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30. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

[image] NEW EXTRA EARLY FARMERS' RELIANCE CORN.

[image] FLINT.

FARMERS' RELIANCE CORN.--A novelty for 1900; the earliest variety of corn in existence; a week to ten days days earlier than Pride of the North and a much better cropper. This new variety of corn is the result of a scientific hybridization made fourteen years ago, by a practical seed corn grower, and this has been followed by careful selection, each year since; the object being to obtain the earliest corn in the world, and his success has been remarkable.
The corn is of a very strong, vigorous character, growing more rapidly than any other variety from the day that it is planted. Its quick growth really surprises one with the speed with which it hurries on to make ears. The stalks usually have from 9 to 11 blades, while most ordinary corn has 13 blades. These blades are quite broad, of dark emerald green healthy color. This corn has been planted as late as June 26th, and yielded a splendid crop two weeks earlier than Pride of the North, which was planted at the same time. While our claim is that it will mature any year in 80 days, still we have known it to mature perfectly in 75 days. The ears are much larger than Pride of the North, not as rough or hackled, thus making it easier to handle, and the yield is from 25 to 35 per cent more than Pride of the North under the same conditions. An average bushel of 70 pounds will make 60 pounds of shelled corn. It has for years been selected from stalks which set the ears about three feet or less from the ground, and this has a tendency to make it earlier. Fully 40 per cent of the stalks produce two good ears. It has never before been offered by any seed dealer, but the originator has taken the first prize for early yellow corn at every fair at which it has been exhibited. Don't fail to plant at least a small quantity, and thus obtain your seed for another season. Per lb. 40c, 3 lbs. $1[.00?] post paid. By freight or express, 1/2 peck 60c, peck $1.00, 1/2 bu. $1.75, bu. $3.00.
EARLY YELLOW FLINT.--An eight rowed yellow flint variety with ears from 10 to 15 inches long, 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 inches in diameter, and are well filled out to extreme end of cob. The cob is small and the kernel large and broad, ripens in 75 to 85 days. This corn is well adapted to the northwest, and is said to produce 200 bushels of ears to the acre in Massachusetts. Has given exceilent [excellent] results in Minnesota and other northern states. Excellent for ensilage and is often used here for replanting. Per pk. 75c, bu. $2.00, 2 bu. or more @ 1.75.

The seeds bought of you last year were first-class. The Yellow Flint Corn was the best ever seen here. I had ears measuring 13 inches and from the one quart of seed planted I gathered 25 bushel baskets full of ears and have sold it all to my neighbors for seed.--Joachin Doll, Otter Tail county, Minn.

EARLY WHITE FLINT.--Quite similar to above except color; stalks usually bear 2 or 3 long ears having 8 or 10 rows of creamy white kernels, which are quite hard and flinty. Per pk. 75c, bu. $2.00, 2 bus. or more @ $1.75.
PRIDE OF THE NORTH.--This variety has been grown and improved in the extreme northern part of Iowa. The ears 8 to 10 inches long with small cob and kernel; seventy pounds of ears will generally make sixty pounds of shelled corn; color, bright orange, and very uniform. Will ripen in ninety days and mature in this latitude when planted in June. Per pk. 50c, bu. $1.40, 2 bu. or more @ $1.25, 10 bu. or more @ $1.15.

I purchased from you 10 bushels of Pride of the North Corn for planting and am very much pleased with the variety and its yield. I had a splendid stand and believe that it pays to buy seed corn from you, as it is more carefully selected and cared for than most of the farmers can do.--S. W. Callanan, Kossuth county, Iowa.

IOWA YELLOW DENT--We always advise farmers to choose the best named varieties in buying seed corn, and believe it pays them in the long run. This is a cheap corn, however, and quite popular some years. Ask for special prices in lots of 25 bushels of more. Per pk. 40c, bu. $1.00, 2 bu. or more @ 90c, 10 bu. or more @ 80c.

ORDER EARLY. There is sure to be a great demand for seed corn this year and it will pay you to send your order early.

[image] PRIMITIVE OR HUSK CORN.

PRIMITIVE or HUSK CORN.--It is from this wild variety that all of our cultivated stock have sprung. The ears are of fair size, and each innividual [individual] kernal [kernel] or grain is covered with a husk and all enclosed in an outer husk like common corn. In some of the wild and uncultivated parts of Mexico the Primitive or natural corn can still be found growing wild. It is quite curious and valuable for exhibition purposes, and attracts great attention wherever seen. Some stalks bear as many as 20 ears. Large pkt. 5c, 1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 50c, post pd.

[image] PRIDE OF NORTH.

STAR LEAMING.--The Leaming corn, which originated with Mr. Leaming, of Ohio, was always a good variety, but it had some serious faults for culture in this state, and we have refrained from giving it our endorsement. A few years ago we found an extra fine lot in the hands of an enterprising Iowa farmer, who had been selecting it for imany [many] years. We were greatly pleased with t [it], but were not willing to offer it to our customers without still further selection. We now have a cor [corn] which is a great improvement on the Leaming, but it retains all the valuable characteristics of that variety, so that instead of giving it a new name, we call it Star Leaming to ditinguish [distinguish] it from other strains.
The ears are large and handsome, with deep large grain of rich deep orange color, on a medium to small cob. It grows to medium height, setting the ears about four feet from the ground, husks easily, and the corn is snug on the cob, thus making a very solid, heavy feeling oar [ear]. Surface is quite smooth for dent corn. It is very productive, and it is the ideal variety for selling in the ear. We sold many thousands of bushels of this variety last season, and expect to exceed the record this spring. Don't plant common corn when you can obtain this grand variety so cheap. Per peck 50c, bushel $1.25, 2 bu. or more, @ $1.00, 10 bu. or more @ 95c.
WONDERFUL PRE-HISTORIC CORN.--Several years ago we were offered this variety by a corn grower who claimed that it was "grown from some kernels of corn which were discovered buried in sealed vessels far underground where it had laid 3,000 years." We did not believe it, therefore did not "bite" and it was sold to an eastern seed dealer who has advertised it largely. The corn is mainly of most peculiar dark brown color and looks "mummy-like" which probably gave the introducer the clue to the fairy tale which he has woven to fit it. Although it will never become a profitable market variety still it has some very good points which will induce stock farmers to plant it. The stalk is large, juicy and sweet, being quite similar to sugar cane in this respect, the leaves are long, broad and very numerous and are greedily eaten by all kinds of live stock. It is especially valuable for milch cows and should be largely planted by dairymen and in fact by everyone who has even a single cow. It yields one to five ears to the stalk and there are some reports of over 100 bushels per acre. Ears are of good size, grain is soft so as to be easily digested, but color is objectionable to many. We advise our readers to try at least a small amount of it. Per large pkt. 10c, lb. 35c, 3 lbs. 85c postpaid. By freight per peck 85c, bu. $2.50.

[image] STAR LEAMING.

NOVELTIES.
Don't fail to try the great NEW CENTURY WONDER Corn described on page 49, and the Profit Corn shown on page 34 of this catalogue.

SMALL ORDERS. We will furnish packets of any variety of corn at 5 cents each, six for 25 cents. Any variety unless otherwise quoted at 25 cts. per lb., 3 lbs. for 60 cts., postpaid.