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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA.

[image] NEW CENTURY WONDER CORN.

NEW CENTURY WONDER CORN.
A most wonderful variety from South America, different in many respects from other sorts. Instead of growing like ordinary corn, one stalk to each kernel planted, it stools like winter wheat, producing 10 to 20 stalks from each seed. There are frequently 3 to 7 ears to the stalk, being 8 to 10 inches long, and of the most clear, snowy white color. 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 cleanest, 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 100 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 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 everywhere for use as sweet corn, to grind into meal, to feed hogs, cattle and horses and as a fodder plant. Plant early as it requires the whole season to mature in this latitude.

[image] GIANT CUZCO.

THOUSAND HEADED KALE.
About nine years ago we introduced Dwarf Essex Rape to our customers and it has proved to be the most popular forage plant ever brought to America. The seed is grown in England and when the writer was there a year age [ago] the growers called his attention to the Thousand Headed Kale which is now supplanting rape in that country. They state that there is fully three or four times as much of this new kale grown for forage purposes as there is of the rape. We have tested the kale here and also had it in the hands of several other persons and it has given excellent results. The seed is much higher in price than rape, but it takes less of it.
The seed can be sown early in April or any time thereafter until mid-summer. It grows to a height of three to four feet, and is so covered with small whorls of leaves that the name of Thousand Headed Kale has been given it. It is plain that it will yield a much larger crop than the Dwarf Essex Rape as it branches out from the bottom, grows very rapidly and is greatly relished by hogs, cattle and sheep. The roots penetrate to a great depth in the subsoil so that the plant is not affected by drought. It grows with increased rapidity after being fed off and flourishes on all kinds of soil.
In England we find that they are sowing this seed broadcast on their pastures with grass seeds, using about one pound of seed per acre, though if sown alone it should have about three pounds per acre. Not hardy in this state, but we have no doubt that it will be used very largely in the south for winter pasture, as it is the cheapest of any feed that we know of. We want to recommend this plant very highly to the poultrymen as it is of superior quality for their use. While, as stated above, three pounds of seed are sown to the acre broadcast, still it is much better to sow it in rows 18 inches apart and in this way one pound is sufficient for an acre. Immense quantities of this plant are also grown in England for selling on the market for greens and it is of superior quality for this purpose to almost any plant that we know of. Price per large pkg. 5c, 1/4 lb. 20c, lb. 65c, postpaid. By express, 5 lbs. or more, 50c per lb.

[image] THOUSAND HEADED KALE.

Mr. C. A. Zavitz, of Ontario, Canada, writes us that he has grown the Thousand Headed Kale for four years in Canada and it has produced 17 1/2 tons per acre, and the people who grow it in his neighborhood prize it very highly for feeding purposes.

BLACK TARTARIAN OATS.
While at the Royal Agricultural Show in Cardiff, Wales, last year we saw a fine lot of English grown Black Tartarian Oats on exhibition there, and knowing there would be considerable demand for these from our customers we arranged for a stock. They have been grown for several years in this country, but the seed which we have been obliged to use has always been of inferior quality as it was impossible to obtain first-class stock, but our being on the ground has enabled us to obtain seed of quality far superior to any which we have ever seen before. This is the most hardy and most productive variety of oats that we know of; 442 grains have been grown on a single straw. It stools freely and grain is short and plump, of best possible quality. Our cut, made from a photograph, will give you some idea of the crop. The English farmer, Mr. Bennett, says: "I sowed nine bushels last year on three acres of land and they yielded 365 bushels. This is equal to about 122 bushels per acre." We believe that many of our customers will want to try them this year and although the expense of importation was quite heavy, we are enabled to offer them at the comparatively low price of 25c per lb., 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid. By freight, peck 75c, bushel $2.25, 2 bushels or more @ $2.10, 10 bushels or more @ $2.00 per bushel. Stock is comparatively small so order early if you want them.

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. Pkt. 10c, 1/4 lb. 15c, lb. 40c, 3 lbs. (will plant one acre), $1.00 postpaid. By freight, 1/2 pk. 75c; pk. $1.25.

GIANT CUZCO CORN.
A most strange and curious corn from Peru, with kernels of truly mammoth size, as shown in our illustration, each one being as large as 4 to 10 kernels of ordinary field corn. It will cause wonder and astonishment of everyone who sees it. It is quite late in maturing and therefore should be started early in pots in the house. In transplanting be careful not to disturb the roots. Our cut shows an ordinary kernel of corn beside the Giant Cuzco. It is a great novelty and attracted great attention in our exhibit at the Peoria Corn Show. Sold only in packets of 10 seeds for 10 cents.

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CROP OF BLACK TARTARIAN OATS.
From photograph taken in England showing great productiveness.

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