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Title: Spring 1897
Identifier: CAT31282709 (find matches)
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: John A. Salzer Seed Co.
Subjects: Nursery stock Wisconsin Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Cereal grasses Seeds Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: La Crosse, Wis. : John A. Salzer Seed Co.

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JOHN A. SALZER SEED CO/S CATALOGUE OF PLANTS AND SEEDS, LA CROSSE, WIS. 112 A PLAIN TALK TO FARMERS. There is absolutely no risk in sowing this variety of Oats, and big money can be made out of it by wide-awake farmers. Why is it that some farmers will not keep up with the times? Why are they always content with the skimmed milk? Or, in other words, why will they not buy a good thing when it is new, but wait until it is half worn out and then take hold of it? This class of farmers will always complain of poor crops, low prices and hard times. Let us look at the matter right. The prices are low. Double the yield of your crops. What then? Why, hard times disappear as though by magic. Sow good seed. Feed your ground, and then with a fair season (or a bad season, if you sow Silver Mine Oats) the crop is assured. On the other hand, sow a poor variety of seed, starve your land, and the best season God ever sent will not fill your granary; such farming will make you a slave all your active life and prepare for you a miserable old age. Be wise and keep well ahead in the race. Be a leader if you can, but never be entirely in the rear. Think, plan, act. You can commence this year by sowing good varieties of cereals,—Oats, Corn, Potatoes, etc. With good management you can sell the crop at an advance on market price. With good management you can sell the crop at a fancy price, for seed, to your ' neighbor. By keeping right along in this way you will soon be looked to in your neighborhood for the best seed, and no person can calculate in advance how many extra dollars this means during a farmer's life. Try one or two new kinds of seed each year, and as soon as you see an improvement, discard the old and work up a stock of the new. There are enough good, new varieties originated to keep something going at a good price all the time. This is one way to make farming pay, and Salter's new varieties are always sure to pay you. Just think of the thousands of dollars farmers have made throughout the United States on Salzer's Corn sorts,on his Oats, Wheat, Barley, Potatoes, etc. When Salzer offers a new variety of Wheat, or Grain, or Potato, you can always bank on same, for it is **more than i good/* as a pleased farmer expresses it. WHAT GROWERS OF SILVER MINE (NAMELESS BEAUTY) OATS SAY: It is impossible for us to 'introduce here the hundreds and hundreds of excellent testimonials received on Nameless Beauty or Silver Mine Oats, but we will give a kjfew here, so as to give the farmer an idea of the magnificence of these Oats. Why, at 10 cents a bushel it would pay you to grow these Oats, because th« yield is so - "Marge, so much more than the ordinary Oats. But hear what the farmers say; Geo. F. Brockway, Alpha. Iowa: " My Oats will yield 100 bushels per acre." W. Leichtman, New Hampton, Iowa: "Nameless Beauty Oats will go over 100 bushels per acre." Wm.F. Boehning, Osceola MiUs, Wis: " I sowed 3 bushels Oats and received 125 bushels." Jos. Gunzenhauser, Stella, Neb.: Nameless Beauty^ Oat very fine. I am sure it will go 100 bu. per acre. Chr. Grad, Biilgonie, Can.: "Nameless Beauty Oats will yield over 100 bushels per acre." Paul McNeel,Odessa, Mo.: "I took two premiums at two county tairs on the Nameless Beauty Oats (Sil- ver Mine)." D. B. Evans, Ma^ad City, Idaho: "Nameless Beauty Oats will yield fully 100 bushels per acre." Andrew Graham, De Kalb Co., Ill: "On Z% acres I threshed 245 bushels." Robert Livingston,J5t Clair, Mich.: **Namefess Beauty Oats will yield 100 bushels per acre." Lydia Robinson, May- wood, Minn.: "Never saw anything like Nameless Beauty Oat. Am sure it will yield 200 bushels per acre." Jno. Breider, Manitowoc Co., Wis.: "I threshed 163 bushels, machine measure, which have since weighed out 189 bushels and 10 pounds. It is grand." That prince of agriculturists, S. H. Haynes, of Fargo. N. D., the originator of Haynes' Pedigree Blue Stem Wheat, which captured the prize at the World's Fair, says: "Nameless Beauty Oats produced at the rate Of 1555^ bushels per acre." "We Hoover & Moore, Colorado, do hereby certify that we have grown and threshed from one acre of Nameless Beauty Oats (Silver Mine Oats) six thousand four hundred and forty three (6,443) pounds, or 20vA bushels.',' To this they add: "Please accept our congratulations for your untiring efforts in workmg up and sending out the best Oat that the sun has ever shone upon," Mr. P. U. Slnnott, Randalls, la., amonsr others, writes: "Nameless Beauty Oats, now called Salzer's Silver Mine, are the most wonderful 0at5 I have ever seen. I purchased of you last spring, 2% bushels of Nameless Beauty Oats, which I sowed on 1 measured acre, and harvested 196 bushels and 15 pounds, only lacking 3 bushels and 17 pounds of the coveted 200 bushels. I am sure I would have got 800 bushels, yes, much more, but the season was so dry. People came for miles to see my beautiful Oats, and all pronounced them the finest they had ever seen." Nick Kutscheit, Arcadia, Wis., has this to say under date Sept. 21, '96: "I raised 231 bushels and 20 pounds from 1 acre of the Silver Mine Oats the past season. It is the most wonderful Oat I ever saw." M. M. Luther, East Troy, Pa.: "The finest Oats that I have ever seen is your Silver Mine Oat, yielding for me 209 bushels per acre, or which I herewith inclose my own affidavit and that of many witnesses. Your Silver Mine Oat is the most wonderful Oat that I have ever seen." / 250 Bushels per Acre Possible. We honestly believe 250 bushels per acre of Silver Mine Oats is possible, and in order that you get the best results, we would suggest as follows: The way farmers should do is to get 10 bushels for $12.00 or 20 bushels for $22.50, and sow same in diflFerent" acre lots on their farms, as it frequently happens that the soil on the farm is different and that an Oat will do better on one portion of the farm than on another, as this will Igive you many chances. We honestly believe 250 bushels Silver Mine Oats can be raised per acre, and we believe you can do it. The Raiser of the First 250 Bushels Oats per Acre, General Yield, is worthy of a biography as elaborate as that of Abraham Lincoln, or a Gladstone, or a Bismarck, because he will become a benefactor to the race by adding to the wealth of the farming class millions upon millions of dollars annually. Just read the magnificent testimonials some of the 10,000 farmers who planted this Oat give to it. Why» there are no Oats in the world that ever made such a splendid record I You will feel proud when your neighbors con;e to see your Silver Mine Oat patch in 1897—for it will astonish everybody I \ PRICE OF SILVER MINE OATS. Now, we wish to give these Oats the widest possible introduction. We should like to see them planted on every farm where Oats can grow In America, in every state and county in the North and South. We know every farmer who will plant same will be delighted with the result. Our seed this year is not so heavy on account of the extreme weather, yet if it's worth a cent it*s worth SIO.OO a bushel as a new enormous yielder, but to introduce It everywhere we are selling it for only: Pkg., lOc; lb.. 40c., postpaid; by freight, pk., 60c.; bu.. «1,60; bu., S3.25; 10 bu., 812.00, 20 bu., $22.50 Geo. W. Peppel, Auburn, Ind.: "I threshed 4,920 pounds of Oats from an acre, which is at the rate of 153 bu5hei5 and 24 pounds." I J. W. Robinson, Wiota, Iowa; "Nameless Beauty grew 5 feet high with very stiff straw. They furnished 173 bushels to'one acre. Very beautiful Oat." Chas. Zeiger, Coats, Ark.: *'I grew eo bushels Oats per ! acre" j R. F. Snow, Bremen, la.: "Nameless Beauty Oats grew 6 feet high, with very stiff straw. Raised at the rate nf 130 bushels per acre." Mrs. Ada Hammer, Har- vey, Wash.: "From 1 pound of Nameless Beauty Oats I grew 5 bushels. This would be at the rate of 175 bush- els per acre." J. G. Gross, Truesdale, Mo: "My Nameless Beauty Oats will yield 100 bushels per acre." J. W. Kinneer,, Hancock Co . 111.: " I threshed 105K bushels from 1 acre Name- less Beauty Oats. They are fine." E. B. Baird, Perry, Okla- homa Ter.: "I am more than pleased with your Oats. I had no trouble in selling all for 81.00 per bushel for seed. They are verv fine." P. B. Campbell, Pullman, Wash.: "I am sure Name- less Beauty Oats will make 200 bushels per acre."
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