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Excerpt from Petty's Pure Bred Seed Corn and Field Seeds, 1928: 26th Season My dear Mr. Pettyz - If my memory serves me right, it is about twelve years since I began buying my seed corn from you. From a few bushels up to forty bushels or more the last few years, I think that possibly' thi-s year was the best demonstra ton that we have had of the value of good dependable seed, on my hill land with your white corn the first we have ever planted we picked better than: fifty bushels while on the bottom lands the yellow made over seventy. We have just finished picking, this week and we picked over thirty thousand bushels, every bushel grown from your seed. With kind regards, I am Yours very truly. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.