PEDIGREED SEEDS 
Hybrid sweet corn, 
field corn, potato, oat, 
cabbage, field pea, bean, 
barley, wheat, soy bean, 
rye, alfalfa, clover, grass, 
other forage crop seeds. 
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Seed disinfectants, 
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fertilizers, sulphur 
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Also drain tile. 
HONEOYE FAI-LS, N. Y. 
Dear Friend: February 26, 1940 
Twenty years ago when we started growing and selling seeds of experiment station bred and test-proven strains of 
crops for the Northeast, the problem was to find new and better things. To-day with so many new things available fpm 
federal and state plant breeders, the problem is to select the things that are best. Fortunately the experiment stations 
have broadened their work of strain testing and actual performance records are available. It is part of our job to watch 
these trials, study the reports and be prepared to supply you with the things that have been proved best. 
So the seeds offered here are, we believe, the ones that will produce those extra tons, bushels or pounds from which 
profits come. We hope that Quaker Hill seeds may help make 1940 a more profitable year for you. 
With best wishes, I am 
Sincerely, K. C. Livermore. 
Oats, Barleij, Peas and Mixtures 
All the following are experiment station developed strains. They 
have proven their superiority in hundreds of tests in the Northeast. 
Our seed is thoroughly recleaned and well graded with modem 
equipment by experienced operators. It is free from weed seeds and 
was grown from treated seed. Germination on all lots is 90% or 
better, on most of them from 96% to 99%. 
LENROC OAT - Cornell’s plant breeders set out to combine in a new 
oat the high yielding ability, feeding value and good straw char¬ 
acteristics of Cornellian with larger and whiter kernel characteristics 
from another oat. Cornellian was crossed with other varieties and out 
of the various oats resulting, one combined all the desired character¬ 
istics. After more than 10 years of careful testing, not only at Ithaca, 
but in various parts of the State, the new oat was christened Lenroc 
and released for commercial production. 
Lenroc has averaged higher yields than Cornellian, Ithacan, Up¬ 
right, Victory and other improved oats used here in the Northeast. 
In test after test Lenroc has produced 5 to 15 bushels more per acre 
than the short chunky, impressive looking Swedish type oat of 
which scores of carloads are shipped east annually and sold here for 
seeding purposes under various well advertised names. The growers 
who use these oats lose $3.00 to $10.00 per acre as compared with 
using Lenroc. 
Compared with using one’s own oats for seed, an extra investment 
of about seventy cents per acre in Lenroc oats will give a crop enough 
bigger and better to more than offset the taxes on the land not only 
the first year but for future years, too. 
It will pay the majority of oat growers in New York State very 
well to change to Lenroc oats, and the sooner the better. No better 
seed is available than that from Quaker Hill Farm. Don’t delay. 
Order today. See prices page 5. 
CORNELLIAN OAT - Second only to Lenroc in the Northeastern 
States. High feed value. Usually weighs 3 to 10 pounds more per 
bushel than other varieties. Slim, gray kernels. 
UPRIGHT OAT - Outstands all others. Safest on rich or low land. 
Ranks high in grain yield, highest in straw yield. Best oat for green 
feed or hay. Large white kernels. 
ALPHA BARLEY - Two row hybrid, wide adaptation, excellent 
straw, one of the highest yielders in Northeastern States. Ripens with 
Cornellian oats. Best for mixtures with oats. Best for milk pro¬ 
duction but not for beer. 
WISCONSIN 38 BARLEY - Smooth bearded, 6-rowed hybrid. 
Yields little more than Alpha. Straw weaker. Not so good for mixed 
sowing. Best for beer. 
WHITE CANADIAN FIELD PEAS - One of the best in yield 
of grain and vine growth. Grown in Idaho to escape blight infection. 
They are 100% disease free. Blight infected seed is unsafe. 
GRAIN MIXTURES - We offer Lenroc oats and Alpha barley 
with or without field peas in proper proportions. These high yielders, 
ripening together, make the cheapest home grown feed. 
GREEN FEED OR HAY MIXTURES - Oats and peas make a 
very nutritious green feed or hay that cattle I'elish. A patch handy 
to the lane or pasture is worth a lot when pastures dry up. Our mix¬ 
ture of Upright oats and disease free peas yields considerably more 
forage than other varieties. See prices page 5. 
Field Corn 
The following best meet the needs of nearly all sections of the 
Northeastern States. In each case, we offer seed from specially 
bred strains backed by years of careful selection. Germination on all 
lots 90% or better, most lots 95% to 98%. Our seed is extra well 
graded to permit the accurate and uniform planting necessary for 
economy of seed and maximum yields. Ungraded or partially graded 
seed means waste and lower yields. Seed com kernels at Quaker Hill 
Farm are mechanically sorted by size and shape. In the hybrid corns, 
four grades are made:— large flat, medium flat, large round, med¬ 
ium round. In each grade the kernels are very uniform in size and 
shape. They produce equally well, provided the medium sizes are not 
planted too thickly and except in very early plantings when the larger 
sizes may start better. See actual size illustrations page 5. 
CORNELL 29-3 HYBRID - This new corn is recommended for 
silage wherever West Branch Sweepstakes or corn of similar maturity 
has been used and for grain wherever Cornell No. 11 matures, in 
other words a large part of the Northeastern States. Station and 
farm tests have proven its merits. 
It matures here in 110 to 115 days, a little after Cornell No. 11. 
In silage tests at Ithaca and in other parts of the State, it has equalled 
Sweepstakes in green weight, exceeded it in dry weight by 15% to 
20% and in grain by 10% to 50%. In actual food value it generally 
yields 25% more than West Branch Sweepstakes, when grown for 
silage in New York. It grows more rapidly and more uniformly. It 
is leafy, ears heavily and matures just right for silage here in New 
York and parts of adjacent states. The risk of weather damage is 
less than with later varieties. 
It can be growm for grain wherever Cornell No. 11 succeeds and 
usually yields 15% to 30% more shelled com than Cornell No. 11, 
occasionally as much as 50% more. The ears show variations in the 
direction of all four parents, but mostly they are medium sized ears 
of dent or semi-flint type, reddish, yellowish or whitish in color. 
Compared with most of the corn varieties now in use in New 
York for silage or grain, Cornell 29-3 usually produces $10.00 to $15.00 
more value per acre. TTie extra cost of the seed is only fifty cents 
per acre. Using Cornell 29-3 means more profit and better feed. 
The 29-3 seed you buy may be either a red dent kernel or a light 
yellow semi-flint kernel, depending upon which of the two parent 
hybrids was used as seed parent. They produce alike. Our certified 
is the red dent type; we have both kinds in the not certified. Prices 
on page 5. 
WEST BRANCH SWEEPSTAKES - The second best silage 
corn for most of this part of the country. Vigorous grower, leafy 
stalks, 9 to 11 feet. Big ears of various shades of red and variable 
type. Makes large tonnage of high feeding value. Matures 130 days. 
CORNELL No. 11 -Highest yielding 100 to 110 day yellow dent. 
Averaged nearly 70 bu. shelled in N. Y. tests. About 13T. easy to 
handle silage with l^AT. grain per acre. Better than large corns 
where seasons are short. Our Quaker Hill strain is medium early and 
a wonderful yielder of fine type yellow corn. 
YATES FLINT - A very early high yielding corn of hybrid origin, 
90 days here. Stalks 6 ft. to 7 ft. Ears large, yellow to red, mostly 
amber, 12-rowed. Kernels small. Ideal for feeding whole to poultry. 
SHEFFIELD - Eight row flint developed in Berkshire Mts. Very 
early. Good yielder. Ears medium size, dark yellow. Stalks medium. 
The flint corns are wilt susceptible and should not be used in 
wilt areas. They are recommended for most of New York and New 
England. See prices page 5. 
Ten Dollars Extra Value From Cornell 29-3 Corn For Fifty Cents Extra Seed Cost 
