. Johnson & Musser Seed Co.'s catalogue of reliable seeds. Nursery stock California Los Angeles Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. 113 N. Main St., Los Angeles. 37 PRE-HISTORIC CORN After Laying Buried 3,000 years the Seed of this Corn is Discovered and Gives to the Present Genera- tion the Best Connecting Link with the Peopie who Inhabited our Country in the Distant Past. PRODUCES 2 TO 11 EARS TO A STALK. Averages four Good Ears Under Favorable Conditions. Capable of Yielding 250 BUSHELS PER ACRE. The introducer siys of it : &quo
. Johnson & Musser Seed Co.'s catalogue of reliable seeds. Nursery stock California Los Angeles Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. 113 N. Main St., Los Angeles. 37 PRE-HISTORIC CORN After Laying Buried 3,000 years the Seed of this Corn is Discovered and Gives to the Present Genera- tion the Best Connecting Link with the Peopie who Inhabited our Country in the Distant Past. PRODUCES 2 TO 11 EARS TO A STALK. Averages four Good Ears Under Favorable Conditions. Capable of Yielding 250 BUSHELS PER ACRE. The introducer siys of it : "In giv- ing a history of this corn we must go back in the far distant past, beyond tne point where history, as now preserved, began, and by the remains that are frequently unearthed we find unmis- takable evidences of a vast population that swarmed over the country, ai d by the articles of their handiwork and hieroglvphical writings we learn that they were engaged extensively in agri- cultural pursuits, manufactures and commerce. "We are indebted to their belief, that after death the person needed food to sustain him and implements of warfare to Hunt with while on his Ions journey to the beyond, hence they buried corn, arrows and other articles with the corpse. Tht-re are hundreds of burial mounds scattered over the country, plainlv in view today, from some of which carloads of ancient relics have been taken. "The pottery is absolutely imporous and indestructible by corrosion. Com- posed of ground mussel shells, clav, cements, lime and an imperishable mineral, nothing that will more effect- ually defy the destroying- hand of time can be conceived ; Dig up one of the. pottery, broken implements and earth, this corn was found. Here it had lain in perfect preservation, while the thou- sand of years rolled by, turning to earth again all human remains. Considering the composition of the vessel, the air ex- pelled and it securely sealed, we have the perfect condit
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