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ON INOCULANTS 



PLACE YOUR ORDER 

 IN FERRUARY 



If you place your order in February, a 25-bushel size of Soy- 

 bean Inoculanl which usually sells for $2.50 can be had for 

 $1.75. This is a saving of 75 cents on a $2.50 purchase — or 

 30%. Proportionate savings can be made on 5-bushel sizes 

 also. This material will be delivered fresh and will be made 

 available to you when you are ready to plant. 



BLUE SEAL "GROW CROP" INOCULANTS 

 ABE UNSURPASSED IN QUALITY 



The purpose of inoculation is to cover the seed with those tiny 

 microscopic "nitrogen-gathering" bacteria which ultimately fix 

 themselves to the roots in the form of "nodules." Because of 

 these nodules the plant transforms nitrogen from the air into 

 valuable proteins which are stored in the plant. 



Blue Seal "Grow Crop" inoculants have been tested in national- 

 ly known and reliable laboratories. These tests have demon- 

 strated that Blue Seal contains adequate numbers of these 

 nitrogen-gathering bacteria of the proper strains to give the 

 desired results. Each 25-bushel pxickage of Soybean Inoculant 

 is packed with a minimum of 187 billion bacteria of pre-deter- 

 mined strains. 



A humus base is used to carry these bacteria — a base that 

 has been carefully selected and properly processed to .assure 

 adequate moisture and aeriation. In th's base the bacteria 

 will live and grow from the time they are packaged until they 

 are applied to the seed up to the time of the expiration date on 

 the package. 



No better proof of Blue Seal "Grow Crop" Inoculant's results 

 can be found than the satisfaction of the thousands of users all 

 over Illinois who had excellent results last year. In 1943, our 

 second year, Blue Seal "Grow Crop" Inoculants were used on 

 soybeans sufficient to plant 364,000 acres. 



Here is Why Yon Save Money 



This 30% saving is made possible through large vol- 

 ume cooperative buying and by the elimination of the 

 wasteful practice of holding unsalable, shelf-worn 

 packages, or the return of unsold merchandise to 

 the manufacturer. i 



For example, in past years retpilers of inoculants failed 

 to sell and returned as out-dated and therefore worth- 

 less, 25 to 37 packages out of every 100. This repre- 

 sented an expense which was borne by the user, as 

 this cost was included in the original price. In con- 

 trast to this, the average Blue Seal "Grow Crop" dis- 

 tributor in 1943 had less than 4 packages left out of 

 each 100. By further use and extension of this pre- 

 season offer, even this record can and will be im- 

 proved. 



Additional savings are made through Patronage Divi- 

 dends payable to Farm Bureau members who use this 



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