. Burpee's farm annual 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. WATERLOO EXTRA EARLY DENT CORN. Last year first introduced this valuable New Early Dent Field Cokn. nic illuslmtion exactly icprcucnls an ear engrairil from a photograph. It was discovered iu Nebraska, where it was brought by an emigrant eleven years ago. In the virgin prairie soil he has grown it all these years, constantly selecting and improving it, until it was acknowledged he had the very best Corn in all the country roun
. Burpee's farm annual 1894. Nurseries (Horticulture) Pennsylvania Philadelphia Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs. WATERLOO EXTRA EARLY DENT CORN. Last year first introduced this valuable New Early Dent Field Cokn. nic illuslmtion exactly icprcucnls an ear engrairil from a photograph. It was discovered iu Nebraska, where it was brought by an emigrant eleven years ago. In the virgin prairie soil he has grown it all these years, constantly selecting and improving it, until it was acknowledged he had the very best Corn in all the country round. Until recently, he would not let any of his neigh- bors have seed ; but such a grand Corn was too good for any one man to keep for his own exclusive use. It grows seven to nine feet high ; heavy and healthy growth ; sets its eare three to three and a half feet from the ground, averaging two ears to a stalk ; ears well set on the stalk, and ten to eleven inches long ; cob red, only one inch thick ; fourteen-rowed, well set with large grains ; color deep golden-yellow. The whole crop is veiy uniform, l)oth as to growth of stalk, number of ears on stalk, and size of ears. Will uu- doul)tedly rank among the very best hutidrcd-day Corns,—earlier than Learning. The original grower says of it: "First, it is a ninety-day Corn, and when P/ i(/e of tlie Xorl/i is ready to hnslt I am always ready to go at my crop. Second, it yields more shelled corn to the Imshel (seventy pounds of ears) than any other variety, ex- cepting Pri<le of the North, but it should not be compared with that sort, because it will outyield it by thirty bushels per acre. I never sell any Waterloo Corn on the car,' because elevators take seventy pounds of ears for tifty-six pounds of corn, and my corn will shell sixty pounds every ; Our own grower confirms this'opinion of the originator, and says: " While tlie stalks are not very tall, they are hardy, stocky, and well-roote<l; the ears
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