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Title: American farmers' manual
Identifier: americanfarmersm19pete_1 (find matches)
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Peter Henderson & Co; Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Subjects: Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Farms Catalogs; Grasses Seeds Catalogs
Publisher: New York : Peter Henderson & Co.
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library

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The Earliest Large, White Dent. Ripens thoroughly in latitudes South of Albany and Buffalo. Extraordinarily Prolific, often yielding 110 bushels shelled corn per acre. LARGE EARS, 10 to 12 inches long, 7 to 8 inches in circumference. Long Kernels, Small Cob. Ears 2 to 3 feet from the ground. PLANT LEAFY and LUXURIANT, making fine fodder. Northern White DENT. The Climax of 40 Years' Selection I While the raiser, Mr. James Wood, of Westchester County, N. Y., ex-President of the New York State Agricultural Society, does not claim this to be a new variety, having orig'inally been a white Southern Corn, yet by forty years of intelligent selection, it has become the earliest large white Dent Corn we know of, and is quite distinct from the original parent. It will ripen in Connecticut, New York State (except in that portion north of Rochester and Troy), Southern ilichigan, Southern Wisconsin, etc., and being vastly superior in every respect to the flint varieties and the small Dent Corns usually raised, will be by far the most profitable sort in latitudes north of New York City, where the Eureka cannot safely be planted. This Corn was referred to in the New York Tribune Farmer, Nov. 7th, IQfll, in an article on Mr. Wood's farm, as follows; " Forty years ago Mr. Wood set out to find tlie most profitable variety of Corn for him to raise. He had learned that his farm was nearly on the dividing line between thesouth and the north, agneulturally considered, so he tried the white Southern Dent, obtaining his seed from Long Island, where it had been grown for twenty years. It did well, but the ear was from 41/2 to 5 feet from the ground, leaving a nearly valueless butt, and the cob was too large a por- tion of the ear. For forty years he has been breeding out the butt and the cob. The lower ear on the stalk is now only two feet or so from the ground, and the (See cut.) 20 cts. quart, so cts. peck, ^3.00 buishel; lO-toushel lots, ^g relative size of this cob has been greatly reduced. "Corn breeding is exciting much attention at this time. Here are the results of forty years of experiment on that line, and a better object lesson could hardl.v be found to establish its value and hint at its enormous possibili- ties. Mr. Wood always looks for one and a halt bushels of ears from twenty- five hills, and this represents a larger proportion of shelled corn than Is usually estimated. He has often raised 110 bushels of shelled corn to the acre." 85 bLjsH^I. HENDERSON'S SUPERIOR SEEDS ARE PROCURABLE ONLY FROM US DIRECT—we do not supply through Dealers.

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