. Wholesale prices : seeds and other specialities. Nursery stock Indiana Indianapolis Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Gbe Greatest .?. ot tbc l£ear. *KKKHKKKHK8KKKKKHKKHJ Gbe Greatest .... of tbe Bae. jfrre^lbtetoric Corn. After Laying Buried 3,000 Years the Seed of Present Generation the Best Connecting Our Country in the Dim, Distant Past. Years, for General Utility and Intrin- Offered— in Our Recollection—of and Beautiful as Silken equaled hy Corn of the Pres- iveness of Grain and Fod- Produces 2 to 11 Capa
. Wholesale prices : seeds and other specialities. Nursery stock Indiana Indianapolis Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Agricultural implements Catalogs. Gbe Greatest .?. ot tbc l£ear. *KKKHKKKHK8KKKKKHKKHJ Gbe Greatest .... of tbe Bae. jfrre^lbtetoric Corn. After Laying Buried 3,000 Years the Seed of Present Generation the Best Connecting Our Country in the Dim, Distant Past. Years, for General Utility and Intrin- Offered— in Our Recollection—of and Beautiful as Silken equaled hy Corn of the Pres- iveness of Grain and Fod- Produces 2 to 11 Capable of Yielding Its Benefits Can Not be Estimated, Whether Grown in its Purity or its Pure Blood be Mixed with and Dif- fused Through the Varieties now in Cultivation. In giving a history of this Corn we must go back in the far distant past, beyond the point where history, as now preserved, be- gan, and by the remains that are frequently unearthed we find unmistakable evidences of a vast population that swarmed over the country, and by the articles of their handi- work and hieroglyphical writings we learn that they were engaged extensively in agri- Cultural pursuits, manufactures and com- merce. 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 long journey to the beyond, hence they buried corn, arrows and other articles with the corpse. There are hundreds of burial mounds scattered over the country, plainly in view to-day, from some of which carloads of ancient relics have been taken. The pottery is absolutely lmporous and indestructible by corrosion. Com- posed of ground mussel shells, clay, cements, lime and an imperishable mineral, nothing that will more effectually defy the destroying hand of time can be conceived of. Dig up one of the vessels from underneath a mass of decayed human remains from any depth; wash it and it appears as bright and fresh as if it just came from the mou
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