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BETTER BRED 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 inoculants, 
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Also drain tile. 

HONEOYE FALLS, N. Y. 
Dear Friend: 
March 1, 1941 
Interesting items in this season’s seed news are:—First offering of a really blight resistant, high yielding potato, 
called Sebago. Magnagold, a high yielding hybrid sweet corn that ripens a week later than Golden Cross and produces ears 
20 Jo larger. Discovery of the “perfect” cover crop in Domestic Rye Grass. Continued swing to Katahdin potatoes. Widen- 
Ing interest in pasture improvement by Cornell methods. Proso millet, the 60 day grain crop with feed value approxi- 
mately equal to corn. Spancross, the earliest wilt resistant sweet corn hybrid, winner of an “All America” award last season. 
Low prices for red and alsike clovers. Buttercup squash and how they rave about it! 
Serious shortage of seed corn of 
adapted strains and advice to stick to these time proven strains if possible. 
These and other items worth knowing about, you'll find in the following pages. Read to learn and to profit. 
Yours as always, for better bred seeds, 
K, C. Livermore. 
We are located 3 miles north of Honeoye Falls, on Clover Road, at the intersection of routes 65 and 251, half way between Rush and Mendon. 
Oats, Barley, Peas and Mixtures 
Q Too many farmers still believe that short chunky oats weigh- 
ing 40 lbs. or more per bushel yield best. Consequently thousands of 
bushels of unadapted oats from the West are machined to these speci- 
fications and sold for seed in the Northeastern States. But experi- 
ment station tests show that every acre so planted produces $2. to 
$10. less value than it would if planted to any of the test proven 
varieties described below. Actual performance records and not ap- 
pearances are the only reliable guides in choosing oat or barley var- 
jieties. The agricultural colleges have tested all the old and new 
were available. Their yielding abilities for different localities are 
nown. 
The oats and barleys here offered are test proven high yielders 
for the Northeastern States. Our seed is thoroughly recleaned and 
well graded with modern 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 - Best for the Northeastern States. It has averaged 
2 to 5 bushels more than other station developed varieties and usually 
5 to 15 bushels more than the attractive Swedish type and Victory oats 
from the West, of which thousands of bushels annually are sold here 
under various names. 
Lenroc is tree type, has very good straw, and white, meaty, small 
to medium size oats. 
Most oat growers in New York and near by will do best with 
Lenrocs (in certain cases Uprights) and no better seed is available 
than that from Quaker Hill Farm. Prices page 5. 
CORNELLIAN OAT - Second only to Lenroc in the Northeastern 
States. High feed value. Usually weighs 3 to 10 lbs. more per bush- 
el than other varieties. Slim, gray kernels. Cornellian was one of the 
parents of Lenroc and is now being replaced by it. Prices page 5. 
UPRIGHT OAT - Outstands all others. Safest and most profitable 
on rich or low land where other varieties might lodge. Many custom- 
ers report large yields of this oat safely harvested on fields where 
they had never before grown oats without heavy losses from lodging. 
On lighter or poorer soils Upright yields about 5 bushels less 
than Lenroc. On rich ground Upright is safer and better than Lenroc 
or Cornellian. 
Upright’s kernel is white, large, but percentage of meats is lower 
than preceding. Its straw is taller as well as much stronger. Upright 
leads in yield of straw, green feed or oat hay. 
If your oats usually lodge, Upright will solve the problem. Prices 
page 5. 
ALPHA BARLEY - Two row hybrid, wide adaptation, excellent 
straw, large kernels, one of the highest yielders in Northeastern 
States. Ripens with Lenroc oats. Best for mixtures with oats. Best 
for milk production but not for beer. Stands better after ripening 
than other kinds. 
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 yield- 
ers, ripening together, make the cheapest home grown feed. 
GREEN FEED OR HAY MIXTURKS - Oats and peas make a 
very nutritious green feed or hay that cattle relish. 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. Prices page 5. 
Field Corn 
The following best meet the needs of nearly all sections of the 
Northeastern States. Germination on most lots 90% or better. Be- 
cause of the shortage of high testing seed, we offer at lower prices 
some lots testing less than 90%. (Tests and prices page 5). We ad- 
vise their use in preference to corns of unproven adaptation. Our 
seed is extra well graded to permit the accurate and uniform planting 
necessary for economy of seed and maximum yields. Four grades are 
made:—large flat, medium flat, large round, medium 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 grown for grain wherever Cornell No. 11 succeeds and 
usually yields 15% to 30% more shelled corn 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. The extra cost of the seed is only $.75 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 parent was used as 
seed parent. They produce alike. Our certified is the red dent type; 
we have both kinds in the not certified. Prices 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 
noe Makes large tonnage of high feeding value. Matures in 130 
ays. 
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 14T. 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 - Hight 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. Prices page 5. 
Ten Dollars Extra Value From Cornell 29-3 Corn For Seventy-Five Cents Extra Seed Cost 

