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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA.

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[Image of illustrated horizontal dry corn cob with nine central kernels removed to show cross section. Two additional cross sections of transverse corn cobs below the first]

IOWA GOLD
MINE

The Deepest Grained
and Purest Yellow
Corn in Existence
The kind that made us famous

Notice the small cob
and depth of grain

More widely disseminated and better known than any
other variety of corn. Sold and planted all over the world
where corn is grown. Listed by dealers in every state in
the Union and in Central Europe, South Africa, Australia;
everywhere that corn is planted.

Everyone who has tried it is enthusiastic in the praise of
this splendid variety which we introduced in 1892. Iowa is
not called a gold mining state but in this grand variety the
farmers of ths country will find a veritable mine of wealth.
It has received the most cordial endorsement as the best
and most profitable variety ever grown. It is early, ripening
a few days later than Pride of the North. Ears are
not extra large, but of good size and symmetrical; color a
bright golden yellow, as handsome as a twenty dollar gold
coin just from the mint; grain is very deep, cob small and
therefore dries out very quickly. Seventy pounds of ear
corn makes 62 to 63 pounds of shelled corn, and in hauling
to market it weighs out five bushels more to the wagonload
than common varieties in the same size wagon. We
have shelled selected ears of this variety which produced
64 pounds of shelled corn and only 5 pounds of cobs to the
bushel. This Is an unparalleled record. It cannot be
equaled by any other corn in the world.

We do not recommend this as a corn to haul to market
on the ear at ordinary prices. If you sell it, either demand
an advance over market price or sell on the basis of shelled
bushels. A little incident which occurred on the streets of
Des Moines will illustrate our point. One of our growers
was hauling in Iowa Gold Mine to our warehouse. A grain
dealer noticing the corn offered our grower 5 cents per
bushel over market price for his load, explaining that he
could make more on it at that than he could on ordinary
yellow corn.

We can most confidently recommend it as the acme of
perfection, and stake our reputation on its pleasing everyone
who tries it. One carload lot of 400 bushels of Iowa
Gold Mine corn was carefully weighed, and after shellihg
It was re-weighed and there was just 456 bushels. Just
think of it-a gain of 14 busbels to the 100.

You can readily see that it is the man who feeds the corn
on the farm that will get the most value from Iowa Gold
Mine-there is so little waste and the quality is the best. It
is a soft grain but rich and full of oil. There is absolutely
as much feeding value in fifty bushels of Iowa Gold Mine as
in sixty bushels of any other variety.

But these are only part of its qualities. It is early; so
e arly that It is grown with great success in South Dakota,
Minnesota, Wisconsin and other parts of the northern corn
belt. You will never have soft corn if you raise Iowa Gold
Mine. and you will not have to stand dockage at the elevator
because of moldy or frozen ears. It would pay the
farmers of Iowa to get away from the large cob, large
eared varieties which have had such a run in recent years,
and plant Iowa Gold Mine in their stead, as we are confident
better prices can be r ealized on market for this than
for any variety now grown.

As stated above, the Iowa Gold Mine is the most generally
grown of any variety and it Is listed by nearly every seedsman,
some of whom purchase their stock of us. But many
of them buy it of farmers or other dealers who purchase it
in open market. Naturally such seed will not be pure, nor
will it equal in any way our specially grown, carefully
selected, thoroughly tested seed. Remember If you want
pure Iowa Gold Mine Corn you must purchase direct from
us. If you purchase from your local dealer insist on seeing
that our label is on every bag, plainly marked Iown Seed
Company. It will pay you to change your seed, and don't
fall to see a sample of Iowa Gold Mine before buying.

PRICES: Pkt. 5c, lb. 25c, 31bs. 60c, postpaid; by
freight, pk. 75c, bu. $2.25, 2 bu. or more at $2.15, 10 bu. $20.

JUST A FEW REPORTS FROM SATISFIED CUSTOMERS.

I am glad I planted all my field with your seed corn this
year. The Iowa Gold Mine surprises everyone here by its
deep grain and small cob, and it shells out about six pounds
to the bushel more than any other sorts. -John W. Ernst,
Floyd County. Iowa.

The Iowa Gold Mine Corn is the best I ever saw and it is
well adapted to this cllmate. -S. F. Reynolds, Dane County,
Wisconsin.

I bought some Iowa Gold Mine Corn of you and it is the
best corn I ever used in my life. -Ernest Bolko, Monroe
County, New York.

I grew 480 bushels of your Iowa Gold Mine Corn on four
acres last year. An average of 120 bushels to the acre. -
W. W. Preston, Warren County, Iowa.

Your Iowa Gold Mine Corn was early, stood the drouth
remarkably well and produced 500 bushels of good, sound
corn. My neighbors, with as good or better conditions,
either failed entirely or had only soft corn. I never made
a more profitable investment in my Ilfe. -F. H. Furneaux,
Arapahoe County, Colorado.

In my test the new Prosperity Corn matured well, making
very uniform, good shaped, sound ears of rich yellow color
and deep kernels. -Geo. M. Fox, Dallas County, Iowa.

Am very well pleased with your Iowa Sliver Mine and
Golden West Corn. I planted the Sliver Mine on a piece of
land, a little less than one acre. The other day I husked
12 shocks and got 42 bushels of good corn. At this rate I
will harvest about 231 bushels of corn per acre. -Geo.
Hearry, Morgan County, MissourI.

Your Silver Mine Corn grew splendidly and ripened sufficiently
to make seed corn 100 miles north of St. Paul. -
Francis Maddox, Crow Wing County. Minnesota.

The seeds purchased from you produced the finest yields
ever seen in our country. The Iowa Sliver Mine Corn
yielded 188 bushels to the acre. -W. A. Johnson, Miss.
County. Arkansas.

Your Lenocher's Homestend Corn is the best hog corn I
ever fed. It is the earliest variety grown in this part of the
country. -John Aberle, Doniphan County, Kansas.

I was well satisfied with the Farmers' Reliance Corn
which I purchased of you, it yielding 47 1/2 bushels of well
matured corn per acre at an altitude of 4,700 feet. -C. F.
Fitch, Greeley , Colorado.

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 September 1st. I just now measured an ear 13 1/2 in.
long wlth 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 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. F. Dawson, Cherokee County, Iowa.

WE COULD FILL THE ENTIRE CATALOGUE WITH TESTIMONIALS ABOUT OUR VARIETIES OF CORN.