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IOWA SEED CO., DES MOINES, IOWA

DEFIANCE WINTER WHEAT

In Hardiness, Stooling Qualities,
Productiveness, Strength of Straw

UNEQUALED

In Quality of Grain, Quality of Flour
and in Rust-proof Qualities.

Best in all Respects of Any Wheat Now Offered for Seed.

We know this is considerable to say, but we feel sure that any farmer who tries this
grand sort will have it proved to his satisfaction. Our DEFIANCE WINTER WHEAT has
been selected from the choicest stock of Turkish Red Wheat, which has yielded immense
crops under ordinary conditions. By careful selection we have secured this excellent
variety which we believe to be far superior to any other on the market.

Don't fail to sow " Defiance" no matter whether you
live in Minnesota or Texas, California or New England.

It is not only unsurpassed, but unequaled in hard-
iness, producing an excellent crop in Minnesota.
The straw is stiff enough to hold up the heavy
heads well. It has a record of
OVER FIFTY-NINE BUSHELS PER ACRE
under favorable circumstances; other crops range
from thirty to forty bushels under very ordinary
conditions. It stools out the best of any variety we
know; heads are of good size and a great many ot
them to each root. The grains are plump, handsome
and quite hard; the hull is reasonably thin and it
makes a most excellent grade of flour. Many mill-
ers claim that it is fully equal to the world famed
Hungarian flours made from the choicest wheat
grown in Hungary and Bohemia.

Turkish Red Winter Wheat originated from a few
seeds of wheat which were brought to this country
from Turkey in a shipment of rye. It looks very
much like rye when growing, and is just as hardy
as any variety of rye. It has been selected and im-
proved from year to year until it is beyond com-
parison in value, for farmers in this section of the
country, and has established the fact that it most
decidely does pay to grow winter wheat Iowa.

During the past few years many new varieties of winter
wheat from the east, north, south and west have been
tested in Iowa, but in spite of eloquent descriptions, high
testimonials and great records in other sections, they either
winter kill, blight or rust so as to be worthless. Notwith-
standing all the failures of other sorts, Defiance has proved
to be invincible, and every year with only one exception
(season of 1898-99, when all kinds of fruit and even oak
trees were killed) it has produced a good paying crop. It
is strictly Iron clad and almost entirely free from rust,
blight and scab and lives through the winter in the most
exposed places. PRICES , See Red Ink Prlc. List Enclosed.