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30. SEED CATALOGUE AND GARDEN GUIDE.

FARMERS' RELIANCE CORN.
A GRAND NOVELTY in field corn, introduced by the Iowa Seed Company, and it is by far the earliest dent corn in existence, and also the largest eared early corn. It is earlier than Pride of the North and a much better cropper. This new variety of corn is the result of a scientific hybridization made fifteen 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. The corn is of a very strong, vigorous character, growing more rapidly than any other variety from the day 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 nine to eleven blades, while most ordinary corn has thirteen blades. These leaves are quite broad, of a dark emerald green, healthy color. This corn has been planted as late as June 26th and yielded a splendid crop, earlier than Pride of the North, which was planted at the same time. We claim that it will mature any year in eighty to eighty-five 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 25 to 35 per cent more than Pride of the North under the same conditions. An average bushel of seventy pounds will make sixty pounds of shelled corn. It has for years been selected from stalks which set the ears 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 is the farmers' reliance every year. 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. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid; by freight or exp. pk. 50c, bu. $1.60, 2 bush. or more @ $1.50, 10 bush. @ $1.35.

Your Farmers' Reliance corn has proved very fine and I am much pleased with it.--W. A. Whitmer, Clinton County, Iowa.

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The Farmers' Reliance corn purchased from you has made a splendid yield.--Herman Hunt, Iowa.

Last year I purchased some of your Farmers' Reliance Corn and was very much pleased with the splendid crop, as it yielded 400 bushels of ears from three acres of ground. Your corn is all that you recommend it to be.--Mrs. Harriet Brown, Ashtabula County, Ohio.

Your Farmer's Reliance is the earliest corn I have ever seen or grown, maturing in 80 days, being ten days to two weeks earlier than Pride of the North and yields double as much per acre.--H. H. Connell, Poweshiek County, Iowa.

EARLY LONGFELLOW DENT.
There is no telling when we will have a short season and early killing frost in the fall, and in such a case farmers who have their fields planted with an early maturing variety are truly fortunate. The trouble with most extra early sorts, however, is that they are too small and "nubbiny," but this new variety is of unusual length, our illustration showing an ear 15 inches long, but the average is about 12 inches. Its peculiar shape, which is different from any other sort, suggests the name. It matures fully as early as Pride of the North, is double the size and yields a far larger crop, which is ripe and hard before there is a thought of frost, thus making a variety that it will pay to "tie to." Stalks are of medium height, strong and not easily blown down. Grain is not as deep as some of our other varieties, but it is the corn of corns for selling on the market, as a wagon load of it is as pretty as a picture. We recommend it highly to customers in Northern Iowa, Minnesota, the Dakotas and other northern states, feeling sure that it will please everyone. Order early, as there is sure to be a great demand. Per pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid. By freight, per pk. 60c, bu. $1.60; 2 bushels or more @ $1.50; 10 bushels or more @ $1.35.

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"I planted the Longfellow Dent Corn May 5th on good bottom land. I had a good stand and it was out of danger from frost Sept. 1st. I just now measured an ear 13½ inches long with sixteen rows. Many are 12 inches, few less than 11 inches long. A good business corn. As president of the first Corn Club organized in Iowa and a life-long corn grower, I venture the opinion that this long eared corn is for the farmer a better and more satisfactory type than any of the show corns."--W. P. Dawson, Cherokee county, Iowa.

HICKORY KING.
A white field corn which has the largest grains with the smallest cob of any white corn ever introduced. So large are the grains and so extremely small is the cob that on an ear broken in half a single grain will almost cover the cob section completely. It is of strong, vigorous growth and yields splendid crops on light soil, and is a desirable variety where the season is long enough to mature it, but we do not recommend it north of Southern Iowa, although it produced a good crop last year forty miles north of Des Moines. This variety matures in about one hundred and thirty-five days. Per pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid; by frt., pk. 65c, bu. $2.00, 2 bu. or more @ $1.85, 10 bu. @ $1.75.

PRIDE OF THE NORTH.
This variety originated with A. L. Goddard, of Kossuth county, Iowa, about 20 years ago, and sprang at once into prominence as the earliest of all yellow dent corns. The ears are 7 to 8 inches long with small cob and kernel; seventy pounds of ears will make sixty pounds of shelled corn; color bright orange and very uniform. Will ripen in ninety days and matures in this latitude when planted in June. Good soil is capable of producing four or five good stalks to the hill and many stalks have two ears each. This will enable one to get as large a crop of corn as with a large eared variety and much more fodder. Pk. 60c, bu. $1.75; 2 bu. or more @ $1.60; 10 bu. @ $1.50.

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[image] PRIDE OF THE NORTH.

The seed corn I bought of you last spring was the best investment I ever made. It produced fully double as much as that of my neighbors and it is of the finest quality.--W. C. McHenry, Crawford Co., Ia.
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.--S. W. Callanan, Kossuth Co., Iowa.

POP CORN IS A VERY PROFITABLE CROP. BETTER PLANT A FEW ACRES THIS YEAR.