18 THE FRANK 8S. PLATT COMPANY 
Corn—Varieties for Field Culture—Continued 
Queen of the Prairie, or Pride of the North. This is an early Yellow Dent, medium size, 
uniform ears, cob small; a winner in many shelling contests 
Lancaster Sure Crop. A comparatively early silage corn producing very large ears in 
115 days. Grain is yellow tinted red. A vigorous, leafy stalk; makes a heavy yield of both 
ensilage and ears in good season 
Eureka Ensilage. ! 
keep the true vigorous stock. White seed, luxuriant and heavy in stalk and foliage. Will ordi- 
narily produce more tons of ensilage than any other open pollinated variety but does not 
have the food value of the higher grain producing hybrids, neither will it stand up as well. 
We have had. stalks 17-feet; 10 inches tallata se ie oy te eis cee Ss eee ee 
Ohio K 24. A high yielding hybrid with an excellent root system. The plants are leafy and 
dark green in color, ears are borne low on the stalk and have 14 to 16 rows of large, fairly 
deep, richly colored kernels. An excellent corn for grain in almost any part of Connecticut .. 
U. S. No. 13 Hybrid. A Yellow Dent of remarkable vigor. 
leafy plants that have the ability to stand erect, which is an important factor in the cost of 
harvesting. U.S. No. 13 is adaptable to Connecticut except in the higher section of Litch- 
field County. Corn planted May 15th to June Ist, the earlier the better, not only reaches the 
ideal medium soft dough stage for the silo, but normally has time to mature ears for shell 
corn. The food value per acre is high, and preferable to more tonnage of corn reaching only 
DENT VARIETIES—Prices subject to change Qt. Bushel 
(56 Ibs.) 
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An extra large southern corn grown and selected with great care to 
WAT» 6.25 
35c. 8.50 
Very attractive dark green 
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the early milk stage 
Sweet Dent Ensilage. This new hybrid, produced by Connecticut Agricultural Experi- 
ment Station, makes a large leafy growth with unusually large ears and is about the same 
in season as U. S. 13. Dairy cattle relish this more tender and succulent material, which 
yields fully as much or more than U. S. 13. Seed is limited for 1947. Price: Bu., $8.50; %4-bu., 
$2.25; %-bu., $1.25. 
Corn Salad or Fetticus 
Ackersalat—Macha o Valerianilla 
—Valerianello o Insalata 
It is sown on the first opening of spring in rows 
square feet. 
GZ, oUGE ID. 2.00. 
seed. One ounce of seed will sow a bed of sixteen 
Extra Curled. Fine curly-leaved. Per pkt., 10c.; 
one foot apart, and is fit for use in six weeks from 
the time of sowing. If wanted for very early spring 
it may be sown in September, and covered as soon as 
cold weather sets in, and is wintered over the same 
as spinach. ‘ 
Large Leaved. Per pkt., 10c.; 0z., 35c.; 4%-lb., 90c. 
Cress or Pepper Grass 
Kresse—Berro 0 Masteurso—Criscione 
Extensively used as a small salad. Sow early in 
the spring very thickly in shallow drills. The sowing 
should be repeated at intervals, as it soon runs to 
Upland. Resembles the water cress in flavor; 
same culture as spinach; a perennial plant. Per pkt., 
LO0e Oz. S35cs Pips So.o0: 
Cress—Water 
Wasser Kresse—Crescione Acquatico 
This is a well-known hardy, perennial aquatic 
plant, growing abundantly along the margins of 
running streams, ditches and ponds. Where it does 
not grow naturally it is easily introduced by plant- 
ing, and it increases, both by spreading of the roots, 
and by seeding. 
True Water Cress. Out 1947. 

Improved Early Fortune Cucumber 
Cucumbers 
Gurken—Pepino—Cetriolo 
Make rich hills of well-rotted manure, two feet in 
diameter, and plant a dozen or more seeds, covering 
half an inch deep. When all danger from insects is 
over, pull all but three or four of the strongest 
plants. The middle of June is early enough to plant 
for pickling. Make the hills about six feet apart. 
For early cucumbers the hot-bed is necessary. 
PICKLING VARIETIES 
Early Cluster. A small, early variety and sets 
closely. Per pkt., 10c.; 0z., 25c.; %4-lb., 75c.; Ib., 
$2.25. 
National Pickling. The most desirable pickling 
variety, medium size, dark green, productive. Per 
pkt., 10c); 0z., 25c::34-Ih> 7be-ieip. pais 
