HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR APRIL, 1941—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Towa 15 
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Gel Your Mule-Hybrid Quick—Price Raises April 20 


of corn. on it. 

‘Dear Mr. Field: | 
-Mule-Hybrid Went 80 Bu. Per A.—Stood Straight—Beat 12 Others 


Picture of my wife, Marie, and daughter, Marilyn and dog 
‘Wookie’ on-a load of Mule-Hybrid. I planted 20 A to your No. 129 which went 80 
bu. per acre. 
It’s a dandy picker corn, stands straight and ears hang on. 
I picked 
186 acres last fall in all. Had a dozen different hybrids and your No. 129 topped 
‘them all.””—Leslie Fillman, Gardner, Ml. 
90 Bu. Per A. on “30 Bu.” Land 
“Dear Henry: 
“Tt really beats anything I’ve ever 
planted. 
“My land is pretty hilly and I have 
never been able to raise a good crop of 
corn until last year. I am sending a 
snapshot of some of your 129 which I 
planted. It averaged about twelve feet 
tall and almost every stalk had two ears 
I also planted some No. 
100 which did very well, but 116 proved 
best for my land, as it yielded ninety 
bushel per acre on land which had pre- 
viously yielded only thirty bushel per 
acre at most. You can look for another 
order from me in the spring.’’—Mr, Fred 
- Brice, Kennimore, Wisconsin. 
Beats High Priced Corn by 10 Bu. 
“Dear Mr. Field: I bought three bushel 
No. 116 edge drop Mule Hybrid seed corn 
and got such a splendid yield, I have to 
express my gratitude, 
I planted two bushel of a higher priced 
eorn raised in Illinois and yours yielded 
fully tem bushel more per acre. It was 
‘very big eared and deep on cob, and fully 
matured. Again I congratulate you for 
your splendid seed.”—Christina Knutson, 
Joice, Iowa. 
129R Beats 7 Others 
“Dear Henry Field: I have used your 
Mule Hybrid corn for three years. 
Last year I had seven different kinds on 
100 acres. Your 129R outyielded all others. 
After seeing my Mule Hybrid, several of 
my neighbors are ordering it this year.”— 
Rayecel Hagan, Mercer, Mo. 
Best Corn Ever Raised 
‘Dear Mr. Field: ,I have been wanting 
to write to you ever since I harvested my 
corn which I got from you last year. It 
is the best corn I ever raised. 
It stood up and lots of stalks had two 
ears, I wanted to send you two or three 
ears so you could see for yourself. Hogs 
' like it better than any other hybrid corn. 
The ears were twelve to fourteen inches 
long, and not a small ear.” 

115 Bu. Per A. in Dry Year 
“Dear Henry: Last year I bought 
Mule Hybrid corn of you, and planted. 
My yield was 115 bushel per acre, and 
I don’t know what it would have done 
if it had rained two weeks earlier.’’— 
Grant Swigart, Tingley, Ia. 
80 Bu. Per A. in Minn. 
“Dear Mr. Field: I planted your Mule 
Hybrid along with three other hybrids 
and one open pollinated corn. We had 
a hard wind after the ears were quite 
heavy. This beat over and broke off 
many stalks in the other hybrids but 
the Mule Hybrid didn’t mind it at all. 
It yielded 80 bushels to the acre. 
We have an old neighbor from North 
Carolina who likes to go fishing in Fox 
Lake. He had to go through our corn 
field to get there, and he was so im- 
pressed with the Mule Hybrid, he want- 
ed me to order him 3 bushels also.’’— 
Fred Drant, Sherburn, Minnesota. 
Weatherproof 10 Bu. Per A. Better 
‘Dear Henry: Well, I am coming 
back to you for some more seed this 
year. I got some of you last year and 
it sure done a job. I was well pleased. 
I had some (name purposely omitted. 
—H. ¥F.) planted right side of it on 
the same field and your Weatherproof 
Blend A averaged ten bushels more to 
the acre. 
Your corn stood the drought and 
stayed green. [I had it in half mile rows 
and you could see clear through to the 
other end and nothing but ears. Well 
I think I am sold on your Mule Hybrid 
for quality yield and _ price.’’—Otto 
Pflughaupt, Seward, Nebraska. 



Round Hill Drop 
Grade Now 
Round Hill Drop 7 
Grade Apr. 20 pee 
I’ve been wanting everybody to learn 
the advantages of round Hill-Drop grade 
corn so I’ve been selling it $1.50 below 
Edge Drop, to encourage you to try it. 
But that has been too cheap and I’ve 
found I’ve lost a little money doing it, so 
I’m going to have to put the price up at 
least 25¢ per bu. But I’m giving you 
plenty of fair warning. THE PRICE 
WON’T ADVANCE UNTIL APRIL 20, 
BUT AFTER THAT DATE, IT WILL BE 
$3.75 per bu. instead of $3.50 as it is now. 
Fair warning, isn’t it. Well, get those 
orders in. 
SOME NUMBERS 
OF MULE-HYBRID 
ALMOST SOLD OUT 
We’re down to the last few thousand 
bushels of Mule-Hybrid because of this 
year’s heavy demand and on some num- 
bers we won’t have enough corn to last 
more than a few weeks more at the rate 
it is going out. 
All I can do is warn you and you have 
to do the rest. A lot of you won’t be able 
to get hybrid at all this year, if you 
put off reserving what you need too long, 
so GET THOSE ORDERS IN NOW, be- 
fore it’s too late. 

‘25 
Open Pollinated Corn 
You don’t hear much about open-pol- 
linated corn any more, since 90% of the 
farmers have turned to hybrid. But this 
year, hybrid is too scarce to go around 
to everyone so some are going to have to 
go back to open-pollinated strains. That’s 
why I got out early and selected some 
good reliable old-line strains of Reid’s 
Yellow Dent, Krugs Yellow Dent, Silver- 
mine, Silver King, Boone County White 
and St. Charles Red Cob. Have them all 
at $2.25 bu. 
Correct Corn Plates 
No, we don’t sell corn plates. There 
are just too many makes of planters and 
I suggest you go into your local dealers 
and they can fix you out best there. Most 
of them now have what they call a Master 
plate and on it is drilled holes of all the 
different sizes of plates they make and 
they can tell you in a minute just the 
plate you need. 
Most plates cost around 60c¢ each and if 
you don’t have hill-drop plates to plant 
our uniform Hill-drop corn, the saving on 
just one bushel of our Hill-drop grade will 
pay for them and every bushel of Hill- 
drop you plant after that will be just 
profit to you. If you’re smart this year, 
you'll plant at least half of your corn in 
the Hill-drop grade and see for yourself 
if it doesn’t yield as much or more than 
any other grade. 
