. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. SILVER KING 43 5. t'ts>r*? PRIDE OF THE NORTH. distribute it over that state. iracted his entire crop. The publicity given the new variety by this large company, together with its record in the corn show soon made the Pride of the North the most widely grown corn in the northern part of Iowa and Illi- nois. In 1886 a sample of Mr. God- dard's own breeding was awarded first premium at the Chicago Exposition. Breed Characteris
. Corn; growing, judging, breeding, feeding, marketing; for the farmer, student and teacher of agriculture, a textbook for agricultural colleges and high shcools. Corn. SILVER KING 43 5. t'ts>r*? PRIDE OF THE NORTH. distribute it over that state. iracted his entire crop. The publicity given the new variety by this large company, together with its record in the corn show soon made the Pride of the North the most widely grown corn in the northern part of Iowa and Illi- nois. In 1886 a sample of Mr. God- dard's own breeding was awarded first premium at the Chicago Exposition. Breed Characteristics. Pride of the North is a yellow corn with rather shallow kernel, slightly tapering ear, and having 12 to 16 rows of kernels, is therefore small in circumference. Its strongest points are early maturity and strength of breeding. SILVER KING.—History. Silver King Early Dent corn was originated and developed by H. J. Goddard, of Fort Atkinson, Iowa. Of the truly great breeders of corn which have car- ried on their work in Iowa, Mr. God- dard is the foremost. In 1869 he pur- chased half a bushel of seed corn from a man living in Eldorado, Fayette county, Iowa. The seed originally came from Indiana. Mr. Goddard has persistently kept the large yet early maturing type in mind. Selection in the field each year has tended to pro- duce uniformity and fixity of breed characteristics. Silver King dent corn was successfully shown at the World's Fair in New Orleans in 1884 and again in Chicago in 1886. Its value as a heavy yielder for the northern locali- ties has led Professor R. A. Moore, of the Wisconsin Agricultural College, to Results show its adaptability. Breed Characteristics. It is a pure white corn, very large ears for. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bowman, Melville Le Roy, 1881-. Waterl
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