Most everybody in this district had a crop failure on 
corn, but mine from your seed was the best by far that 1 
ever grew.”—H. Maxwell, Lower Bank, N. J. 
There is the evidence from four states, and there is plenty 
more. It is a money-making, sure-cropping corn. It might 
not be what you want for shows, but if you are looking for 
full cribs, full silos, put your money into Hoffman’s "Sure 
Crop.” It produces good big ears of hard corn of a rich 
yellow color. They run 12, 14, 16 rows with a thin cob. 
Grains are somewhat square, and they don’t leave between- 
row gaps—you’ll get a bushel of corn out of 66 to 68 pounds 
of ears. Tests show that ''Sure Crop” is richer in protein also. 
If you put a considerable quantity of ears in your silo 
along with stalks, after the grains are well glazed, then plant 
Hoffman’s ''Sure Crop,” for it will give you just what you 
want. 
It grows tall, leafy stalks—develops early and matures 
early, and will withstand drought. And you don’t have to 
worry about your soil. Of course, you’ll get a better crop 
with good, rich soil, but you’ll get a sure crop on soils 
where other corns would fail and under conditions where 
adjoining fields dry up. And you can depend on it for a 
crop well into the North. 
We introduced "Sure Crop' in 1912, and if we could 
have one small part of the money it’s made for farmers since 
then, we would be wealthy indeed. 
The seed that we have for you was grown right here in 
Lancaster County. Where we could watch it every week. 
And pick just what we wanted of the best, from the most 
popular variety of open-pollinated corn we know. 
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