General Information

Serial #

N/A

Part Number

1

Total Parts

1

AKA

N/A

Patents

N/A

General Description

fabric

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length

73.0 cm

Width

41.0 cm

Height

N/A

Thickness

1.0 cm

Weight

N/A

Diameter

N/A

Volume

N/A

Lexicon

Group

Agriculture

Category

Merchandising

Sub-Category

N/A

Manufacturer

AKA

Belle River

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

City

Belle River

Context

Country

Canada

State/Province

Ontario

Period

1930's+

Canada

An item from a collection of agricultural equipment belonging to Mr. Harley Horner. Mr Horner was a dairy farmer northeast of Toronto whose farm was purchased in the 1960's or 1970's by developers of what is now eastern Richmond Hill. He moved to the country further northeast near Lake Scugog. The artifacts in this lot were either used by Mr. Horner on his own farm or acquired for his own collection at sales in the Richmond area. An example of a seed bag used in Canada in the 1930's to promote Ontario grown hybrid corn seed..

Function

A bag used to sore and transport seed corn, and to advertise the product.

Technical

In addition to promoting their own marque, many seed companies participate in cooperative promotional campaigns most often on a provincial basis, designed to emphasize the fact that the seed being sold is ideally suited to local growing conditions. This is a very strong marketing tool considering that a seed's suitability for local moisture levels, hours of available sunlight per annum and the seed's resistance to prevalent pests can have such an impact on the success or failure of a crop. In fact one of the goals of the hybridization process was to develop a strain that contained as many positive traits as possible. Although it has fallen from vogue, for much of agricultural history size was frequently used as both a serious and humorous marketing tool. This bag is an example of that genre of marketing. It shows what appears to be a late 1930's 1.5 to 2 ton International Harvester cab-over-engine truck, the flatbed of which is loaded with an enormous single cob of Ontario grown hybrid corn.

Area Notes

Unknown

Details

Markings

blue and red lettering on one side reads ‘REGISTERED NO. 1/ ONTARIO GROWN/ HYBRID' and ‘SEED CORN/ BELLE RIVER GRAIN & SEED/ COMPANY LTD./ BELLE RIVER - ONT./ ONE BUSHEL/ PRODUCT OF CANADA'

Missing

appears complete

Finish

white or off-white

Decoration

image on front consisting of blue-grey flatbed truck carrying giant ear of corn