ALNEER BROTHERS RELIABLE SEEDS, ROCKFORD, ILL. 
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RELIABLE FIELD AND FARM SEEDS 
Nothing is more important to the farmer than that the seed he sows is pure and clean. The seed should also be plump, and well ripened, 
so as to insure a good stand. First class, thoroughly recleaned seed, even though considerably more costly in the beginning, is really 
much cheaper in the end than the light chaffy grades generally sold at much lower prices, even if the latter is free from weed seeds. 
Price* subject to change without notice, owing to the fluctuations of the market. Write for prices on large quantities. 
HYBRID CORN 
HYBRID CORN will yield from 10 to 30 per cent over ordinary 
varieties, this is due to practically every stalk producing a large, 
well developed ear, practically no barren stalks or nubbins. 
HYBRID CORN has a wonderfully strong root system. It will 
stand up where ordinary varieties lodge. This feature alone is 
worth many times what it costs to plant Hybrid Corn; this corn 
is remarkably free from smut and root and ear rot. 
HYBRID CORN grows strong and vigorous even in dry sea¬ 
sons. The stalks and leaves remain green until the ear is ripe. 
(Wisconsin Grown, Certified Blue Tag) 
Flat 
Kernels 
Per Bushel 
Round Kernels 
Per Bushel 
90 
Day 
Maturity. 
.$4.95 
90 
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.$3.95 
95 
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. 4.95 
95 
Day 
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. 3.95 
100 
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. 4.95 
100 
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. 3.95 
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. 4.95 
105 
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. 3.95 
110 
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. 4.95 
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. 3.95 
115 
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. 4.95 
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. 3.95 
Packed 
one bushel per 
bag, 
bags 
included 
OPEN POLLINATED SEED CORN 
QUARTS POSTPAID. 
*4 bu. and up not prepaid. 
Hand picked, Tipped, and Butted. 
Northern Grown. 
Alneer’s Golden Champion 
The great prize-winning 
corn. Now the most popular 
and most uniformly distinct type of Yellow Dent Corn. Fifty years 
of careful selection has resulted in remarkable evenness in appear¬ 
ance of ears. It is more accurately described as follows: Ears 9 to 
10 inches long, 7 inches around, 18 to 24 rows with narrow space 
between rows; deep grains with small cob well filled at butt and tip. 
We offer a very choice selection of seed grown from pedigree 6 eed 
selections for years. It has won first prizes in competition. Price 
shelled, qt. 45c, V4 bu. 70c, V4 bu- $1-30, bu. $2.40. 
Reid’s Large Yellow Dent 
varieties known and a great yielder. 
70c, 1/2 bu- $1-30, bu. $2.40. 
Grows to a good size, and is 
pronounced one of the best 
A fine sort. Qt. 45c, Vi bu. 
Silver King (Wisconsin No. 7) Awonderful 
very small white cob. Ears contain sixteen to twenty rows and stalks 
often bear two ears. Matures in about 100 days. Qt. 45c, Vi bu. 70c, 
1/2 bu. $1.30, bu. $2.40. 
Early Yellow Yankee Flint Corn f as s ^l K th ears y ' el Tow, 
hard grain; makes nice roasting ears. Is a fine milling sort.. Qt. 
45c, 1/4 bu. 70c, V 2 bu. $1.30, bu. $2.40. 
Red Cob Fodder or Ensilage Corn 
dairy regions so extensively as almost to exclude all of the other so- 
called Fodder Corns and the verdict is that it is the best. It is sweet, 
tender and juicy; has short joints, abundance of leaves, and grows 
to a great height, furnishing more than double the bulk and much 
more nourishment than ordinary field corn. Price not prepaid, 
Vi bu. 70c, 1/2 bu. $1.30, bu. $2.40. 
KAFFIR CORN 
Kaffir Crtrrt ° ne of tlle best forage plants. Makes splendid 
1 * f eet j for poults f ec j either in the grain or ground 
and cooked. Foliage and stalk make excellent forage. Cultivate the 
same as common corn, requiring four or five pounds of seed per acre. 
By mail, prepaid, lb. 25c, 5 lbs. 75c, 10 lbs. $1.15; by express or 
freight not prepaid, 50 lbs. $2.00, 100 lbs. $3.50. 
BUCKWHEAT 
Buckwheat —New Japanese ^ f ho j u ^ e be us 3 ingVo^ “n e dd to 
three pecks of seed per acre. This new sort has proven to be much 
earlier and more productive than any other variety. Grains very large 
and of rich brown color. It excels all in yield and earliness. 1 lb. 25c, 
10 lbs. $ 1 . 00 , by mail postpaid; by express or freight, not prepaid, 
Vs bu. $1.75. bu. $2.25. 
Choice Seed Oats 
Change Your Seed Oats and Double Your Crop 
Select Swedish Type Oats 
Will yield from 80 to 115 
bushels to the acre; are not 
liable to rust. Straw stands up well. Large, long heads. Heavy 
plump meat of grain. Price bu. 90c, 2 bu. $1.70, 5 bu. $4.00, 10 bu. 
$7.95. 
Gopher Minnesota No. 674 Minnesota s , tate - Expe " n \ cnt 
Station Development. Gopher 
is a white early maturing variety with straw so stiff and strong that 
it does not lodge even on well-manured farm land. It is also adapted 
for growing on peat land. It is without any question the best oats for 
the rich dairy farms of southern Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. 
Price bu. 90c, 2 bu. $1.70, 5 bu. $4.00, 10 bu. $7.95. 
SORGHUM OR SUGAR CANE 
Improved Early Amber The earliest variety almost in- 
J variably ripens- seed with us 
when planted early in May. The seed is excellent as a poultry food. 
Lb. 25c, 5 lbs. 85c, 10 lbs. $1.15, postpaid; by express or freight not 
prepaid 50 lbs. $2.25, 100 lbs. $4.50. 
Atlas Sorgo The Giant Fodder Crop Th ® m ° s ) sen ' 
r sational forage 
crop. Enormous producer. Outyields corn for fodder 3 to 1 and makes 
15 to 20 tons fodder or silage per acre. Grows giant size—often 12 
ft. tall. 
Atlas seems to love drought. Even if corn is severely dried up. 
Atlas stays green and makes a huge crop. Grasshoppers and Chinch 
bugs don’t like it. Atlas sown around cornfields help keep grass¬ 
hoppers, chinch bugs, and hot wine’s away from the corn. 
Atlas is a perfect feed as it is a cross with a Sweet Sorghum, is sweet 
so cattle like it. They’ll leave feed to get it. Very nutritious. 40 to 
60 bu. grain per acre. 
Sow 8 to 10 lbs. per acre with large corn plate running full speed. 
The more you sow, the finer the stem. Don’t get over 1” deep. Plant 
single rows same distance as corn. Harvest with corn binder. 
Lb. 25c, 5 lbs. 85c, 10 lbs. $1.15, postpaid; by express or freight not 
prepaid, 50 lbs. $2.75, 100 lbs. $5.50. 
SOY BEANS 
Manchu. A heavy hay producer $j 0t io r t P $ 2 1 'oo bu ’ 
Illini, heavy yielder Not prepaid, y 2 bu. $ 1 . 10 , bu. $ 2 . 00 . 
FIELD PEAS 
White Canada Peas 
More used than any other. Not pre¬ 
paid. Per V 2 bu. $2.75, bu. $5.00. 
DWARF ESSEX RAPE 
A forage plant of great value, which can be sown at any time in May, 
June, or July; requires about 5 or 6 lbs. of seed per acre. Makes a 
grand pasturage for sheep, as well as for other stock. It can be cut 
up and shocked for winter feeding if permitted to grow its full size. 
Is not injured by frost and will furnish feed until winter. Write for 
prices. 
SPELTZ OR EMMER 
It is a most Wonderful new grain which we are sure will prove of 
great value. Speltz is good for pasture. Speltz fattens in the green 
state, is a green grass hay food. Speltz is also a hay. -It will yield 
40 to 60 bushels of grain to the acre, equal to corn, or barley, oats, 
rye or wheat, of high feeding value, and tons of straw hay almost 
equal to timothy for feeding cattle. Sow it at the rate of 1 V4 
bushels to the acre. Price, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, 10 lbs. $1.25 by mail 
postpaid; by express or freight not prepaid, bu. $1.50. 
Prize Mammoth Sunflower The Sunflower is now grown 
on the Prairie farms for 
feed. The seeds are nice for fattening poultry. Pkt. 5c, oz. 8 c, 
Vi lb, 10 c, lb. 25c, 5 lbs. $ 1 . 00 . Postpaid. 
VETCHES 
Sandvetch (Winter Vetch.) Europe. The Sandvetch prospers 
in the most barren soils, on those too poor to grow 
the winter tare. Six tons per acre of green forage have been har¬ 
vested in one cut in poor silicious soils with second cut for seed in 
August, alone or with a cereal, rye preferred, as this Vetch reaches 
a height of 3 Vi to 5 feet, and must have a support. Sow 60 to 75 
pounds per acre. Lb. 35c, 5 lbs. $1.40, 10 lbs. $2.60, by mail postpaid; 
by express or freight not prepaid, 25 lbs. $3.75, 50 lbs. $7.25, 100 
lbs. $14.00. 
Note. At prices quoted on field and grass seeds, etc., by the 
% bu. and bushel, 25 pounds and up, not prepaid, we make no 
charge for bags and deliver free on board cars in this city. The 
buyer pays the express or freight charges. 
