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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 31.

IMPROVED WORLD'S FAIR CORN.
An Improved Strain of Reid's Yellow Dent.
We claim to be seed corn specialists and we annually supply more farmers with seed corn than any dealer in the world. Prominent farmers and agricultural writers have assured us that with the new varieties which we have introduced we are rapidly nearing perfection in the corn plant. We cannot wholly agree with them, and we do not intend to stop our efforts in this direction, but farmers will find the Improved World's Fair which we are offering this season to be a long step in advance towards the aim to which we are striving. It was bred by selection from Reid's Yellow Dent and is a great improvement over it. It is distinguished by the grain being deeper, rough on the surface and not so hard, the latter fact making it a more desirable variety for feeding purposes. It is a very strong growing variety, maturing a large handsome ear in 110 days. Few varieties have outyielded it in experiments. A heavy cropper and for uniformity of grain, the shape and filling out of butts and tips, and compactness, there is no other variety that is nearer perfection. No variety of yellow corn has been used so much for exhibition purposes, nor won more prizes. Any farmer who wishes to compete for premiums will find this a winner. It was the prize winner of both diploma and medal at the great World's Fair exhibition in Chicago, but since then has been greatly improved. It is of excellent quality, being solid, heavy and of very strong vitality. The grain is so tight on the cob that in the process of drying sometimes rows will be forced out. This cut of the World's Fair Corn represents about the standard ear, which is as follows;--shape of ear nearly cylindrical; length 10 inches; circumference 7¼ inches. The kernel is firm, upright, and medium yellow in color, long wedge shape and slightly rough, 18 to 22 rows which are in pairs. Butt deeply rounded, compressed, regular rows clear to tip, shank small, cob red and of medium size, 88 per cent of corn to cob. Every wide-awake intelligent farmer will want to test this grand new sort and can well afford to do so, as it cost only about thirty cents per acre for seed. Any one will be well paid for growing this variety of corn. The beauty and uniformity of the ears in shape, color and completeness, is sure to please all corn growers. It is well adapted to this latitude and ripens in about 110 days. Pkt. 5c, lb. 25c; 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid. By freight or express, pk. 60c, bu. $1.60, 2 bu. at $1.50, 10 bu. at $1.35.
Dec. 2.--I have just finished gathering my World's Fair Corn and find it to be the most solid corn I ever raised in spite of the unfavorable season. The ears are exceptionally well filled out at both ends and it yielded a good crop.--W. J. Day, Dallas county, Iowa.

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 ten to twenty stalks from each seed. There are frequently three to seven ears to the stalk, being eight to ten inches long, and of the most clear, snow 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, pies, biscuit and cakes. It is an improvement on Brazilian flour corn, being acclimated by growing for eight or ten years in the north. Yields 100 to 150 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 ten to twelve feet high, produces three to seven ears on a stalk and ten to twenty stalks to the hill from one seed planted. The ears are about 9 inches long and it yielded seventy-five 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 it 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. 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, ¼ lb. 15c, lb. 40c, 3 lbs. (will plant one acre) $1.00 postpaid by freight, ½ pk. 75c, pk. $1.25.
I have transacted business with you to the extent of hundreds of dollars and I have found your business methods courteous and straightforward; careful in representations and honest in your dealings. Please send 4 bu. more of Golden West Seed Corn.--D. E. Schoonover, Montgomery county, Iowa.

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THE MOST PROFITABLE CORN FOR FARMERS TO GROW.
SURE ROAD TO WEALTH.

PROFIT CORN.
A most profitable corn for any farmer who has live stock to feed. We introduced this grand new variety and it has given excellent satisfaction everywhere. It originated from a carefully prepared cross of two well-known sorts on the farm of a seed grower in Madison county, Iowa, which is the county that produced our world-famous Iowa Gold Mine. For nearly twenty years this corn has been bred up until now it is claimed to be the heaviest and most solid ear of any variety in existence, and of good size. It ain't a handsome corn, but it's got money in it. The color of the surface of the ear is variegated from light sulphur to reddish orange, being agreeably diversified, making it particularly striking in appearance. With some this might be an objection if they desire to sell it in the ear, but when shelled it looks quite uniform in color as the variation is simply in color of the cap or top of grain. The purpose of the originator was to fix a type of field corn for profit, superior to any in cultivation, and profit in corn growing, as we understand it, means the largest crop of Shelled Corn (not cobs) maturing in a reasonably short time, and of the best quality. Ears of large size, grain is very deep, cob small and dries out rapidly, thus making it a sure cropper. The corn is so solid on the cob that the kernels appear as if driven in and it shells out immensely. Will produce a larger crop on poor soil than any variety we know of and with good culture will astonish everybody. It is the corn to plant and we want all our customers to try it. Order early as our stock is limited. Pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 3 lbs. 60c, postpaid. By freight, pk. 65c, bu. $2.00, 2 bu. or more @ $1.85; 10 bu. @ $1.75.
I was much pleased with your Profit Corn this season, as it gave an exceedingly large yield.--J. H. Luddington, Ashtabula county, Ohio.
The Profit Corn I received of you last spring has the right name. It is the best corn for stock. It grows large and is solid and also contains a greater proportion of fat than any of our corn in this country. The Iowa Gold Mine Corn I received of you is beautiful in color, shape and size.--B. J. Clarida, Williamson county, Ills.

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