COLLECTIO N •* OFFERS. 
 
 These combination or collection offers are made for the express purpose of permitting our customers to test 
 a large number of our varieties at minimum cost. 
 
 The only way we can afford to make these liberal offers is by adhering strictly to the list indicated under 
 each collection. Agents must not deviate. 
 
 All orders must specify the number of the collection wanted and NOT the names of the varieties included 
 in the collection. 
 
 POTATO COLLECTIONS. 
 
 $.100. $1.00. 
 COLLECTION NO. 1. 
 
 1 lb. of each variety. 
 
 E. Envoy (E. R.) 
 
 Tramp (L. W. ) 
 
 Mr. Dooley (L. W.) 
 
 $2.00. $2.00. 
 COLLECTION NO. 2. 
 
 1 lb. of each variety. 
 
 E. Envoy (E. R.) 
 
 E. York (E. R.) 
 
 Celtic Beauty (M. W. ) 
 
 Rose of Erin (M. R. ) 
 
 White Giant (L. W.) 
 
 Mr. Dooley (L. W.) 
 
 $2.00. $2.00. 
 COLLECTION NO. 3. 
 
 1 lb. of each variety. 
 
 E. Canada (E. H.) 
 
 E. Victor (E. R.) 
 
 E. Crusader (E. W.) 
 Gunson’s Early (E. W.) 
 Dublin Prize (L. W.) 
 Churchill (L. W.) 
 
 $3.00. $3.00. 
 
 COLLECTION NO. 4. 
 
 2 lbs. of each variety. 
 
 E. Crusader (E. W.) 
 
 E. York (E. R.) 
 
 E. Canada (E. H.) 
 
 Rose of Erin (M. R.) 
 
 Mr. Dooley (L. W.) 
 
 White Giant (L. W.) 
 
 N. B.— The letters following the n 
 “ R ” for rose or red, “ W ” for Whit 
 
 $3.00. $3.00. 
 
 COLLECTION NO. 5. 
 
 2 lbs. of each variety. 
 
 E. Victor (E. R.) 
 
 Gunson’s Early (E. W.) 
 
 White Giant (L. W.) 
 
 Dublin Prize (L. W.) 
 
 Rose of Erin (M. R.) 
 
 Churchill (L. W.) 
 
 ames of potatoes indicate “ E” for Ea 
 e and “ H ” for hebron type or color. 
 
 $5.00. $5.00. 
 
 COLLECTION NO. 6. 
 
 5 lbs. of each variety. 
 
 E. York (E. R.) 
 
 E. Canada (E. H.) 
 
 Gunson’s Early (E. W.) 
 
 White Giant (L. W.) 
 
 Dublin Prize (L. W.) 
 
 Rose of Erin (M. R.) 
 
 Mr. Dooley (L. W.) 
 rly , “ M ” for Medium, “ L ” for late, 
 
 OAT COLLECTIONS. 
 
 $1.00. $1.00. 
 COLLECTION NO. 7. 
 
 1 lb. of each variety. 
 Sensation. 
 
 20th Century. 
 
 Marvel. 
 
 Liberty. 
 
 Sunshine. 
 
 $2.00. $2.00. 
 COLLECTION NO. 8. 
 
 3 lbs. of each variety. 
 Sensation. 
 
 20th Century. 
 
 Sunshine. 
 
 $3.00. $3.00. 
 
 COLLECTION NO. 9. 
 
 5 lbs. of each variety. 
 Sensation. 
 
 20th Century. 
 
 Marvel. 
 
 Sunshine. 
 
 CORN COLLECTIONS. 
 
 For Minn., Wis., Me., N. H., Vt., 
 Mich., N. Y., N. Ohio, N. III., N. 
 Ind., Ont. and Quebec. 
 
 For Minn., Wis., Me., N. H., Vt. 
 Mich., N. Y., N. Ohio, N. III., N. 
 Ind., Ont. and Que. 
 
 For Pa., S. Ohio, S. Ind., S. III., 
 Iowa, Mo. and all territory South. 
 
 $1.00. $1.00. 
 COLLECTION NO. JO. 
 
 3 lbs. of each variety. 
 Monroe Flint. 
 
 Wisconsin Dent. 
 
 $2.00. $2.00. 
 COLLECTION NO. ff. 
 
 5 lbs. Monroe Flint and 
 Wisconsin Dent, and 
 2 qts. 90-day Monarch. 
 
 $3.00. $3.00. 
 
 COLLECTION NO. 12. 
 
 10 lbs. of each variety. 
 
 Silver King. 
 
 Gold King. 
 
 Eldorado. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 $ 
 
 POTATOES. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 CHURCHILL SEEDLING, 16-17 
 CELTIC BEAUTY, - - 24-25 
 
 DUBLIN PRIZE, - - 22-23 
 
 EARLY CANADA, - 18-19 
 
 EARLY CRUSADER, - 7 
 
 EARLY ENVOY, - - 28 
 
 EARLY YORK, - - 26-27 
 
 GUNSON’S EARLY, - 20-21 
 
 MR. DOOLEY, - - 8-9 
 
 OLD GLORY, - - - 29 
 
 ROSE OF ERIN, - - 14-15 
 
 TRAMP, - 10-11 
 
 WHITE GIANT, - - 12-13 
 
 OATS. 
 
 LIBERTY, - - - 38-39 
 
 MARVEL, - - - 34-35 
 
 SENSATION, - - - 30-31 
 
 SUNSHINE, - - - 36-37 
 
 20th CENTURY, - - 32-33 
 
 CORN. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 ELDORADO, - - - 43-44 
 
 GOLD KING, 45 
 
 MONROE FLINT, - - 42 
 
 SILVER KING, - - - 46 
 
 WISCONSIN DENT, - 40-41 
 
 SWEET CORN. 
 
 90-DAY MONARCH, - - 47 
 
 BARLEY. 
 
 HUMBOLDT, - - - 49 
 
 SCHILLER, - 48 
 
 SPRING WHEAT. 
 
 CLIMAX, - - - 50-51 
 
 ROCHESTER, N. Y. 
 
 Press of J. A. BLUNTACH, 
 
 264 N. ST. PAUL ST. 
 
Descriptive 
 
 Catalogue 
 
 for Spring of 
 
 * 5 * 1 900^ 
 
 Delivery. 
 
 of — 
 
 ■yV' 
 
 FARM SEED 
 
 •^SPECIALTIES®* 
 
 Grown and for sale by 
 
 Gunson, Digbie & Co., 
 
 Seed Growers and Importers 
 
 Rochester, JV. y. 
 
 **T0 OUB AGENT:®* 
 
 'T'HE first few pages of this catalogue -will be de- 
 * voted to giving you such instruction in argument 
 and example as will permit you to convince all 
 “would-be-customers” of the excellent investment we 
 offer in the line of seed specialties. 
 
 N 
 
 No man will be your customer unless you can show 
 him that it is to his advantage, in dollars and cents, 
 to invest with you. It should be your first duty to 
 make yourself acquainted with these arguments in 
 order that you may talk to your customers with the 
 utmost confidence. 
 
 The varieties we offer the public are the “CHOSEN 
 FEW”. Out of the scores of varieties now in culti- 
 vation, we know of nothing as good as the kinds we 
 offer and our position in the trade enables us to be 
 thoroughly well posted. We might handle many 
 more kinds but they COULD NEVER RANK 
 WITH THESE HERE PRESENTED. 
 
 We have in every case tried to give a correct des- 
 cription of each variety, so that customers can make 
 an intelligent selection. It pays to buy THE BEST 
 and “the best” is what we offer regardless of cost. 
 
 We Pay all Freight and Duly. 
 
 on our seeds, and customers pay us only when goods 
 have been safely received ; and we guarantee all our 
 seeds to be true to name and grow, to this extent, 
 that if they fail in either particular, we will refill the 
 order free at our next delivery. Other seed houses 
 require customers to remit in advance and pay cost 
 of transportation. Farmers should buy small am- 
 ounts of several varieties, find out which are best ad- 
 apted to their particular soil and climate and then 
 grow their own seed. They can grow their own 
 seed in quantities cheaper than anyone else can 
 grow it for them. 
 
 This catalogue is for the exclusive use of our agents in presenting the merits of our seeds 
 to the public.^* We issue circulars for FREE DISTRIBUTION. 
 
 We vse the annual product of more than 1200 acres, and are the largest growers ol PABM SEEDS on this continent 
 
How**** 
 our Seed 
 is Grown. 
 
 S INCE our trade extends east to the Atlantic, south to the Gulf of 
 Mexico, west to the Rocky Mountains and north to extremely cold 
 localities, we take every precaution to have seed that will give good results 
 wherever we may sell. While we use the crops from over 1200 acres, 
 right here at Rochester, which supplies the bulk of our seed, we cannot 
 grow some varieties of seed in this climate. Most of our varieties of Dent 
 Corn we grow in one of the most fertile counties in the State of Ohio. 
 Every precaution is taken with all crops to keep each variety separate 
 and free from any admixture. 
 
 STANDING INVITATION. 
 
 To all customers or salesmen visiting Rochester at any time, we extend a hearty invitation to call on us and 
 look over our warehouses and cellars or the crops in growing season. 
 
 REFERENCES : 
 
 Bank of Monroe, Rochester, N. Y. Mayor of Rochester. Dun’s or Bradstreet’s Commercial Reports. 
 
 Postmaster or any Bank or business firm in Rochester. 
 
 We also give letters from customers and salesmen taken at random from localities where our seeds have 
 used, in many cases for the past ten years. These letters are published giving addresses by county for obvious 
 reasons — we do not furnish addresses for the benefit of our competitors. 
 
 FACILITIES FOR SHIPPING. 
 
 We believe our facilities are superior to those of any other firm in the seed trade. We can load cars on 
 the tracks of the N. Y. C. and H. R. R. direct from our warehouse doors. This is of special benefit to custo- 
 mers in having their orders filled with dispatch at shipping time. 
 
 FOR CLEANING 
 OUfi SEED 
 
 We have the most expensive and the most 
 perfect cleaning machine that money can buy 
 represented in the above cut. The grain, 
 when received at our warehouse, passes into 
 a hopper beneath the ground floor; is there 
 taken by a grain elevator consisting of an 
 endless chain of cups to the top of the ware- 
 house, at an even flow, and deposited in the 
 cleaning machine. This machine makes five 
 separations, that is, all grain which enters it is 
 delivered in five different grades. All the 
 light and imperfect grains are taken, weighed 
 in the air and carried away by suction. To 
 accomplish this there are two large fans which 
 revolve at the rate of 600 times per minute. 
 
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N THE OLD WAY of changing seed, which has existed we suppose from 
 
 the time of Abraham down, it was the custom for the farmer to get enough seed of some variety 
 at quite an advance over the market price, to plant or sow anywhere from an acre to a whole 
 field, and although the seed may have been a good kind and given exceptionally large yields in 
 other sections, he finds that it is not adapted to his particular soil and climate and the re- 
 sult is a failure , the farmer not only having lost the extra amount paid for seed, but a loss of 
 perhaps many bushels per acre on the crop grown, amounting in the whole to a sum he can ill 
 afford to lose. 
 
 THE NEWER AND BETTER WAY 
 
 Removes practically all the risk and is as follows: We furnish the farmer small amounts of several 
 
 different varieties, all of them new and improved seed of superior merit, the cost of any of them being 
 but a comparatively small amount. He plants or sows them all, finds out which is best adapted to his partic- 
 ular soil and climate, and in a year or two he has enough seed for his own growing, from but a small original 
 outlay and without any risk whatever. 
 
 Another Gain for the Farmer P THIS: getting P e right , seed s u tock to stA ? with 
 
 he can grow his own seed much cheaper than anyone else can 
 grow it for him and not only grow his own seed but furnish his neighbors as well, who are always glad to 
 buy when they see how much superior our new and improved varieties are to those they have been growing. 
 
 APPLY THE FOLLOIA/ING EXA/VIPLE : 
 
 Prudence vs* Pennywise* 
 
 The following is the actual experience of two persons who are both good customers of ours today, and our agent is 
 authority as to the truth and facts in the case. We simply give the matter in the form of a dialogue. 
 
 MR. PRUDENCE — Did you buy any seed yesterday from Mr. A, ? [our agent.] 
 
 MR. PENNYWISE — No ! I thought the prices were too high. 
 
 MR. PRUDENCE — Too high ! Why I paid $1.00 a pound for Early Rose • Potatoes the first year they 
 were sold and that was the best investment I ever made. 
 
 MR. PENNYWISE — Then you bought something? 
 
 MR. PRUDENCE — Yes, 30 pounds of potatoes and only paid $3.00. 
 
 MR. PENNYWISE — Whew ! I'll bet I can buy a whole bushel next year for $2.00, or less. 
 
 THE TWO MEET ONE YEAR LATER: 
 
 MR. PENNYWISE — Well, Prudence, how did that 30 pounds of potatoes turn out ? 
 
 MR. PRUDENCE — Fine ! I dug just 1,815 pounds (30 % bushels, an increase of sixty fold) of as nice 
 potatoes as you ever saw. 
 
 MR. PENNYWISE — They looked nice in the lot when growing. Are you going to let me have a bushel ? 
 MR. PRUDENCE — Yes, I can spare a few more. 
 
 MR. PENNYWISE — What are you asking? 
 
 MR. PRUDENCE — All I have sold so far bronght $2.00 per bushel and I could have sold all at that price. 
 MR. PENNYWISE — I’ll give you $2.00 for a bushel [the price is paid] ; now Prudence, do you see how 
 I got the best of this deal? You paid $3.00 for 30 pounds ; I pay $2.00 for 60 pounds. Ha ! Ha ! 
 
 MR. PRUDENCE — Hold on, now, till you figure my side of the deal before you kill yourself laughing. 
 
 The bushel I sold makes the fifteenth sold at $2.00 per bushel. 
 
 My seed cost $3.00 
 
 It cost me 15 cents per bushel on 30)^ bushels to grow the crop, 4.54 
 
 Total cost $7.54 
 
 I have sold 15 bushels at $2.00 per bushel $30.00 
 
 I have 15)4: bushels left, worth $2.00 per bushel to me 30.50 
 
 Clear profit 52.96 
 
 Total value of crop $60.50 $60.50 
 
 I figure I have cleared just $52.96 on my deal. Why don’t you laugh now ? Ha ! Ha ! Ha ! 
 
 MORAL — Buy a small amount of new seed and grow your own. It is cheaper and better than letting 
 others profit by your mistakes. A single dollar invested now is better than $10.00 invested a little later. Are 
 you farming successfully ? If there seems to be a screw loose and you can’t locate the trouble, you’d better 
 look to the starting point and see if the seed is'nt at fault. If your seed has ‘run out’ try some of our new 
 blooded varieties. They are second to none in the country. 
 
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View of One of Our Potato Fields. 
 
 Planted with the seed we are selling about May 28, and photographed July 28th. 
 
 (VIEW NO. 2.) 
 
 AFFIDAVIT.— (Copy,) 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK, ) 
 
 County of Monroe, j- ss. 
 
 City of Rochester. ) 
 
 Charles H. Turpin, being duly sworn deposes and says, that he resides in Rochester, N. Y. and is a 
 landscape photographer by profession; that on the 28th day of July he made the photographic negatives of 
 which the pictures marked respectively Views No. 1 and 2, are the positive reproductions; that the same are 
 absolutely accurate representations of their respective subjects; that the subjects of said pictures are adjoining 
 potato fields in the town of Penfield, County and State aforesaid, of apparently equal fertility, planted in hills 
 of equal distance apart, and separated merely by an ordinary farm fence; that deponent's camera in taking 
 said negatives was placed on the line of said fence; that in taking View No. 1 said camera was pointed South, 
 and in taking View No. 2, was pointed North; that an interval of less than thirty minutes elapsed between the 
 taking of said negatives; that deponent is informed and verily believes that the field which is the subject of 
 View No. 1, was planted on or about May 10th with the ordinary varieties of potatoes raised in that locality, 
 and that the adjoining field which is the subject of View No. 2, was planted three weeks subsequently with 
 improved varieties grown by GUNSON, HIGBIE & CO., especially for seed. C. H. TURPIN. 
 
 Subscribed and sworn to before WM. M. SHAW, Com’r of Deeds. 
 
 $80 from one-half bushel of seed. 
 
 “Harvey Reed bought 30 pounds of your seed po- 
 tatoes of me and raised 40 bushels therefrom, which 
 he sold for $2.00 per bushel, realizing $80 from the 
 half bushel of seed. J. Hays Duncan, Beaver Co. , Pa. 
 
 15 bushels from 25 pounds. 
 
 “Prom 5 pounds of Rose of Erin, Frank Knapp 
 grew three bushels, and from 5 pounds of Early Vic- 
 tor, a little more than three bushels, and from 15 lbs. 
 of White Giant, nine bushels of fine potatoes.’’ 
 
 John A. Miller, Lebanon Co., Pa. 
 
 They will be sure of their seed next time. 
 
 “Your farm seeds came this morning and are fine, 
 better than we expected. All are much pleased and 
 many who saw them say they wish they had given an 
 order.” L. Young, Lucas Co., Ia. 
 
 Potatoes looking fine. 
 
 “Potatoes are very near a failure here, but all the 
 potatoes I bought of you are looking fine and my 
 neighbors say I have the only potatoes they know of. 
 My corn I bought of you is pronounced by all who 
 see it to be the finest corn in this section.” 
 
 W. R. Davidson, Lawrence Co., Ind. 
 
 $109 in two years from One Dollar. 
 
 “I sold Mr. M. Moore one dollar’s worth of Rose 
 of Erin potatoes two years ago. He raised 3 bushels 
 the first year. He gave them to his son Frank who 
 planted the 3 bushels last spring and raised 109 bush- 
 els of splendid stock. He is selling them this spring 
 for $1 per bushel when ordinary stock is selling for 
 45 to 50 cents per bushel.” 
 
 Jno. J. Gleiser, Dallas Co., Ia. 
 
 4 
 
View of a Field oi Potatoes adjoining ours 
 
 Planted with ordinary seed about May 10th and photographed July 28th. 
 
 (VIEW NO. J.) 
 
 A glance at the Yields : 
 
 reported by our many customers in all parts of the country proves 
 that it is nothing unusual for our seed potatoes to increase forty fold 
 over the amount planted. That is, you plant one bushel and get forty 
 bushels; you plant the forty bushels and get 1,600 bushels. With ordinary seed, under like conditiohs, the in- 
 crease would not be more than twenty fold, or if you plant one bushel you would get twenty bushels; you plant 
 the twenty bushels and you get 400 bushels — difference in favor of improved varieties, 1,200 bushels from one 
 bushel of seed in two years. Are our figures correct? After an experience of twenty-five years in the business 
 we can say that we believe they are. 
 
 Where do you find another investment as Safe or so Prompt in paying Dividends? 
 
 The Best Way to increase your Income is to increase the Yield per Acre instead of 
 number of acres used. The first thing necessary is to plant the Best Seed obtainable, 
 
 then, with good soil and cultivation make one acre produce what two acres have been producing. It can be 
 done. You can do it. The successful farmer of the future must do it. It will cost but a trifle to try some or 
 all of these varieties, and it may be worth hundreds of dollars to you. The seed has just as much to do with 
 the yield as the soil and cultivation. Times are changing. The methods and varieties that were in use in years 
 past will not do non’. There are better methods of culture which are fully described in our circular, “ Potatoes , 
 How to grow them with Profit." 
 
 Larger Crops Mean More Money ! 
 
 - ■■■■ successful men in all kinds of business are not 
 
 those who work the hardest but those who plan the best and thus obtain better results and avoid the failure of 
 those who work harder and plan less. Brains are worth more than muscle. 400 bushels of potatoes have often 
 been grown on one acre. How man}' bushels are you growing per acre? Decide now to double your yield. 
 Do more thinking. Do more planning and you will make more money. 
 
 Finest Oats in the Country. 
 
 “The oats you sent here are just splendid, the 
 finest that ever came into this country.” 
 
 J. A. Hickox, Door Co., Wis. 
 Our Oats yielded 100 bushels per acre, 
 
 “I send you a sample of oats raised by George 
 Goodfellow. He had four acres from your seed, from 
 which he threshed 396 bushels that went through the 
 machine and there were at least 15 bushels on the 
 floor not measured, so that they actually yielded more 
 than 100 bushels to the acre.” 
 
 E. S. Walker, Onondaga Co. , N. Y. 
 
 3 barrels from 10 pounds. 
 
 “Mr. Henry Fisher of Center Co. , Pa., harvested 
 three barrels of White Giant potatoes from 10 pounds 
 of seed which he bought last spring. ’ ’ 
 
 B. W. Vallen, Clinton Co., Pa. 
 
 Liberty Oat the only kind Free from Smut. 
 
 “I enclose $35.00 worth of orders. The White 
 Giant potatoes and the Gold King Corn give the best 
 satisfaction, so does the Liberty Oat. The Liberty 
 has no smut while all other common varieties smut 
 very badly.” J. M. Miller, Stephenson Co., 111. 
 
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HOW TO GROW POTATOES. 
 
 FTER an experience of twenty-five years in growing potatoes on large areas, we would offer 
 the following suggestions : 
 
 Potatoes do better when not planted on the same ground in successive years. The usual 
 four-year rotations with the potatoes planted on clover sod give the best results, and are 
 generally much freer from weeds than when following any other crop. A sandy loam soil 
 is best adapted for them. There is such a variety of soils and climates that it is imposs- 
 ible to lay down rules which will apply equally well to all localities. While we obtain the 
 best results from deep plowing some seven or eight inches in depth, others say that they 
 get the best returns from shallow ploughing, about five inches deep. We would advise 
 every grower to test this matter for himself and see what depth seems best adapted to his 
 soil. In soil, which is a lime stone loam, potatoes require deep ploughing in order to withstand severe 
 droughts. The best fertilizer for potatoes is stable manure, spread upon the sod when ploughing. We have 
 never seen any ill results either as to rot or scab, from a coat as heavy as the plow would turn under. The 
 more manure the better. 
 
 If barnyard manure cannot be obtained, use some high grade potato fertilizer, mixed equal parts with 
 plaster dropped in the hill, and the potato placed above. After ploughing, pulverize thoroughly with a Disc 
 or Acme harrow until soil is in good condition. Soil can be brought to a better tilth before than after planting. 
 
 Early varieties as a rule do the best when planted early ; as early as the ground can be got in good con- 
 dition in the Spring, and late varieties when planted later, from the 15th to the 20th of May, give the best 
 results with us. Everyone should observe for himself and see whether early or late planting does best in 
 his locality. 
 
 As a rule it is not advisable to plant potatoes in drills, as it is impossible to cultivate them thoroughly. 
 With a horse, lay out the ground with marks of good depth, two feet nine inches apart each way. 
 
 In planting, use medium sized seed cut to about two eyes per piece, and one piece to the hill. 
 
 In cutting the seed, always hold the stem end up and always cut from stem end toward eyes. 
 
 Potatoes have veins running from stem end to each eye as will be seen if you cut a thin slice lengthwise 
 from the middle, of a potato and hold before a strong light. You should avoid cutting these veins as much as 
 possible, for they carry sap to the eyes, and when a potato is not properly cut, it is caused to bleed more than 
 is necessary. Sprinkle the potatoes thoroughly with plaster as fast as cut. If cut before you are ready to 
 plant, spread thin in a cool place, a cellar bottom is best. There is danger of heating if piled too deep after 
 cutting. 
 
 If ground is in good condition, a coverer will do as good work as a man with a hoe. 
 
 Cultivate as soon as tops show enough to indicate the rows, and at frequent intervals, till potatoes begin to 
 set. It will do to cultivate very close to the hill if ground is damp, but, if very dry, do not run cultivator so 
 close to growing plant as to disturb the roots. 
 
 If troubled with bugs, thoroughly apply Paris Green, in the proportion of one pound pure Paris Green to 
 150. Apply the mixture with Tri-Jet Cyclone Sprayers, which may be purchased in most hardware stores, 
 or from us at small cost. 
 
 Before digging, run the cultivator through the rows, and thus take away the sides of the hill ; this allows 
 the digger to work one-third faster, and he should work in the opposite direction from the cultivator. 
 
 We would not advise planting potatoes of the Rose type on low ground. By nature they seem better 
 adapted to light soils. White skinned varieties are not so particular as to soil, but if the ground is in good 
 condition and the season favorable, will give good returns on most any kind of soil. 
 
 Do not attempt to plant any more ground than you can thoroughly manure and cultivate. Remember, 
 there is more profit in a large crop on a small area than a small Crop on a large area. Strive to make one 
 acre produce what two have been producing. By observing the above rules, and using our new and improved 
 varieties of seed, ninety-nine out of every hundred plantings would double their usual yield. 
 
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EXTRA EARLY CRUSADER. 
 
 % 
 
 A FIRST 
 EARLY 
 WHITE 
 POTATO. 
 
 GOOD 
 
 CROPPER. 
 
 FINE EATER. 
 
 EXTRA 
 
 EARLY. 
 
 There is a common belief that early potatoes are not as profitable to grow as late ones. 
 
 This is undoubtedly true of many varieties, but could hardly apply to the 
 EARLY CRUSADER 
 
 S a lule, a potato which matures in six weeks yields only about half as much as a later potato, which requires 
 r-\ twelve weeks to ripen. We know of some late potatoes which will produce more than the Early Crusader, 
 but do not know of one which will produce double, or anywhere near it. We don’t know of any extra early 
 potato which will outyield the Extra Early Crusader, and no potato can command a higher price, for it catches 
 the early market, and is handsome enough to hold its own against all competition. 
 
 HISTORY AND 
 DESCRIPTION...*,*,* 
 
 The EXTRA EARLY CRUSADER 
 
 is a cross between the Polaris and Early 
 Harvest, and resembles both parents in 
 color and shape, though slightly longer 
 than the Early Harvest, has shallow 
 eyes, and the fine eating qualities of the 
 Polaris. 
 
 It ripens with the earliest 
 varieties,*,*,* 
 
 During two years in which we have 
 carefully watched its characteristics, we 
 have been surprised with its apparent 
 natural vigor. 
 
 It often happens that early potatoes «£ dt 
 
 set heavier than they should, and the short season allowed for maturing produces a large number of small, 
 unmarketable tubers, and especially in light soil. This has always been the great trouble with the Freeman 
 potato. The EARLY CRUSADER is particularly free from this objection, and may be depended upon 
 for a good crop of MARKETABLE tubers, even under adverse conditions. 
 
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“MR. DOOLEY 
 
 
 The early history of 
 “Mr. Dooley” (pota- 
 to), begins with its 
 birth in Waupaca Co., 
 
 Wisconsin. Whether 
 its parentage was of ' 
 high or low degree is 
 not written. 
 
 Waupaca County is * V' . •*».. 
 
 one of the best potato 
 counties in the good 
 
 State of Wisconsin, " ” 1 ^ . , 
 
 and one of the largest * *" '**.•** ‘t 
 
 cultivators, on digging 
 
 his crop in the Fall of x — ^ 
 
 1896, found one hill 
 
 which had a much largerjand stronger top than those surrounding. Upon digging it he was delighted to find 
 seventeen fine white potatoes, which when gathered and washed, weighed precisely fourteen pounds. 
 Some of these seventeen potatoes came near to being boiled to test for eating qualities, but the test was deferred 
 until the season of 1897, when the crop harvested from the seventeen potatoes was 560 pounds. 
 
 We secured 300 pounds, in 1897, with the exclusive right of introduction, and now have sufficient crop ex- 
 pectations to warrant introduction. "Mr. Dooley” (potato) now makes his bow to the public — may he find 
 public favor and lots of it. 
 
 DESCRIPTION. & 
 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 AN 
 
 OVAL-OBLONG 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 M uch that 
 
 arities am 
 we are ir 
 
 'UCH that we know of the peculi- 
 and merits of the varieties 
 introducing to the public, 
 V is due to the tender watchfulness 
 
 of Mr. Dooley, who knows Irish potatoes 
 and his Catechism with equal exactness. 
 For years he has made faithful note of the 
 characteristics of our 
 specialties, until now 
 we never feel satisfied 
 about the advisability 
 of introducing a new 
 variety until we have 
 secured Mr. Dooley’s 
 opinion and consent. 
 
 It is intended as a com- 
 pliment to Mr. Dooley 
 that one of the debut- 
 antes of the season of 
 1899-1900 bears the 
 name of our honorable 
 friend. 
 
 MAIN CROP 
 WHITE POTATO. 
 
 .. *V.‘, jr 
 
 TUBER The subject of our description is of the type most in public favor. J In shape it is oval-oblong ; 
 
 in color it is pure white. The eyes are very full and flush with the surface. Ajdistinguishing 
 feature in the bright purple tinge to the sprouts when they first start growing. 
 
 VINES, a healthy and vigorous potato should and must have healthy and vigorous tops, 'and truly it is a 
 beautiful sight to see the rich deep green of the massive tops fringed with the myriads of flowers in 
 season. It is a fact, not generally known, that the more abundant the bloom, the more vigorous the potato. 
 
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“MR 
 
 FA [ CV ” AN OVAL-OBLONG MAIN 
 
 YJ KJ ULC I . CROP WHITE POTATO. 
 
 R. DOOLEY said one day : “Do you know, I’ve an idea we should start an ‘infernerary’ for sore eyes, 
 in the far corner of the forty acre patch.’’ Pressed for an explanation, he said : “They say the beauti- 
 ful color of the Emerald Isle is the most ristful, of all colors, to the eye, and sure there is enough of the 
 green in them ‘Waupacas’ to give blind men a glimpse of the Garden of Eden.’’ 
 
 EATING QUALITY 
 
 SECOND to NONE OTHER 
 IN THE WORLD. 
 
 DATE OF RIPENING 
 
 As near as may be to the 
 RURAL NEW YORKER No. 2. 
 
 GUARANTEE. 
 
 EALIZING that many persons are scep- 
 tical and are slow to experiment, as they 
 call it, and also realizing that we can, 
 with perfect safety, guarantee complete satis- 
 faction to our customers who are good enough 
 to themselves to invest in “Mr. Dooley," we 
 hereby covenant and agree to refund the pur- 
 chase price, or replace with an equal amount 
 of any other variety we offer, in the case of 
 any customer who gives this potato a fair test, 
 and will truthfully say that it does not yield at least as much of as good potatoes as he ever knew. 
 
 GUARANTEE AND WE MEAN EVERY WORD OF IT. 
 
 THIS IS A SWEEPING 
 
 ORDER EARLY, BECAUSE WE CAN FURNISH NO MORE WHEN 
 OUR OWN STOCK IS EXHAUSTED. 
 
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THE “TRAMP.'’ 
 
 ONE MORE 
 
 of those GENERAL PURPOSE. UNI- 
 VERSAL LY LIKED, PERFECT POTA - 
 TOES. SUITABLE FOR ALL SOILS. 
 CLIMATES AND CON DITIONS AND 
 A PREMIUM GETTER IN ANY MAR- 
 KET. A FRIEND TO THE MA N WHO 
 IS ST R UGGLING TO * 
 
 “MAKE FARMING PAY.” 
 
 AN OVAL 
 WHITE 
 MAIN 
 CROP 
 POTATO. 
 
 laaaaac 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 NE lucky day in the Fall of 1896, some good person 
 sent us a fruit basket full of potatoes by express. We 
 seriously inclined to refuse the package rather than pay 
 the express charges. Nothing but the extra fine ap- 
 pearance of the potatoes induced us to give them shelter. 
 There were no marks to give any clue as to the sender. We 
 watched for a letter which would explain the matter, but 
 nothing ever came. The only solution we can now offer is 
 that some one of our numerous correspondents wrote us earlier 
 in the season, regarding the potato, and promised to send us 
 some when crop was harvested. If such was the case, he per- 
 haps thought we could connect him with the samples without 
 any distinguishing marks. We have had several such letters 
 in our day, so this seems a reasonable theory. 
 
 We asked Mr. Dooley to find a name, and he promptly 
 suggested “Tramp.” For said he: “Sure they had no home 
 when they came to us.” 
 
 DESCRIPTION. 
 
 7 UBER is oval and very much like White Giant in color 
 and shape. Eyes are flush with surface, and cooks 
 dry and mealy. It seems to retain its excellent eating 
 qualities until the very end, and never cooks black, as 
 some kinds do, late in the season. 
 
 This is one of those varieties which can be grown upon 
 clay or gravel soil and yet produce smooth STOCK, SUIT- 
 ABLE FOR THE MOST EXACTING MARKETS, 
 though like any potato, reaches ABSOLUTE PERFECTION 
 in appearance, only when grown on POROUS RICH LOAM. 
 
 VINES are REMARKABLY UPRIGHT in habit of 
 growth, VERY STOCKY and SO VIGOROUS that bugs 
 giye them a wide berth. Bear in mind that disease germs and 
 insects select weak subjects. A neighbor once asked Mr. 
 Dooley why potato bugs give us so little trouble. Said Mr. 
 Dooley : “Take a sharp look at the vines of thim. Mind how 
 green they are. When we plant our seed we put a wee bit of paris green in the hill, and the vines grows up full 
 of paris green juice.” The following season this neighbor came over to ask how much paris green to putin a hill. 
 We have more than once been called upon to ask Mr. Dooley to stop his practical joking. 
 
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AN OVAL 
 WHITE MAIN 
 CROP POTATO. 
 
 THE “TRAMP. 
 
 Eating Qualities. 
 
 C HE “TRAMP” is one of 
 those fine grained mealy 
 potatoes which any 
 housewife would take pride in. 
 It would be the natural selec- 
 tion in case the minister or the 
 doctor happens along and ac- 
 cepts your invitation to dinner. 
 
 Date of Ripening. 
 
 This is a Main Crop potato 
 and ripens with the average of 
 its class. 
 
 Guarantee. 
 
 We make the same guaran- 
 tee, with reference to the 
 "TRAMP,” that we do with 
 White Giant and other varie- 
 ties, and we make this guaran- 
 tee because we know we are 
 safe in doing so. We have no 
 desire to refund money or re- 
 place seed, but having confi- 
 dence in the varieties we offer, 
 we feel we should give our 
 customers reasons for hav- 
 ing the same confidence. 
 
 Our stock of this variety is very 
 .much limited this season. 
 
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The WHITE GIANT POTATO. 
 
 In Every Respect a Remarkable and Entirely New Potato. 
 
 The Choice out of Thousands. 
 
 «£ej»«£ep ejs ejs ejs «J» sf TTT’T' TTT T *-J» «$> 
 
 T HE White Giant Potato is a seedling from a seed- 
 ling, in other words, represents a double cross, 
 therefore contains a strain of entirely new blood. 
 The tests we have made warrant us in saying that this 
 or any other country has never produced a potato more 
 worthy of every grower’s attention. Tubers are an ideal 
 shape, oblong, pure white skin, slightly netted, which 
 always indicates good eating qualities ; eyes full, even 
 with the surface. The eating qualities are equal to the 
 Snowflake ; cooks dry and mealy, and keeps sound and 
 firm in the cellar until new potatoes are dug. 
 
 TUp Dnfnfn ^ rom which the cut was made meas- 
 1 liv IrUltllU urec j inches long, 151^ inches in 
 
 circumference. Weight 36^ ozs. You want a heavy 
 yielder? Then try the White Giant. 
 
 IT IS one of the most perfect potatoes ever produced. 
 Almost every potato is of marketable size. It is an easy 
 potato to harvest, owing to the size. The shape is such 
 that, though a very heavy potato, it does not look large. 
 Commands the highest price in any market. 
 
 10 Potatoes weighed 21^ pounds. 
 
 This potato cut was copied from nature and shows potato just as grown, except the size, which is reduced one-sixth. 
 
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THE-WHITE-GIANT. 
 
 llTSk TVlP Third SJAT1 we have offered this potato and have tested it thoroughly 
 
 X I 1 W i .3 UUt 1 till U Jta^Ull ; n every way, and we know it to be without fault. With 
 
 ordinary field culture the White Giant produced at the rate of 
 
 445 BUSHELS HER ACRE 
 
 of marketable potatoes and we had no rain for more than five weeks after planting. At the time this circular 
 goes to press our crop of White Giants show a deep green leaf, and the prospects are good for a record breaking 
 crop. Several of our customers who bought 5 pounds of our Rose of Erin two years ago, have written us that 
 the second year after planting they had from 150 to 175 bushels which sold readily at $1.00 per bushel, when 
 other potatoes were selling at 15 cents per bushel. All who buy the White Giant now will realize large profits 
 and we look for even greater results in the future than were ever shown by our Rose of Erin. 
 
 The foreground of this Photograph shows our WHITE GIANTS as they appeared July 20th. 
 
 White Giant Potatoes Absolutely Free if they Fail to Please You. 
 
 We have such unlimited confidence in this potato that we make the following unparalleled offer to purchasers : 
 Rochester, N. Y., June 20th, 1899. We hereby agree with any and every purchaser of 30 pounds or 
 less of WHITEGIANT potatoes sold for delivery in the Spring of 1900, that in case they do not prove perfectly 
 satisfactory when harvested ; if they are not one of the best investments they ever made, to either give them their 
 money back or an equal amount in value of any of our seeds ABSOLUTELY FREE at our next delivery. 
 
 Our order blanks state that there are no other terms or conditions of sale existing between the customer and 
 agent than those stated thereon. Take notice that the above offer is made by us direct to the customer and 
 becomes binding on our part as soon as the order is given. 
 
 95 POUNDS FROM ONE. 
 
 From the one pound of White Giant I grew 95 pounds of 
 the very finest potatoes. I hey are splendid table potatoes. 
 Seme of them grow very large, weighing from 21bs to 'l'/i lbs. 
 each. D. W. Hodges, Daviess Co., Ind. 
 
 59 POUNDS FROM ONE. 
 
 I planted one pound of White Giant potatoes, making 47 
 hills Seven of them failed to grow but from the forty hills 
 left I dug 59 pounds of the very finest potatoes I ever grew. 
 There were no small ones Sixty-four potatoes weighed thirty- 
 two pounds. Garrett Isreal, Schoolcraft Co., Mich. 
 
 $32 WORTH FROM ONE PECK. 
 
 I bought a peck of your White Giant Potatoes last spring 
 and raised eight bushels from them and have been offered $1 
 per peck for them. G. G. Erickson, Webster Co., Ia. 
 
 95 POUNDS FROM ONE. 
 
 From one pound of White Giant potatoes I grew 95 pounds 
 with only ordinary cultivation. I find them an excellent table 
 potato as well as a large yielder. 
 
 A. A. Stoddard, Vermillion Co., 111. 
 
 51 POUNDS FROM ONE. 
 
 From one pound of White Giant potatoes I grew 51 pounds 
 of as fine potatoes as I ever saw, uniform in size and very 
 smooth. Geo. W. Thorpe, Isabella Co., Mich. 
 
 FINEST POTATOES HE EVER SAW. 
 
 I planted the one pound of White Giant potatoes you sent 
 me and harvested a good yield of the finest potatoes that I ever 
 saw. Nearly every one of them was fit for market. 
 
 T. T Davis, Junietta Co., Pa. 
 
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DOSE OF ERIN POTATO. 
 
 <£« 
 
 Photograph 
 of the 
 
 26 
 
 Rose of Erin 
 Potatoes 
 which 
 weighed 
 
 60 
 
 pounds. 
 
 
 DESCRIPTION. 
 
 This new variety is of the Rose 
 type, but nearer round and better 
 shaped ; skin, pink ; flesh white ; 
 shape, oblong, but chunky ; eyes 
 few and but little depressed ; eating 
 quality, first-class ; matures med- 
 ium to late ; an enormous yielder, 
 keeps late into the spring without 
 sprouting. 
 
 Although the potatoes of this var- 
 iety grow to an unusually large size 
 in a favorable season, yet we have 
 never known them to be hollow and 
 they are unexcelled for table use. 
 The vines of the Rose of Erin are 
 especially rank in their growth, so 
 much so in fact, that in the time we 
 have been growing them, they 
 have been the only variety on which 
 it has not been necessary to fight 
 bugs. 
 
 \2 POTATOES 
 WEIGHED 33 LBS. 
 
 “Yes, 1 had 26 ROSE OF ERIN POTATOES that weighed 60 pounds, 
 grown by ordinary field culture. They were smooth, straight potatoes 
 without a blemish. I had one Rose of Erin potato that weighed 4j4 lbs.” 
 
 EDWD. S. ROSS, East Spokane, Wash. 
 
 Men have written us that they do not believe the above statements 
 are true. We will forfeit $100.00 in gold if we cannot prove they are. 
 
 JUST ONE INSTANCE of how some bright 
 
 farmers make money when prices of farm produce are very low 
 
 "I have just finished digging my ROSE OF ERIN potatoes and have 175 bushels 
 grown from lfifi lbs. of seed and they are beauties. I took eight of them to the Sioux 
 City Fair. I got there too late to enter for a prize, but left them on exhibition, and 
 they were much larger and nicer than anything else in the potato line there. James 
 Pack, proprietor of the Hotel Davenport says they were the biggest and nicest potatoes 
 he ever saw grown in the State of Iowa. I have no trouble selling them for $1.00 
 per bushel while other potatoes are selling for 12 to 15 cents. " 
 
 F. E. Carrington, Woodbury Co., Iowa. 
 
 NOW SUPPOSE that Mr. C. paid $1.00 for 10 lbs. of ROSE OF ERIN potatoes 
 two years ago. The first year he gets 1G6 lbs , the second year (although potatoes are 
 worth only 15 cents per bushel) he gets $175 worth. Now, if instead of investing that 
 one dollar in ROSE OF ERIN potatoes he had kept it, planted some common variety 
 and grown 175 bus. he would have had, at 15 cents per bushel, $26.25 worth instead 
 of $175 worth which he now has, showing a net profit of $147.75 in two years from an 
 investment of $1.00. The chances are any common variety would not have produced 
 more than one-half of 175 bushels on the same ground, so the profits in favor of ROSE 
 OF ERIN would be more than $147.75. 
 
 There are just as good chances for making money in 
 your community. Will you improve them ? 
 
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Photograph of a Field of ROSE OF ERIN Potatoes, grown on our Seed Farms, 5 miles east of Rochester. 
 
 625 Bushels per Acre. 
 
 'After repeated failures in trying to raise potatoes, I was in- 
 duced to buy y z bushel of Rose of Erin, for which I paid $2. 50 
 and I think it was the best investment I ever made. Last sea- 
 son I planted five bushels of them on less than fid rods of 
 ground and dug up 218 bushels. I cultivated them but twice. 
 The ground has been in constant cultivation for 12 years and 
 fertilized but once. These are the greatest yielders I ever saw; 
 cook up dry and mealy and are very late keepers. 
 
 Marion Berlin, Fulton Co., O. 
 
 5 Bushels from 5 Pounds. 
 
 •'The Rose of Erin beats anything we have ever tried in this 
 section. Byron Hogmer raised 0 bushels of the nicest pota- 
 toes I ever saw from fi pounds of seed, and A. Parker raised 4 
 bushels from 5 pounds on the hardest clay ground. They are 
 the stuff for clay. E. D. Morgan, Jefferson Co., N. Y. 
 
 how Hr. Reay Got His Seed Free. 
 
 ‘!One man has raised 542 pounds of potatoes from 10 pounds 
 of Rose of Erin seed. I took two prizes at our Richmond Co. 
 show, one for varieties, the other for the five largest tubers. 
 The prizes more than returned to me what I paid for the seed. 
 
 Charles Reay, Richmond Co., Que. 
 
 $140 from Three Bushels. 
 
 "Mr. Donmoyer here got 154 bushels from 3 bushels of Rose 
 of Erin. He sold 140 bushels at $1.00 per bushel and planted 
 the rest. He says if it had not been so terribly dry last year 
 he would have got a better crop. C. A. Boettscher, Berks Co. P. A 
 10 Bushels from 15 Pounds. 
 
 "All are well satisfied with the seed I sold for you last fall. 
 Waldo Kidder planted 15 pounds of Rose of Erin and dug 10 
 bushels of as nice looking potatoes as I ever saw. 
 
 C. L. P. Handy, Kennebec Co., Me. 
 
 593 Pounds from 3 Pounds. 
 
 "I dug the Rose of Erin potatoes raised from 3 pounds of 
 seed and the yield was 503 pounds. 
 
 W. A. Hughes, Crawford, Co., Pa. 
 
 'The above statement was sworn to before J. C. Nelson, a 
 Justice of the Peace, in and for that county. 
 
 3 Bushels from 2 Pounds. 
 
 "I sold 2 pounds of Rose of Erin to Logan Clayton and he 
 dug 3 bushels of as nice potatoes as you ever saw. He thinks 
 they are dandies. John W. Davis, Shelby Co., Ohio. 
 
 500 Bushels per Acre. 
 
 "Charles Baltzell says that if he had planted all Rose of Erin 
 he would have had 500 bushels to an acre 
 
 P. D. Proper, Knox Co., Ohio. 
 
 Turned Out Like Pumpkins. 
 
 "I have been digging my Rose of Erin and they have turned 
 out like pumpkins. There has been lots of men to see them 
 and they say they beat all they ever saw. 
 
 E. C. Clute, Saratoga Co., N. Y. 
 
 32 Bushels from One-Half a Bushel. 
 
 "My half bushel of Rose of Erin potatoes turned out 32 
 bushels of as fine potatoes as ever grew in this country. I have 
 sold all that I could spare of them for $2 per bushel. 
 
 John Harding, Hendricks Co., Ind. 
 
 Banner Potatoes. 
 
 "Herman Tinkham brings us the banner potatoes, one 
 weighing 3 and the other 2% lbs., seven of which made a peck 
 They are of the Rose of Erin variety. 
 
 W. R. Peters. Gratiot Co., Mich. 
 
 The Best I Ever Grew. 
 
 “Four years ago I bought some of your Rose of Erin poto- 
 toes. They are the best potato I ever grew and 1 have had 
 eighteen years experience in farming. I have no interest in 
 speaking of these potatoes as I am a stranger to- you, but not 
 to the potato. Henry J. Holt, Hillsboro Co., N. H. 
 
 One-Half Bushel from One Potato. 
 
 “One of my customers bought 10 pounds of potatoes last 
 spring and planted all in his garden but two potatoes, one of 
 which was the Rose of Erin, and from that one potato he got 
 one-half bushel. How is that for high ? 
 
 Wm. Spencer, Wayne Co., O. 
 
 15 Bushels from 15 Pounds. 
 
 "The Rose of Erin was the best selling potato I sold. I took 
 an order from Merrit Mosier for 15 pounds of Rose of Erin ; 
 when I met him the other day he informed me that he raised 
 from the 15 pounds, 15 bushels of very nice potatoes and he 
 thought of taking some to our County Fair. 
 
 W. D. Curtis, Wayne County, Pa. 
 
 Finest For Eating. 
 
 “Your Rose of Erin is giving great satisfaction in this part of 
 the country. R. D. Heating says he never saw such large po- 
 tatoes ; he sampled them for cooking purposes and says they 
 are the finest kind of potatoes for eating and a great yielder. 
 
 B. W. Vallen, Clinton Co.. Pa. 
 
 180 Pounds from 3 Pounds. 
 
 "I purchased from your agent here 3 pounds of Rose of Erin 
 potatoes. When I was cutting them to plant, some of my 
 neighbors took some of the pieces to plant; later on my family 
 dug 14 hills to use before I knew it. From the balance 1 dug 
 3 bushels of as fine potatoes as I ever saw; in quality perfect. 
 
 I consider this the best dollar's worth 1 ever purchased. 
 
 Enos Burgett, Pickaway Co., O. 
 
 242 Pounds from 3 Pounds, 
 
 "A. P. Beau raised 219 pounds, Asa Beach, 234 pounds, 
 Robert Walker, 242 pounds from 3 pounds of Rose of Erin and 
 David Walker raised 12 bushels from 10 pounds ; Hon. C. P. 
 Owens raised 22 bushels from 15 pounds of your seed. 
 
 C. A. Kelton, Orleans Co, Vt. 
 
 IS 
 
CHURCHILL SEEDLING POTATO. 
 
 A Medium Late White Potato of the White Star type. 
 
 **** DESCRIPTION. 
 
 The shape is well represented by the above cut. Eyes few and almost even with the surface. Skin 
 and flesh white ; cooks dry and mealy ; an enormous yielder and good keeper ; vines grow extremely rank ; 
 just the variety to grow for main crop. 
 
 Originated in the State of Washington, from seed balls of the Late Rose. This is the third year of intro- 
 duction this side of the Rocky Mountains, and we are the original introducers here. 
 
 Why grow from ioo to 200 bushels per acre, when a change of seed will produce from 200 to 400, yes, 
 and we believe 
 
 the "Churchill” will produce 600 bushels! 
 
 with good soil and right cultivation. The Churchill is an entirely new variety, possessing a remarkable 
 amount of stamina and vigor. It has never been known to blight or rot, and as one man puts it, “it grows so 
 fast the bugs can’t catch it.” The size and shape are so nearly perfect that they are sure to command the 
 
 highest market price. One dealer here who saw our stock last winter, said this of it, ‘ 'you are conferring a bless- 
 ing upon the produce dealers throughout the country by introducing the Churchill Seedling, for such stock is 
 worth at least io cents per bushel more than ordinary stock for shipping purposes”. 
 
 Ten pounds planted next Spring will produce anywhere from five to fifteen bushels, and enough the year 
 following for a large acreage. Don’t say “farming don’t pay.” It Does Pay and Pays Big those who 
 are growing the wonderful Churchill Seedling. 
 
 Sixty Dollars from $3. 
 
 My neighbors laughed at me last spring because I 
 paid $ 3.00 for one-half bushel of Churchill, but one of 
 them who laughed the loudest has offered me $1.50 
 per bushel for all I have, forty bushels. Whose laugh 
 is it now. JAS. L. O’CONNOR, Crayton Co.,N.H. 
 
 The Best of 25 Varieties. 
 
 “Of. twenty -five varieties that I have, the Churchill 
 is my choice.” 
 
 N. G. BLALOCK, Walla Walla, Wash. 
 
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Can’t You See Money in Such a Crop ? 
 
 With the right seed, and good soil and cultivation, you can grow just as good. 
 
 CHURCHILL SEEDLING. 
 
 V Y/E have had many years’ experience in handling seed potatoes, and have seen many large tubers, and will 
 * * here state that these potatoes, grown two years ago, were the largest potatoes we have ever seen. 
 We do not know their weight, but feel confident we are correct in making this assertion. 
 
 THEY GROW LARGE AND SMOOTH, 
 
 with scarcely any small ones in the hill. If you want an early potato do not plant the CHURCHILL; but if 
 your soil is suited to growing white-skinned varieties, and you wish to grow the largest crop of potatoes ever 
 grown in your section of the country, whether for eating or market, 
 
 DO NOT FAIL TO TRY THIS REMARKABLE POTATO. 
 
 Almost always varieties which grow so large are not of good quality ; but not so with the CHURCHILL, which 
 is a very Fine Table Potato. 
 
 CHURCHILL AHEAD OF THEM ALL, 
 
 Talk about your Rurals, Daisies, St. Patricks, and all the 
 other heavy yielding late varieties, I tell you they are not in it 
 with the Churchii.i. Seedling. I've tried them side by side, 
 and the Churchill Seedling outyielded any and all the others 
 at least 50 bushels per acre. 
 
 R. L. THOMPSON, Potter Co., Pa. 
 
 520 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
 
 My Churchill Seedling yielded at the rate of 520 bushels 
 per acre with only ordinary field culture. 
 
 B, V. MURPHY, Bureau Co., 111. 
 
 322 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
 
 My Churchill Seedlings yielded at the rate of 322 bush- 
 els per acre without manure of any kind. I shall give them a 
 better chance next year, and expect to get 500 bushels per 
 acre * W. L. GIFFORD, Montcalm Co , Mich. 
 
 TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS FROM ONE. 
 
 From 10 pounds of Churchill Seedling I grew 787 
 pounds of the handsomest potatoes I ever saw. I would not 
 sell them for $25.00. 
 
 OLE. J. NEILSON, Rock Co., Wis. 
 
 493 POUNDS FROM FIVE. 
 
 From the 5 pounds of Churchill Seedling I bought of 
 your agent, I have just dug 493 pounds of bright, smooth 
 potatoes. p w HAMMOND, Bennington Co., Vt. 
 
 TWELVE POTATOES WEIGHED 30 POUNDS. 
 
 My Churchill Seedlings are the largest potatoes ever 
 seen in this section of the state. One potato weighed four 
 and three quarter pounds, and twelve of them weighed thirty 
 pounds. 1 tell you they are dandies, and the best of it is, 
 they are so smooth and good shape. 
 
 HARRY BELL, Washington Co., Colo. 
 
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THE **EARLY~ CANADA. 
 
 A new variety of the Hebron type now offered for the first time for general introduction. 
 
 The shape and general characteristics are well represented in the above cut. 
 
 AN EXTRA EARLY VARIETY. 
 
 I T has been tested by the side of nearly all the ordinary kinds of potatoes grown in this vicinity, 
 and it is not only EARLIER THAN THE EARLIEST, but has out- 
 yielded many of the latest varieties. In fact, it is AN ENORWYOUS YIELDER. 
 
 Our Test of this Potato 
 
 has extended over a period of three years upon different soils 
 and under greatly varying conditions. It has produced a 
 splendid crop on light sandy soil, where ordinary varieties would hardly repay the seed, and enor- 
 mous crops, free from disease, on clay soil, where most varieties are almost certain to blight and rot. 
 
 Thev Have Never Blighted and have been almost entirel y free from bu 8' s - J ust the 
 
 ' o t var i e ty to grow to catch the early market. A difference 
 
 of two or three days may make a loss of from 50 cents to $1.00 per bushel in the price you can get for 
 extra early potatoes. You want the heaviest yielding extra early variety you can get ; then do not fail 
 
 to try the EARLY CANADA. 
 
 The Tops Grow Very Stocky and Rank, " th wide ;. d " k -“;°' ed «* b “ s 
 
 1 ' ' from medium to large, growing well 
 
 together in the hill, making them easy to dig. They cook dry, white and mealy, and will always bring 
 the highest market price, on account of their tine shape, color, and superior eating qualities. 
 
 When this circular goes to press — July 1st — the tops of our EARLY CANADA completely cover 
 the ground, and are just beginning to ripen, and have all the way from five to twelve good sized sale 
 potatoes in a hill, and will certainly give an enormous yield. 
 
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EARLY CANADA POTATO. 
 
 “One hundred pounds from one potato.” 
 
 “The earliest potato 1 ever grew.” 
 
 “Would not take $25 for my crop from $1 worth.” 
 “The neighbors are all crazy after the seed.” 
 
 “ Have been offered $3 per bushel for all I have.” 
 “ I must have seed for another acre this year.” 
 
 “ Are ten days earlier than the Early Ohio.” 
 
 “The finest eating potato I ever grew.” 
 
 “The EARLY CANADA is the potato for this sec- 
 tion.” o 
 
 “ Have just dug 6 bushels from 5 pounds planted.” 
 “Grew fast and rank; bugs never touched them.” 
 “ EARLY CANADA is the wonder of my neighbor- 
 hood.” 
 
 Such are the reports coming in from the few we sold last year. 
 
 Mr. F. E. Carrington, of Rock Co., Iowa, made $175.75 hi two years from a$i investment in our 
 Rose of Erin potato, as described in our Rose of Erin circular. There are better chances for you to 
 make money with the EARLY CANADA; because, when he made his money potatoes were only worth 
 from 12 to 15 cents per bushel. It is the far-sighted farmers, who are watching out for and improving 
 such chances, who are making the money these days. 
 
 Twenty Years Ago a fruit can factory consisted of several dozen meh and as many 
 boy-helpers, who made the cans by hand. With twenty men and boys, the most that could be turned 
 out with a hard day's work was sixteen thousand cans ; while to-day the same number of hands, mostly 
 boys, with modern machinery, will turn out two hundred thousand cans per day. 
 
 Thirty Odd Years Ago the ironclads — Monitor and Merrimac - — revolutionized naval 
 warfare, and shaped the destiny of this nation.. To-day those same vessels would be like children’s 
 toys in the presence of a modern warship. While such wonderful advances have been made in all 
 branches of manufacture, warfare, etc., just as great have been made in originating and improving 
 farm seeds. 
 
 Thirty years ago the Early Rose Potato was considered a perfect wonder. The EARLY CANADA 
 is as far superior to what the Early Rose was then as modern machinery is to the old ; besides, the 
 new varieties being superior at the start, the old varieties are constantly deteriorating by long-continued 
 cultivation. No farmer can afford not to try this wonderful potato, even if he had to borrow the 
 money and pay 20 per cent, for the use of it. 
 
 I grew a small piece of Early Canada potatoes last year by the side of several of the ordinary varieties grown in this vicinity, 
 both early and late, and the Early Canada outyielded them all many bushels per acre. I dug thirteen sale potatoes from one hill, 
 all smooth and handsome. They are the earliest variety I have ever grown, and I have been growing potatoes for twenty-five years. 
 
 MICHAEL KILEY, Monroe Co., N.Y. 
 
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GUNSON’S EARLY. 
 
 A New Selling Potato, the 
 Model of Perfection. 
 
 POINTS OF MERIT: 
 
 Earliness. 
 
 Excellent Quality. 
 Enormous Yielder. 
 A Splendid Keeper. 
 Perfect in Shape. 
 Finest Flavor. 
 
 Description. 
 
 The above cut made from nature is a good representation of this potato. The 
 eyes are Hush with the surface, making one of the handsomest appearing potatoes 
 possible, and will command several cents per bushel more in the market than the average potato, owing 
 to the evenness of the tubers. Matures medium early, and will greatly outyield what are termed 
 ‘ ■ extra early ” sorts. 
 
 Quality. 
 
 A point always to be considered is the quality, and our GUNSON’S EARLY will please 
 the most particular. You could not get a potato of finer flavor, and will boil or bake, 
 and turn out like a ball of snow. Where land is known to give large yields^ of poor quality, planters 
 should use this variety entirely and overcome the difficulty. Tested on all sorts of land, this seedling 
 has proven to be of first quality, 
 
 Yjplfl Yet this variety has not been grown on large areas ; but wherever tests have been made 
 
 * results have been unusually flattering. Small plots show the following yields — Ohio, 435 
 bushels per acre ; Northern Michigan, 485 bushels per acre ; Iowa. 565 bushels per acre ; North 
 Dakota, 800 bushels per acre. Reports from other states were given in pounds, and showed an increase 
 of from 90 to 1 50 pounds from one pound planted. This potato sets heavily, and its tubers will be 
 
 almost all of 
 for market. 
 
 a size. We have dug a single hill giving TEN pounds, and all potatoes large enough 
 
 A DANDY COOKER. 
 
 The 110 pounds oi Gunson's Early received O. K. My 
 wife said they were too good looking to be of any use. and 
 cooked a couple. They are dandies, and no mistake. 
 
 ED. COULSON, PenobostCo., Me. 
 
 SMOOTH AS SILK. 
 
 Those Gunson’s Early you shipped with my other order 
 beat anything I ever saw They are as smooth as silk. 
 
 JOHN DONNELLY, Westmoreland Co.; Pa. 
 
 THEY TAKE THE CAKE. 
 
 The Gunson's Early take the cake. From the outlook 
 now, they knock other varieties away in the shade. Would 
 like you to have a photograph of my little patch, and show 
 them to people who come in. Some of the ladies want one or 
 two, just to let them cut out one eye to plant. 
 
 P. WICK WARE, Saunders Co., Pa. 
 
 AM AFTER A PRIZE. 
 
 My Gunson’s Early potatoes are looking immense, and I 
 am after one of your prizes, sure. Please advise me on what 
 day you wish report, as I lost your circular. 
 
 E. J. BRISBANE, Dallas Co., Iowa. 
 
 FINEST OF POTATOES. 
 
 Judging from appearances at present, the Gunson's Early 
 is the best potato ever grown here. Some “prize money’’ 
 is spoken for right enough. 
 
 P. J. DAWSON, Renfrew Co., Ont. 
 
 ARE BEAUTIES. 
 
 The potatoes (Gunson's Early) reached me safe and sound. 
 They are beauties. If we can grow such potatoes here, ship- 
 pers will pay us a bonus on such stock. 
 
 NELSON LARSEN, Barron Co., Wis. 
 
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GUNSON’S EARLY. 
 
 A 20 ACRE FIELD OF POTATOES. 
 
 The field from which this photograph was taken contains 20 acres planted entirely to potatoes. The 
 foreground of the picture shows the Gunson’s Early in full leaf and bloom. 
 
 THIS CUT IS FROM AN ACCURATE PHOTOGRAPH. 
 
 A THOROUGH TEST. 
 
 I N THE spring of '98 we sold a limited quantity of the “ Gunson Early ” in fifteen and thirty pound 
 lots, making three prize offers in cash and three other premium offers for the largest yields. These 
 potatoes, sold under this offer, have been sent as far as possible to different states and provinces in 
 order that we may get a true report from each section of the country. The yields are to be reported 
 by Oct. 15th, and we will then, as soon as possible, publish a list of customers winning prizes, and 
 will also give yields. None other than verified reports will be given. 
 
 SOME ADVANCE REPORTS. 
 
 At the time this catalogue goes to press (July 10) we have had no reports from crops actually dug 
 this season, but give the following extracts from customers which speak volumes. 
 
 CAPS ANYTHING. 
 
 Sullivan Co., April 4th. 
 
 The “Gunson’s Early” caps anything I ever saw in the potato line. I have them in my office and 
 show them to people who come in. Some of the ladies want one or two, so I just let them cut out one 
 eye to plant 
 
 EVERY FARMER SHOULD PLANT THE GUNSON’S EARLY. 
 
 If you grow only for your own family use, you get the best flavor and nicest cooker ever intro- 
 duced, and at the same time get a big yield of potatoes, which will command the highest market price. 
 
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The Dublin Prize Potato. 
 
 The greatest discovery in the line oi a white potato is well named the Dublin Prize. 
 
 •w-w-r nn o ■ « C* X ♦* to ollr customers, confident that it will 
 
 We offer it now tor the first lime i:a 
 
 it. It is a difficult task to produce a variety with distinct and marked characteristics from other varieties, but in our D ublin Prize 
 it is accomplished. We have spared neither time nor expense in the propagation and tests of this remarkable variety. Our cus- 
 tomers want the best obtainable and that is what we propose to furnish them. The demand for seed of our Dublin Prize promises 
 to eclipse all previous records of potatoes, not excepting the once so famous Early Rose. It possesses the essential qualities to 
 make it the foremost potato in the land. 
 
 DESCRIPTION. 
 
 Perfection — that word describes this variety in brief, view it from whatever standpoint you may. 
 Tubers are round to oblong in shape, with eyes flush with the surface; uniform in size, not coarse and 
 overgrown; almost every potato in a hill is of marketable size. Although of good size they do not 
 grow hollow and there are scarcely any small ones. Skin a russet brown, beautifully netted and 
 smooth as silk. There is no better cooking potato extant; cooks dry and mealy. 
 
 THEY HAVE YIELDED AWAY AHEAD 
 
 of standard and new varieties with which they have been tested. Vines grow rank and strong and are 
 of a rich, dark green color, and so far with us, have been free from blight even under unfavorable con- 
 ditions, when other varieties have blighted badly; they withstand drouth when others succumb; stand 
 up green till fall. 
 
 On account of the vigorous growth of the vines, from our experience, we can say 
 
 this variety is practically bug proof. 
 
 Matures first late. We have not said half as much in favor of this variety as might be, but a test 
 of it will suffice to convince anyone that it cannot be beat. 
 
 Why continue to grow from ioo to 200 bushels per acre when Dublin Prize, with same soil and 
 cultivation, will produce 300 to 
 
 400 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
 
 A small investment in some seed of this variety will enable you very soon to have all the seed you 
 wish of a variety that will not only give double the yield of your old varieties but will command the 
 top notch in any market. 
 
THE ^DUBLIN PRIZE*- POTATO. 
 
 Any progressive farmer who exercises prudence and foresight will never let the 
 opportunity of testing this variety go by. 
 
 READ THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS. 
 
 In order to find out if the Dublin Prize was adapted for growing in different soils and under dif- 
 ferent climatic conditions, we sent one pound to several parties to test, and they report : 
 
 90 LBS. FROM ONE 
 
 In compliance with your request for a report on the new 
 potato, Dublin Prize must say that I am delighted with it 
 and have 90 pounds from the one pound planted. My old 
 varieties are outclassed by it entirely. 
 
 M. D. MARSDEN, Marion Co., Ill 
 
 PLANTED ONE AND HARVESTED 96 LBS. 
 
 I had better luck with the one pound of Dublin Prize po- 
 tatoes than I expected; dug 9(i ponnds of good sized potatoes 
 besides a few small ones. The tops stayed green when all 
 ■other kinds had gone down. I never saw such a rank, strong 
 growing variety. 
 
 GEO. S. JAMISON, Pottawatomie Co., Kan. 
 
 72 LBS. YIELD FROM I LB. 
 
 The yield from the one pound of Dublin Prize that you 
 sent me was 72 pounds, all nice, smooth, large potatoes. 
 Have tested them for the table and they are A No. 1 cookers. 
 Can heartily recommend the potato as being a grand variety. 
 
 STEPHEN MOORE, Shiawasse Co , Mich. 
 
 HARVESTED 82 LBS. FROM ONE. 
 
 What do you think of the Dublin Prize ? I think it 
 can't be beat. My yield from the one pound was 82 pounds 
 of the nicest potatoes I ever saw. They only had ordinary 
 cultivation. 
 
 88 LBS. FROM ONE. 
 
 Am more than pleased with the Dublin Prize. I had no 
 idea they would turn out the way they did. I dug 88 pounds 
 from the one pound sent me. Took some to the fair and got 
 first premium. I would not take $10 for them. 
 
 O. B. LARSON, Adams Co , Wis. 
 
 DUG 70 LBS. FROM THE ONE. 
 
 I thought I had the best potatoes obtainable until I tried 
 the one pound of Dublin Prize you sent me. I dug 70 pounds 
 from the one pound, although they did not have a very good 
 show as the weather was unfavorable 
 
 THOS. G. MAYBERRY, Licking Co., O. 
 
THE -sCELTIO BEAUTY. 
 
 A SURE CROPPER. 
 
 A medium early variety. Oval-oblong, white, flush eyes; cooks 
 mealy; tremendous yielder. Well adapted to either 
 
 garden or field culture. 
 
 The Celtic Beauty is what might be termed a “general purpose” potato. It may be depended 
 upon for a good average yield of large handsome tubers, even under unfavorable conditions. It is 
 specially recommended for heavy soils upon which some varieties would be inclined to grow soggy. 
 Also for a SECOND EARLY sort upon light soil which couldn’t be depended upon for a good crop 
 of FIRST EARLY. 
 
 We have tested the Celtic Beauty in many sections and under various conditions. We know 
 positively, that it will give complete satisfaction to every customer, and have not the least hesitation 
 in recommending it in the most positive manner. 
 
 HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. 
 
 Celtic Beauty found its birth-place in one of the largest trial grounds in the country, and under 
 the watchful care of the leading potato specialist of the day. 1 his potato is not a chance acquaintance. 
 It was introduced to us by a mutual friend. The introduction cost us a large sum of money, but it 
 was money well spent, it will come back with interest. The price we paid for the first eight barrels of 
 Celtic Beauty would seem incredible to most readers. It is certain we never purchased control of any 
 variety which was more FULL OF PROMISE. 
 
 The report of the originator follows: “Celtic Beauty was known in my trial grounds as 7- 43> an d 
 is a cross between Rural New Yorker No. 2 and a new variety, which one of my correspondents had 
 sent me to be tested, but unfortunately the name of which I never learned. In earliness the Celtic 
 Beauty ripens fully two weeks earlier than the Rural New Yorker No. 2, and in many sections would 
 be considered a first early variety. Tubers are large and shapely, setting compact in hill with almost 
 no small tubers; vines are remarkable for their rich, dark green color.” 
 
 The eating qualities of the Celtic Beauty are not excelled. 
 
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THE -CELTIC- 
 
 BEAUTY 
 
 THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS HAVE BEEN HANDED TO US BY THE ORIGIN- 
 ATOR AND ARE USED BY HIS PERMISSION. 
 
 SIXTY FOLD. 
 
 Upon receiptof the 
 small sample of your ■ 'Cel- 
 tic Beauty” potato, I took 
 it to a nearby store, and 
 found that the exact 
 weight was Hi ounces. It 
 arrived rather late in the 
 season, and I was much 
 afraid it would not pro- 
 duce good results , but 
 notwithstanding the dry 
 weather which damaged 
 so many crops in our sec- 
 tion, the "Celtic Beauty " 
 showed wonderful vigor 
 from the start; but in spite 
 of this I was much sur- 
 prised upon digging the 
 potatoes, to find that I had 
 a little more than sixty 
 pounds of very fine mark- 
 e t a b 1 e tubers I gave 
 thirty pounds to my broth- 
 er-in-law, the balance I 
 intend to keep and would 
 not part with them. 
 
 A. J. VERDINE, 
 Burean, Co. 111. 
 
 FOUR HUNDRED EIGHT FOLD, 
 
 When half of your " Celtic Beauty " potato came to hand 
 it weighed about one ounce. To keep it from becoming with- 
 ered or dried up, another potato was cut in halves, and one 
 piece was laid flesh side against the flesh or cut side of the 
 other. On Oct. 2nd, one of my sons, my wife and myself, 
 commenced the work of digging, guessing not more than a few 
 pounds at the start, but washed and weighed a good 25)4 
 pounds, and nearly every potato perfect as potatoes can be in 
 shape and not to exceed one-half dozen small ones. I should 
 have stated that I made three hills of the seven sets or eyes, 
 and that they were directly under an apple tree, in a row ; 
 the first hill being not more than two feet from the body of the 
 tree. C. B. CURTIS, Bergen County, N. J. 
 
 THIRTEEN AND ONE-FOURTH POUNDS FROM ONE- 
 HALF A SMALL POTATO. 
 
 I received from you last fall one-half of a small potato, 
 called the ” Celtic Beauty ; ” part of this rotted. I planted 
 about April 1st, manured the ground in the fall with stable 
 manure ; when planting put on some potato fertilizer; watered 
 them during the drouth; dug 13^ pounds of nice, large tubers, 
 smooth and nice shape, all salable except one-half pound. 
 The potato crop is about one-fourth crop in this part of Penn- 
 sylvania. J. D. BODINE, Columbia Co., Pa. 
 
 THE BEST HE EVERY HAD ON HIS TABLE. 
 
 I received your sample of “ Celtic Beauty ” on June 1st. 
 As I had no suitable land upon which to give it a fair test, I 
 dug up a few cabbage plants in the corner of my garden and 
 made the ground ready as well as possible, cut the potato to 
 one eye, and found I had just enough for twelve hills. Though 
 these potatoes had been ripe for some little time, we did not 
 dig them until September 15th, and I was very much gratified 
 to find that each hill had a fine show of large, smooth tubers. 
 By actual count I found that the average number of market- 
 able potatoes in each hill was 12. Am sorry I did not weigh 
 the sample you sent me, but I should think it could not have 
 weighed quite one pound. I now find that I have seventy 
 pounds of very choice potatoes, and my wife claims they are 
 the best eating potatoes we have ever had on our table. 
 
 C. F. MOORE, Yates Co., N. Y. 
 
 HE IS NOT DISCOURAGED. 
 
 I received a sample of your ‘‘Celtic Beauty” late last 
 spring, but am sorry to say that I placed them in soil which 
 had been manured too heavily. I was so anxious to give them 
 an extia chance that I enriched the ground to such an extent 
 that worms and grubs destroyed just half the number of hills 
 I had planted; but I figured out if all the eyes planted had come 
 up, as well as those which I have just now dug, I would have 
 potatoes at the rate of more than 000 bushels per acre. 
 Other potatoes in my garden near by were badly affected by 
 scab, but not one scab could be found upon the “Celtic 
 Beauty.” The eyes are very flush with the surface, and I 
 have no doubt but that they are excellent for table use; but I 
 value my seed so much that I WILL NOT try to test them 
 for eating qual.ties this season, but rather will use every 
 potato I have to increase my stock as much as possible. Will 
 it be possible for me to secure any more of the “Celtic 
 Beauties ” this season at a reasonable price ? 
 
 Yours truly, FREDERICK SIMONS, Routt Co., Col. 
 
 HIS NEIGHBORS ARE PLEASED. 
 
 After watching my crop of ‘‘Celtic Beauty” potatoes 
 which I have been growing from the small sample sent me 
 last spring, and giving them the very best care I knew how, I 
 am obliged to report that I have nothing to show for my pains. 
 There were several of my townsmen in the post-office when I 
 received my sample, and admired it, and as my garden is on 
 the street line, there were quite a number who saw me plant 
 the potatoes. Many persons admired them, and it seems that 
 some person admired them so much that he could not keep his 
 hands off, and I have discovered this morning that every 
 potato has been dug and carried away. Yours truly, 
 
 J. A FREEBORN, Madison County, N. Y. 
 
 TWO TO ONE IN FAVOR OF THE CELTIC BEAUTY.” 
 
 I selected a potato from my own stock which had the 
 same number of eyes, and apparently was just the same size 
 as the sample of the '* Celtic Beauty ” sent me to be tested, 
 and I planttd them side by side, under equal conditions, and 
 I find the yield of the " Celtic Beauty " is nearly double that 
 of the other potato. Yours truly, 
 
 W. G. SAUNDERS, Center Co., Pa. 
 
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EXTRA NEARLY** YORK. 
 
 \ 
 
 THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR OF ITS INTRODUCTION. 
 
 The above photograph gives a good idea of the Size, Smoothness and 
 very desirable shape. A New Variety. 
 
 IT IS CLAIMED BY THE ORIGINATOR TO BE 
 
 The Earliest 
 Potato in *< 
 Existence 
 
 /CJs 
 
 T HE great fault with very early varieties of potatoes is that they are gen- 
 erally light yielders. Everyone has been looking for a potato which 
 was not only as early as the earliest, but would yield as heavy as the 
 latest. We have been testing nearly every variety of potato as soon as 
 brought out, in the hopes of finding one which would fill the bill. We 
 have been compelled to discard scores of them which came to us with the 
 very highest recommendations, but which failed in either earliness or yield, 
 but after a test of the EARLY YORK, extending over a period of three 
 years, we are able to say that the long desired is found at last. While it is 
 
 EARLIER THAN THE EARLY OHIO 
 
 or Early Fortune, it has outyielded such well-known late varieties as the 
 Irish Daisy, White Star and Reeves Rose. In fact it is 
 
 AN ENORMOUS YIELDER. 
 
 1 have 9 varieties of early potatoes, all planted at the same 
 time and in the same field, and the EARLY YORK is by far 
 the best in the lot. I dug one hill to-day and found (i potatoes 
 which weighed t pounds. I believe they will yield at least 250 
 bushels per acre. They are the kind to grow for early market. 
 
 JAS. D. WILSON, Adams Co., Ohio. 
 
 From the one pound of EARLY YORK you sent me to 
 test last year, I grew 87 pounds of the finest potatoes I ever 
 saw. I planted them by the side of the Early Ohio, and the 
 EARLY Y'ORK was at least a week the earliest. 
 
 HARRY J. RANSOM, Blue Earth Co., Minn. 
 
 I have just dug bushels of splendid potatoes from the 
 5 pounds of EARLY YORK seed I bought of you last spring. 
 How is that for HI? 
 
 WM. S. HILL, Androscoggin Co., Maine. 
 
 I have not been selling any farm seeds for you since early 
 last spring, for the reason that I did not know but that you 
 might be a fraud, and I wanted to satisfy myself as to your 
 seeds. I am now fully convinced that you are all right and 
 your predictions are A No. 1. The seeds we purchased last 
 spring have given the best of satisfaction. I am now ready to 
 do business with my nearest neighbors. Send on your sup- 
 plies at once. W. F. IRWIN, Anderson Co., Ind. 
 
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EXTRA «*Ef1RLY** 
 
 YORK. 
 
 DESCRIPTION. 
 
 I T is of the Rose Type in color and shape, but the tubers are more chunky and better shaped; eyes 
 few and but slightly depressed; vines grow rank, very stocky; has always been free from bugs with 
 us, and has never been known to blight; in fact it seems to be both Blight Proof and Bug Proof. ' 
 
 HOW OUR EXTRA EARLY YORK LOOKS WHILE GROWING. 
 
 SEED OF THIS VARIETY IS VERY LIMITED 
 
 and will be for several years to come. Do not fail to try at least a small amount this year and grow 
 your own seed. Failure to do so is sure to result in personal loss. This being the third year of its 
 introduction we have only a limited amount of seed to offer. As soon as that is sold we shall close 
 sales on this variety. Be sure to place your order early so as to insure its acceptance. 
 
 One of my neighbors, to whom I sold 10 pounds of the Early York potatoes, planted them beside another 
 early variety, both being planted at the same time, and you can tell the Early York as far as you can see them. 
 They are far and away ahead of the others. JESSE H. SPOFFORD, Hillsboro Co., N. H. 
 
 The Early York potato, growing from your seed, has the finest looking tops I ever saw. I pulled up one 
 hill to show a neighbor and found u sale potatoes, which weighed 4 pounds. He offered me $3.00 per 
 bushel for all I can spare. I would not take $50.00 for my crop from the $3.00 worth of seed. 
 
 PETER A.‘ LYONS, Steuben Co., N. Y. 
 
 The great drouth we have had here killed all the early potatoes in this section except the EARLY YORK 
 of which, you will remember, I sold a large quantity last spring. They are looking splendid. They grow so 
 rank and vigorous they scarcely mind the drouth at all. The farmers who have them will make big money out 
 of their seed. I know I can sell lots of them this year. VINCENT K. BROWN, Clinton Co., Ohio. 
 
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THE -sEXTDA EARLY*- ENVOY. 
 
 A New [A 
 Variety T 
 
 T he Early Envoy 
 is a seedling potato 
 originated by one of the 
 leading potato special- 
 ists of this country, and 
 pronounced by him to 
 be the 
 
 Earliest Potato 
 in existence. 
 
 Small samples for 
 trial were distributed in 
 large numbers through- 
 out the country, and the 
 reports therefrom have 
 proven it to be adapted 
 to growing in all sec- 
 tions, and at least 
 
 Ten Days Earlier than the Early Ohio. 
 
 V INES grow short, stocky and very vigorous. Tubers are rose to flesh color, slightly netted green, 
 well bunched together in the hill. Very uniform in size. Cooks clear white and mealy. Even 
 when only partially grown it has OUTYIELDED THE RURAL NEW YORKER No. 2 and 
 THE CARMAN No. i. In fact it is 
 
 A VEBY HEAVY CROPPER. 
 
 It is just the potato to grow to catch the early market, and get in a few days ahead of your com- 
 petitors. 
 
 A sure money 
 maker for 
 every farmer 
 and gardener who 
 caters to the early 
 trade. 
 
 Our seed of this 
 variety is very 
 limited, and we 
 can offer it only in 
 small quantities, 
 and will have to 
 close sales as soon 
 as our stock is ex- 
 hausted. 
 
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OLD GLORY. 
 
 AN EXTRA EARLY 
 SEEDLING POTATO 
 OF THE ROSE TYPE 
 
 POINTS OF MERIT. 
 
 Size, Quality, Productiveness, Strong Grower, Free From Blight, Good Shape. 
 
 HISTORY. 
 
 When first brought to our notice ‘Old Glory'' was not fully developed in type as the crop 
 showed a marked resemblance to both parents, Early Sunrise and Beauty of Hebron, from which the 
 cross was obtained, in shape of tuber and other characteristics. - Three years of careful selecting has 
 developed as fine a potato in every way as any one could wish for and a distinct type has become 
 thoroughly fixed. 
 
 DESCRIPTION. 
 
 The tubers are long and w-ell proportioned, making a handsome appearance. Its skin is a light 
 rose color all over the tuber. Flesh very white and of finest flavor ; cooks dry and mealy and fit for 
 table use very early, as the quality is number one, even before the crop is fully matured. 
 
 YIELD. 
 
 In point of yield Old Glory will hold its own with all comers in the early or medium early class. 
 Few equal, none excel. 
 
 EQUAL TO 423 BUSHELS 
 PER ACRE. 
 
 For curiosity my wife and I weighed the Old 
 Glory potatoes and measured the plot of ground 
 and found one acre of land, at the same rate, 
 would have grown us 423 bushels per acre. 
 
 M. L. GRUBB, Hardin Co., Ky. 
 
 Old Glory to the front as usual. Knocks 
 out seven other varieties I grew in the same field. 
 They yielded nearly a third more than the next 
 best. E. ASHMAN. Lincoln Co., Md. 
 
 Those potatoes, Old Glory, are just what 
 the trucker wants here to catch the early market. 
 In 6!) days from planting I dug several potatoes 
 weighing nearly a pound. 
 
 JOHN SHERMAN, York Co.. Pa. 
 
 You are sure to get a big southern trade in 
 your Old Glory potato. The few tests here 
 prove it to be well named. Have you anything 
 in a White Potato as good. 
 
 ROBT. LANE, Pike Co., 111. 
 
 2 ‘) 
 

 
 THE -SENSATION*- OAT 
 
 STATE OF NEW YORK,) [copy.] 
 
 County of Monroe, >ss. 
 
 City of Rochester. j 
 
 Charles E. Bunnell, of the City of Rochester, County of Monroe and State of 
 New York, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is a commercial photographer 
 by occupation; that on June 9th, 1897, he photographed a sample of SENSATION 
 OATS, as this sample appeared in a Fairbank Standard Crain Tester, which proved the 
 weight per measured bushel to be 47 pounds, and that the attached photograph is the 
 one so taken, and is a faithful and true representation of the SENSATION OATS. 
 
 (Signed) CHAS. E. BUNNELL, 
 
 Sworn to before me this 29th day of June, 1£97. 
 
 George E. Milliman, Com. of Deeds. 
 
 The new white oat. u SENSATION '* Oats weigh 47 pounds per bushel. Read the affidavit above. 
 
 THE NAME. 
 
 The name " Sensation " is the natural consequence of our 
 first test. From the time the oats were eight inches high they 
 excited comment, which developed into a genuine “SENSA- 
 TION “ when harvested. 
 
 THE FIELDS. 
 
 The fact that other fields near by yielded less than half as 
 much as the " SENSATION,” and in some cases only a third, 
 only added to the reputation of the latter. 
 
 VV/p TT A Tl\7f It is impossible to exaggerate or over 
 " ■*-* es timate the good qualities of the 
 
 ‘‘SENSATION” OAT. During our entire business career 
 we have never met anything to compare with it in quality and 
 productiveness. 
 
 Vq'p'T T") The "SENSATION ” OAT has never yielded 
 1 j ess than ninety-seven bushels per acre with us, 
 
 and that with only ordinary cultivation in an unfavorable sea- 
 son. Under favorable conditions it is easily possible to pro- 
 duce twice as much. In Colorado and other Western States, 
 where crops are grown by irrigation, oats have*frequently pro- 
 duced two hundred bushels or more per acre, but such records 
 are easily broken by “ SENSATION ” Oats. 
 
 (TI JAPAN IFF We make the following guarantee in good faith. The "Sensation” Oats are offered to the 
 
 ^ ^ - 1 N j. EiLj, public with our positive guarantee that they will give satisfaction in both yield and quality, 
 
 and we hereby agree to refund money or replace the oats in the case of any or all customers not satisfied, after giving the ” Sensa- 
 tion ” Oats a trial. 
 
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THE SENSATION OAT 
 
 u 
 
 SENSATION ” OATS IN NATURE. 
 
 The above photographic reproduction is not imaginary. It is a half-tone etching made direct from it photograph which repre- 
 sents a field yielding one hundred and eight bushels per acre in a season and section where 35 bushels per acre was a good average, 
 only one other field yielded so much as 60 bushels per acre. 
 
 # DESCRIPTION. ^ 
 
 CRAIN The grain of the SENSATION OAT 
 ‘ is enormous in size, and has the largest 
 meat in proportion to size of any oat. 
 
 Q'-pD a vvr The straw is very strong and does not 
 1 ivzi. w • | oc [g e even when others with less 
 weight of grain in the head go down. The blade is 
 nearly double the size of that of ordinary oats and is 
 good evidence of it’s inherent vigor. 
 
 C The SENSATION OAT stools 
 heavily and is really remarkable in 
 that respect. In one of our fields, this past season, 
 we sowed ten pecks per acre on part and the re- 
 mainder was sown with seven pecks. It was abso- 
 lutely impossible to see any difference in the appear- 
 ance of the two parts and we noted no difference in 
 the yield. 
 
 ITT tt t The hull is thin and easily separated 
 from tlie meat, making them valuable for 
 feeding. It is no trouble for a horse to digest every 
 kernel of grain. 
 
 VT^OR The remarkable vigor of the SENSA- 
 ^ •1-kJvJIV. q'lON OAT is easily noticed in the 
 growing crop from its first appearance above ground. 
 One of our fields, this season, was sown with SEN- 
 SATION OATS and two days before a neighbor’s 
 field of common oats. When the SENSATION 
 OATS were seven inches above ground the others 
 were not more than two. While common kinds suf- 
 fered from excessive dry and cold weather the past 
 spring, without exception, the SENSATION 
 OATS were a rich dark green. 
 
 HAVE YIELDED MORE THAN DOUBLE ORDINARY KINDS UNDER SIMILAR CONDITIONS. 
 
 Tested side by side, with other oats, the “ Sensation ” has actually yielded double the number of bushels 
 per acre. This can be partly attributed to the fact that in many cases the spikes or breast will contain three 
 full kernels where other oats give but two. 
 
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“20th CENTURY” OATS. 
 
 ;OR delivery in the spring of 1900, we offer for the first time 
 this most valuable addition to oat culture. 
 
 EXTRA LARGE OATS. 
 
 The “2'Ith CENTURY” Oats are unusually plump; thin hull 
 and very desirable for making oat meal as well as for feeding. 
 One of the largest makers of oat meal says: ‘‘They are worth from 
 
 three to five cents per bushel more than other oats.” 
 
 ORIGIN. 
 
 The " 20th CENTURY” is a hybrid or cross-bred variety, 
 originated by one of the most prominent European grain specialists 
 and imported from Lincolnshire, England. The first crop of these 
 oats was placed on exhibition at several large county fairs and took 
 
 First Prize Wherever Shown. 
 
 It is a settled fact that any seed which will produce profitable 
 crops in England, where land is worth many times what it is with 
 us, cannot fail to give good satisfaction here, and our own experi- 
 ence only emphasises this fact. We had a field of the “20th CEN- 
 TURY” Oats growing last season beside a neighbor’s field of 
 common white oats; ours yielded eighty bushels per acre and his 
 twenty-seven. All conditions appeared to be the same, except the 
 seed. The average crop of common oats in our section last season 
 was not more than thirty bushels per acre and any variety which 
 could, under the unfavorable weather conditions yield eighty 
 bushels, deserves the distinction of being selected to carry the 
 banner as we march into the new century. We believe it easily 
 possible, under favorable conditions of soil, climate and weather, 
 for the “20th CENTURY” Oat to produce 
 
 125 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
 
 It is not unusual for oats to yield 80 to 90 measured bushels or 
 more per acre. 
 
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“20th CENTURY” OATS. 
 
 90 Measured Bushels of “20th Century” Oats, per acre, are Equal to 125 Bushels, 
 
 reckoning 32 pounds per bushel. This shows the decided advantage in raising a heavy variety of oats of good 
 quality. We particularly invite the attention of all purchasing, to the excellent quality as well as the weight of 
 these oats, so that the same may not be confused with the old strain of “ Barley Oats,” which weighed heavily 
 but had such a thick hull and short berry that they were almost without value, either for milling or feeding. 
 Our 11 20th CENTURY ” has not a single fault. 
 
 INOW IS /\ CHANCE 
 
 to get a start with this extra valuable new variety and reap ridi profits in selling seed to less fortunate neighbors 
 at a high price, as the demand is sure to be far beyond the supply for several years to come. 
 
 XHE ACCOMPANYING F»HOTOG R/\F*H 
 
 shows the comparative weights of two measured bushels of 11 Probester ” and two of ‘‘20th CENTURY,” 
 66 and 89 pounds respectively. Our crop of ‘‘20th CENTURY,” growing at the time this edition 
 goes to press, was all seeded with the same grade of heavy oats as those used in making the test. The large 
 berry, when seeded, gives the young shoot a good vigorous growth and the rich green, as compared with fields 
 
 of other oats, can be no- 
 ticed as far as one can 
 see. In the growing 
 crop, this season, we 
 have measured blades or 
 leaves on the straw, 
 measuring 18 inches long 
 by Y inch wide. For 
 land liable to be effected 
 by dry weather, the 
 ‘‘20th CENTURY” is 
 without a parallel. With 
 favorable conditions this 
 season, we hope in our 
 ‘‘20th CENTURY,” to 
 be able to bring the test 
 weight up to 
 
 50 pounds per bushel. 
 
 As we have unlimited con- 
 fidence in this new oat, based 
 upon our repeated tests and 
 more than satisfactory re- 
 sults, we offer the same 
 
 Unqualified Guarantee 
 
 as given on our Sensation Oat, 
 to which your attention is 
 called. Purchasers take ab- 
 solutely no risk whatever. We 
 could not afford to make such 
 \ an offer if we were not posi- 
 \ tive the ” 20th CENTURY” 
 is going to do us and itself 
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THE MARVEL OATS. 
 
 NEW ! WHITE ! BRANCH ! 
 
 Imported from Bavaria. Remarkable for stooling qualities. Wonderfully productive. Thin 
 
 hull. Unexcelled for feeding. 
 
 HISTORY AND DESCRIPTION. 
 
 IV / 1 ARVEL OATS were first brought to pur attention in 1898, when we became much interested 
 1 ' * in the splendid appearance of one acre grown in a test plot. The history of this test reads 
 
 as follows : 
 
 April 25th, 1898. — Two bushels of MARVEL OATS were 
 sown upon one measured acre of heavy loam with clay sub-soil. 
 In the same field were four other varieties, each covering one 
 measured acre, viz. : Silver Mine, Probestier, American Banner, 
 and Golden Giant. Each variety had same fertilization and 
 cultivation, and an equal chance. On June 7th, Silver Mine 
 oats measured 20 inches from the ground to tip of longest blades 
 in the best part of the plot. Probestier, in the same way, mea- 
 sured 23 inches ; American Banner, 23 inches ; Golden Giant, 
 25 inches ; the HARVEL measured 29 inches, and was the most 
 uniform piece of oats we ever noted. 
 
 MARVEL OATS were three 
 days earlier than the other var= 
 ieties, and yielded 9lj4 bushels! 
 
 Silver Mine yielded 63 bushels ; Probestier, 60 bushels ; Amer- 
 ican Banner, 65 bushels ; and Golden Giant, a side oat, 72 
 bushels. All varieties were branch oats, except the Golden 
 Giant, which is a mane or side oat. 
 
 Probestier, Silver Mine, and American Banner at first pro- 
 mised well, but a prolonged drouth, which set in about the 
 time heads were forming, prevented the filling of many of the 
 heads, and as a consequence there were many light oats. 
 
 Under favorable conditions, it is possible that all of the oats 
 might have shown as good results as the HARVEL; but, as the 
 1899 crop of MARVEL OATS, not yet harvested, shows the 
 same advantage over other varieties in fields near by, we are 
 lead to say — 
 
 Give us an oat which is not so 
 easily affected by the weather 
 conditions. Give us an IRON= 
 
 CLAD. No other variety we 
 know of deserves the name more 
 than — 
 
 THE MARVEL. 
 
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THE MARVEL OATS. 
 
 NEVA/ ! WHITE ! BRANCH ! 
 
 STOOLING PROPENSITY. 
 
 E have a theory with reference to the MARVEL OAT, which may, or may not be correct. 
 
 ' ’ Careful examination of several varieties, under similar conditions, show that the MARVEL 
 OAT stools at least one-third heavier than average oats. If the early part of growing season is favor- 
 able, most oats take on large heads. If the latter part of a season is dry and unfavorable, the heads 
 in many cases do not fill, and light oats result. With the MARVEL OATS, it is the surplus of stools 
 which fail to head when attacked by an unfavorable season, and such heads as are formed are sure to 
 fill and produce a good crop. This is a theory we have been induced to accept since studying the 
 habits of the MARVEL OATS. 
 
 A field showing how beautiful the Marvel Oats grow. 
 
 TESTIMONY. 
 
 T N accepting a new variety to place before our many customers, we invariably test it in many sections 
 *■ and under all conditions. In 1 898, we sent twenty-four samples to correspondents in eight states. 
 Seventeen reports were returned, four samples were not tested, and three correspondents made 
 no reply. 
 
 The reports are shown by states below. In each case, the samples tested weighed exactly one 
 pound of sixteen ounces. 
 
 MAINE, - - - - j 
 
 NEW YORK, - - | 
 
 PENNSYLVANIA, •} 
 MISSOURI, - - - : 
 
 I pound produced 52 pounds. 
 
 I “ “ 61 
 
 1 “ “ 56 " 
 
 J pound produced 57 pounds. 
 
 1 “ ‘*63 “ 
 
 1 “ “ 48 “ 
 
 1 pound produced 44 pounds. 
 
 , « “ 6J 0 
 
 J pound produced 58 pounds. 
 
 WISCONSIN, 
 OHIO, - - - 
 KANSAS, - 
 VIRGINIA, - 
 
 \ 1 pound produced 60 pounds, 
 'll" " 56 " 
 
 J 1 pound produced 50 pounds, 
 'll" " 63 " 
 
 j 1 pound produced 60 pounds, 
 'll" “ 52 “ 
 
 t 1 pound produced 60 pounds. 
 "I 1 “ “ 56 “ 
 
 By an examination of the above table you will see that Marvel Oats made an average yield of 56 
 fold, or the 17 samples of 1 pound each yielded 952 pounds. At the same rate of increase 2 bushels 
 which would be light seeding for one acre, would produce 1 1 2 bushels. While it is undoubtedly true 
 that these tests were made under most favorable conditions, there was no division made of stools. It 
 is not claimed that Marvel Oats will yield 1 1 2 bushels per acre on large areas, but we have abundant 
 right to expect that they will yield enough more than average oats to make them one of the best 
 investments a man could hope for. 
 
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THE -^SUNSHINE*- OAT. 
 
 Yellow 
 Side Oat. 
 
 A field of this 
 
 variety, when 
 ready to cut, looks 
 like a mass of Sun- 
 shine, on account of 
 its beautiful golden 
 color. This is why 
 we have named them 
 
 Sunshine Oats. 
 
 walled, so that it is practically free from 
 lodging. The length of the heads is won- 
 derful, some of them being over 15 inches; and in one case a head of 
 SUNSHINE OATS measured 17 inches in length, and contained over 
 200 kernels. It is one of the earliest varieties in existence, so that the 
 ground can be cleared in ample time for ploughing for wheat. It is an 
 enormous yieldier, on account of its extremely long heads and the fact that 
 it is a great stooler. 
 
 Such expressions 
 
 “ I have tested them by the side of nearly 
 all the other varieties of oats grown in this 
 section, and the SUNSHINE outyielded them 
 all many bushels per acre. 
 
 “The SUNSHINE stands up better than any 
 other variety I ever grew.’ 
 
 “The SUNSHINE oat is a perfect wonder. 
 
 It is the heaviest yielding variety ever grown 
 in this section.” 
 
 “ It is outyielding the ordinary varieties 
 grown in this section many bushels per acre.” 
 
 are found in almost every letter received from farmers who have grown them. 
 
 It has been thoroughly tested in all sections of the country by samples sent 
 out, and has produced wonderful yields both North, South, East and West ; 
 and on both thin soils, where ordinary varieties would not pay the cost of growing, and on heavy and rich 
 soils, where most sorts would lodge badly. 
 
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THE SUN 
 
 SHINE OAT. 
 
 Sow the Sunshine and You can Grow such Crops. 
 
 You Can Just as Well Grow from 60 to 80 Bushels per acre of 
 Sunshine Oats as to grow 30 to 40 Bushels of ordinary run out 
 varieties. 
 
 Your neighbors will come for miles to see them growing and take all you have to spare at a big 
 advance over the market price. No farmer who grows an acre of oats can afford not to try this 
 wonderful variety. We don't expect or want you to sow a whole field to start with, but try a small 
 amount by the side of the variety you have been growing, leaving a small strip between the two 
 kinds, so they can be kept separate and simply give the SUNSHINE a chance to demonstrate its 
 great superiority. It will do it every time. 
 
 A small amount sown next spring will produce enough for several acres the year following 
 from but a nominal outlay. It will pay you better than money in the bank, even if you get 
 ioo per cent interest on it. 
 
 Some farmers prefer a SIDE OAT to a branch oat. The Sunshine is the only side oat 
 we are handling, and is without question the best variety of side oats in existence. All our other var- 
 ieties of oats are what are known as White Oats, while the Sunshine is a yellow oat : Not only the 
 straw while growing, but the berry as well has a beautiful golden cast — thus, the name SUNSHINE. 
 
 “Hy Sunshine yielded 80 bushels per acre.” 
 
 “The grandest oat of the century.” 
 
 “Outyielded my Probestier two to one.” 
 
 “Hade more money on my Sunshine Oats than anything else on my farm.” 
 “My acre of Sunshine Oats was the wonder of all.” 
 
 “Am offered $1.50 per bushel for my Sunshine Oats.” 
 
 Such are the reports from those who have grown them. 
 
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After thorough tests made with the Liberty Oat, we are 
 prepared to offer it with unreserved assurance, feeling 
 it will give our patrons the most pleasing results. In 
 point of yield, quality and hardihood, the Liberty Oat 
 deserves a place in the front rank, as no variety ever 
 produced a better combination of good qualities. With 
 the Liberty we are prepared to compete with any Oat 
 on American Soil. 
 
 Description : <! 
 
 The Liberty is an early white oat ; grain well filled and hand- 
 some appearance. Stools abundantly; heads very long branch- 
 ing, supported by good stiff straw and will withstand wind and 
 rain storms without lodging where other varieties have been blown 
 flat. One customer expresses it — "The Liberty Oat stood up 
 like a stone wall. " Is your Crop Paying, or are you one of the 
 many raising from 22 to 30 bushels per acre, which the govern- 
 ment reports show to be the average yield in almost every state ? 
 The cause of this unnecessary low average is in most measure 
 due to the neglect in changing seed. If you sow your worn out 
 seed you get a poor crop. Use Good Seed and get a Good Crop. 
 The time to change is before your old seed has dropped off in 
 yield. Buy a small amount of this new kind and grow a supply 
 of your own before what you are now using fails. See last year’s 
 report on the opposite page. No farmer should fail to buy 
 enough Liberty Oats this season to get a start and produce enough 
 himself for the entire seeding the year following. 
 
 Liberty Oat is weatherproof and good for 
 200 Bushels per Acre. 
 
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THE -LIBERTY-OAT. 
 
 “201^ BUSHELS FROM ONE ACRE.” 
 
 Is the certified statement made by Hoover & Moore of Garfield Co., Col. Their report reads : “We, Hoover & Moore, 
 
 do hereby certify that we have grown and threshed from one acre of Liberty Oats six thousand, four hundred and forty- 
 three (6,443) pounds, or 201)4 bushels. 
 
 Mr. P. U. Sinnot, Fayette Co., Ia., among others, writes: "Liberty Oats are the most wonderful oats I have ever 
 
 seen. I purchased last spring 2)4 bushels of Liberty Oats which I sowed on one measured acre and harvested 196 bushels 
 and 15 pounds, only lacking 3 bushels and 17 pounds of the coveted 200 bushels 1 am sure I would have got 200 bushels, 
 yes, much more, but the season was so dry. People came for miles to see my field of beautiful oats, and all pronounced 
 them the finest they ever saw. ” 
 
 A prize of $200 ; n gold was offered for yields of 200 bushels or more per acre, with the result as given above. Ten 
 
 competitors for the prizes averaged 121 bushels per acre, the lowest reported yield being 96)4 bushels per acre. 
 
 Photographed during drought of 1895. Fields of common varieties on neighbors' farms adjoining were cut with mower and raked up 
 
 as the straw was not long enough to bind. 
 
 Of the 1200 Farmers 
 
 Distributed all over the United States, Canada, England, Scotland, Germany and France, to whom % lb. packages were sent on trial, 
 nothing but the most glowing, hearty and enthusiastic reports came. Every one reporting has the very best words to say for Lib- 
 erty Oats. The oats were sent in packages containing following descriptions : “% lb. sample of Liberty Oats "Here s a brand 
 new Oat. ’’ "Please plant it and care for it fondly”; “it will prove a gold mine”; "worth its weight in gold ; "we believe a yield 
 of 200 bushels per acre possible with the Liberty Oat”; 1 try it and send a 20-word, or less, report, on a postal card, regarding 
 Liberty Oats, by Oct. 1. 1895.” In order to give you an idea, we append herewith a few of the 1200 testimonials received. 
 
 "Liberty Oat proved the most wonderful I ever saw or grew. 
 Its yield will surely be 200 bushel per acre. — Albert Sible, Ind. 
 
 “You may well shout 'Eureka !' Liberty is grand. Nothing 
 seen like it here. I expect 200 bushels per acre next year " 
 
 Frank Herbs, Wis. 
 
 "I thank you for that sample of Liberty Oats. I believe it 
 will be the biggest yielderout. Henry Selmser, 111. 
 
 "It is just as you say. Liberty is certainly all you claimed 
 for it. I am satisfied it will reach nearer 200 bushels than any 
 other sort. C. E. Bradney, Minn. 
 
 "It does well here. Weather was bad, but Liberty proved 
 the better of all oats here. Yields enormously. T. Schmaltze. 111. 
 
 “Blue Grass is fine but this oat beats it. I am sure it will 
 yield 200 bushels per acre. J E Estey, Ky. 
 
 "We raise lots of oats here, but never saw anything like the 
 Liberty. It will lift many mortgages. Chas. Richter, Ind. 
 
 “Again a new oat. That's what I thought when sample 
 came, but now I say Liberty. It's a marvel. H. C. Litecke, O. 
 
 ‘‘No use talking, Liberty takes everything. Everybody wants 
 it. I 'll sell 200 bushels next spring in bushel lots. What's 
 your prices. J. D. Holstead, Mich. 
 
 "Bonanza won the $500 in this state. Your Liberty gets 
 ’way ahead of it and is a finer oat too. H. H. King, N. Y. 
 
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THE * WISCONSIN * DENT. 
 
 THE EARLIEST VARIETY of Dent Corn in Existence. 
 
 L_J I O ”T~ TW D V • Every farmer knows that Dent varieties of 
 Ti IO I w I\ I . corn are more productive than Flint, but 
 on account of their lateness in ripening, it has been safe for only those 
 who are located well south, where seasons are long, to raise them. 
 We have had numberless calls from our customers in Wisconsin, Mich- 
 igan, Minnesota, Northern Iowa, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, 
 and New York for a Dent Corn which would ripen with them 
 in an ordinary season. We have been on the lookout for such a 
 one for several years past and have tried and discarded a large number 
 which came to us highly recommended as being just what we were 
 looking for, but on trial proved to be too late. We have a friend 
 who resides in what is known as the best corn belt in the State of Ohio. 
 Two years ago we appealed to him to help us find what we wanted and he 
 sent us a small amount of a kind which he said he felt confident “was 
 just what our customers were looking for.” We planted part of it on 
 our seed farms here at Rochester and sent out small amounts to our 
 representatives in the territory the corn was desired for, and received 
 nothing but praise and commendation the first year. Thinking that 
 perhaps that year had been an unusually favorable one for corn, and 
 that another season’s trial might not give as satisfying returns, we de- 
 cided to give another year’s test before offering it to our customers, as 
 we will, under no circumstances, offer our patrons any product, the 
 value of which we are not positively assured before it is placed on the 
 market. We wrote each man to whom we had sent samples, request- 
 ing him to give another year’s trial and make the test more severe if 
 possible, and report results. We also told them to give out small 
 amounts to their neighbors so as to have as large a number of trial 
 plots as possible, and 
 
 the reports the second year (last year) 
 
 were more flattering than first year. 
 
 kikiiikkiki 
 
 We have named it 
 
 WISCONSIN * DENT 
 
 and now offer it to our customers who have been growing Flint varie- 
 ties, fully assured that the long desired corn is found at last. 
 
 “SHOULD HAVE BEEN NAMED MINNESOTA DENT”. 
 
 Timothy Whalen of Wright Co., Minn , says: — “If the farmers of this state all 
 grew your Wisconsin Dent Corn, it would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars 
 to them. I know of ten different small pieces of it in this section and they were all 
 thoroughly ripe and cut before frost came. It yields nearly double what the ordinary 
 Flint varieties grown in this vicinity do. Y ou should have named it Minnesota Dent. 
 No other kind will be grown here as soon as farmers can get seed enough of this.” 
 
 “$25.00 FROM $1 WORTH” IN ONTARIO. 
 
 H. W. Jones of Victoria Co., Ont., says: — “When your agent first asked me to 
 buy Dent Corn I laughed at him to think of such a thing as growing Dent Corn in 
 Canada. He finally said “Try a dollar’s worth, and if you are not satisfied I will give 
 you your dollar back.” I couldn’t kick on that, so I bought the dollar’s worth, and 
 I tell you what, I thought I knew all about corn, but I begin to think I don’t 
 know anything about these new varieties. The Wisconsin Dent is just as early 
 as the Flint varieties and will outyield them every time, stand dry weather bet- 
 ter, makes better fodder, and in fact is better in every respect. I wouldn’t take 
 $25 for my crop from the $1 worth.” 
 
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WISCONSIN DENT 
 
 DESCRIPTION. 
 
 T HE Wisconsin Dent being an early 
 variety neither the ears or grain 
 are as large as our Gold King, 
 Silver King or Eldorado and we do not 
 recommend it for growing where the 
 seasons are long enough to ripen the 
 larger and later varieties. It is especially 
 adapted for growing wherever the 
 ordinary Flint varieties will ripen. The 
 grain is of a beautiful golden color; the 
 shape and size of the ear is well repre- 
 sented by the cut. The stalks grow to 
 a medium size and make the very best 
 of fodder. The cob is small and red. 
 The corn is very rich in oil and starch. 
 
 What our average farmers have 
 been doing. 
 
 The average yield of com in this 
 country for the past ten years, accord- 
 ing to the government report, has been 
 twenty-six bushels shelled corn per 
 acre. The average value for the past 
 ten years, as given by the same report, 
 has been $ 9.47 per acre. 
 
 Such Crops do not Pay. 
 
 The Wisconsin Dent has yielded 2 bushels 
 
 to I of the ordinary Flint varieties grown 
 under exactly equal conditions. 
 
 THE CORN FOR VERMONT. 
 
 James Snyder, of Essex Co., Vt., says: “I got sixty 
 
 bushels of WISCONSIN DENT corn from the five pounds of 
 seed. I can sell all I have for $1 00 per peck. It was one of • 
 the best investments I ever made. I tell you its the corn for 
 Vermont. 
 
 IT’S THE CORN TO GROW IN WISCONSIN. 
 
 Olf Oberg, of Milwaukee Co , Wis., says: "I tell you it 
 
 is rightly named. It’s the corn to grow in Wisconsin. It's 
 just as early as the ordinary Flint varieties and will outyield 
 them at least one-half. I have sold all I have to spare for 
 $3.00 per bushel I wish I had bought five bushels instead of 
 5 pounds last spring. 
 
 SUCH CROPS DO PAY. 
 
 And the difference is mostly in the seed. It is for you to decide what kind of a crop you will raise, an 
 average crop or a very large one. Suppose you buy 15 lbs. of Wisconsin Dent Corn and plant one acre and 
 harvest 100 bushels of shelled corn which, at say 40 cents per bushel, is worth $40.00; then on another acre you 
 plant some common variety and get an average yield of 20 bushels of shelled corn worth $10.40; you have made 
 a profit of $20.60 on one acre and on ten acres it would be $296.00. You cannot afford to grow an average 
 crop of corn. From 10 to 15 lbs. will plant an acre which will give you enough seed for all your own planting 
 another year and a large amount to sell to your neighbors. They will all want some when they see how much 
 superior it is to the varieties they have been growing and be willing to pay a good advance over the market 
 price for seed. 
 
 Seventy lbs. of ears made 64 lbs. of shelled corn 
 
 and only 6 pounds of cobs. This will give you a good idea of how very small the cobs are, almost every stalk 
 bears from two to three ears, making it AN ENORMOUS YIELDER. 
 
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MONROE * FLINT. 
 
 The longest eared Flint Corn in existence. It is an 
 8 rowed yellow variety. 
 
 DENT VARIETIES OF CORN, 
 
 as a rule, yield heavier than Flint. Almost every farmer who grows corn wants to 
 grow the Dent, but those living in the New England and Northwestern States and 
 Canada are unable to do so as the growing season is not long enough for the Dent 
 varieties to ripen, consequently such farmers have to grow the Flint instead. Of 
 course, these farmers, have felt that they have been laboring under a disadvantage 
 on that account. But the introduction of the Eight- Rowed Yellow Flint will change 
 all this, as it is not only one of the earliest Flint varieties in existence but it is also 
 an enormous yielder, outyielding many of the Dent varieties in general cultivation. 
 
 THE EARS AVERAGE A CONSIDERABLE LONGER 
 
 than any Dent corn grown, the difference in the thickness of the ear being offset by 
 the extreme length, many of the ears measuring from 12 to 13 inches and in some 
 instances even 14 inches long. 
 
 THE STALKS GROW TO A GOOD HEIGHT 
 
 and nearly everyone has two ears and many of them three ears each. The picture 
 of the ear was made from nature, but we were obliged to greatly reduce it in size as 
 the pages of our catalogue are not large enough to show a full sized ear. 
 
 THE MONROE FLINT 
 
 is the result of careful selection extending over a long period of years. The intro- 
 duction of the Monroe Flint Corn will be to the history of corn what the introduc- 
 tion of the Early Rose was to the history of potatoes — an event to be looked back 
 at as marking a great step in advance. 
 
 AS SCORES OF FARMERS 
 
 made anywhere from five to hundreds of dollars each, by getting into the seed of 
 the Early Rose at the start and selling their crops to their neighbors for seed, so you 
 can make money by getting into the seed of the Monroe Flint Corn and selling 
 your crop to your neighbors, in addition to having the longest eared and heaviest 
 yielding Yellow Flint Corn in existence yourself. This is an opportunity you can- 
 not afford to neglect. 
 
 ONE PECK WILL EASILY PLANT AN ACRE OR MORE. 
 
 One acre, with a favorable season and good soil and cultivation, will produce 
 anywhere from 100 to 150 bushels. Aten acre field of this corn has yielded 128 
 bushels per acre. One peck planted next spring will produce enough for all your 
 planting the year following, and enough to supply your neighbors, also, who will 
 gladly buy every bushel you have to spare at a good advance over the market price 
 when they see how far superior it is to the varieties they have been growing. 
 
 We would not advise any farmer who is living in a section where Dent varieties 
 can be grown, to grow the Monroe Flint; but in all sections where it is necessary to 
 grow a Flint corn, the Monroe Flint is the corn to plant. It will outyield any other 
 Flint corn in existence at least 50 per cent. , in fact, it is an 
 
 ENORMOUS YIELDER. 
 
 We would like to ask every farmer who has been growing Flint varieties: How 
 many bushels of shelled corn per acre have you averaged the past five or ten years, 
 and how much has each bushel of shelled corn cost you per bushel to grow ? With 
 the Monroe Flint you can increase your yield from 50 to 100 per cent, and thus 
 decrease the cost price per bushel of growing your corn. Do not increase your 
 acreage, but increase your yield per acre by planting this wonderful variety. 
 
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ELDORADO. 
 
 Something new and out of the ordinary in the corn line. 
 
 ATTENTION 
 
 is called to the fact that we offer the new Eldorado 
 corn with full assurance that our customers will be 
 more than pleased with this valuable acquisition to the 
 corn kingdom. 
 
 WHAT THE ORIGINATOR SAYS: 
 
 1 ‘ The writer grew the Eldorado on our 
 trial grounds the past season. Same 
 was planted May ioth, ten miles south 
 of the shore of Lake Erie. Sept. 25th 
 it was ripe and proved a great yielder. 
 
 The cobs contained from eight to four- 
 teen rows and the ears are of good size. 
 
 The grain is the LARGEST OF ANY 
 CORN IN THE WORLD. It is a 
 good, strong grower.” 
 
 DO YOU GROW CORN? 
 
 If you do, this is an opportunity for you to get some- 
 thing new, which is sure to make you big money. 
 There will be a demand for seed of this variety for 
 several years to come and all who buy now will be 
 able to sell their crop at several times the market 
 price for ordinary corn. A small quantity bought 
 now will furnish a large amount of seed from the first 
 crop, and no person familiar with good corn can see 
 the Eldorado without being convinced of its unusual 
 merits. At every stage the growing crop showed 
 points of advantage over other varieties. From the 
 first the Eldorado indicated a strong grower and 
 through hot and dry weather appeared a deep green 
 as the broad leaves protected the ground. 
 
 A LIMITED SUPPLY. 
 
 At the time this catalogue goes to press our crop of 
 the Eldorado indicates an enormous yield from the 
 land planted with this corn, but we have only a small 
 acreage and our stock this season will be quite limited, 
 so that we reserve the privilege of raising our price if 
 necessary. Customers who order early will get their 
 seed at our regular listed prices and all who can 
 should take advantage. Later may be too late. 
 
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THE ELDORADO CORN. 
 
 WHAT’S IN A NAME? 
 
 A NAME may not add to the intrinsic value of anything but we like to see a good article well named. 
 
 We furnished small samples to eighteen extensive corn growers with request to report last fall and 
 suggest a name for this new seedling corn known at the time as “Seedling No. 47.” Jas. Patterson, 
 of Madison County, Iowa, is entitled to the honor of naming the seedling. He writes under date of 
 Sept. 20th : ‘ ‘ The sample of corn you sent me was fine and I had doubts of being able to grow as 
 good, but my doubts are all gone long ago. If I had 20 acres of corn like that to seed for seed I 
 wouldn’t trade it for the best gold field in the world, and suggest the name Eldorado for the corn.” 
 
 We appointed a committee to decide on a name from the list suggested and the decision was 
 almost unanimous in favor of Eldorado. We confidently expect this corn will create as great a sensa- 
 tion among corn growers as did the rich gold fields of Eldorado. 
 
 OTHER REPORTS 
 
 from the small tests made with the samples sent out showed that this corn was adapted to a large area 
 but we would not advise planting the Eldorado in localities where frosts occur much before the first of 
 October. 
 
 The small package of corn you sent me contained eleven 
 grains. I planted it in the garden and everyone who saw it 
 remarked on the tremendous growth. I have harvested seven- 
 teen of the biggest ears of corn ever hung in my barn. 
 
 RUFUS LONG, Pulaski Co , 111 
 
 You had better call that corn the " Race Horse. ” It 
 beats anything ever raised here. 
 
 CECIL BROOKS, Texas Co , Mo. 
 
 I have just put away my little crop from the sample corn 
 you sent me and am more than pleased with it. I can show 
 the people here the largest corn ever grown in this section. 
 Two ears would most make a feed for a hog 
 
 JAMES WEATHERS, Mason Co., Tex. 
 
 The corn you sent me to plant was ripe by Sept. 27th. 
 Nearly every stalk gave two large ears. From my experience, 
 with the small quantity this year, I be ieve you have one of 
 the greatest corns ever grown in this section. 
 
 C S 1'EWART, Bucks Co., Pa. 
 
 I planted the corn you sent me to test in my garden. All 
 my neighbc rs have been much interested from the time it was 
 18 inches high. The leaves were unusually large and indi- 
 cated a strong grower. Have now harvested the crop and it is 
 immense. The biggest ears without any exception I ever saw. 
 
 JAMES MEYER, Humbolt Co., Iowa. 
 
 That corn you sent me is growing fine. The strongest 
 plants I ever saw. PHILIP SWITZER, Pike Co., Ind. 
 
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GOLD KING. 
 
 Corn is King, and the GOLD KING is the King of Corn. 
 
 "Clinton Co., Pa., Aug. 14, 1897. 
 
 "Oscar Brooks has an extra piece of GOLD KING corn grown from your 
 seed. It has from two to three ears on almost every stalk. It is a grand 
 sight to BEHOLD All the farmers here who bought GOLD KING corn are 
 greatly pleased with it. R. W. VALLEN." 
 
 C. S. Clark, of Ohio, is the greatest corn specialist in the world. 
 We give his description of the GOLD KING in his own words : 
 
 " The GOLD KING will sell on sight; will sell by sample ; will catch any 
 man's eye who grows corn. Produce a more beautiful corn, and my check for 
 Five Hundred Dollars is ready." 
 
 A field of our GOLD KING CORN grown in Huron County, Ohio. It i 3 :mi : .I;,*;I 
 the finest piece of corn ever grown in Huron County. 
 
 ITS GRAINS 
 
 ARE so long, cobs so small, ears of such size, that no man living 
 can find fault with it. And on sight, in the bag, in the field, 
 or in the crib, beats any corn I ever saw, and Clark sees them all. 
 If your agent can’t sell this corn to every eight farmers out of ten, 
 I loose my guess. Originated in Erie Co. , O. , and is the result of 
 careful breeding and selection. The ears grow large, with small 
 red cobs, and have from 12 to 24 rows on each cob. The grains 
 are longer than on any other corn in cultivation, and, being a 
 strong, rank grower, will outyield any other yellow corn in the 
 world. It will mature in 100 days, so that it is very valuable for 
 the growers in all corn belts of the country. Its great merit lies 
 in the fact, that it is a natural grower, and sure to make a crop 
 where other sorts fail. It has the most beautiful yellow color, thus 
 
 its name — 
 
 GOLD KING. 
 
 The stalks grow to a good size, and are very strong, resisting wind 
 and storm to a remarkable degree. Three grains of this corn have 
 been known to measure two inches in length, and being a high- 
 colored yellow, it 
 
 BRINGS THE HIGHEST "MARKET PRICE. 
 
 No words or description can do justice to this corn, which out- 
 classes any other yellow variety in cultivation. This is the third 
 year of its introduction. We practically control all the seed, and 
 warrant every pound we sell to be true to name to this extent, that 
 if it fails, we will either refund the purchase price, or refill the order 
 free of cost at our next delivery. 
 
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SILVER KING. 
 
 A New White Dent Field Corn. 
 
 UR attention was first called to this remarkable corn by 
 
 Mr. A. A. Waller, of Daviess Co., Ind. , who is an ex- 
 tensive grower of field corn, and who has been raising it to the 
 exclusion of all other varieties for the past three years, with the 
 exception of a small amount of some of the leading new varieties 
 he has planted in order to test their respective merits in com- 
 parison with the SILVER KINO. The glowing account which 
 he gave of the yield, and the large, handsome ears he sent us, 
 convinced us that it was a decided improvement upon any other 
 variety of white field corn in existence. Mr. Waller says : “ The 
 first year I raised the SILVER KINO I averaged over 80 bushels 
 of shelled corn per acre, and some of it has done this during 
 the two dry years since. 
 
 Outyielded the Common Varieties 2 to 1. 
 
 I AST year I planted some of two other leading varieties by the 
 side of it, and the SILVER KINO made about double as 
 much to the acre as either one of the others, and the others had 
 much the best chance. They averaged about 40 bushels to the 
 acre, and the SILVER KING was easily double that. As to 
 stalks, they grow small, which is a strong point in its favor with 
 us here, on account of its standing the drouth so much better 
 than larger stalked kinds. It grows to about seven feet in height 
 on an average, and makes splendid fodder ; many of the stalks 
 have two ears each. 
 
 Farmers who have heard of this Corn have driven 
 
 is a large-eared Dent White corn, and is not adapted for grow- 
 ing in northern climates, but is especially recommended for 
 Southern Illinois, Southern Indiana, Southern Ohio, and all 
 points in that latitude, or which have a similar climate. This 
 is its third year of introduction. 
 
 If you wish to obtain a variety that is almost drouth proof, 
 and will give you an enormous yield of splendid corn, and the 
 very best fodder, do not fail to try some of the SILVER KING. 
 
 $150 WORTH ON ONE ACRE. 
 
 Morgan Co., O., March 1st, 1898. 
 
 I bought one peck of SILVER KING corn of your agent 
 last spring, which planted just one acre, from which I harvested 
 seventy-five bushels of shelled corn. I have sold all I have to 
 spare at $ 2.00 per bushel for seed. It is the grandest corn ever 
 brought into this state. .. rn „ n 
 
 Averaged over 80 Bushels per Acre. 
 
 15 miles to get their seed from me.” 
 
 The Silver King ** 
 
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SWEET CORN. 
 
 90-DAY MONARCH. 
 
 How our 90 Day Monarch looks when shocked for seed purposes, 
 
 ^ DESCRIPTION. ^ 
 
 T HE corn is a light color, almost white ; does not shrink nearly as much as the average sweet varieties. 
 
 Ears grow long and large on good stout stalks ; very prolific.- The flavor of the corn is excellent, and 
 will command the highest price in any market. For canning factories the 90-DAY MONARCH heads the list. 
 
 A Y/ER Y EARLY VARIETY ! 
 
 THE BEST OE 13 VARIETIES ! 
 
 EIRST IN YIELD! EIRST IN QUALITY! 
 
 ki f J*HE finest sweet corn I ever saw.” “The neighbors all want to get 
 seed of me.” “ Sold every pound I had to spare for seed at double 
 the price I paid for it.” ■“ My wife says it is the sweetest corn she ever 
 ate.” Mr. Gross says: “Be sure and grow all 90-DAY MONARCH next 
 year.” 
 
 Such are the reports from those who have grown it. We want your opinion. 
 
 Tested beside twelve different varieties, the 90-DAY MONARCH stands first in 
 point of yield and quality. Our stock of this new variety is limited, and there is 
 sure to be a great demand for several years. Market gardeners and all wishing a 
 first-class article should buy at once. 
 
 4,840 square yards of ground to an acre. 
 
 24,000 ears per acre, at 8c. per doz.=$l 60.00. 
 
Schiller Beardless Barley. 
 
 T HIS wonderful new beardless six rowed barley has 
 been propagated and perfected after years of careful 
 hybridizing, requiring diligent and expert attention in 
 order to make it an ideal variety. 
 
 DOES IT YIELD? 
 
 YES! ENORMOUSLY! 
 
 T HE largest yielder on record. Yields where old kinds fail. One 
 hundred and eight bushels per acre is a good yield ; the SCHIL- 
 LER BEARDLESS has yielded at that rate. If you are looking for a 
 heavy yielder, here you have it. Has outyielded Mansury, Silver Hull, 
 and many other leading varieties. 
 
 Straw is extra long and stiff, 
 
 making it easy to harvest. Stools out thick, and does not require a 
 heavy seeding. A field of it presents a beautiful appearance, growing 
 thick and rank. Heads are long and heavy. 
 
 By repeated tests, it has been proved that, on account of its hull, this 
 barley is excellent, and superior to other varieties for malting purposes. 
 Hull is tight, not loose. The absence of beards makes it pleasant to 
 harvest, store and thresh. For feeding purposes it is unexcelled. 
 
 Its Earliness 
 
 is only one of its many good qualities. Ripens a few days earlier than 
 the Humboldt. Is adapted for growing in all parts of the country where 
 barley is grown, or where any other barley will grow. 
 
 THIS BARLEY PROMISES TO ESTABLISH A NEW 
 ERA IN BARLEY RAISING. 
 
 “ Best barley I ever raised. ” “The small sample of Schiller has done im- 
 
 “ I could not ask for a better barley.” mense with me.” 
 
 “ Would not go back to raising my old bearded “ I want to buy some of the Schiller, so as to get 
 
 sorts if I had enough seed of the Schiller Beard- a good start next season. It’s the finest I ever saw.” 
 less to sow, for anything.” “ Never saw any barley that could equal it.” 
 
 The above, and similar reports, are what are coming from those we asked to test our SCHILLER BEARDLESS BARLEY. 
 
 PEOPLE HAVE COME FOR MILES 
 
 to our seed farms to see this barley growing, and pronounce it a marvel. Our seed of this variety is limited, and 
 we shall probably have to close sales on it before shipping time. Don't delay ordering, or you may have to. 
 wait another season for seed of it. 
 
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Humboldt Beardless Barley 
 
 New 6 -Rowed Club or Beardless Barley. 
 
 
 
 VERY EARLY ! 
 
 
 A GREAT STOOLER ! 
 
 
 ENORHOUS YIELDER! 
 
 ' ' ft ^jUk 
 
 - 
 
 
 Has Tight Hull 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Straw is strong and 
 
 
 stiff and stands up well 
 
 
 on rich land where 
 bearded sorts would go 
 down. 
 
 w 
 
 
 1 \ 
 
 
 HAS 
 
 VASTLY 
 
 OUTYIELDED 
 
 LEADING 
 
 VARIETIES. 
 
 
 It has been tested by 
 a leading malting firm 
 here and pronounced a 
 fine malting barley. 
 
 
 Has Yielded from 50 to 90 Bushels per Acre. 
 
 This variety was produced by crossing a bald hulless variety with leading bearded varieties — result, a bar- 
 ley very productive and having the rich nutritious qualities of the bearded kind, but without beards and the hull 
 tight. Every barley grower knows how disagreeable barley beards are both in harvesting and for animals eating 
 same. These objectionable features are done away with in our Humboldt Beardless Barley. If put in, in good 
 season 
 
 Two crops can be raised on the same ground the same year: 
 
 a crop of barley and one of Hungarian or millet hay, by disking the ground as soon as barley is cut and sowing 
 millet between the shocks. Just what is needed to fill a long felt want. 
 
 A large barley grower in Ohio writes as follows after testing this barley : “I have raised barley for a num- 
 
 ber of years and tried the leading and best bearded sorts and find no bearded sorts that will yield with it.” 
 
 One of our agents sowed, this spring, a sample we sent him and he writes : ‘T sowed the sample of Hum- 
 
 boldt Beardless Barley in the garden and it looks fine, think it would be great feed for. horses.” 
 
 J. T. STANLEY, Hamilton Co., Ind. 
 
 Now is the Time to get in the Seed 
 
 of this remarkable variety while it is scarce. Why continue raising old run out varieties that yield from 30 to 40 
 bushels per acre when the Humboldt Beardless Barley will produce from 60 to 70 bushels per acre. 
 
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“Climax wSprinGo-Wheat. 
 
 C LIMAX of QUALITY. f^LIMAX of PRODUCTIVENESS 
 LIMAX of HARDINESS. V^LIMAX of EARLINESS. 
 
 DESCRIPTION. 
 
 CLIMAX is a beardedjvariety of Spring Wheat, grown and thoroughly tested 
 in climates adapted to the growing of Spring Wheat. 
 
 A \7'f 11 The berry is well balanced 
 
 An oiormous Yielder ia in ^ threew f l , defined 
 
 * outer layers of aleurone 
 
 cells which contain the albuminoids commonly called gluten. The inner part of the 
 berry is well supplied with starch, having more than the average amount, as will be 
 seen by the table below. The yield of wheat is always regulated by the quantity of 
 starch in the berry. The more starch the greater the yield. 
 
 Average Wheat Contains : “Climax Wheat Contains : 
 
 Albuminoids 10 per cent to 21 per cent. Albuminoids over 24 per cent. 
 
 Carbohydrates (Starch) 60 " 70 “ Carbohydrates (Starch) 74 “ 
 
 Crude Fibre 2 " 8 “ Crude Fibre 1)4 " 
 
 It will be seen by the above table, furnished by the introducer, why Climax 
 Wheat gives such large yields. It is rapidly taking the place of other spring wheat 
 wherever grown. The originator also furnishes abundant proof of its extreme 
 hardiness and earliness. The origin of this wheat was in China, near the border of 
 India, and was imported to this country four years since. 
 
 With our Climax Wheat we feel r(\ ^ _ __ A _ _ . 
 
 confident that with good soil and cul- Ju LDLISllCiS U0T ilCL 04 
 tivation, one can'produce not less than — 
 
 Rochester is located in an EXCLUSIVELY WINTER-WHEAT section. We 
 therefore have our “Climax” spring wheat grown under contract, on selected farms 
 in one of the best spring wheat producing localities in the country. The advantage 
 that “Climax” has shown over all varieties, beside which it has been tested, proves 
 that it is positively incomparable and is the 
 
 BIGGEST MONEY MAKER 
 
 ever placed within the reach of wheat growers. We offer but one variety of spring 
 wheat, simply because “Climax” is so much superior to all other sorts that we know 
 we would not be doing our customers justice to offer them anything else — any other 
 variety would fall so far short of “Climax” in both YIELD and QUALITY. 
 
 Compare the Sample^ — 
 
 of Climax with ANY spring wheat you have ever seen and note the difference. To see'this 
 wheat in a bin, it would pass as winter wheat the berry is so large and plump. For HARD- 
 INESS, VIGOR OF GROWTH and power to resist crop damage, “Climax”, without a 
 doubt stands at the head of all spring wheat and will command the highest price for seed 
 purposes for several years. Buy NOW and reap the benefit. 
 
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CLIMAX” ^SPRING*- WHEAT. 
 
 -^REPORTS ON “CLIMAX” :*• 
 
 L AST SPRING we sold for the first time a small quantity of “Climax” in Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota and in 
 spring wheat localities of other states. Within three weeks after the seed was delivered to customers last 
 spring we began to get reports showing astonishment at the remarkable growth of the “Climax.” 
 
 LARGER HEADS AND EARLIER. 
 
 June 20th 1898. “There is no sign of rust in the Climax. 
 Straw is very strong and stands up well, average height i'/z to 
 5 ft. Heads are very long ; about one third longer than the 
 average wheat of this section. Most of the wheat is now in 
 bloom and the prospect for filling is extra good. It is a week 
 or more ahead of other kinds of spring wheat here. 11 
 
 40 BUSHELS PER ACRE. 
 
 June 21st, 1898. “Weather dry and moderate. “Climax'' 
 improving every day. L. W. McBride says his will make 40 
 bushels per acre if nothing happens. He has offers of $2. CO 
 per bushel for what seed he will have to spare." 
 
 “STANDS UP WELL.” 
 
 June 22nd, 1898. “Had heavy rain storm last night but 
 Climax is O. K. It stands better than other wheat. 
 
 “HEADS SPRING WHEAT CLASS.” 
 
 June 24th, 1898. “Climax" wheat stands at the head of 
 the spring wheat class, and without any reasonable doubt I 
 think will take the prize on the last day, I believe it will beat 
 the winter wheat. You ought to see the wheat, it stands 5 feet 
 8 inches high and when I walk through it the heads rub my 
 face and beard, and touch the brim of my hat." 
 
 “CLIMAX LEADS.” 
 
 July lilth, 1898. “You ask me if “Blue Stem” will yield 
 with "Climax ’’ It is too risky to estimate Blue Stem till you 
 have it in stock. Blue Stem harvest will not begin for a week 
 yet, a day or so of good hot weather and it will all go to chaff. 
 Nevertheless it will run far behind the “Climax" let the 
 weather be ever so good. " 
 
 “CLIMAX CREATING A SENSATION”. 
 
 "Climax" is creating quite a sensation through ray section. 
 Your customers holding their seed at $2.00 per bushel and they 
 will get it. Everyone that sees it says that it is the best wheat 
 that ever grew in this section. I sent you a number of “Cli- 
 max" heads by express last night, which I think will prove the 
 quality of the 'Climax, in this section. ‘Climax’ will beat the 
 winter wheat of this section, and other spring wheats are so 
 far behind that there is no comparison." 
 
 “CLIMAX DOING FINELY”. 
 
 April 19th, 1898. “Climax" wheat is doing finely. The Blue 
 Stem that was sown at the same time was just coming through 
 the ground when 'Climax' was \'/z to 2 inches high." 
 
 “MORE THAN PLEASED”. 
 
 May loth 1898. “Climax" is better than ever. Customers 
 are more than pleased. ’ ' 
 
 “20 BUSHELS FROM 30 POUNDS.” 
 
 July 20th, 1898. “Charles Jason who bought 30 pounds of 
 Climax through me last spring, has just threshed 20 bushels of 
 the finest wheat I ever saw. " 
 
 “HEADS 4'/z AND 5 INCHES.” 
 
 July 10th, 1898. “When cutting my “Climax" I measured 
 several heads that were 4J£ and 5 inches long. The grain is 
 well filled and is the earliest spring wheat I ever cut. 
 
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SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS TO AGENTS. 
 
 O UR business extends from Upper Canada on the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the South, and 
 while our different varieties of Potatoes, Oats, Barley, etc. are equally as well adapted for grow- 
 ing- in one section as another, OUR CORN IS NOT. Varieties of corn which are perfectly 
 adapted to growing in one section should not be sold and will not give satisfaction in another. We 
 give the following general instructions as to 
 
 What Corn You Should Sell: 
 
 If the growing season in your locality has a period of 120 days without frost, sell the Eldorado, 
 Gold King or Silver King. All of them are unusually rank growers and hills should be four feet apart 
 each way in order to obtain large and well-filled ears. 
 
 The Monroe Eight Rowed Flint and Wisconsin Dent may be sold in any latitude where ordinary 
 varieties of corn can be grown. 
 
 Wherever the seasons will permit of the late maturing varieties being used, always get your 
 customers to order the late sorts. In almost nine cases out of ten you will find the longer a crop 
 stands on the land before maturing the better the yield. This will apply equally as well in the case 
 of potatoes, oats and other seeds. We want to give our customers the best of satisfaction and hope 
 in selling corn you will follow closely the rules as given above. It is to your interest as well as to 
 our own, for we want you to sell in seasons to come, on the same ground, with increased sales. 
 
 YA/ 1 INTER WHEAT /AND RYE. 
 
 In addition to our full line of Farm Seeds for Spring Delivery, described in the foregoing pages, 
 we also handle Winter Wheat and Rye for Fall delivery, for which we issue separate catalogues, 
 circulars, order blanks, etc., in other words what is known as out Wheat outfit, the orders being 
 taken for delivery in August or September. This Wheat outfit will be sent you upon request and 
 orders for Winter Wheat and Rye for Fall Delivery can be taken at the same time you are taking 
 orders for other seeds for Spring Delivery. 
 
 We give a Few Reports form Our Wheat which have just come to Hand. 
 
 $10.00 worth from one-half Bushel. 
 
 The wheat I sold last fall is more than meeting expectations. Last week I offered one man $10 
 for the standing crop from one-half bushel I sold him, and the chickens had eaten up at least a quarter 
 of that, but he would not accept my offer. He said he wished he had bought enough to sow ten acres, 
 and all the others who bought of you report about the same way. S. B. SHORE, Boone Co., Ind. 
 
 The old Varieties are Full of Weevil, but no Weevil 
 in the New Varieties. 
 
 “Enclosed find my report amounting to $56.00 worth of wheat orders. I have seen every piece 
 of wheat grown from the seed which I sold last year and I tell you I was much surprised to see such 
 awful big heads. The farmers were more than pleased with it and say they wish they had bought 
 more seed. Several of these orders are from parties who bought last year. ALL THE OLD VAR- 
 IETIES OF WHEAT ARE FULL OF WEEVIL, BUT THERE IS NO WEEVIL IN YOUR 
 WHEAT. I saw Mr. A. Rogers, who bought a bushel last year, and asked him if he would have any 
 to sell this year and he said ‘No Sir !’ and that he wished he had bought $10.00 worth instead of 
 $5.00 worth. Other farmers tell the same story. Oh ! such heads, they say, as your wheat has and 
 
 J. BUDD, Putnam Co., Ohio. 
 
 N. B. — Unprincipled parties have imposed upon the public by off- 
 ering spurious seed in our name. In order to protect our customers 
 and ourselves we have adopted a Trade Mark as seen hereon. All per- 
 sons are warned hereby that every package of Genuine Seed from our 
 Seed Farms will bear a tag with our trade mark. Under .no circum- 
 stances should goods be accepted without this evidence of genuineness. 
 
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BRIGHTON PLACE HERD 
 
 E XILE of St. Lambert 13657, has the largest number of tested daughters of any bull living or dead 
 — seventy-four (74) — all full seven-day tests, made by 22 different men, and all recorded in the 
 books of the American Jersey Cattle Club. Exile’s Belle made for her owner, Mr. A. I). McBride, in 
 30 days, 122 lb. 6 yi oz. , which, as far as I know, is the largest amount of butter ever made by any 
 cow in 30 days. All disinterested breeders will allow that we have no record of any bull that has 
 demonstrated such marvellous powers to transmit to his descendants the great capacity of his ancestors 
 for large flow of milk and great quantity of butter produced. It is remarked by all who have seen 
 Exile of St. Lambert and his descendants that it is wonderful what a sameness there is among his get. 
 They are nearly all large animals, soft, lemon-fawn or silver-gray, and nearly all solid color. No bull 
 in the world has sired so many cows with large milk records. He also possessed the power to trans- 
 mit his good qualities to his descendants through his sons and daughters of the third and fourth gener- 
 ations. We usually have young stock for sale, descendants of Exile of St. Lambert. 
 
 M inute Description with Tabulated Pedigree, 
 with Prices, will be sent on application.