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Red Clover is Stil One of the Mainstays of Farming. 
HYBRID CORN 
Hybrid corn has become our biggest item, although without such legumes as sweet clover, 
red clover and alfalfa, corn would not be the biggest item. We have been producing high-yield- 
ing seed corn for 34 years, even before many of the present-day producers were born. During 
this time we have learned something about seed corn which is not only valuable to us as 
producers of seed stock, but to you as growers of commercial corn. 
_. We produce our own inbreds, make our own single and double crosses. This part of the 
production of Hybrid corn is of little interest or little known by most farmers, but one of the 
biggest and most important parts in the production of the seed corn you plant, although here 
is where a large part of the cost of production of Hybrid corn comes and of which the average 
person knows but little. 
CORN PRICES ONLY A LITTLE HIGHER 
You will notice we have advanced our corn 
prices but little over last year even though 
all costs are higher. Bags cost twice as 
much. Labor costs are much more. Coal costs 
more and machinery and machinery repairs 
are much higher. 
RED CLOVER 
(For best results inoculate all clovers.) 
We may be a little old-fashioned in put- 
ting red clover first, but we were growing 
red clover when sweet clover was considered 
a weed and the writer and two brothers had 
to make sure that all new weed (sweet 
clover) was dug out by the roots so as to 
prevent it from ruining the farm. At that 
time alfalfa was also little known. Today we 
grow hundreds of acres of sweet clover for fertilizer and usually put up a 100 tons or more 
of alfalfa hay a year for cattle feed. 
_ Clover seed crop is short and prices too low as compared with other seeds. Out of this 
short crop we have exported more red clover than for many years and with no chance of any 
importations coming from Europe. We were fortunate in that we are in a position to 
furnish you very good seed, well recleaned, at a reasonable price, bought early before the 
market advanced. Our KELLY grade red clover is 75% Illinois seed with 25% of the finest 
Idaho red clover seed, dark purple berries, we ever saw. We consider this an exception- 
ally good buy. The weed situation is becoming such that back fence trading is dangerous. 
Your next door neighbor may have a field infested with European Bindweed, Canada Thistle, 
Buckhorn, Dodder, Bull Nettle, etc. A farm adjoining one of our farms, which we had offered 
the owner $175.00 an acre, we later found to’have at least ten acres of European Bindweed. 
These are a menace to your crop and to your pocketbook. Red Clover at present prices are 
low as compared with present prices of grains. 1938 red clover was selling at $25.00 to 
$26.00 per bushel, commercial corn was worth 38c per bushel and hogs only around $6.50. 
Last 5-year average on red clover seed was $11.70 a bushel. Last year clover sold for $10.00 
a bushel and hogs at $5.00 cwt. For price see price list enclosed. 
eles Ll MAMMOTH CLOVER 
In proportion there is more Mammoth clover this year than 
medium red. Usually Mammoth is scarce and sold for $1.00 
per bushel or more than medium red. You will notice we are 
selling Mammoth at the same price. Mammoth clover is a 
good soil builder and is used in many places on thin sour land 
in place of sweet clover, but do not recommend it for hay or 
pasture. Usually you have a better chance to get a seed crop 
and more seed per acre from Mammoth Clover. Has a large 
root system and makes a very heavy top growth. For price 
see price list enclosed. 
| LOCATION 
We have been located in Peoria for 18 years, the second 
largest city in the State, where we carry stocks of all kinds 
of seeds. All garden seed orders should be sent to Peoria. All 
corn orders should be sent to San Jose where all corn is 
produced and processed. San Jose is a small town 25 miles 
south of Peoria on route 119, (the longest straight hard road 
in the world), also located just two miles east of route 29, 
which runs from Springfield to Peoria. Route 29 leads into 
San Jose on route 119. Here we grow and have grown on 
contract more than 2,500 acres of seed grains. 


