“John Baer” Tomato 
The Earliest and Best Tomato on Earth—Crowned with Success in Every Tomato-Growing State in the United States, 
Canada, Mexico, Cuba and Many of the European Countries—Shipping Fruit in Thirty Days 
Produces Perfect, Solid, High-Crown, Beautiful, 
Brilliant Shipping Tomatoes in 30 Days from 
Large, Strong, Well-Matured Plants Grown in 
Veneer or Paper Bands, with Roots Undisturbed. 
Space will permit us to list only a very few of the 
thousands of letters we have on file setting forth the 
wonderful merits of “John Baer’? Tomato and its 
remarkable adaptability to all climes where Tomatoes 
can be grown. If there is none listed from your 
particular locality write us—we can furnish you with 
numbers of letters in your State and possibly quite a 
few in your county. 
First Choice in Florida 
On October 30, 1915, Mr. J. R. of Pasco 
Co., writes: ‘‘The John Baer Tomato seed that | bought 
of vou last December were true to your description. I 
never had seed to come up beller. I planted 10th of Jan- 
uary, although we had a very cold Spring and plants 
were hard to start, but with the unfavorable weather, I 
grew a fine crop of them. I sold firm ripe Tomatoes before 
any of my neighbors. The John Baer is certainly the 
nicest Tomato IT have ever grown. My Tomatoes took 
first choice in the stores. I shall plant them again.” 
Sherouse, 
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In New Jersey—Get Out of the Rut and Get on the Road to 
Prosperity 
On October 28, 1915, Mr. Harry W. Paynter, of Cumberland Co., N. J., 
writes: ‘‘I don't believe there ts any Tomato on earth to equal the John Baer. 
It is certainly the best Tomato I have ever tried. In spite of our long, hot, dry 
season, it continued to bear and blossom, something a Tomato never does in this 
section. Farmers and truckers who are looking for a money making Tomalo 
should get the John Baer and get out of the ru! and on the road to ‘ Prosperity’.”’ 
“John Baer” Best in North Carolina 
On February 25, Mr. John Cawthorne, of Warren Co., N. C., writes as 
follows: ‘‘I am very much pleased with the John Baer Tomato. The season 
was the most unfavorable for Tomatoes thal I have ever known, but the John 
Baer stood the drought far belter than the six other varieties I planted. Were 
earlier, also free from cracks or rot which affected the other kinds. I also found 
them to be a very superior canning variety and am recommending them to my 
friends and neighbors.” 
Best Ever Produced in Arkansas 
On January 21, 1915. Mr. W. J. Bell, of White Co., Ark., 
follows: ‘I have grown large crops of Tomatoes every year for the past len 
vears. TI used the John Baer Tomato seed last vear and find all you claim for 
it. It is way ahead of any kind I have ever tried. It is amoney maker and 
undoubtedly the best ever produced; too much cannot be said about it. Il makes 
a productive crop of the right size and beauties.” 
No Rain, but Turned Out Fine in Illinois 
On December 15, 1915, Mr. Rudolph H. Kolb, of St. Clair Co., IIl., 
writes: ‘John Baer’ Tomato seed surely turned out fine for us last Summer. 
We had over four months with no rain and I raised a fine crop. I want to 
plant ten acres this coming season. They ripen right up to the slem and 
nice, sweel, red as they can be, with hardly no seeds; nothing but flesh, no waler. 
This is the kind of Tomato for canning.’ 
Not Affected by the Sun in Virginia 
On December 3, 1915, Mr. C. J. Burton, Northumberland Co., Va., 
writes: ‘‘Tam pleased lo say that the John Baer Tomato grew perfectly salis- 
factory in every respect, fruit being exceptionally solid and nice and vines grew 
very productive. It is a heavy bearer and a Tomato that is not affected by the 
sun. It will not blister as quickly as other varieties. I shall use the John 
Baer Tomato next season.” 
In Maryland—More Like a Fruit Than a Vegetable 
On August 3, 1915, Mr. Chas. O’D. Lee,of Frederick Co.,Md.. writes: 
“T consider it but plain justice lo tell you how pleased and satisfied I am 
with the John Baer Tomatoes. It is a very prolific bearer and it is really more 
like a fruit than a vegetable. The meat is extremely fine and delicate with a 
delicious flavor. In fact, I have never known anything to equal it in the class 
of vegetables to which il belongs.’ 
Thirty Pounds from a Single Vine in Virginia 
On October 18, 1915, Miss Mary C., Grabill, of Shenandoah Co., Va., 
writes: ‘By actual weight, we gathered from a single ‘John Baer’ vine 
thirly pounds of perfect fruit. They were the first lo bear i. in Spring or early 
wriles as 
In Florida-—-A Week to 10 Days Earlier than Livingston’s Globe 
Mr. H. E. Ruckert, Secretary-Treasurer Terrell Land and Development 
Company, Florida, writes, May 22: ‘After careful and exhaustive tests, 
‘John Baer’ Tomatoes planted on hammock land, rich soil, heavily fer- 
tilized, produced the best results of all. Produced a heavy vine, full of fruit 
and matured a week to ten days earlier than Livingston's Globe, planted at 
the same time under like conditions. The soil is naturally moist and fruit 
was only damaged sliahtly by the drought.” 
In Michigan—John Baer the ‘All-Round Good Tomato’’ 
On December 2, 1915, Mr. E. A. Starr, of Oakland Co., Mich., writes: 
“In regard to the ‘John Baer’ Tomato seed bought of you: We have raised 
as high as 40 acres of Tomatoes a year for seed. Have been inthe business for 
25 years and have raised almost every kind of Tomato. I think we have one of 
the best stock of Earliana in the country. Now, for the report. From the 
package of John Baer seed we raised 1,200 plants. Set 6 rows, 200 plants to 
the row, 6 x7 feet. The same day we set 20 rows of Earliana nezt to them. 
The first fruits ripened about the same time. When we began picking we would 
gel about the same number of baskets from the 6 rows of John Baer that we did 
from the 20 rows of Earliana, bué there was this difference, the John Baer were 
aboul a half larger and practically no culls, while the Earliana would run from 
15 to 25 per cent culls and they kept it up until the end of the season. 
erlensively the coming season. 
Very Successful in New York 
Mr. S. D. Pritchard, Florist, of Onlario Co., N. Y., writes on February 
6,1915: ‘‘I tried the John Baer Tomato last year with much success. 
620 plants, I sold over two and one-half tons of Tomato. 
way and trained lo bamboo stakes, trimmed to one shoot. When they became 
heavy with Tomatoes, I tied the top of four sticks together. As the season was 
cold in the Spring, could not set the plants until the last of May. 
to market on the 17th of July. I raised Celery between the rows.”” 
In Georgia—‘‘John Baer’? Tomatoes Pay Him $1.00 per Plant 
Mr. N. S.. Britt, Hancock Co., Ga., writes, July 27:  ‘‘I can’t 
say too many good things about ‘ John Baer’ Tomato. I havea patch I planled 
very early, from which I have already realized $1.00 per plant, besides furnish- 
ing all that were needed for my twenty-eight room hotel, and these same plants 
are still bearing. Mv main crop of ‘John Baer’ Tomatoes are just beginning 
to bear and they promise well.” 
Read What a Large Indiana Packer Has to Say About 
“John Baer’? Tomato 
The Dyer Packing Co., Vincennes, Ind., on November 7, wrote: 
“The ‘John Baer’ Tomato, in the writer's opinion, is the best variety of Tomato 
we have ever made any effort to grow. We gota doilar’s worth of seed from you 
last Spring and from the dollar's w worth of seed had five hundred plants. The 
plants were raised i in the greenhouse and potted. We commenced to get Toma- 
toes off them in July and they were heavy pickers until the frost, which came to 
us on the 28th of October, at which time the vines were full of green fruit. We 
think so well of the ‘John Baer’ Tomato that we expect to put out about twenty 
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acres of this variety during the coming season.’ 
In Ohio—Never Saw Such A Wonderful Grower or 
Prolific Fruiter as ‘‘John Baer’? Tomato 
L. L. Adsit, Green Co., Ohio, writes, September 
“Last Spring I bought of you some ‘John Baer’ 
Tomato seed, planted it carefully and gave it special 
altention, slaked each plant, kept the suckers off of them. 
I treated the ‘John Baer’ as I do all my early sorts for 
early market. I have made a hobby of Tomatoes for 
twelve years, and have tried all sorls in almost every way 
of growing them, Yet, I was not prepared for the great 
surprise I had in ‘John Baer.’ To say I was pleased 
was pulling itmild. I never saw such a wonderful grower 
or prolific fruiter in my life. Astlo quality, it was simply 
fine. Beat all other sorts I ever tried, and I have tested 
seventy sorls in one year.” 
One of Our Texas Customers Becomes 
Enthusiastic Over ‘‘John Baer’’ 
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On July 22, 1915, Mr. A. R. Voorhees, Colorado 
Co., Texas, writes: ‘‘ We have had some good Tomatoes 
from the John Baer Seed bought of you last Spring. We 
will never plant anything but the John Baer hereafter if 
we can always get the seed. They ripen clear to the stem, 
and never acrease of unevenness on the fruit.” 
“So red, so firm, so large, soround; 
The best Tomato we yet have found. 
And henceforth, we will search nowhere 
‘John Baer’.”’ 
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