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Title: American farmers' manual
Identifier: americanfarmersm19pete_1 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Farms Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & 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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"7 ordered some Ea- reka Field Corn from you last jearana was surprised bowityieid- ■ed. It is tbe best Corn I ever planted, and I am farming now about 25 years."— John C. Olnev, Ka- lonah, N. Y. HENDERSON'S EureKa Yellow Dent Corn. The finest Field Com Grown. Large, Handsome Ears, 12 to 15 inches long, weighing I to 2 lbs. each. Heavy Yielder, ISO bushels Shelled Corn per acre not unusual. The photograph gives a very inadequate idea of the magnificent appearance of this Corn. It is the result of the most careful and persistent selection by a v^ealthy Pennsylva- nia farmer who makesCorn his hobby and his pride. For sixteen years he has, from a planting of 80 to 100 acres, selected onlj' the best ears at husking time, planting these by themselves and continuing this selection. He began by offering his buskers five cents for every ear vs^eighing two pounds and over, but that soon be- came ruinous, and in later years a man was appointed at husking to do nothing but look out for ideal ears. The ear sets fairly low on the stalk, is immense, with small red cob, the grain a clear bright reddish yellow, large and of great depth, filled out full over both ends. It runs 18 to 22 rows, and an important feature of the selection clearly shown in the photograph is that the rows run even, the same number at tip and butt, thereby materiall^v increasing the amount of shelled Corn per acre. May be planted with safety in latitudes as far north as New York City, and even further north in favorable locations. As an indication of its pro- ductiveness, a nine-acre field yielded at the rate of 144 bushels per acre. (See cut.) C. S. Claek, the well-known Seed and Corn grower of Huron County, Ohio, writes : "In your new Eureka Corn you bare tbe largest-eared Corn in cultivation; it's a wonder." "I bave sncb a tremendous crop of your Yellow Dent Field Corn that it attracts general attention, and several farmers bave asked me where I'got tbe seed: the stalks average 14 feet bigb. some are IT feet, and none less than 1l' feet. 50 per cent, of the stalks bore two large ears each."—H. de B. Sche>-ck, per Wm. C. Nash, Manager, Ridgefield, Conn. 'Tbe Eureka Corn is the best I have ever seen.' Lee, Marion, Alabama. 20 cts. quart, 90 cts. peck, $3.00 bushel; 10 bushels and upwards, $2.85 bushel.

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