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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 11

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[Section of Ear, and man who grew prize crop - 215 bushels per acre.]

IOWA SILVER MINE CORN.
THE GREAT $1,000 CORN - YIELDS 215 BU. PER ACRE.
The most marvelous variety of corn ever offered, and one which will surprise every one who plants it. Thousands of farmers have tried it and doubled their crops and also made money rapidly by selling seed to their less enterprising neighbors. It is revolutionizing the corn growing of the country. Just think of this wonderful yield, 215 bushels per acre with ordinary culture. The seed corn trade is our great specialty, and we claim to be corn experts, and in the spring of 1895, when we first saw this corn, we purchased the entire stock for $1,000.00 cash. An offer of $10.00 per pound would not have induced us to sell all we had of it, as we wanted to save it for our customers. The average corn crop of the United States is only twenty-eight bushels per acre, and there was more than seven times this amount of Iowa Silver Mine grown on one acre. Adopt our new method of culture, which will be sent free to every one ordering this variety of seed corn from us.

DESCRIPTION. Stalk grows to a height of seven or eight feet, and sets the ears about three and one-half to four feet from the ground, just the right height for easy picking. One peculiarity which will be noticed in going over the fields is that there are no barren stalks, every one has an ear, many stalks have two or three good ears, and the originator says that has been characteristic every year that he has grown it. The type is very even. Ears measuring from Ten to Twelve inches in length and weighing one and one-half pounds are often found. The ears are very uniform in size and shape, with sixteen to twenty straight rows, (usually eighteen rows,) of deep, pure white kernels, set on a small white cob, and the ears are well filled out over the tip. It is early, maturing in less than ninety-five days, and never has been caught by the frost. The cob dries out rapidly, so that it is ready for market earlier than any other White Field Corn in existence. Seventy pounds in the the ear will make sixty-two pounds shelled. It is adapted to a wider range of soil and climate than any corn ever offered. From Minnesota to Florida, from Massachusetts to California, it will yield a paying crop where other varieties are grown at a loss.

ITS PRIZE RECORD. Everywhere the Iowa Silver Mine captures the prizes over all other varieties. At one fair ten of the largest ears took first prize, ten of the smaller ears took second prize. Afterwards the same ten large ears took sweepstakes over all other varieties, both white and yellow, making a total of $95.00 in prizes taken at one fair by twenty ears of the Iowa Silver Mine Corn. It captured the big prize offered by us in 1896, for the largest crop, against all other kinds of any color, yielding 215 bushels. At the Illinois State Fair it took first premium for the best bushel of corn, any color or sort; first for best white corn in the state, and grand sweepstakes for the best corn of any color, competition open to the world. In 1899 the Illinois State Agricultural Society offered three large prizes for the largest corn crop grown on an acre, and the Iowa Silver Mine captured all three of them with crops of 196, 176 AND 154 BUSHELS PER ACRE. No other corn of any color can compare with it in wonderful productiveness.

Average of above is 176 bushels of shelled corn per acre. Has produced immense crops everywhere. Our customers all rejoice with us.

Read the Astonishing Record of our own prize contest. It produced 215 bushels per acre in Scott county, Iowa; 211 bushels per acre in Indiana; 201 bushels per acre in Arkansas; 178 bushels per acre in Illinois; 145 bushels per acre in Nebraska; 144 bushels per acre in Ohio; 137 bushels per acre in Texas.

Now for 1903. To every one who orders Iowa Silver Mine Seed Corn from us we will send free, full information as to how 215 bushels of corn were grown on one acre and instructions so that you can do as well.

WE ARE THE ORIGINAL INTRODUCERS.
And if you want pure Iowa Silver Mine Corn, it must be purchased from us. We have proof that other dealers are copying our descriptions and selling common white corn as Iowa Silver Mine. The cost of pure seed is almost nothing (only about 25 cents per acre).

$10,000.00 IN PRIZES.
Everywhere the Iowa Silver Mine Captures Prizes.
Over all other varieties, and it is estimated that they have amounted to over ten thousand dollars. At one great Corn Show it won eleven (11) of the best prizes offered, in competition with varieties of every color, kind and description, competition open to the world. In 1896 we offered $500.00 in prizes for the largest yield, and the first prize was won by Mr. Claus Jochimsen, a well-to-do German farmer of Scott county, Iowa, with a yield of 215 bushels of shelled corn per acre. His written report was signed, also, by two neighbors, who helped him to measure the ground and gather the corn, and it was weighed by the public weighmaster, who also made a written report. To verify this the president of the Iowa Seed Company personally inspected and measured the field and estimated carefully the corn in the crib.

READ WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY.
"The Iowa Silver Mine is all you represent it to be. It ripened in 90 days and produced ears ten inches long and seven inches in circumference."-H. R. Burton,
Butler county, Pa.
"I have been growing your Iowa Silver Mine Corn for three years past, and it yielded fully ten bushels more per acre than any other corn here this year, in spite of the unfavorable weather."-E. W. Parnell, Story county, Iowa.
"Your Iowa Silver Mine Corn did exceptionally well with me considering the unfavorable season. It ripened earlier than any other corn in my neighborhood. It is strictly a number one corn, very solid on the cob and well filled out at the tips; makes also a superior quality of fodder."-M. S. Wittle, Lancaster county, Pa.
"The Iowa Silver Mine purchased from you was planted one month after planting my native corn, but it ripened by the time the native corn was in roasting ear and made 50 per cent larger crop." W. G. Jordan, Chickasaw county, Indian Ter.

THE BEST ON A 22,000 ACRE FARM.
"On this estate, comprising 22,000 acres, there was this year nearly 10,000 acres of corn, including almost all known standard sorts suited to this latitude, and we consider that of the white varieties the Iowa Silver Mine is the purest and in all respects the most satisfactory." - W. A. Bichet, Manager.

PRICE Postpaid or by express prepaid: Per pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, 7 lbs (will plant an acre) $1.00. Specimen ears 25c each postpaid. By freight or express, purchaser paying charges, per pk. 65c, bushel $2.00, 2 bushel or more @ $1.85, 5 bushels or more @ $1.75.

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