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Title: Will's seeds and trees
Identifier: CAT31285013 (find matches)
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Oscar H. Will & Co; Northwestern Grown Seeds; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Nursery stock North Dakota Bismarck Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Fruit Catalogs
Publisher: Bismarck, N. D. : Oscar H. Will & 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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Pioneer Seed House of the Northwest. 15 Jl Recommendation. OUR CORN IS TESTED. We do not, however, feci like losing-an op- portunity of strongly urging our customers, wherever they may purchase their seed to test it before planting. It is but a little trouble to try a few seeds in earth and in this way the responsibility can be placed where it belongs. Our seeds are carefully tested before sending out, and we wish again to call â ke attention of OUT patrons to our liberal condition of sale, viz: Any seeds on arrival at destination, not Blowing a satisfactory percentage of growth can be returned at onr expense, and the money that has been ^5aid for them will be cheerfully refunded. WILL'S DAKOTA CORN.
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IlyL'S DAKOTA CORN is a pure pearly white, flint corn, the result of many years careful selections from the original Squaw or Ree Corn, which has been grown in the Missouri Valley by the '-Ree" Indians for many generations, and also in late years by the Sioux tribes, and up to the lime of our first selections in 1882 was a very insignificant grain of many colors growing very close to the ground on a stalk about 3 feet high. The first improvement we offered as "Improved Ree" and a later verj- marked improvement as "Pride of Dakota," and in 1895 we offered the earliest and best of all varieties of white flint as "Improved Pride of Dakota Corn." We believe there is very little improvement in future to be made, and as the last name is rather cumbersome, we decided to henceforth call it "Will's Dakota." This corn will stand more'hard- ship in the way of frost, heat and poor culti- vation than any other varietv. Ears 8 to 12 inches long, stalks 6 feet high and 2 or 3 well developed ears on each stalk. One of the great advantages of this corn, it can be planted on new breaking by dropping in each third furrow and covering with the sod. Planted in this manner it needs no cultivation whatever and will produce a good crop with no expense except for seed and harvesting. It can be planted as late as June 25th and mature a crop. Qt 25c, post- paid; qt 10c, peck 40c, bu $1.25, by express or freight. WILL'S Y. & W. FODDER CORN. It is an undenialfle fact that there can be obtained better feeding qualities from this corn in the far north and northwest than from any other known sort. The reason is evident from the fact that it goes into the glazing period in from sixty to seventy days, at which period corn possesses the greatest amount of nutriment and should then be harvested, for if left standing it loses a percentage of its nutriment daily. From one-half to two and one-half bushels are required to the acre. It may be planted in hills, drills or broadcast. The best re- sults have been obtained from sowing one bushel per acre in drills three feet apart. Per qt 25c, postpaid; qt 10c, pk 30c, bu $1.00, by express or freight, bags included. Poor Seed Corn is Dear as a Gift.

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