HAalmes’ Certified Hybrid Corn 

You Can Grow a Better Corn Crop 
With HOLMES’ Seed 
HIGH YIELDING. 
ECONOMICAL. Well eroded. high vitality, 
PROFITABLE. 
A big crop of high quality grain or silage at low cost means 
profit to you. 
Choose the HOLMES’ variety best suited to your conditions and place an early 
order for your 1950 Seed Corn needs. 
A top variety for each area. 
protected from disease—and yet 
OHIO The outstanding hybrid yet developed for midseason 
HYERID grain production. Stiff stalk, strong roots, good re- 
sistance to diseases and insects. Ear medium sized with 
It dries out quickly in the fall and husks clean and easily by 
deep, smooth kernels. 
Yield is tops in its season. 
hand or with mechanical pickers. 
OHIO It is as early as M15, giving high yields of sound 
HYBRID yellow Corn. Ears are medium short, thick and heavy. 
16 to 18 rows of dented deep grain. Fodder is dark 
green in color. Plants are more resistant to root-lodging and stalk-breaking than those 
of M15. Maturity 95 to 100 days. 
OHIO EARLY—DEEP GRAIN—HEAVY YIELD. This 
HYBRID early maturing hybrid is one of the heaviest yielders of 
its season. The plants are dark green in color and hold 
their greenness well, giving an appearance of lateness even though the ears are well 
matured. The ears are medium sized with very deep kernels. Plants are highly resistant 
to blight. An excellent kind to use for hogging off or for early feed throughout central 
Ohio. Do not overlook this early hybrid as it has proven most valuable the past few 
years to use where you want to pick and sow Wheat at the proper time. 
Early Butler 90-Day 
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Has broad, deep grains of 
a beautiful golden yellow 
color. It produces a crop 
of the most perfectly uni- 
form ears and has averaged 
70 bushels of shelled Corn 
per acre. The ears are 10 
inches long with 14 rows 
of long, broad grains. The stalks grow from 8 to 10 feet high, giving 
an immense quantity of fodder. Farmers who planted Early Butler 
90-Day for their main crop last year told us they grew one of the 
finest crops and best quality Corn they ever grew. You will not 
regret it if you plant Early Butler 90-Day. 

Early Butler 90-Da 
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An extra good early Corn for northern sections of Ohio and Pennsyl- 
vania. A reliable, early yellow Dent Corn that you can rely on for 
use in the North. Our seed has been in great demand from 
northern farmers. 
Holmes’ Silage Corn 
Blue Ridge Ensilage Write for prices 
Early, grows tall, leafy, full-eared. This is an improved strain, originated in the 
Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and will outyield all other southern ensilage from 
a standpoint of tonnage, height and quality of fodder. Ranges from 14 to 16 feet 
in height. On account of its being grown at a high altitude, it is earlier than other 
southern grown ensilage. Our seed is selected and cured, and we know it is of 
highest germination; strong and vigorous. It is graded with the utmost care. 
Its plants are 
Is adapted to soils in Northern Ohio. 
Ata K 2 3 short, very lodge-resistant, deep green, leafy and have 
short shanks. The ears are low on the stalks, medium 
short, medium thick, tapering and have 16 to 18 rows of medium dented, medium 
deep grains. Maturity 95 to 100 days 
OHIO The midseason hybrid noted for best stalk and stand- 
HYBRID ing ability. Broad, dark green leaves, extensive, strong, 
healthy root. Produces more dry matter per acre than 
other varieties of the same maturity season that often appear larger, so is outstanding 
in value for silage production. Also desirable for grain production. Needs high fer- 
tility. 
This early, heavy yielding hybrid has become a leader 
Senta i 3 ba in northern and northeastern Ohio. The plants are 
short and leafy. The ears are short, thick and have 
14 to 18 rows of deep golden, dented grain. We are proud the way this hybrid has 
performed. Maturity 100 to 105 days. 
The most grown full-season hybrid yet developed. Strong 
stalk and roots, resists disease and insects and has high 
U ~ Ss. 1 3 general vigor and wide adaptation for production of both 
grain and ensilage. On the average U.S. 13 outyields all competing varieties. 
PRICES ON HYBRID SEED CORN 
Large Flat Grade and Medium Flat Grade: $8.50 per bushel. 
FREIGHT PAID to your station to points in Indiana, Michigan, 
Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. 

Holmes’ Northern Grown Seed Corn 
The progressive farmer is fully aware that it pays in dollars and cents to plant seed of known origin 
only. Our Corns have all been grown especially for seed. They have been well cured and are true to 
name and type. It costs no more in labor, time and fertilizer to grow a bumper crop than it does to pro- 
duce a poor one. The difference in price between good and poor seed is made up many times over in 
the increase in the crop harvested. Shelled Seed Corn weighs 56 Ibs. per bushel. 
Lancaster County Sure Crop Write for prices 
Originated in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This Corn is a very dependable 
variety. It is early, the ears are very long, and the rich yellow grains are of uniform 
width and length. Lancaster County 
Sure Crop averages 12 feet in height, sepaneeoneengees TT 
is very leafy. Our seed is grown for : : ‘ “ 
us by a Seed Corn specialist, and can 7 : oe 
be relied upon for purity and quality. 
Seed is graded, extra choice. 

Old Virginia Ensijage 
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Is one of the most popular and sat 
isfactory ensilage Corns. Grows to 
a large size, is very leafy and well 
adapted for silage. Our stock is 
carefully selected, graded and dried. 
We can assure you high germination. 
Holmes’ Golden Ensilage 
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““A Wonderful Silo Filler.’” Decided- 
ly the largest and best yellow Corn 
to grow for leaves and ears. Pennsyl- 
vania grown. The stalks attain a 
height of from 12 to 14 feet, with 
thick, strong foliage. The ears are 
10 to 12 inches in length, the ma- 
ority of them having 18 rows of deep, 
broad grains of a rich golden yellow 
color. It is an extremely heavy crop- 
per, ranking with any of the southern 
grown ensilages. Holmes’ Golden 
will give a better crop on poor or 
light soil than almost any other va- 
riety. The Master Farmers, who are 
growing Holmes’ Golden, praise it. 4¢ 
Fill your silo with ensilage that is ae ae oe 
worth while. Field of Holmes’ Golden Ensilage 

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