Book on corn 1907

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YOUR PROFIT"

DIRECTED TO THOSE WHO ARE INTERESTED IN INCR
ING THE NET RETURNS FROM THEIR PRESENT ACRE
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‘N THIS, OUR NEW BOOK ON CORN, we
attempt to show you how by the use of HIGH YIEI
ING SEEDS, you may profit by our experience
increase materially the vital feature of your y
work—THE NET PROFIT. The increasing
portance of procuring more profit per acre is being forced on ey
farmer in the country on account of the ever increasing value of
farms.

Aside from increasing the fertility of the soil, and better met
of cultivation, the only sure method of increasing your profit, is
planting those varieties of seed that are known to produce an incre
in your crop.

We have been growing these varieties for several years and
KNOW, that by the use of High Yielding Seed, we have increase
profit materially. Qur one aim now is to draw your attentio |
this fact; impress it on you, and finally make you one of the I |
Takers by influencing you to try some of our seed.

We are co-operative in this way, that we want to share with
the profit that our experience has gained for us.

Our ambition also is not only to give you the Best Seed
but to gain for you the Largest Profit on your present acreage.

Our seed corn this year will have the most rigid inspection ev
given in any commercial seed house. We will tell you HOW furthe

We may not sell as much as many other houses but we will
the satisfaction of knowing that it is absolutely THE BEST IN
WORLD.

That we intend that every man shall have a “square deal” is ma
certain by the fact that if the seeds are not in every way Satisfacto
they may be returned at our expense.

Do not read this book carelessly and then throw it aside. Stu
it carefully and then again, for there is a lesson in every page; a less
that no farmer who expects to compete in the world’s market ¢:
afford to miss.

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Even if you are not convinced at first, let us convince you }
further correspondence that we are speaking the truth and that we Ce

increase YOUR PROFIT by the use of OUR SEEDS.

FUNK BROS.SEED Cf

JANUARY FIRST,NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEy

Funk Bros. Seed (6o.
Price List 1907

PRICES ARE F.0.B. FUNKS GROVE, ILLINOIS
FULL Remittance Must Accompany EACH Order

HILE we exercise the greatest care to have our
seeds pure, true, and reliable, we do not give any
warranty, expressed or implied. If the seeds
fare not fully satisfactory they must be returned to us
iat once, at our expense, and money will be refunded.
(SEE SPECIAL NOTICE ON BACK OF THIS SHEET)

|The shelled seed corn is raised in the same fields and from
‘the same seed as the ear seed corn. The ear seed corn con-
sists of the best five per cent from each field. ‘The shelled seed
corn consists of the next best five per cent.

' Price List of Pedigree Ear Corn

ANY OF THE FOLLOWING VARIETIES:

‘Gold Standard Leaming & a whit Meee

Boone County Special {1 to 5 bushels 5.00
| 6 to 15 bushels 4.75
Funks Yellow Dent 16 t0}50 bushels 4.50

CRATES FREE. WEIGHT 701bs. NET PER BUSHEL

(over)

Important Notice

Your Money Retunded if Seeds are
Not Satisfactory. You Run No Risk

REVIOUS to shipping, samples from each variety of corn, oats,
Pos other seeds, are carefully tested for germination, but we do

not give any guarantee, either expressed or implied. We request
that our customers, UPON RECEIPT of seed corn and other seeds,
will immediately open the crates, sacks, or packages, examine con-
tents carefully and if not found ENTIRELY SATISFACTORY, re-
pack and return the same to us in original packages at our expense
and we will refund money paid for the same.

Our seeds are shipped with the understanding that you may have

ten days after their arrival at your station, in which to make such tests _,

as you desire. If within that time seeds are found unsatisfactory,
they are to be returned to us at once, as explained above.

We cannot return money for any order that has been in your —

hands longer than ten days.

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| OUR GUESTS _

' T HAS ANNUALLY been our custom to entertain as our guests,
1) at the Funk Farms,many of the distinguished and most prominent
botanists and plant breeders of the scientific world. It has not only
given us great pleasure to meet these men personally and to show
‘jem the work we are doing, but it is extremely gratifying to know that
ur work has attracted their attention and that they consider it worthy
-f their time and attention.

\ We have endeavored at all times to carry on our work on a truly
icientilic basis and to gain the first place among those who are mak-
‘mg an effort to better the conditions that are now confronting the
American Farmer.

i These men who have come as our guests have gone away our
‘staunchest friends, firmly convinced that the work we are doing in in-
| creasing the value of our farm crops is all that we have claimed and that

‘The WORK IS NOT WHOLLY FOR OURSELVES, BUT IS FOR
THE BENEFIT OF EVERY MAN WHO TILLS THE SOIL.

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Be Our Guests, Try Our Seed and be Convinced that the
“Work We Are Doing is for YOU as Well as for Ourselves

Breeding Methods
HE accompanying photograph was —
taken of three ears produced in a
single hill of an ordinary field of corn.

The plants that produced these three
different ears all had the same opportunity.

Dye ee . ne ertot

There are plants in nearly every ‘corn
field that produce at the rate of over 100
bushels per acre, and others that produce

t the rate of 50 bushels per acre, and so

No one can tell what the inherent tendency maNge by examining

an ear before planting.
HOW THEN CAN THE LARGE PRODUCING EARS BE IDE

They Must be Tested

We have tested over 20,000 apparently fine ears in “single rows’
to ascertain what they would produce.

The plots of ground or BREEDING BLOCKS where these tests
are made are so situated as to prevent the-pollen of other corn mixing
with these breeding ears. Each mother ear is planted in a single row —
and a record kept of its performance as follows: |

The germination is taken; The number of stalks and hills are counted before
harvesting; The product is harvested, the ears counted and weighed; and the ,
yield per acre is accurately-figured. (If each hill produced one pound the rate
of yield would be 5012 bushels per acre. If two pounds the rate would be 101
bushels, etc.) The average weight of ears is obtained; also the number of ears
produced per stalk; Breeding ears for the next year are selected only from the |
eight or ten rows giving the greatest yield and largest |
average ear, combined with other good qualities de- 5. See
scribed later.

This system if carried only to this point gives
but ONE GOOD SIDE TO A PEDIGREE.

By the method above described we have found
MOTHER EARS that gave magnificent yields,
but to insure success this characteristic of YIELD
MUST BE FIXED, so that it will be transmitted,
or passed on, to succeeding generations. Then we
can expect with some certainty that EARS PRO-
DUCED BY THESE CHAMPION YIELDERS WILL
IN TURN GIVE LARGE YIELDS.

Page 4

TO DO THIS it is necessary to control the influence exerted by both
Parents. That is, the mother ear must be a CHAMPION and the pollen which
fertilizes her product must be FROM CHAMPION ROWS. In planting the
blocks described above, of 80 to 100 rows, only one-half of the seed is used,
the remaining one-half is left on the cob. Now of these 80 to 100 rows only
ten of the largest yielders are selected AS CHAMPIONS. By our records we
can, of course, identify the ears from which these champion rows are planted.
Taking the remaining one-half of these ehampion ears the next year we again
plant them in single rows in what we call “CHAMPION BLOCKS.” In these
blocks all of the Even Rows are COMPLETELY DETASSELED so as to
receive pollen only from the Odd Rows. The detasseling is performed to pre-
vent self fertilization or fertilization from related plants.

The Prevention of Inbreeding

SELF-FERTILIZATION OR CROSSING BETWEEN RELATED PLANTS

In regard to this feature of breeding, a word of explanation is not out of
place. Corn is a wind or open fertilized plant. That is, the pollen from one
stock blows to another, falling on the silks and fertilizing the grain there pro-
duced. This is a natural way for it to fertilize. By exhaustive experiments
it has been proven that if the pollen from a certain stalk fertilizes the ear pro-
duced on that stalk, the inbred seed resulting is impaired in vigor and producing
power, giving a much decreased yield. This occurence it is impossible to prevent
unless the stalk on which the breeding ear is produced is detasseled before the
pollen flies from it. Breeding ears are selected only from the detasseled plants;

ears from all other plants are discarded:

THE SIRE or fertilizing plant is not completely controlled even as yet.
is is successfully done only by HAND POLLINATION. The young “shoots”
detasseled plants are covered with bags before any silks appear and the
the tasseled rows are likewise covered before any pollen is ripe. Then the
fine individual sire plants is used to fertilize ears of the detasselled
ord is kept of all these individual “matings.” Only one sire is used
on each ear. Finy the large ears that have been fertilized from good sires (a plant

ar)are planted in the BREEDING BLOCKS the next year.

The seed for the multiply:
champion rows of these breeding

Breeding ears are selected only
“down corn’ is all ‘rejected. The ear
produced on standing stalks are gathered
separate and only these are used for
breeding purposes. The percentage of
|. standing corn of the ENTIRE ROW is

‘recorded. If this percentage is low~ the

‘ENTIRE ROW IS REJECTED.
The Placement of Ears

If any ears occur too high or too low
for cOnvenient shucking they are dis-
carded. If an entire row shows such an
iabnormal tendency, it is discarded in full.

FROM ONE HILL
FUNKS HIGH YIELDING CORN

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End View of Rows in Breeding Block Showing Vast Difference in Production of Foliage

Growth, Foliage, Stalk

Notes are taken through the growing season on the vigor with which the
corn starts and grows; upon the amount and quality of its foliage; and upon the
construction of the stalk. If insufficient foliage, weakness of growth or improper
construction of stalks, show abnormally in a row, no breeding ears are selected
from it.

(The Breeding corn for each succeeding year must be selected from one of
the eight or ten champion yielding rows giving the greatest amount of corn per
stalk. It is selected only from stalks standing up at harvest time and from
rows of which the per cent of standing corn is the very highest. It cannot come
from a row of insufficient vigor in germination, or deficient in vigor of growth,
foliage or construction of stalks, nor from a row producing an abnormal number
of suckers. It is selected only from the detasseled plants of these champion rows,

All of these qualifications must be met. The strain of corn failing in any
of these qualities is definitely rejected.

The Valuable Strains That Have “Made Good” in Breeding Blocks

are propagated in the Multiplying Plots for increasing the amount of seed for
use in the general fields. These plots range from two to fifteen acres in size
each plot representing a single family of corn that has annually proven its
utility through the rigid tests of the Breeding Blocks. But these strains or
families must again prove their merit
in the Multiplying fields where
several plots are in competition be-
fore they are selected as seed for the
general fields from which our sup-
ply of seed corn is gathered.

In this way, and only in this
way, it is possible to attain the best —
results in breeding corn—to indi-
vidualize the strain and propagate it _
throughout its existence as seed
with a traceable pedigree with-
out mixture after its qualities aren
proven in the Breeding Block.

A Wonderful Row in a Hand Pollinated Block
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A Group of Performers which Yielded from 103 bushels to 153 bushels

Selected as Champions for 1907 Block.

per acre.

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{ Ear No. 0376, yield 119 bu, { Ear No. P4or, yield 118 bu. { Ear. No. PS547, yield 96 bu.

Ear No. 0403. yield 130 bu. 4 Ear No. Chs5009, yield 151 bu.

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Ear No. O351, yield 132 bu. | = 2
\ Kar No. 0443, yield 128 bu. | Kar No. Chs11, yield 126 bu.
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Bar No. O455, yield 121 bu. ) Ear No. Os62, yield 115 bu.

War No. O4r14, yield 120 bu. d¥ar No. Chs21, yield 116 bu.

far Nee 357, sae 1o4 bu.
ey . rT No. 5 ,» yie. 22
Har No. 0418, yield 127 bu. 4 Rar No. (OG vied ae ne
| Rar No. O§29, yield 116 bu.
(Bar No. 0513, yield 103 bu.

: ! f Ear No. 0572, yield 125 bu.
Ear No. 0323, yield 126 bu. | Ear No. 0440, yield 126 bu. 1 ee NG: Qs50 viele 106 i
ar No. 0566, yield r1o bu.

(Bar No. 0568, yield 126 bu.

Mar No. O4s50, yield 134 bu. 2 Far No. O535, yield 103 bu.

| Kar No. Chs54, yield 130 bu.
Tar No. 0527, yield 132 bu,

Ear No. 0205 = 5

Yield 122 bu.
Ear No. Chs46, yield 151 bu.
Ear No. 0575, yield 122 bu,
Tear No. 0547, yield 106 bu.
ee No. 0533, yield 120 bu.

War No. 0470, yield 125 bu.
Har No. O521, yield 113 bu.
Ear No. 0524, yield 140 bu.
Ear No. O52s5, yield 109 bu.

{ Bar No. Chs513, yield 126 bu.

: i Ear No. O503, yield 126 bu.

Ear No. 0307, yield 114 bu. { Kar No. 0444, yield 120 bu. 4 Bar No. O5o7, yield ro2 bu.

Ear No. Os71, yield 114 bu.

Tar No. O531, yield 109 bu.

: EB Ear No. Os19, yield 108 bu.
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(Ear No. Os74, yield 135 bu.

{ Ear No. 0457, yield 126 bu. 4 Ear No. 0536, yield 1o1 bu.

1 Tear No. Chisso, yield 157 bu.

Bp I o, yield 116 bu.

Ear No. 0340, y } Bar No. Chs60, yield 123 bu.

| Iyar No. 0463, yield 127 bu. {rar No. 0543, yield 113 bu.

Kar No. 05309, yield 123 bu.

~ e Ear No. Oss1, yield 111 bu.

Kar No. 0337, yield 115 bu. H Kar No. 0465, yield 125 bu. } War No. O64) pela 106 bu.

( Ear No. Chs4q4, yield 150 bu.
Far No. Oso1, yield 111 bu.
tar No, Os&1, yield 116 bu.
Kar No. 0378, yield 114 bu. } Kar No. O4q41, yield 122 bu. { Ear No. 0583, yield 110 bu.
t Rar No. Os85, yield 127 bu.

Ear No, Os80, yield 114 bu.

(Bar No. 0563, yield 111 bu.

Ear No. 0339, yield 115 bu. { Bar No, 0476, yield 124 bu. { Bar No. Chss2, yield 157 bu.

Av. Oil ... 5.138% J Av. Oil............ 5.64% | Av. Oil ...... Back eV/AM | MAU ange aoae 5.63 %
Av. Yield.. 122 bu. J Av. Yield ........ 118 bu. | Av. Yield.....-.... 118 bu. J Av. Yield. ....... 119.8 bu.
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j o ( Ear No. 0331, yield 116 bu, | Ear No. 0459, yield 122 bu. ; HE Re ae vie a7 Bu
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an Ear No Phi 19 pees No 0221 Ear No. 0313, yield 105 bu. | Ear No. O4o4, yield 134 bu. { Ear No. Ch524, yield 122 bu.
} Yield 145 bu. Yield 183 bu. Ear No. Osoa, vield 108 bu.
ai [Far No. 0586, yield 117 bu.
2 Ear No. 03109, yield 114 bu. j Kear No. 0424, yield 123 bu. + Bar Ne
=| t [es No. O53
=i Ear No. 0522, yield 123 bu.
= Kear No. Chs1o, yield 1o9 bu.
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Ay. Yield. ..145 bu. J Av. Yield...133 bu. | Av. Yield .. ...-..- 105 bu. J Av. Yield VAven\ieldiertelgins siren dL 2se

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We sell you for $8.00
per bushel seed corn
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sands of dollars and
years of experience to
produce in its present

state of perfection.

It is cheaper and better

when it is from

Funk Bros. Seed Co.

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Miecur

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{ Ear No. Os509, yield 121 bu.

3 e Kar No. O515, yield 116 bu.

{ Ear No. 0434, yield 112 bu. 4 Ear No, O521, yield 111 bu.

| | Bar No, 0531, yield 104 bu.
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(Bar No. Os5q1, yield 117 bu.
(War No, 0347. yield 129 bu ss F e
Tar No. 0436, yield 106 bu. | Ear No. 0533, yield 113 bu.

(ar No. 0468, yield 107 bu. } far No. O520, yield 137 bu.

Protein.

Ear No. P208 4 Kar No. 0368, yield 136 bu. j War No. O4oo, yield 103 bu. 4 Tar No, 0503, yield 117 bu.
Yield 95 bu,

Ear No. P344, yield 94 bu. j Ear No. P433, yield 137 bu. 4 iar No. Chs4s, yield 113 bu.

Sar No. Ch547, yield 123 bu.

STRAIN P208

} Ear No. Chs543, yield 116 bu.

anise aia. IDE Cip sh | ears + we Re 5 J Gar No. Chs36, yield 108 bu.
(ar No. P3209, yie 86 bu i Tar No. P432, yield 112 bu. } Ear No.Chggo, yield 110 bu.
Av. Yield...... Avy. Yield .

112 bu. [Av. Yield... 115 bu.

Ay. Yield, ..95 bu,

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| - {Far No. 0253 | War No. P3or, yield 92 bu. } Kar No. P452, yield 122 bu. | Bar No. P514, yield 119 bu.
es | Yield 117 bu.
Ge) War No. O406, yield 107 bu. } Par No. Osoz, yield 113 bu.
hay a= Ear No. C130 | l
On Yield 88 bu. | : Ear No. Os48, yield 116 bu.
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=| S| Ear No. Ph280 ; Far No, O359, yield 117 bu. 4 Bar No. O424, yield 104 bu. 4 Ear No. Gere: yield a AG
a Yield 103 bu, | ; Be Ne (Stine geld 100 ise
me! far No. Chs520, yield 99 bu.
ER (=n) (Bar No, Chs522, yield 97 bu.
. (Bar No. 0442, yield 106 bu. jar No. 0526, yield 122 bu.
K Av. Yield. +88 bu.| Av. Yie..110 bu, [[Ay: Yield..........-97 bu, [Av. Yielooeee-ee+-108bu, | Ave Viellee on: einai
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(Bar No. P326, yield 117 bu. | Ra> No. P442, yield 133 bu. t Ear No. Chs38, yield 121 bu.
F J ‘ jBar No.O542,yield 123.2 bu.
Ear No, P38o, yield 113 bu. | Ear No. C474, yield 102 bu. | Rar No.0566,yield 126.2 bu.
S Tar No. P412, yield 105 bu. { Ear No. Chso3, yield 103 bu.
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Soe Rar No. P526, yield 129 |
s& Ear No. P201 | er No, Daas, yield r2n bu { Ho" Nows26, sel 129 bu
25 Yield 94 bu. | War No. P355, yield 112 bu. } (ist No. Chs28, yield 115 bu.
De ri 3 Rar No, Chs5qo, yield 118 bu.
Zo [ No. P48o, yield 126 bu. (a5) No. Chsa6, yield 126 bu.
Sl | (Bar No. C455, yield 108 bu. jar No, P518, yield 101 bu.
a (Bar No. P365, yield 112 bu. s Ear No. P4z9, yield 130 bu. 4 Ear No. P520, yield ror bu.

1 ar No, P536, yield 106 bu.
UA aie) dsterete cinta . | Av. Yield.....-- 115.4 bu.

Ay. Yield... 94 bu. J Av. Yield ... 112 bu.

B ¢ t S . White Corn for Old Fields Records of Yielding Performance That Cannot be Duplicated by any Other
OONE VOUNLY OPCClal Variety of White Com. THE RECORD OF YIELD SHOWS THE PERFORMANCE IN THE FIELD

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Bar No. P317, yield 122 bu. i Ear No. P406, yield 109 bu. | Ear No. P512, yield 104 bu.

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N & Tar No. P341, yield 125 bu. 1 Ear No. P407, Yield 117 bu. zat ve Epes, mdeldhxed Rit
o. Chs11, yield 143 bu.

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a S| Kar No, 0316, yield 100 bu. ] Ear No. P4o9, yield 108 bu. { Ravine eee, SEAT Sita Taio
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< Ss l Ear No. 0302, yield 105 bu. | Ear No. O44o, yield 105 bu. j Ear No. Chs4o, yield 127 bu.
= Av. Protein........13.88% |] Av. Protein... ....12.55% [Av. Yield .... .- 118bu.
ie) Av. Protein...11% ] Av. Oil.... -.-0.21% | Av Oll -- 5.28% |Av. Protein........ 13.05%

Av. Yield. . 107 bu. JAv. Yield. .104 bu. J Av. Yield.......... 113 bu. | Av. Yield 108 bu.

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Why Funk Bros. Seed Corn is the Best

ANY seedsmen, and in fact anyone, can tell you that his seeds
are the best but he cannot tell you WHY and neither can he
prove his assertions. We can do both.

Funk Bros. Seed Corn is the Best, because it is

The corn showing the best performance record of high yielding
quality.

For proof we refer you to our records on file at the University of
Illinois showing the performance of registered ears in the breeding
blocks for the past four years.

The corn that has shown by its adaptability to climatic changes
that it can “make good.”

Read the testimonials on pages 30 and 81.

The corn that is not bred for fancy show points but is bred to
yield. Ask anyone who ever grew our corn.

The corn that is scientifically stored and cured.
Come and see for yourself the twelve seed houses built for the pur-
pose of storing and curing seed corn properly.

The corn of high germinating power.

Our methods of testing are open to inspection to anyone who cares
to come.

The corn for any purpose. The corn for the grain farmer—Our
shelling percentage is the highest.

The corn for the feeder—Look at our record at the International

Live Stock Show. Pages 18-19.

The corn for the dairyman. Ask any dairyman who has put it
in his silo. ee
The corn for milling purposes. We have standing offers to take

more than a car load a day of one variety alone, for milling purposes.

WHEREVER YOU PLANT IT, IT YIELDS THE BEST

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Our
Germination

Test

THE MOST IMPORT-

ANT FACTOR in SEED

SELECTION IS THE
QUESTION OF

GERMINATION

Capacity 20,000 Samples

makes a difference of from one half to one bushel per acre in

your yield. AQ loss of ten per cent in vitality means a loss of

from five to ten bushels per acre or 30 to 60 bushels on the
land planted with one bushel of seed corn.

| vm per cent of vitality that is lacking in the seed you plant

To insure our customers against loss on this account, we have
made arrangements to test every ear of seed corn that leaves our
warehouse.

Our method is as follows: Taking six kernels from each ear of
corn, we place them in the germinator in a space numbered to cor-
respond with the number placed on the ear. After several days a
count is made of these kernels placed in the germinator and when a

sample shows kernels that are either WEAK or WORTHLESS the
ear from which this sample was taken IS DISCARDED.

YOU CERTAINLY CANNOT AFFORD to germinate your
seed corn procured from any other source, at the difference in price,
when you figure the amount you will have to throw away.

You will have no throw outs from Funks Pedigree Ear Corn.

The cry of warning to every farmer in the country is, Test Your
Seed Corn. Why not let us do it for you? Its CHEAPER and It's
Better when it comes from us.

Suppose you buy a bushel of ear corn from some other source
and test it yourself. Your throw outs amount to 40 to 50 per cent
on account of WEAK or WORTHLESS ears. You have left a little
over half a bushel which has cost you $3.00, besides your time and
trouble, or at THE RATE OF MORE THAN $6.00 PER BUSHEL

Which is the cheapest in the long run? Is there
any Question In You Mind? There is none in ours

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A Great Book Free

To Purchasers of our Pedigree Ear Corn

PROF. P. G. HOLDEN, of THE IOWA STATE COLLEGE
HAS RECENLTY PUBLISHED A BOOK ENTITLED

The A.B.C.of Corn Culture

: HICH treats of planting and cultivating, testing and grading,
Wises and storing, and in fact of everything connected
with the corn crop. This is a book that no corn grower
can afford to be without because it contains more information
than can ordinarily be obtained in a lifetime of experience.

We have made special arrangements with the publishers of this
book, and are going to give each purchaser of one bushel or over of
_ our pedigree ear corn, one of these valuable books, FREE.

In this offer we also include FREE a year's subscription to the
FARM NEWS, a paper devoted to the betterment of Agriculture in
all of its branches. |

Where can you get more value for your money? The education
obtained from these two sources of information will be worth a hun-
dred times the original outlay.

See SN

THE MORE YOU BECOME IN TOUCH WITH THE —
OUTSIDE WORLD AND THE THINGS THAT ARE
BEING DONE BY THOSE INTERESTED IN THE
WELFARE OF THE CORN GROWERS AS A WHOLE
THE MORE FIRMLY YOU WILL BE CONVINCED
THAT OUR WORK IS AT THE TOP OF
THE LADDER AND EQUALLED BY NONE

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Funks Yellow Dent

THIS CORN IS BRED FROM J.L. REID'S YELLOW DENT
AND UNDER OUR SELECTION AND METHODS OF

BREEDING HAS IMPROVED WONDERFULLY, BOTH
IN YIELD AND FEEDING VALUE

cumierence, 18 to 24 rows of kernels, each row contain-

ing 00 to 60 kernels. The cob is small and carries a
large amount of corn, shelling 88 to 90 per cent grain. Medium
early maturity, requiring from 110 to 120 days to fully mature.
Stalks 8 to 12 feet high, heavy below the ear, making it
STORM RESISTANT.

Funks Yellow Dent is a Great Drought Resister

WE HAVE BRED THIS CORN UP IN CHEMICAL CON-
TENT UNTIL IT APPROACHES A BALANCED RATION

OUR GRAND CHAMPION CARLOAD

OF FAT CATTLE AT
INTERNATIONAL LIVE STOCK SHOW 1906

FUNKS PEDIGREE CORN

This variety is unapproachable as a yielder, for by careful selection

Y] iae ears are 8 to ll inches long, 7 to 8 inches in cir-

and elimination of barren stalks we have so improved it that a yield of over
100 bushels per acre can be grown on good soil carefully managed.

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Its adaptability to any soil or climate makes it a corn of which has
been said: “NO CORN GROWER WILL MAKE A MISTAKE
IF HE PLANTS FUNKS YELLOW DENT’

lto 5 bushels - - $2.00 per bu.
SHELLED 6 to 15 bushels - - $1.85 per bu. > Bags free

16 to 50 bushels - - $1.75 per bu.
SEE GREEN SHEET FOR PRICES ON EAR CORN

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READ CAREFULLY THE

SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS

WE ARE MAKING YOU ON
FUNKS PEDIGREE EAR CORN

CAN YOU DUPLICATE the VALUE any PLACE
IN THE WORLD? MOST CERTAINLY NOT

Funks Yellow Dent-was the Best I Ever Saw

The Funks Yellow Dent I got of you last year was the best I ever saw.
J. S. BUDD, Millbrook, Illinois

Best Corn I Ever Raised

I will say that the pedigreed corn, Funks Yellow Dent, sold to me last spring, did extra well
considering the season and had we been fortunate enough to escape the storm of August 16th, it would

have made the best corn I ever raised. I am more than pleased at results and can cheerfully recom-

mend you to all who need a first class seed corn. ALEX. HELBLING, Gridley, Illinois

As a Drought Resister

The corn I got of you did well, yielding about 62 bushels per acre. Many of my neighbors’
corn of a different variety yielded about 40 bushels per acre so I have no kick coming on the corn.
The season was very dry early and I have never seen corn stand drought better than Funks Yellow
Dent. Had the season been more favorable would have had many bushels more per acre.

GEO. 0. GREENE, Princeton, Illinois

Made Money at $9.00 per Bushel
The Funks Yellow Dent did fine. The men I had hired to cut it said 80 bushels per acre.

Pedigree corn about 20 bushels to acre more than my seed. The four bushels I got of you made me
good money if I did give $5.00 a bushel. I would not take three times that for mine. You men

have been men of your word and if I can do you a favor I would like to some time.

NOBLE OLMSTED, Victoria, Il inois

Has Bought 3 Years in Succession

You asked me at one time to express myself as to the quality of your goods. _ If the fact of my
buying my seed corn of you for three years in succession, is not proof that I consider your seed 0. K.
| will state that all the seed corn | have bought of you has proven satisfactory, coming good and strong
and giving a yield much better than the corn on neighboring fields.

C. C. NORTON, Pres. Ist Nat'l. Bank, Corning, Iowa

60 to 70 Bushels Per Acre

From the Funks Yellow Dent seed corn I purchased of you last spring I raised the finest crop of corn
that was in this neighborhood. While most of the corn made 35 to 40 bushels here in account of dry
weather I raised from 60 to 70 bushels per acre from the seed purchased from you. I wish now that
every bushel of corn | planted last spring had been Pure Bred Corn. The other seed I planted had
three or four suckers on each hill while your corn had none. All my corn was blown down but that
field planted with Funks Pure Bred seed. The stalk was strong enough to withstand the storm.

JAMES E. DONNELLY, Lexington, Illinois.

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GRAND CHAMPION CARLOAD FAT CATTLE
t sicosy FUNK BROS, SEED CO.""""'S:? CLAY. ROBINSON 6 CO.

““A MARVELOUS LOT OF CATTLE”’—A. P. Turner, Pembridge, England, Judge of Grade and Cross Bred Classes

OUR GRAND CHAMPION CAR-LOAD

WHICH WON OVER ALL COMPETITORS AT THE INTERNATIONAL LIVE STOCK SHOW
WERE FED AND FATTENED ON

FUNKS PEDIGREE CORN

The Funk load is one of the best I have ever seen. In my judgment they are the grandest load of the
Show in every respect.—Judge James Brown of Chicago.

At the International Live Stock Shows of 1904, ’05, 06, Funk Bros. Seed Company won thirty-five prizes
on fat cattle. This we believe to be the record|for any one firm, or individual.

WE HAVE ONLY ONE EXPLARES Oe OR-OUR= SUCCESS

FUNKS CORN DID IT

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Medium late maturity, adapted for any place south of the 41st parallel.

As a result of our breeding work with this variety we have re-
duced the number of weak and unproductive stalks to a minimum
and increased the average size of ear to the maximum. Plant this va-
riety and you will be surprised at the enormous yield you will receive.

BOONE COUNTY SPECIAL HAS PROVED THAT
IT IS THE CORN FOR ALL’ SOILS AND SEASONS
From the day the stock ‘seed was planted until it is placed in your
hands it has had every care and attention to make it the Best Seed Corn.
Boone County Special is particularly adapted for milling purposes
making a fine white meal suitable for any use.

lto 5 bushels - - $2.00 per bu. )
SHELLED< 6 to 15 bushels - - $1.85 per bu. > Bags free
16 to 50 bushels - - $1.75 per bu.

SEE GREEN SHEET FOR PRICES ON EAR CORN

BOONE COUNTY SPECIAL IS BRED TO YIELD

NO ONE ELSE CAN OFFER YOU CORN WITH THE WEIGHT OF PROOF BEHIND IT SUCH AS
IS GIVEN IN OUR PERFORMANCE RECORDS BOONE COUNTY SPECIAL CAN PROVE TO
YOU ALL THAT WE HAVE SAID OF IT IF YOU WILL GIVE IT A TRIALIN YOUR FIELDS

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DON'T OUR TESTIMONIALS PROVE TO YOU THE
TRUTH OF THE STATEMENT THAT

CORN CAN BE TRANSFERRED

FROM ONE LOCALITY TO ANOTHER WITHOUT
DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS ?

Read Pages 30 and 31

It Soe Him

In regard to my pedigreed seed corn, Boone County Special, I am very glad to report to you
that it surely surprised me. It made more than 100 bushels per acre of fine quality. I am very
much pleased with my investment for your seed corn. V. L. DODGE, Kemper, Illinois.

More than Native Corn

The Boone County Special I bought of you has been entirely satisfactory. Every farmer who
bought this seed has made a better grade of corn and more to the acre than native corn. Besides, the
husk is thin and easy to gather. Some of the parties told me it would pay every farmer in this
country to throw away their native seed and pay $4.00 per bushel for this Funk Bros. Corn to plant.

J. E. FARRINGTON, Anadarko, Oklahoma.

Better than Home Grown Stock

We are able to state definitely that the Boone County Special was much better than corn from
home grown stock. We made no definite measurements but it could plainly be seen.

W. H. HENDERS & SON, Greenfield, Tennessee.

Boone County Did the Best

I bought 16 bushels of seed corn from you last spring, all of which was most satisfactory. The

Boone County did the best, It is a magnificent corn and just fits in with our soil and climate. Seed

from Strain 103 nearly doubled the yield of other seed of same variety making close to 100 bushels
per acre while the best of the other was 60 bushels. I cheerfully recommend your Boone County
Special to all Virginian farmers who have fertile fields for corn. All your seed corn shows the effect
of breeding from the time it comes up until it matures.

N. S. HOPKINS, Gloucester, Virginia

An Important Victory

I have tried a great many varieties of so called pure bred seed corn but find yours the best. In
a test plot last year your Boone County and Yellow Dent showed their superiority over seven other
popular varieties. As I have been trying for years to get the best corn suitable for this section of the

Qhio valley, you may consider this an important victory. On exceedingly poor land, overflowing

every spring, your Boone County made a yield of 51 bushels where other thoroughbred varieties have

» never made over 30 bushels. C. S. KLINE, Elwell, West Virginia

Increased the Yield

Your Boone County Special corn did exceedingly well under the conditions prevailing this season.
The corn yielded more per acre than my own under similiar conditions. Well pleased with it. Hope

to receive your catalogue for 1907. RACHEL CALDWELL, Coulterville, Illinois.

60 Bushels Per Acre

As to the Boone County Special seed corn bought of you last spring will say that while the season
was very unsatisfactory, the corn did well, making about 60 bushels per acre. We are well satisfied

with the results. J. D. HUNSINGER, Springerton, Illinois.

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The ears are from 8 to ll inches long, 7% to 8 inches
in circumference, weighing from 12 to 17 ounces each. The
stalks range from 9 to 12 feet in height, with many large,
broad leaves, making it the FINEST CORN FOR SILAGE.
We furnished this variety for planting by the American
Jersey Cattle Club, for filling silos for the Dairy Contests at
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition.

What Better Proof of the Feeding Value of
This Corn do You Want than Our Recent
Record at the International Live Stock Show?

FUNKS CORN DID IT

to 5S bushels - - $2.00 per bu.

SHELLED } 6 to 15 bushels - - $1.85 per bu. 7 Bags free
16 to 50 bushels - - $1.75 per bu.
SEE GREEN SHEET FOR PRICES ON EAR CORN

READ WHAT OUR CUSTOMERS HAVE TO SAY and THEN
PLACE AN ORDER for FUNKS GOLD STANDARD LEAMING

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Tie INCREASED... YIELD “WELE*MORE
TEAN.PAY the-DIFFERENCE-EN- PRICE

Best for the Silo

I think the Leaming corn is the best for the silo in this section. It is best on account of having

more stalk and foliage than native corn. A neighbor filled a hundred ton silo with six acres of the

Leaming. H. PERKINS, Warren, Connecticut.

Best Seed Firm

I bought ten bushels of Leaming of you three years ago and only found one bad ear inthe whole

lot. I think you are the best seed firm I ever dealt with in every respect.
J. M. BRADSHAW, La Harpe, Illinois.

More Corn to the Acre

Will say the pedigree Leaming corn I got of you averaged larger and more even sized ears; also
more to the acre than any corn I had on my place. IRA GREGORY, Lexington, Illinois.

Lost $200.00

The yield from your Leaming corn was about 55 bushels per acre while our other corn by the
_ side of it yielded 45 to 50 bushels. The land we planted it on had 13 crops of corn raised on it. A
) neighbor's son planted 60 acres of sod and said he believed it would have been worth $200.00 more if
he had planted it in the Gold Standard Leaming. S. C. HAWKINS, Palmyra, Iliinois.

15 to 20 Bushels More Per Acre

I am well pleased with the results obtained from the Leaming corn this year as it yielded from

15 to 20 bushels more than the other corn that [ had planted the majority of the crop with. The pedi-
greed corn made a yield of between 85 to 90 bushels and the other yielded 75 bushels per acre.
SAM MILLIGAN; Jr., Waveland, Indiana.

Feels Fortunate in Having Bought Funks Seed

In regard to the corn purchased of you would say that everyone who saw the corn thought it
equal to anything in the corn line they had ever seen, but-a terrific storm got in its work and knocked
about 20 to 40 bushels per acre off the crop.. ~ However, we ‘filled a°200°ton silo off of about 15

acres and the other day I paid for husking about 400 bushels off a seven acre lot that was down so

badly we could not cut it. D. E. WILLIAMS, Columbus, Ohio

Corn Pays, Although Crop was Damaged by Storm

Our corn this year grown for Ensilage from your Gold Standard Leaming pure bred seed corn
was very satisfactory. The yield was much larger than either my farmer or myself had anticipated,
filling our three silos and considerably over. When planting we put in an acreage expecting to fil]
two silos so you see the yield was at least one third greater than expected. I feel very fortunate in
communicating with you last spring in connection with your selected seed for it certainly has proven 2
uc cess in Southern New York, and my neighbors have already expressed their desire to place theiz

order with mine next year. H. C. WAY, Elmira, N. Y.

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Funks 90 Day

E, HAVE been breeding this variety since

1892 and now offer it to you as a com-

bination of EARLY MATURITY and

HIGH YIELDING quality. This is a
medium sized early Yellow Dent variety with deep
grains and small cob.

For the past eight years it has averaged, with
us, over 65 bushels per acre, general field run.

As a feeding corn it is invaluable, being suffi-
ciently matured for that purpose by the first of
September.

It will pay all feeders to plant part of their
acreage to Funks 90 Day.

We find that it pays us to have new corn to feed
early in the fall. We have it in Funks 90 Day.

For late planting in wet districts it has no equal as it is sure to
make a crop. |

Planted after June first it matures before frost.

In northern districts it can be grown either to full maturity or can
be put away in the silo.

This corn makes the finest kind of silage.

Increase the milk production of your cows by feeding them on
Funks 90 Day corn silage.

TRIAL. YOU are
LOSING MONEY
EVERY SEASON
YOU DO NOT
GROW IT

: lto 5 bushels - - $2.00 per bu.
SHELLED 6 to 15 bushels - - $1.85 per bu. > Bags free
16 to 50 bushels - - $1.75 per bu.

FUNKS 90 DAY MATURES THE
QUICKEST and YIELDS the BEST

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A HIGH GERMINATION IS WORTH
900 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR

FUNK BROS. SEED CORN
THE CORN WITH LIFE IN IT

Funks Ninety Day Stands First

We enclose copy of one of our experiments where we used the Funks 90 Day corn which was
sent to us last spring. These varieties were brought from a distance and planted upon the Marshall

Co. Station to determine their value as compared with seed under like conditions.

YIELD STAND SUCKERS BARREN SMUT

Funks 90 Day (Illinois) — - - 86.3 82.1 23.3 1.9 aT
Smith's 90 Day (illinois) - : 60.3 70.7 23.8 3.3 EY
Farmers Interest (Iowa) —- : 71.6 70.7 8.7 2: Bz

J. W. JONES, Asst. Farm Crops, Iowa Agr’l. Coll., Ames, Iowa.

Cheaper and Better to Use Our Corn

The seed corn I purchased from you grows very much better than seed purchased from other
sources. There seems to be vitality enough in your seed so thatit will sprout and grow in very cold,
wet weather, when ordinary seed will not even sprout. Last spring | let a man have a bushel of
your corn. At the same time he purchased a bushel of seed elsewhere and planted the two lots on the
same day. Your corn came up well and made a very heavy growth while not more than half the
other sprouted at all. I am satisfied that it is much cheaper and better to use your corn than to de-
pend upon the ordinary grades that we by even though the corn is given to us. | We use your corn
largely for ensilage and always with success.

W. BARLOW DUNLAP, Amsterdam, N. Y.

80 Bushels Under Unfavorable Conditions

Under unfavorable conditions of drought a part of the ground planted with your seed yielded 80
bushels per acre. Had it been two weeks later in planting, yield would have been much more. I have
used your seed corn for the last five years and have been getting better yields each year. 100 acres
planted with seed from your farms will yield 70 bushels per acre which is good for this year. I wish
you much success in this work. J. HEBER SMITH, Cambridge, Illinois.

25 Per Cent Better Than Planting Ordinary Corn

We planted only seed raised from seed corn bought of you, last season, this year and from ex.
perience last year and the satisfactory results this year we estimate the yield both years is 25 per cent
better than if ordinary corn had been planted, our crop this year being far ahead of anything] have
seen in this country. The yield I consider only part of the gain from planting your seed as it has
less faulty ears and is much sweeter, hence more feeding value and better liked by man or beast,

making the best roasting ears I ever ate.

A. J. SWENSON, Swenson Bros. Ranch, Stamford, Texas

95 Bushels Per Acre

Regarding our crop of corn raised from your Funks 90 Day seed, will say that it was good, taking
everything into consideration. Here is our report: Six acres corm planted May 24th, Funk Bros. 90
Day Seed, Yield 570 bushels, about 10 per cent soft, 20 tons fine fodder,

PERKINS BROS., Appleton, Wisconsin.

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We fe Aer ae ‘
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VISITORS INSPECTING BREEDING BLOCKS

HE one crop which the Corn Belt farmer figures on as a losing

one is that of Oats. In our general scheme of increasing the

Net Profit on farm crops, oats have long held our attention, and

have had along with corn, the greatest share of our endeavors

to increase the yield per acre. ‘The general method of procedure is
nearly the same as that in our Corn Breeding Methods.

Breeding Methods

The finest single plants are first selected as mother plants. The
products of these are planted each in a single row, each row representing
a single head. An absolutely accurate record is kept of YIELDING
* PERFORMANCE, STANDING ABILITY, SMUT RESISTANCE,
STOOLING, AND QUALITY OF BERRY. By this system it be-
comes possible to eliminate all undesirable strains, leaving only those
which have shown by their performance, under normal conditions of the
field, their right to survive and be passed along into the nviltiplying plots.
An increase is effected in the multiplying plots and the resulting seed
passed to the general field from whence it goes direct to the szed buyer.

This method has received the endorsement of the most eminent plant
breeders in the country, as the most successful in permanently increasing
the yield of self fertilized plants such as oats, wheat, barley, etc.

Hybridizing

We are also making a great number of hybrids, that is, controlling
and crossing different plants of different varieties. As oats are nor-
mally self fertilized, this work must necessarily be done by hand and
involves a large expenditure of both time and money. However, the
results we are obtaining prove that it is money well spent. As an in-
stance of some of the resulting good obtained from hybridizing: Suppose
we find in some one variety of oats a single good characteristic together
with many bad ones, but in another variety we have all the good
characteristics that are lacking in the first, but not the one good charac-
teristic that is so prominent in the first. By crossing these two varieties
we obtain a hybrid that has all of the good qualities of both and none
of the bad. This is not simply an ideal theory but is a hard, practical
fact that is being practiced every day, and which is bringing the best of
results. The Seed Oats we offer are all grown upon the Funk Farms and

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are entirely free
from mustard and
other noxious
weed seed. We
thoroughly fan
-and- screen all
Seed Oats that we
#| send out, thus re-
Ss| moving all dirt,
: light oats, and
other foreign mat-
ter. We have the
latestand mostim-
proved machinery

for cleaning and

sais screening oats.

New +

SOMETHING EXTRA GOOD

Treatment for Smut

All of our Stock Seed Oats are thoroughly treated with formalde-
hyde, which is an absolute preventative of Smut. This treatment is
effective for two years.

Variety Test

We have tested annually from 80 to 400 different, or so called
different, varieties of oats, so that we may have for our selection, only the
best. Many so called different varieties have proved to be identically
the same under different names from different seed houses.

From among this immense number, we have selected and propa-
gated several which we offer the public and which bear our strongest
endorsement and which we believe to be the best yielding oats known,
as proven by our breeding work and comparative test plots.

| SILVER MINE OATS _|

This variety has been one of our most consistent high yielders from year
to year and we have no hesitancy in giving it our strongest recommendation.

Our customers have been unstinted in their praise of the merits of these
oats both as to yield and quality. It produces a beautiful white berry, plump
and of good length, making them extremely heavy.

You can make no mistake in buying this variety as it insures you having
a most excellent crop.

| GREAT DAKOTA OATS |

Great Dakota Oats are White, medium early maturing, rivening in the fir: :

half of July.”

They are truly named GREAT for they are GREAT in every respect.
GREAT Dakota Oats have three GREAT qualities, Yield, Weight and Stand-

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SHOWING FIELD NOTES ‘AND HYBRIDS

ing ability, and the Greatest of these three is Yield. Be assured that you will
obtain the GREATEST amount of satisfaction from sowing this variety.

BIG FOUR OATS

This is one of the standard varieties which has been under our care for
years. We have increased the yield and bettered the quality until it can hardly
be recognized as the old Big Four. The season of 1906 was one of the worst we
have had for many years yet in spite of that fact we threshed from one field on

the Funk Farms of 160 acres, 10428 bushels, 11 pounds, or over 65 bushels
per acre. Big Four means BIG Yield.

| EARLY CHAMPION OATS. |

This is a well known variety of early oats which has “made good’ as a
high yielder.
It matures a week or ten days ahead of any other variety, thus escaping
any possibility of hot winds which are a menace to later varieties. As a nurse
crop to sow with grass seed, it has no equal.

It is the CHAMPION yielder of all early oats.

| RED TEXAS OATS |

This variety is known as a rust proof and is very popular among southern
farmers. One of its strongest characteristics is its standing ability... When other
varieties have lodged completely, Red Texas has proved itself by standing erect.

In some markets a premium is paid for Red Texas over white oats.

PRICES ON ANY OF THE FOREGOING VARIETIES

1 to 10 bushels - 70c, bags free .
11 to 20 bushels - 65c, bags free Bushels 32 Ibs.
21 to 99 bushels - 60c, bags free }

Special
prices on larger quantities

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ALFALEA

S A HAY CROP and for renew-
ing old fields, Alfalfa is rapidly
coming to the front. In the Corn
Belt, where a few years ago it was

thought impossible to raise this valuable
crop, there are thousands of acres pro-
ducing every year from three to four cut-
tings of the most nutritious hay, which
for feeding purposes has no equal. We
have no other hay crop which brings such
large returns per acre. Where you raise
two tons of clover hay you can raise four —
to six tons of alfalfa hay, due to its more
rapid growth and more frequent cutting,
with a greater value as a food. We offer
for sale, a select lot of fancy Kansas grown
Alfalfa seed of highest germinating qual-
ity, recleaned and free from noxious weeds.

As the price of all Clover Seeds is
rapidly advancing, due to the shortage

of the 1906 crop, we advise our customers
to place their orders at once as the price
in the spring will probably be at a higher figure.

The best results have been obtained when sown broadcast in April
or May, on good rich soil, about 20 pounds per acre, covered about
one-half inch deep with light harrow. Fall seeding has also been a
success with us, using a press wheat drill.

WE QUOTE YOU SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGES

20 pounds—sufficient for 1 acre - $3.50
40 pounds : = - - 7.00
1 bushel - : : : 9.50

BAGS 20 CENTS EXTRA

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Has Done Fine

The half bushel of Funks 90 Day Corn bought of you last spring has done fine. The yield I
annot tell until I husk although I have picked some seed and like + better than my own seed. It is
ruer to type. Some neighbors estimate it from 70 to 75 bushels per acre.

H. L. SUGDEN, Burbank, South Dakota.

Best Crop of Corn Ever Raised on Our Farm
In regard to the Seed corn I bought of you I must say I have the best crop of corn ever raised
on our farm. The ears weigh as high as two pounds, and the stalks are from ten to fourteen feet high.

JOHN E. JOHNSON, Glarus, Wisconsin

lam more than ‘satisfied with it.

Beats Everything
The Funks Yellow Dent corn beats everything that has ever been grown on the Morgan Farm
and I, as well as Mr. Morgan, am well pleased with it. Many stalks have two good ears. The Grest

Dakota and Swedish oats gave good results.
CARL SEEGER, Morgan Farm, Beloit, Wisconsin.

Better than His Native Corn
One of my customers came in and says your corn is lots better than his native corn.

W. E. REYNOLDS, Tuskegee, Alabama.
Yielded More than I Expected

The Leaming seed corn I purchased of you last spring yeilded more than I expected. What I
have fed yielded 108 bushels per acre and the ten acres I planted with one bushel will make an average
of not less than 110 to 112 bushels per acre, the largest yield in my county by at least 35 per cent.
The Boone County I estimate to yield 80 to 90 bushels per acre. It was planted alter and on soil not
so good, Your Silver Mine oats made a yield twice as large as the seed oats bought at home. Your
seed has certainly been a success in this section, Central Kentucky.

REED SPAULDING, Springlield, Kentucky.
Better than Any I Ever Tried

I am highly pleased with the Boone Special corn. It yielded better than any corn I have ever
tried and makes finer fodder, the blades being unusually long and fine in texture and the husks are also

solt and silklike. W. S. HALLOCK, Spring City, Tennessee.
Double the Amount

The bushel of Boone County Special from your firm I distributed to six farmers and they all re
ported to me, notwithstanding the fact that on account of drought the corn crop was short, that your
corn yielded double the amount per acre as compared with native Texas grown corn. All were well

pleased with it. MRS. JAMES W. BASS, Waco, Texas.

Best in West Virginia
As to the seed corn I got from you we have just got through culling up that corn and in shock
ready to husk, but my men claim and say it is the best corn both white and yellow-that they ever cut
up or saw in West Virginia. I think it is fine and No. 1 corn. © The best I ever seen. Much better

0. M. KANE, Mannington, West Virginia.

han our native corn.

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North and South Hast and West

IT YIELDS
FUNK BROS. PEDI

THE BEST
GREED SEED CORN

Sixteen Tons of Silage Per Acre

The Seed which we purchased from you last spring proved very satisfactory indeed. The corn

was cut and put into the silo so we have no way of determining the yield of grain per acre but the corn
gave us 16 tons of Silage per acre. It was well eared and thoroughly satisfactory.

L. S. CLINTON, Director Agr'l. Exp. Sta., Storrs, Connecticut.

Germination was Perfect
I am wholly pleased with the results attained from Leaming corn I purchased from you. | think
ils germination is perlect. Was short on seed and bought both Leaming and Southern White from a large
eastern firm and not over half of it grew. Our Leaming corn is all put into the Silo so do not know as
to ils yield in bushels. A neighbor has part of the seed I ordered and he and I have already planned

to order from you next season. LEWIS C. MUNN, Turners Falls, Massachusetts.

This Year Beat The Record
We have used your corn for two years now but this year beat the record, More than three
times as many ears as ever belore. (, }], WALKER, Supt. Farm, Chas. River, Massachusetts.

Heaviest Yielding Corn Out
In regard to the seed corn I wish to say it is the greatest corn I have ever seen. It proved very
rank, some ol the stalks were sixteen feet tall and a good many stocks have two ears, well filled wilh

from 14 to 24 rows on the ear. It is without doubt the heaviest yielding corn out.

EDWARD ANDERSON, Supt. Buena Vista Farm, Windsor, Vermont.

An Increase of Twenty Bushels Per Acre

We planted the corn received from you and gathered a yield of 83 bushels per acre while that
from our own seed in the same kind of ground and with same cultivation, yielded 63 bushels per acre.
The corn is of excellent quality and all who have
seen it think it perhaps the best corn they ever saw
raised here. Our renters thought they had a most
excellent corn of their own and were somewhat
skeptical when your seed came as to its yielding
ahead ol their own, but alter the trial the result is as

above stated MARTIN & NURRE CANNING CO.,’
Blair, Nebraska.

First Prize in One Hundred Entries

The Boone Co. Special corn you sent me ripened
August first, one month before nalive corn. Took
first premium on white corn at the big New State
Pair held here at Muskeegee this month and over one
hundred different exhibitors. 1 wish you success in
} your elforts to build up pure seed corn, for unless we
have pure seed we cannot raise good corn.

Ap M. SMITH, Tahlequah, Indian Territory.

FROM ILLINOIS TO AFRICA

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RED CLOW EK

rived from sowing Red Clover seed. For renewing old fields it

stands first as to popularity among the leguminous crops. We

make a specialty of Red Clover Seed. How many times you
have sown clover and failed to geta stand. Did it ever strike you that
your failure was due to the poor germination of the seed you sowed?
Clover Seed improperly cured rapidly deteriorates in vitality. That is
why we take special precaution to handle ours correctly. The germi-
nation of Funks Clover Seed is perfect. Did you ever sow Clover
Seed obtained from an unreliable source and find the next year, that
you had a fine crop of noxious weeds in your field? Funks Clover
Seed is cleaned and recleaned and free from weed seeds. You may
be able to buy elsewhere at a little cheaper price, but you may depend
on it that the goods are not up to Funks standard.

| viv FARMER in the corn belt knows the benefits to be de-

It Always Pays to Buy the Best

Better to buy Funks seeds and obtain the best than to purchase from
unreliable sources and pollute your farm with weeds or fail altogether
to get a stand. It isn't the first cost but the profit per acre that counts.

Except in a few favored sections, the clover seed crop was very
short this season and prices have been advancing rapidly. We wish
to urge you to place your order now before the market registers another
new high figure.

WE QUOTE YOU SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGES

20 pounds - - $3.50
40 pounds - - 7.00
60 pounds - 9.50

BAGS 20 CENTS EXTRA

DON’T DELAY TOO LONG

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TIMOTHY

HE SAME difficulty is often experienced in timothy as in
clover. That is, the uncertainty of obtaining a good stand when
the source of your seed is either unknown or unreliable. This
is due also to the same cause: lack of vitality and consequently

low germination. OUR TIMOTHY has been thoroughly tested for

germination and proved better than 95 per cent strong.

OUR TIMOTHY is also free from all weed seeds. Your timothy
will be the best in your neighborhood if you buy your seed from us.
There is nothing of more importance to you than that all seeds you
sow or plant should be of the highest quality both as to freedom from
weed seed and percentage of germination.

These are Our Strong Points.

It Costs You Nothing to Have a Look

Before you buy from any other source let us submit you samples
of our grass seeds. We are satisfied that after seeing our samples you
will have nothing else. On our 25,000 acre farm we have a few
horses and cattle to feed and you may depend on it we are raising
nothing but the best and have nothing but the best to offer you.

WE QUOTE YOU, SUBJECT TO MARKET CHANGES, FRESH
RE-CLEANED TIMOTHY SEED

9 pounds—sufficient for one acre - - = 60c
18 pounds — sufficient for two acres - : $1,00
45 pounds, (1 bushel) —sufficient for five acres Z 2.40

BAGS 20 CENTS EXTRA

A SHORT CROP ON THE FUNK FARMS

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i HAY

LIVE STOCK DEPT.

HE LIVE STOCK DEPARTMENT of Funk Bros. Seed Company igs -

up-to-date, No better evidence of the fact can we present, than our suc

cess at the International Stock Shows of recent years. No haphazard o
old fashioned methods can today produce a Grand Champion. No breeder having
profited by experience and observation along our line of industry will overlook.
the fact that the same principle holds true in others and so we emphasize that
in our plant and animal breeding. We spare no pains to place our seeds, herds
and flocks at the top. Since 1824 cattle, hogs, and sheep have been produced oid t
the Funk Farms. Every year some of the very best specimens that years of
study and careful breeding can produce, are being raised and fed on these ae

SHROPSHIRE SHEEP |

\

Ewes, ewe lambs, rams, and ram lambs for sale. Our registered flock consists
of imported rams and ewes of our own importation and foundation stock from the
leading breeders of England, Canada and United States. Mansell, Minton,
Cartwright, Gwynne, Gibson, Davison and other flocks represented. These sheep,
are keptin breeding condition. Our grade flocks consists of 2,000 head of hig
grade, mostly Shropshire type. We breed Shropshire because we believe
them to be the all purpos
sheep.

CHESTER WHITH
HOGS |
Our Chester-White her
consists of 75 selected sows,
many of which are sired b
and bred to State an’
World's Fair premium wir
ning hogs. These hogs ar
prolific, all around mea
producing animals, strong:
bone, good backs and ex;
cellent mothers. Wher —
crossed with any othe
breed they always product, —
market toppers.

Space does not permit, in a seed calalogue, to go into details of our work in live stock breeding’
Those interested should visit our farms and personally inspect the stock we have to offer and we s
be pleased to afford every facility for such examination. We invite correspondence from those unable ¥ |
visit us. Kindly state your wants plainly to avoid extra correspondence and delay.

OUR MOTTO—"IT PAYS TO BREED THE BEST.”

Live Stock Dept, Funk Bros. Seed Co. Bloomington, Illinoit

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1824-1907 ©DRDER SHEET TO a> : 25,000 Acres
Eighty-three Y¥
fonswe| Funk Bros. Seed Co. | “23

in Illinois _ General Offices

403 North East Street
BLOOMINGTON, ILLINOIS
Always Write Letters on

More Order Blanks Will WAREHOUSE, SEED FARMS AND TRIAL GROUNDS a Separate Sheet from
Be Sent Upon Request FUNKHS GROVE, ILLINOIS 2 @Qn Chicago @ Alton R. R. Your Order

Be sure to state if corn is wanted in the BAR or SHELLED.

Amount enclosed g Date. 1907 Your order will be acknowledged as soon as received.

All orders will be shipped as soon as received unless otherwise die
rected,
Your name

Freight receipt will be mailed to you as soon as goods are delivered
by ustoR.R.Co. This serves as notification to you that ship-

Post Ofjice ment has been made.
No order will be accepted unless accompanied by remittance.

(Very plain.)

Our ear corn is all shipped in crates holding exactly one bushel (by

State. County. SS ete eines eer ak a weight), 70 pounds net of one variety of corn.
No order for ear corn will be accepted for any crate to contain more
Reel Hai: —— SS a ee than one variet;
Street | : ys
P. QO. Box
¢ To be shipped when.
To be shipped where. Station ;
(Stateif freight must be prepaid.) (If different from P. O.)

Send order by

(State here whether to send by express or freight and

Give R. R. or Steamboat Line Upon Which You Are Located. route to ship by if any special route is wanted.)
NAMES OF ARTICLES WANTED State if Price per Bu. Amount
wanted in the

Lbs. | 34 Bu. | % Bu. | Bush. x
: As given in your 1907 catalogue Ear or Shelled Dols. Cts, Dols. Cts.

Snell a ex = as
Our Order No. Amount Carried Forward,

How to | Order.

Remittance must accompany each order. Money can be sent safely either by postoffice order, bank draft, express order, or the cash by registered letter.

ca) ORDE separate line and carry out the correct prices. KEEP A COPY OF YOUR ORDER, with which to check
pie ia A ee Sree Ree Pe just what you order. We seldom make a mistake, but IP WE DO, notify us immediately, giving your
order number, so it can be corrected. - i
Wi id ed to make everything as plain as possible in this catalogue, but in case further information is desired, make your wan
aaa a ee ae Wain ns penile aud a a GHEE of pMDEr Pecarate from your order, GIVING YOUR COMPLETE ADDRESS and inclosing stamp for reply.

Please order early. Some of our varieties were sold out by March ist last year.
BE SURE to use our order blank and carefully fill out all required blanks. Wetake much pride in promptness and accuracy in filling orders.
‘BY FREIGHT OR EXPRESS” always means that transportation charges are to be paid by the purchaser.
i ly satisfactory
While we exercise the greatest care to have our seeds pure, true and reliable, we do not give any warranty, expressed or implied. If the seeds are not fu’
‘they MUST be nes tous AT ONCE, at our expense, and the money will be refunded.

VERY IMPORTANT.—Write your name very plainly and give your Postoffice, County and State in fullevery time. No goods sent C.0.D, Ronseminney eae safe,

State if i
NAMES OF ARTICLES WANTED Wanted in the|——P"™?_. Amgant
EarorShelled| pojs, | Cts.|| Dols. | Cts.
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our Friends Who Are Likely to Use Seed.

Live Stock Department
Keep Your Eye on the ANGUS

THE PROPER PURPOSE OF ALL BEEF CATTLE BREEDING IS
TO PRODUCE GOOD BEEF. ITS HIGHEST PURPOSE IS THE
PRODUCTION OF THE MOST BEEF OF THE BEST QUALITY IN
THE LEAST TIME, WITH A GIVEN AMOUNT OF FEED AND CARE

cattle. They are especially well adapted to early and long

feeding. Time is an important factor now in profitable feeding

for beef, and none must be lost. The Angus will make beef
rom the day they are born to the day they are slaughtered, if you
give them the proper feeds in sufficient quantity. You need not wait
for them to grow up; they will make high class beef while they grow.
You can feed them to twenty months and make of them finished,
high-class beeves. If desirable, you can feed them to thirty months
or longer and they will all the time be making fine beef, laying it on
smoothly, without becoming over-fat or “patchy; this is strongly char-
acteristic of the breed and it is a most valuable trait.

i | IHE Angus come nearer meeting these purposes than any other

They are the nearest ideal in form that have yet been developed,
fine but good bone---small, neat head---no horns---short, shapely,
counded neck---deep, wide body---thick fleshed---well set short leqs---
beautiful black fine coat---small offal; these are all Angus features.

In the market and in the show Angus are easily leading all
sel breeds. This is matter of record and common knowledge among
rattle breeders and feeders. Funk Bros. Seed Company are at all times
arepared to supply their customers and others with choice pure-bred
and registered Angus breeding stock, of both sexes, at sensible prices.

ITH ONE OF the LARGEST and MOST
VAREFULLY BRED HERDS in the WORLD
o SELECT FROM,WE CAN FURNISH YOU
300D ONES. All leading families represented

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FUNKS TESTED |)
~ SEED CORN | |}
INSURES
HIGH
GERMINATION
a
THE BEST

THAT

SCIENTIFIC METHODS |
CAN PRODUCE 3%

"FUNKS CORN DID IT"