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28. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

PRIZE WINNER EVERYWHERE

IOWA SILVER MINE.

215 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

The most marvelous variety of corn ever offered, and one which will surprise everyone who plants it. Thousands ol 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 industry of the country. Just think of this wonderful yield--215 bushels per acre with ordinary culture. We don't blame some practical farmers for looking incredulous when this is mentioned; we did not believe it ourselves until we had measured the ground and proved conclusively that the report was correct. The seed corn trade is our great specialty, and we claim to be seed corn experts, and in the spring of 1895, when we first saw this corn, we purchased the entire stock for $1,000.00 cash. The originator is not now growing seed corn and you must buy from us if you want pure, true to name seed. Just think of it! The average corn crop of the United States is only 28 bushels per acre, and there was more than seven times this amount of Iowa Silver Mine grown on one acre. Would you like to grow this kind of a crop? Plant Iowa Silver Mine Corn--plant your whole farm to it.
DESCRIPTION--Stalk grows to a height of about 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 ninety-five days. 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 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. It is in every way a distinct type of corn and is hardy and a wonderful resister of drouth.
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 one acre, and the Iowa Sliver 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.
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 1905.--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. Be progressive; adopt new methods and use good seed. Figure out what your profit would be if your crop were that large. It will pay you to plant your entire field with this variety. Get your neighbors to order with you.
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). One bushel per acre added to your crop will pay for it, and you can't afford to use doubtful seed.
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. 50c, bush. $1.50; 2 bush. or more at $1.35; 10 bush. for $12.50.
READ WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY.
"I have been growing your Iowa Silver Mine Corn for three years and it yielded fully ten bushels an acre more than any corn here this year, in spite of the unfavorable weather."--E. W. Parnell, Story county, Iowa.
"The seeds purchased from you produced the finest yields ever seen in our county. The Iowa Silver Mine Corn yielded 188 bushels to the acre."--W. A. Johnson, Miss. Co., Ark.
"I don't think a better quality of corn can be found than the Iowa Silver Mine, and it yielded 114 bushels per acre for me this year."--S. S. Troxel, Benton county, Iowa.
"Your Silver Mine Corn grew splendidly and ripened sufficiently to make seed corn 100 miles north of St. Paul."--Francis Maddox, Crow Wing county, Minn.
"Last spring I planted one peck of your Iowa Silver Mine corn, and gathered 100 bushels of the finest corn I ever saw."--J. Clay Fox, Rock county, Nebraska.
"Your Iowa Silver Mine Corn is the earliest white corn I have ever seen. Ears of good size and in many instances producing two good ears to the stalk. It is seldom that one sees anything bred up to such perfection as this new corn."--W. O. Ruddick, Lee county, Iowa.
"I am especially pleased with the Iowa Silver Mine Corn and it is worth five times as much as the Mastodon which I have been growing."--Jacob B. Siemens, Reno county, Kansas.

[image] Iowa Silver Mine. 215 Bus. per Acre!