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Show I IN THE DAYS OF VALLEY TAN In the good old days, when the west had no thought of going dry, "'Valley 1 Tan" was made in this inland empire, em-pire, and many a traveler had his windpipe cleared of dust and the lining lin-ing of his stomach tanned by drinking this product of the still. i So long ago that only the old timers remember, the still disappeared and J with it went the corn which was grown for its alcoholic contents, j Pioneers often recounted how the corn was of superior quality, but the ab-" ab-" sence of a demand caused the tillers i of the soil to turn to more profitable 1 crops, except here and there, where a I j farmer persisted In raising the corn for his own use. But with the coming of the silo, the farmers are going back to corn and once more the old timer is turning to f Valley Tan seed, and a patch of the 1 corn raised this season by A. I. Stone j; proves that in quality and quantity, jl Valley Tan is the crop for the farm- ' er who has a silo. The seed was first ,' grown in Wilson Lane, and then was j , improved by selection by Benjamin) j Wilson, father of the large family of that name, which has made a most favorable impress on the history oi I Weber county. J The kernels of this corn now obtain-j obtain-j able should be retained for seed pur- : j pose and distributed throughout this 1 I on . |