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Iowa Seed Company, Des Moines, Iowa. 23.

[Image: Drawing of the prize winner, Claus Jochimson, head and shoulders, framed with a wreath drawn of corn kernals, Caption-An average in size, depth of grain and size of cob, also picture of prize winner.]

Hurrah! Hurrah!! Hurrah!!!
For The Iowa Silver Mine
It Beats the World. Better Than Klondike.

Read The Wonderful Record.
Produced 202 bushels in ear, equals 215 bushels shelled, per acre in Scott Co., Iowa.
" 197 " " " 211 " " " " " Indiana.
" 188 " " " 201 " " " " " Arkansas.
" 166-1/2 " " " 178 " " " " " Illinois.
" 135-1/2 " " " 145 " " " " " Nebraska.
" 135 " " " 144 " " " " " Ohio.
" 128 " " " 137 " " " " " Texas.
Average of above is 176 bushels shelled corn per acre.

Produced Immense Crops Everywhere.
Our Customers all Rejoice with us. We Print Extracts from a few Letters.

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Claus Jochimson, of Scott county, Iowa, beat the world's record for corn grown under ordinary conditions without commercial fertilizers.
How he Grew this Crop.--A full statement of how this wonderful crop was produced, and also of the two other largest crops ever grown in the world, will be sent free to everyone ordering Iowa Silver Mine Seed Corn from us. This information may be worth $100.00 to you.

Your Iowa Silver Mine corn is all right. I have been on this farm for thirty years, but never had such a good variety before. J. Schauer, Near Minneapolis, Minn.
The Iowa Silver Mine corn will do as well here as any variety. It was cut down twice by the frost this year, but still it yielded 75 bushels per acre.
J. E. Olson, Nicollet Co., Minn.
Season was very unfavorable here, but still the yield of your Iowa Silver Mine corn was fine, and such ears I never saw before.
C. S. Little, Hennepin Co., Minn.

We find the Iowa Silver Mine to be the only really pure white corn, the deepest grain, the smallest cob and largest percentage of perfect ears of any corn I have ever tested, and I have grown about all the named varieties. You have in the Iowa Silver Mine a variety that combines more good qualities than any other, either white or yellow. Being a thoroughbred corn it has great flexibility of constitution, and thus is adapted to any soil or climate. Your customers will find it a veritable "Silver Mine" if developed with a plow and cultivator instead of a pick and shovel.--J. H. Beagley, Editor of American Corn Journal.

Your new Iowa Silver Mine corn is the earliest white corn I have ever seen. Ears of good size and in many instances producing two ears to the stalk. It is seldom one sees anything bred up to such perfection as this new corn.
W. O. Ruddick, Lee Co., Iowa.
The 70 acres of corn we planted with seed from your firm, is the best yield of corn in this county. It runs from two to five ears on each stalk.
D. M. McKindley, St. Charles, Ill.

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I don't think a better quality of corn can be found than the Iowa Silver Mine, and it yielded 114 bushels per acre for me this year. S. S. Troxel, Benton Co., Iowa.

The Iowa Silver Mine corn yielded 197 bushels of ear corn on one carefully measured acre. The yield was very nearly as large on my entire field of eight acres of this variety. A. A. Gher, Boone Co., Ind.

Your Iowa Silver Mine corn grew splendidly and ripened sufficiently to make seed corn 100 miles north of St. Paul. Francis Maddox, Crow Wing Co., Minn.

The Iowa Silver Mine corn was badly injured by a severe hail storm, but still it matured and yielded well. We intend to plant largely of it another year C. A. Graves, Fillmore Co., Minn.
The seeds purchased from you produced the finest yields ever seen in our county. The Iowa Silver Mine corn yielded 188 bushels to the acre.
W. A. Johnson, Mississippi Co., Ark.

The Iowa Silver Mine is the finest corn I ever raised. It is simply grand. German Ziru, Howard, Kansas.

One of the largest seed corn growers in America writes under date of Aug. 17, 1895, the Silver Mine was planted the first day of May and was frozen down twice which sadly retarded its growth, however, it is today the finest field of corn with the largest ears I have ever seen, and I have all the leading varieties. It is a grand corn and is coming up to my most sanguine expectations.
The Iowa Silver Mine was planted May 1, cut down by frost May 20, first silk July 5. On July 16 all silked, two to three to each stalk. July 26 hot winds hurt it badly. August 24 husks began turning yellow. September 3, ripe and gathered. Conditions unfavorable, but it has done extremely well.
J. L. Perkins, Harrison Co., Iowa.

I ordered one peck of Iowa Silver Mine corn from you last spring and I now have the finest and best corn from it in Oregon Co., Mo., and I did not fertilize or manure the ground. It is the best yielder I ever saw.
Orville Rice, Oregon Co., Mo.

Your Iowa Silver Mine corn is far ahead of all other varieties in yield.
Theodore Sowers, Blue Earth Co., Minn.

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The Best On A 22,000 Acre Farm.
On this estate, comprising about 22,000 acres, there were grown this year nearly 10,000 acres of corn, including almost all known standard sorts suited to this latitude, and we consider that of the white varieties the Silver Mine is the purest and in all respects the most satisfactory of all. W. A. Bicket, Manager, Ford Co., Ill.

My crop of Iowa Silver Mine corn was greatly injured by a storm in July, but still it yielded 108 bushels per acre and 12 ears selected from it took three first prizes at state fairs. It is a world beater. S. D. Maddock, Champagne Co., Ill.

Your white corn, (Iowa Silver Mine) did splendidly for me. It was planted May 4, and matured the fore part of August. It is better even than the Iowa Gold Mine. The ears are large and very solid. I tested four other new varieties this year, but this took the lead. S. S. Wolfe, Jewell Co., Kan.

The Iowa Silver Mine did very well for me, maturing early, medium size ears and a very good grain, altogether a good corn. R. C. Ferguson, Guthrie Co., Iowa.

[Image: Drawing, four ears of corn, with shucks knotted together, kernels broken away from one ear, Jcc F White, Des Moines, Ia.]

A Corn Fair.
Florida is not a corn state, the government report shows that the average crop there is only 9 bushels per acre. On our recommendation last spring Col. Chipley, the Land Commissioner purchased a quantity of our Iowa Silver Mine Seed Corn, and distributed free to 800 farmers offering a prize of 40 acres of farm land to the one growing the best corn. People there laughed at the idea of growing good corn in Florida, but the result was marvelous. The crop was immense, and ears large and solid. A corn fair was advertised for July 28, as the corn was then ripe, and there were 345 exhibitors. It created great excitement and 6,000 to 8,000 excursionists from Florida and the surrounding states came to see it. The only variety exhibited was the Iowa Silver Mine. Just think of it, a fair with nothing exhibited except corn. Other varieties of corn have been tried in Florida from all parts of the country, but none before ever yielded a paying crop. The crop ranged from 40 to over 100 bushels per acre and as they can grow two crops of corn per year on the same ground it was very profitable. Lest some of our customers should think it is suited only to the south we call their attention to testimonial on this page from Northern Minnesota. This proves the wonderful adaptability of this corn to any climate.