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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 49.

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NEW CENTURY WONDER CORN.
A most wonderful variety from South America, different in many respects from any other sort. Instead of growing like ordinary corn, one stalk from each kernel planted, it stools out like winter wheat producing ten to twenty stalks from each seed so that it is only necessary to plant one kernel of corn to each hill. There are frequently 3 to 7 ears to the stalk and the ears are quite uniform in size and shape, being 8 to 10 inches long, and of the most clear snowy white color, so that dry, ripe ears appear exactly like young roasting ears of sweet corn just ready for the table. It is of excellent quality when used on the table like sweet corn, yielding, of course, a much larger crop and when dry and ground makes the clearest, finest, whitest meal you ever saw. It will rise like wheat flour and can be used in bread, biscuits, pies and cakes, and is therefore sometimes called Flour Corn. Yields 10 to 160 bushels per acre. The IOWA STATE REGISTER in its Farm Department says: "This wonderful corn which was grown about four miles northwest of Des Moines, grows 10 to 12 feet high, produces 3 to 7 ears on a stalk and 10 to 20 stalks to the hill from one grain of seed planted. The ears are about 9 inches long and it yielded 75 bushels on half an acre. It makes the finest of stock food when cut for fodder and produces many times as much as ordinary corn." We believe this corn will prove of great value every where for use as sweet corn, to grind into meal, to feed hogs, cattle and horses and and as a fodder plant. Plant early as it requires the whole season to mature in this latitude.

BROMUS INERMIS.
This wonderful new grass of comparatively recent introduction in this conntry has been very highly recommended by the U. S. Agricultural Department and by grass specialists in all parts of the country. It has been thoroughly tested and found to adapt itself to a great variety of soils and climate, but is of special value for the prairies of the west and cold regions of the north, especially for the dry sandy soils of some parts of Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Montana and the Dakotas, where it is largely sown with alfalfa. It will produce a wonderful crop of hay on land which is too poor for clover or timothy, and it resists intense cold, and also the most hot, dry weather. Forms a quick and dense sod either on sandy or stiff clay soils and is a permanent grass which does not kill out with any kind of weather. Grows 18 inches to 36 inches in height and can be cut two or three times per year and is equally desirable as a pasture grass. Has given good results as far south as central Texas. It is very nutritious and greatly liked by all kinds of stock both for hay and pasture. Every farmer and stock raiser should give it a trial. Seed should be sown early in spring using 20 to 25 lbs. per acre if sown alone or if sown with Alfalfa use 12 lbs. with 8 lbs. Alfalfa. Price for best grade of seed, per lb. 30c, 3 lbs. 75c, postpaid. By freight per bushel (14 lbs.) $2.25, 50 lbs. $8.00; 100 lbs. $15.00.

Nov. 27, 1899.--I consider the Bromus Inermis a profitable variety for growing in this section of the country and expect to plant more of it another year.--H. Schnackenberg, Thayer Co., Neb.

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My brother sowed some of your new grass, Bromus Inermis in the spring of 1898 with several other varieties of grass seed. All others killed out last winter except the Bromus. It has proved to be earlier than Blue Grass and makes fine hay and pasture. He has the cattle on it now (Dec. 2) and it is as green as in the summer.--John Bade, Colfax Co., Neb.

HAYNES' PEDIGREE WHEAT.
We cannot too highly recommend this grand new variety as being the best kind of spring wheat in existence and are sure it will please everyone who tries it. It was originated by Mr. L. H. Haynes, who has spent eight years in selecting and improving it in his garden, each year choosing all the largest and best heads and discarding all the balance. This continued selection has had the effect of improving it in vigor, size of head and quality. For the past few years he has been growing it as a farm crop, taking the greatest pains each season to keep it strictly pure and by going through the fields and removing everything that was not of ideal quality, he now has a variety which is sure to please all wheat growers. The heads are very large and well filled out, the kernel is hard, the plant stools greatly and, under ordinarily favorable conditions, will yield 40 to 50 bushels per acre. It is an improvement on the old Velvet Chaff or Blue Stem wheat, but fully five days earlier in maturing. We most highly recommend this variety to customers everywhere in the wheat growing belt, and are sure that it will greatly please them in every respect. Per pk. 65c, bushel $2.00, 2 bushels or more at $1.85.

I was very much pleased with Haynes' Pedigree Blue Stem Wheat last year. The weather was very unfavorable for small grain, but it yielded nearly double the crop that my other wheat did and of much better quality.--George Rubes, Dickinson Co., Iowa.
Haynes' Pedigree Wheat yielded a crop of 835 bushels on my place last year making an average of 41 bushels per acre, and tested 60 pounds from the machine, No. 1 hard. St. Paul inspectors say that it is as fine a milling wheat as they ever saw.--L. D. Hause, Ramsey Co., Minn.

NEW ERA COW PEAS.
A novelty of great merit in that it is the earliest variety of Cow Peas in existence and therefore most decidedly the best for growing in the northern states. Throughout the south, cow peas are considered one of their most profitable crops, as they yield immensely and are largely used as a green summer feed and also for planting in corn and other crops and plowing under as a fertilizer. All their varieties, however, are too late for the north, but after considerable inquiry we found a small lot of a new variety which had never been disseminated, producing about three crops per year in Georgia, and maturing in 60 days from time of planting. It was tested in this latitude and in Minnesota and gave excellent results, producing well, and proved to be all right as to season of maturing. They are a great soil invigorator, as like clover, they take most of their subsistence from the air. Per large pkt. 5c, lb. 30c, 3 lbs. for 80c, postpaid. By freight, peck $1.25, bushel $3.75.

Your New Era Cow Peas made as fine a crop as I ever saw. The cattle were fond of them both as green fodder and dry and would leave corn when they could get the Cow Peas. They were very early, yielded an immense crop and you cannot say too much about them.--J. E. Browne, Polk Co., Iowa.

A COMPARISON.--A crop of wheat is considered a fair yield if it produces ten-fold or ten bushels to each bushel sown. The New Century Wonder is not satisfied with ten-fold, a hundred-fold, a thousand-fold or ten thousand-fold, but it is claimed that in a field you can find hills grown from one kernel which bear 20,000 to 40,000 kernels. Of course the entire crop will not average that, but it is wonderful, just think of it, 40,000 to 1. If we had wheat that was that productive you could afford to pay $1,000.00 per bushel for the seed and make money from the investment the first year. Seed has been sold here at $1.00 per pint and is cheap at that when you consider its wonderful character but we want everyone to try it and have made a low price. Don't fail to plant at least a small patch, and thus obtain plenty of seed of your own growing for another year. Per pkt. 10c, 1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 50c, 2 1/2 lbs. (enough to plant one acre), $1.00 postpaid.

TRY SPILTZ.
See description on page 35.
Emil Shuman, of Sherman Co., Neb., says; "I tested your new grain called Spiltz this year, and though we had a very dry summer, it did well. It stooled out heavily; each kernel produced 28 to 45 sprouts and every sprout had a nice head averaging three inches in length. The straw was very stiff, and I do not think it will lodge even on rich soil and it is a heavy yielder."

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