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Title: Good seed book
Identifier: CAT31285661 (find matches)
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Missouri Valley Seed Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock Missouri Saint Joseph Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs
Publisher: St. Joseph, Mo. : Missouri Valley Seed Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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...FIELD CORNS SWEET In cataloging this branch of our business, we wish to state to our customers and the trade in general the value and importance of procuring not only good varieties of seed corn, but that which is grown in the very heart of the Great Corn Belt, grown in a climate and a soil where it not only develops great vigor of stock, size of ears and richness of kernel, but where there is a climate like ours, which at the right season of the year ripens and preserves it for seed of the highest vital test. For a number of years we have given this branch of our business the strictest attention, and by selection year after year of our seed stocks we are able to offer our customers for the coming season varieties of seed corns of the purest strain and truest types that are possible to produce. Many farmers realize the value of changing seed and securing the best and truest strains and reaping the reward of their wisdom in choice by the yield of their acres. Still there are those who wait for their neighbors to get the seed first, and put off buying good seed until the next year. This plan was all right before the flood when men lived hun- dreds of years, but all should realize that it's too slow for this advanced age. Get good seed this year and improve it still more next. The farmer is the basis of the real wealth of our country. An increase of from one to five bushels of corn per acre means millions in money to the farmers of Iowa and surrounding states. At the rate of S2.00 per bushel for seed corn it costs only about 4O cents per acre to plant your Held with the purest strains of good, vital seed. We do not boast as some people do that to procure pure seed of certain varieties and kinds you must of neces- sity get it through us. but we do pride overselves in stating to you that the varieties we have described in this cata- logue are not only of the purest strains, the highest developed types, but grow in the finest climate on earth for curing and ripening the corn for seed. What is true of the autumn season for curing field corn seed is also of still greater value in curing and ripening for seed the different varieties of sweet or sugar corn. The great amount of saccharine matter in this corn makes it often, in damp and foggy climates, hard to cure, even by kiln drying, and then it sel- dom ever tests over 75 per cent, to grow, whilst here in our rich autumn sunshine, where fogs are seldom or never seen at that season, this corn ripens and cures to perfection and will test as much as 95 per cent, nine times out of ten. 10
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