. Catalogue No. 91. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. 32 ALEXANDER SEED COMPANY, AUGUSTA, GA. 141 Bushels an Acre With Only $ For Fertilizer THE RECORD OF ALEXANDER'S BIG WHITE PRIZE-WINNER Improved Shaw Corn Will always win the prize for the largest and most perfectly formed ears of corn. We will give five dollars for the largest ear from 1918 crop. This Is the Only Pure Thoroughbred Stock Bred up and grown in the South. Its pedigree runs back nearly fifty years. When we first offered the va- riety to our customers, a number of years ago, after carefully testing it, the seed
. Catalogue No. 91. Vegetables Seeds Catalog. Fruit Seeds Catalog. 32 ALEXANDER SEED COMPANY, AUGUSTA, GA. 141 Bushels an Acre With Only $ For Fertilizer THE RECORD OF ALEXANDER'S BIG WHITE PRIZE-WINNER Improved Shaw Corn Will always win the prize for the largest and most perfectly formed ears of corn. We will give five dollars for the largest ear from 1918 crop. This Is the Only Pure Thoroughbred Stock Bred up and grown in the South. Its pedigree runs back nearly fifty years. When we first offered the va- riety to our customers, a number of years ago, after carefully testing it, the seed was first-class for that period, and the crops produced were much above the average. At the same time we not thor- oughly satisfied with it, believing that it could still be improved in several points and the re- productive power of the seed strengthened by more scientific methods of improvement. Our work since then, combined with the enthusiastic and careful work of our grower, has produced wonderful re suits. We have seen many varieties of Southern grown corn in all the Southern States, and are always searching' for improvements We have paid fancy prices for special selections of all varieties that seem to have any promise of being better —we buy and try, yet up to date we have never found a selection of this great, big- eared kind of corn that has anywhere near come up to our stock, planted, on any kind of soil, anywhere in the South. The number of years given to the selection and improvement of this va- riety could produce but one result: a perfect type, which is a strong, vigorous grower and heavy yielder—the best BIG WHITE corn now pro- duced in the South. It makes the largest, most perfectly formed, prize-winning ears, with the largest per cent of grain of a corn of this class, and keeps well in the crib, until fed up. i It pays to plant the purest pedigree stock you can get. This is just that kind of seed, and if you want to grow the biggest ears this year an
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