LANCASTER COUNTY 
SURE CROP 
A splendid Corn of Pennsylvania origin and a Jeading variety in Lancaster 
County, the most productive agricultural county in the state. 
Sure Crop is developed from two well-known old varieties. It has long, rather 
large ears and small cob, is an extremely heavy yielder, medium as to time of 
ripening, with stalks 10 to 18 feet high. Rich protein content makes it most de- 
sirable for ensilage. Practically sure to ripen on good Cornland anywhere in the 
East in the latitude of Pennsylvania where the parent seed-stock was grown. 
GORNEIEIE II 
CORNELL ff 
Cornell 11 was developed by ear-to-row selection from 
Pride of the North and differs from it mainly in being 
about two weeks earlier in maturity while in stalk it Is 
about 1 foot shorter. The ears are characteristically 
cylindrical in shape, 6 to 8 inches long, usually not well 
filled at tips and of 14 to 18 rows, with cob rather large. 
The kernels are medium broad and thick and rather shallow | 
as compared with Leaming. The color is yellow but some *, 
——— reddish ears appear. The selection eet 
iin oN : : A perfect stand of Lancaster County Sure Crop from 
y } was designed not for producing a Djbble’s seed and on a neighbor’s farm; ears well dent- 
fet A “Show” Corn but for high yield of ed and ready for the silo. 
é % grain and early maturity. Cornell 
é 11 is recommended by the New York 
‘DIBBLE'S 
- SEED- SOWING TABLE» 
The months mentioned below each variety, 
_are the time of seeding. 
State Department of Plant-breeding 
as one of the most desirable vari- 
1 F : : 
? eties for the hill sections where 
, 
the seasons are short. 
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Pounds per Ace 
Common Alfalfa. .< 2. 3. 34: 15 to 20 — 
April, May, ‘June, Aug., Sept. a 
Grimm Alfalfa. . : 5 to 20° 
Be April, May, June, Aug., os Tee 
Ake De a ee ay ~ 8 to 10 | 
: Feb. to June, Aug., Sept. : 
Barley... ie vere 96 
April to June 
Soe eee 
Corn, Ensilage. 2 ee 
ay, June 
Red Medium Clover............ 1010 Be 
_ Feb. to May, ene: to Nov. | 2 
Mammoth ied Clover 4. 2. 
Wea vesizssecysay Sages 
3 pepeerncrmerennrent avenorenen, 
idtahly 
Abad: 
____March to May — 
Peas, Canada EG eee -- 90 t 120 
Se Waceace ee Bice 
Prererrrerryere rity 
- March to May : 2 
MS Timothy... 2 ve genes 12 to 15 : 
= April to June, ‘Aug. Sept. Ss 
Sudan Grass... 
- Late May to early, June 
Japanese Millet. 222, 
Late May to ‘early June 
“Hungarian Millet. . : 
DIBBLE’S MAMMOTH EIGHT- Late May to early june” 
ROWED YELLOW FLINT CORN Golden 1 Millet.......... 
Late May to arly” 
Sweet Clover,........... 
a March to Aug. 
DIBBLE’S LANCASTER 
COUNTY SURE CROP 
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