——sre HALF 

QUALITY FARM SEEDS 

GOOD SEED IS THE FIRST STEP TOWARD A GOOD CROP 
ENTER THE BIG CONTEST BY ORDERING ONE OF THE BARGAINS LISTED BELOW 
KKK 
Germination 
HIGH! 
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NATIONAL 
HYBRID 110 
HIGH YIELD; it has yielded with the 
best Hybrids for several years. In the 
1939 Minnesota Corn Trials it yielded 
110.3 bu. per acre. HIGH SHELLING 
PERCENTAGE; it has shelled out 56 
pounds per bushel year after year. DIS- 
EASE AND COLD RESISTANT: can be 
planted very early without danger and 
is seldom bothered by smut. STRONG 
RIGID STALKS; the vigorous roots pen- 
etrate the soil as much as 8 feet, pre- 
venting damage by drouth or wind. 
This extra good yellow National Hy- 
brid is recommended for northern Iowa, 
southern Minnesota, central and south- 
ern South Dakota, central and western 
wwhy not lant ‘National 110 d SAVE 
hy no ation: and = 
- YOUR HYBRID ‘SEED. ‘CORN 
COST? 
GRADED AND DUST TREATED 
Our corn is all properly graded. The 2 
Flat Edge Drop Grade will plant per- = 
fectly with regular planter plates. The 
Round Hill Drop Grade plants satisfac- 3 
torily in a Hill Drop Planter. e 
Our Hybrids have been DUST TREAT- 
ED to protect the seed and young plants 
against infection from the soil, especial- 
ly when conditions are unfavorable for 
germination. 
grinding . . 
Why pay from $6.00 to $8.00 for Hybrid Seed 
Corn when we can furnish you hybrids of proved 
quality at prices FROM $2.75 TO $4.75 PER 
SAVE UP TO ONE-HALF ON YOUR HYBRID SEED CORN 
IT PAYS TO PLANT 
NATIONAL HYBRIDS BECAUSE 
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Give secure anchorage against winds. 
A FEEDING TYPE CORN —Useful without 
. Not hard and flinty. 
COLD RESISTANT TO EARLY SPRING 
PLANTING—Permits planting all corn acre- 
age in good time. Escape fall frosts. 
EARS STAY ON STALKS THROUGH THE 
® FALL—Developed for machine picking. 
$1.00 PER BUSHEL DOWN PAYMENT HOLDS ANY HYBRID CORN UNTIL APRIL 15th, 
NATIONAL HYBRID SEED _CORN 

ORDER NOW 
WE HAVE NO AGENTS--OUR PRICES ARE LOWER 
BUSHEL depending on grade and variety? We 
have no Agents who get a big commission, thus 
We can pass that saving on to you. 

PRICES CUT IN HALF - 

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HILL DROP | EDGE DROP 
$975 $375 
PER BUSHEL 
QUALITY RED RIVER VALLEY 
SEED POTATOES 
MESABA = early, shallow eyed white potato with a consistent 
heavy yield record, yielding more than Irish Cobbler and 
Early Ohio. Tubers round, shallow eyed with smooth white skin, Su- 
perior keeping quality. 
GHIPPEW —Mid-season in maturity; exceptionally heavy yielder. 
Smooth, oval white potato with shallow eyes. Extra 
good codking quality. = 
EARLY SIX WEEK —Excellent for the early market. Within 
7 or 8 weeks from planting time, the 
potatoes are of a fine marketable size. They are hard to beat for 
home use and early market. 
WARB —The New Minnesota Potato—The earliest potato grown. 
Looks like a pink eyed Irish Cobbler. Resistant to mosaic 
diseases, ‘and resistant to hot, dry weather. Eating quality unusually 
good. 
EARLY OHI —An old reliable variety. Our supply is excep- 
tionally even sized, clean and smooth. For heavy 
yields of good keeping quality potatoes, plant EARLY OHIOS. 
An order for 100+ or more Seed Potatoes makes your entry 
eligible to compete for the big prizes 
Name of Variety 100 *# 
MESABA{Lj5-. 2. oe ee ewe $2.50 
CHIPPEWA... 0... 220-200 e eee 2.39 
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EARLY SIX WEEKS: 
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MESABA 
Note the smooth skin and shallow 
eyes of this wonderful new potato. Try _ 
them and be convinced. They’re Tops. 
a - GUARANTEE 
We guarantee that all seed ordered from 
this Circular will prove of satisfactory 
germination—that is on arrival of the seed, 
test it, and if you are not satisfied, it may 
be returned for a full refund of your mon- 
ey, together with any transportation charges 
you have paid. So many things can hap- 
pen to seed after they leave our hands, 
such as drouth, floods, grasshoppers, etc., 
that we and all other seedhouses disclaim 
responsibility for the crop raised from seed 
COSSACK 
we sell. zi 
‘PRICES: Prices of seed are constantly GRIMM S- 
changing, and we are unable to guarantee LOT SAVE. 
the price of farm seed listed in this Circu- 
lar for any definite length of time. 
You can always be assured you will get — 
full value for your erey at. Girmeys: 
(Bags BYOCE TCG. Sea ie ee 
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DAKOTA N 412. 
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PRICES 
LOW! 
kk *& 
NATIONAL 
HYBRID 114 
This high yielding yellow Hybrid has 
a consistently HIGH YIELD RECORD 
OVER A WIDE TERRITORY in Iowa, 
southern South Dakota and eastern Ne- 
braska. No matter where it hag been 
planted, the yields have been satisfac- 
tory. It is a very strong grower, produc- 
ing HEAVY STALKS with WIDE DARK 
GREEN LEAVES as well as A LOT OF 
BIG EARS. It holds its ears firmly, mak- 
ing it ideal for hand or machine pick- 
_ing. This. is another extra good cold 
and sucess reek National ae 
w 
G ‘The ( 
‘factory. Why pay more when you can 
get National 114 at this price? 
1939 CROP 
The National Hybrids 110 and 114 list- 
ed are of the 1939 crop. In our »pinion 
this is equal in quality to the 1940 crop, 
which in many cases did not mature 
properly, due to excessive fall moisture 
and and ee frost. GERMINATION 95% OR 
* throughout eentral 

STATE CERTIFIED HYBRID 
We HAVE A HYBRID FOR EVERY 
MINHYBRID 403 
105 to 110 Days 
State Certified Blue Tagged 
Thig new Minnesota Hybrid hag outyield- 
ed all the other hybrids for southern Min- 
nesota. In many cases IT HAS BEAT the 
open polinated corn 15 OR 2 BUSHELS 
PER ACRE. Even 2 BUSHELS per acre IN- 
OREASE im your corn yield WILL MORE 
THAN PAY for the hybrid seed. 
If you live im the south three tiers of 
eounties m Minnesota, south of Huron in 
South Dakota or in western Nebraska I be- 
Heve Minhybrid 408 WILL BEAT ANY 
OTHER CORN you can plant.. 
MINHYBRID 402 
85 to 95 Days 
State Certified Blue Tagged 
A real corn for the North. Outstanding ia 
the 1939 Minnesota Corn Yield Tests. Made 
a YIELD of 75.9 BUSHELS PER ACRE m 
Meeker County, Minnesota im 1939. Widely 
adapted, matures im a normal season 
Minnesota, gouthern 
North Dakota, and northern South Dakota. 
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Rustler White Dent, and your 
corn will be a mixture | of white and yellow, — 
bert the bushels per acre and the feeding 
value are there, and that ig what you are 
after. 

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EACH EAR FROM A DETASSELED PARENT PLAN 
SELECT THE VARIETY ADAPTED TO YOUR 
LOCALITY -- ORDER ONE OR MORE BUSH- 
ELS AND BE ELIGIBLE TO COMPETE FOR THE 
BIG CONTEST PRIZES 
MINHYBRID a 
- MINHYBRID 402 _ 
PULAT oo 
$475 
HE 

ROUND 
$375 
PER BUSHEL 
“542 
PER BUSHEL 

SEED 
ere HYBRID > 
~ ROUND 
$300 
CORN 
IOWA 939 
115 to 125 Days oe 
# 
State Certified Blue Tagged oe 
Winner of the 1939 Iowa Banner Trophy 
for the best hybrid in the 1939 Iowa isan 
This trophy was awarded on the perform- 
ance of an entry of Iowa 939 in the north- 
ern section of Iowa. It had a performance 
score of 108.75. It yielded 16.9 per cent more 
than the average of the hybrid entries in its 
class and EXCEEDED THE AVERAGE 
YIELD of the open pollinated entries 208 
BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
Towa 939 was originated and introduced by 
the Iowa State College. Besides winning the 
Banner Trophy in 1939, it ranks first for the 
6 year period from 1934 to 1939. It is not 
flinty like so many of the other hybrids, 
which makes it one of the BEST FOR 
FEEDING. It is well adapted to the entire 
state of Iowa, southeastern South Dakota 
and eastern Nebraska. Dependable, Drouth 
Resistant, Wind Resistant. ' 
MAKE 1941 A PROFITABLE YEAR WITH 
IOWA HYBRID 939. 
MINHYBRID 301 
105 to 110 Days 
State Certified Blue Tagged © 
A heavy “yielding, we. yellow ene 
suitable for planting in the south one-fourth 
of Minnesota, east central South Dakota, and 
west half of Nebraska. 
In the Minnesota corn tests, MINHYBRID 
301 outyielded Murdock 10 bushels per acre, 
and contained nearly 5% less moisture than 
Murdock at picking time. 
1941 

PLANT MORE LEGUMES-—ENTER THE CONTEST--CONSERVE YOUR SOIL 
SWEET CLOVER 
ALFALFA 
cass AG —The World's Finest Alfalfa—For an immense yield 
of quality pasture and hay, plant Cossack. The 
largé thrifty plants are extremely hardy and drouth resistant. 
Seed is of good color and plump, very high germination, and 
over 99% pure, 
DAKOTA No. 12 
GRIM §= Ore of the hardiest Alfalfas grown. Produces large 
crops of fine stemmed, leafy hey puiclts of 3 tons 
’ per acre are very common, 
LOT SAVE--COSSACK AND GRIMM’S MIXED 
. This seed is not quite as plump as the rest, but will do every- 
thing for you that the higher priced seed will do. Good purity 
and germination. 
LOT ECONOMY” 
Name of Variety 
cp is See ee, ees $2.65 $1.60 $14.90 
a 2.50 17.15 13.95 see 
eine a.e 4 
—Dakota No. 12 will produce as much 
hay per acre as any alfalfa grown no 
matter how much you pay for the seed. For Big Yield—For 
routs, Resistance—For Winter Hardiness, Plant Dakota No. 
Good northern grown hardy alfalfa seed 
for the ordinary planting. Not quite as 
good in color and plumpness as the higher priced seed, but has 
good germination. A real bargain. 
An order for 10 Ibs or more Alfalfa makes your entry 
eligible to compete for the big prizes 
beta eet e eee errs 
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A REAL PROFIT MAKER. 
100 # 
<  10* YBu. 1Bu. 

255 730 14, 
2.40 6.85 
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2395 
1230 20.50 
for soil building 
WHITE BLOSSOM No. [See Outyields any 
other variety, producing 3 to 4 tons of hay pers acre. Our seed 
is extra good and our price very low. 
YELLOW BLOSSOM No. (7 cz, ‘than the white vac 
riety. This is the best grade of seed obtainable—is well cleaned. 
Why pay more when you can get the best at this low price? 
GRUNDY COUNTY No. f fnc"Stcmmea ana testy: 
more easily cured for hay purposes. This stock is top quality 
and priced very low. 
LOT EXCELLENT WHITE BLOSSOM 
Well cleaned seed. Some of the berries are a little smaller 
and the color a little below that of our first grade. Priced so 
that you can plant lots of sweet clover this spring. 
LOT PLENTY GOOD YELLOW BLOSSOM 
This seed is not quite equal to the top grade, but is Plenty 
Good. You are not taking any chances, so order your supply 
now. 
An order for 30 Ibs or more Sweet Clover makes your 
a entry eligible to compete for the big prizes 
Name of Variety / 
YELLOW BLOSSOM No. 1...... 
LOT EXCELLENT WHITE BLOSSOM 
EDS SEE. BACK 

WHITE BLOSSOM No. 1 ................ 
GRUNDY COUNTY No.1 .......5....... 
20 - LOT PLENTY GOOD YELLOW BLOSSOM .. : ae 
OUR ALF LFA AND SWEET CLOVER NOW AT THESE BARGAIN PRICES aM Sar 
A WINNER 
James Keen of Letcher, S. D., being awarded 
the Allis-Chalmers as 2nd prize in our 1940 
word building contest—Try, you may be a 
winner. 
A REAL SOIL BUILDER 
1 Bu. 1Bu. 100 * 
$2.15 aie $6.45 
vromweees, Qe05 4.106. 6:75 
2.25 4.10 615 
ease. ee PANO 95 
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