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IOWA SEED COMPANY, DES MOINES, IOWA. 29.

$10,000.00 IN PRIZES.
Everywhere the Iowa Silver Mine Captures Prizes
Over all other varieties, and it is estimated that they have amounted to over $10,000.00. At one great Corn Show it won eleven (11) of the best prizes offered, in competition with varieties of every color, kind and description, competition open to the world. In 1896 we offered $500.00 in prizes for the largest yield and the first prize was won by Mr. Claus Jochimsen, a well-to-do German farmer of Scott county, Iowa, with a yield of 215 bushels of shelled corn per acre. His written report was signed, also, by two neighbors, who helped him to measure the ground and gather the corn, and it was weighed by the public weighmaster, who also made a written report. To verify this the president of the Iowa Seed Company personally inspected and measured the field and estimated carefully the corn in the crib.

READ WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY.
"The Iowa Silver Mine is all you represent it to be. It ripened in 90 days and produced ears 1[?] inches long and 7 inches in circumference."--H. R. Burton, Butler county, Penn.
"I have been growing your Iowa Silver Mine Corn for three years past and it yields fully ten bushels per acre more than any other corn here this year, in spite of the unfavorable weather."--E. W. Parnell, Story county, Iowa.
"Your famous Iowa Silver Mine Corn yielded a big crop this year."--Lewis Frater, Eseambia [Escambia] county, Florida.
"Your Iowa Silver Mine Corn did exceptionally well with me considering the unfavorable season. It ripened earlier than any other corn in my neighborhood. It is strictly a number one corn, very solid on the cob and well filled out at the tips; makes also a superior quality of fodder."--M. S. Wittle, Lancaster county, Pa.

[image] SECTION OF EAR, AND MAN WHO GREW PRIZE CROP--215 BUSHELS PER ACRE.

"The Iowa Silver Mine purchased from you was planted one month after planting my native corn, but it ripened by the time the native corn was in roasting ear and made 50 per cent larger crop."--W. G. Jordan, Chickasaw county, Indian Ter.
"I raised two hundred and twelve bushels of your Iowa Silver Mine Corn on 1 3/4 acres of bottom land. How is that?"--Perry Hartman, Boone county, Iowa.
"The Iowa Silver Mine is the finest corn I ever raised. It is simply grand."--German Ziru, Elk county, Kan.
"The Iowa Silver Mine Corn yielded 197 bushels on one carefully measured acre. The yield was very nearly as large on my entire field of eight acres of this variety."--A. L. Gher, Boone county, Ind.
"The Iowa Silver Mine Corn will do as well here as any variety. It was cut down twice by frost this year, but still it yielded 75 bushels per acre."--J. E. Olson, Nicolett [Nicollet] county, 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 county, Ark.
"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 county, Iowa.
"Your Iowa Silver Mine Corn grew splendidly and ripened sufficiently to make seed corn 100 miles north of St. Paul."--Francis Maddox, Crow Wing county, Minn.
"My crop of Iowa Silver Mine Corn was greatly injured by a storm in July, but still it yielded 108 bushels per acre, and twelve ears selected from it took three first prizes at state fairs. It is a world beater."--S. D. Maddock, Champagne [Champaign] county, Ill.
"The seventy acres of corn we planted with seed from your firm is the best field of corn in this county. It runs from two to three ears on each stalk."--D. M. McKindley, Kane Co., Ill.
"Your Iowa Silver Mine Corn is the earliest white corn I have ever seen. Ears of good size and in many instances producing two good ears to the stalk. It is seldom one sees anything bred up to such perfection as this new corn."--W. O. Ruddick, Lee county, Iowa.

YOU CAN'T GROW
200 BUSHELS OF CORN PER ACRE
Of course you can't. You know it can't be grown because you never grew even 100 bushels per acre; because your father always said that it was impossible to grow that amount; because when your neighbors grew 60 or 70 bushels per acre they considered it an immense crop; because the average crop of corn in the United States is only 28 bushels per acre, etc., etc. As long as you continue planting the old varieties you cannot expect to grow any better crop.

READ THE
Reports of Large Crops
In this book. These crops were grown by honest, reliable men. Your father was right in his statement, so far as the old varieties are concerned, but the Iowa Silver Mine is not like them. It has no barren stalks, every stalk bears at least one large ear, many have two ears and some bear three ears. You can grow 200 bushels per acre if you plant the right variety, and please remember that even one bushel per acre added to your crop pays the cost of the seed.

"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.
"Last spring I planted one peck of your Iowa Silver Mine Corn and gathered 100 bushels of the finest corn I ever saw."--J. Clay Fox, Rock county, Neb.
"I am especially pleased with the Iowa Silver Mine Corn and it is worth five times as much as the Mastodon which I have been growing."--Jacob B. Siemens, Reno county, Kan.
"Your Iowa Silver Mine Corn is as fine a corn and as early maturing as I ever saw. I have sold considerable seed to my neighbors, and everyone is more than pleased with it."--D. A. Blanklinship, Dunklin county, Mo.
"I have grown the Iowa Silver Mine Corn each year since its first introduction and have annually noted its characteristics in my field, and do not hesitate to say that I consider it the best well known variety before the public. The plant is vigorous and uniform and adapts itself readily to a wide range of latitude, altitude, climatic and soil variations. Its leafage is strong and abundant, and I have measured 2,084 square inches of leafage to the single stalk which seems an almost incredulous amount. Without doubt it will carry the fair name of 'Iowa' around the globe."--S. S. Barr, Scott county, Iowa.
"I think your Iowa Silver Mine Corn is the best corn in the west. I planted it May 2d, and every ear was ripe by the last of August."--A. C. Collins, Minnehaha county, S. D.
"Your Iowa Silver Mine is as fine a corn as I ever saw grow. It has large, well-shaped ears, and filled out clear to the end of cob. I planted the 10th of May and it was well matured by the 15th of August."--Charles W. Richards, Woodbury county, Iowa.

[image] FIFTY-SIX LOADS OF CORN ON THE WAY TO MARKET.

TWO WAYS.
EVERY corn grower who strives to increase his corn crop has two ways to do it. He can increase the yield per acre, or he can put in more acres. The farmer who wants more corn will do well to study the first method before he decides on the latter. Good seed is the first essential to a bigger yield of better corn, therefore plant the Iowa Seed Company's improved varieties and add 20 to 50 per cent to your crop.

HURRAH!
THE
IOWA SILVER MINE
Was again victorious at the Illinois State Fair, winning First Prize with a crop of
205 Bu. Per Acre.
At the Peoria Corn Exhibition it captured more premiums than all other varieties collectively.

56 LOADS OF CORN
On the way to market
An actual scene, taken from a photograph.
OUR IOWA SILVER MINE CORN
Gets there every time. Fifty-six loads averaging 47 bushels =2,632 bushels, or the product of 15 acres such as our prize-winners grew--176 bushels per acre.

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