Our Greeting to You 



DEAR FRIENDS AND CUSTOMERS: 



We extend our appreciation to you for your orders and business 

 as we enter into another year of furnishing wealth and happiness 

 to our hundreds of thousands of satisfied customers, and we hope 

 with the year of 1 929 we will enjoy your liberal patronage as in 

 the past and your influence with your friends who are interested 

 in the planting of seeds to produce a crop in this year. 

 Again thanking you, we remain. 



Very truly yours, 



J. STECKLER SEED CO., Ltd. 



THE following prices are made on a very conservative basis, and we hope 

 those of our friends who are in need of seed will look over our catalogue 

 carefully and compare QUALITY above all and price secondary. 



To the Merchant, the Planter, the Farmer and Gardener, our advice is to 

 diversify. The great misfortune that has befallen Louisiana is due to the fact 

 that our Farmers and Planters have all stuck too closely to the three crops, 

 Sugar, Rice and Cotton. We do not advise the discontinuance of anyone of these 

 that you have been planting, but to reduce the acreage and start the following: 



A cow for your own use, or more, if the neighborhood warrants it, and not only 

 for making Butter, Cream Cheese and supplying yourself with milk, but your 

 neighbors as well; the same with Poultry, get the very best breed, both for Eggs 

 and Meat. As a dual fowl, we recommend the Rhode Island Red; a few Duroc Jersey 

 Hogs to raise your own meat. A small Pecan Grove, planting between Magnolia 

 Figs and Satsuma Orange Trees. The Pecans are today a great revenue to our 

 citizens of Louisiana. The Figs, a great market for the preserves, and a great 

 demand for Satsuma Oranges. Everyone of these fruits grow very luxuriantly 

 in any part of the south. There are many other fruits that we could advise plant- 

 ing in the south that would help the man on the farm. In addition to this of 

 course all the different varieties of vegetables as listed in this catalogue. At a 

 small expense you can get a canning machine to can your surplus vegetables for 

 home use. Any further information that you desire regarding any of the above 

 which you do not find in our catalogue, please communicate with us and we will 

 gladly furnish it to you. 



While this is the second time this article appears in publication, the value of 

 this doctrine cannot be too forcibly impressed on our friends. 



Our firm has served the South for 108 years and we feel your confidence will 

 not be misplaced. 



J. STECKLER SEED CO., Ltd. 

 Joseph Steckler, President. 



We have no other Connection or Branch 



JOSEPH STECKLER, Pres. FROTSCHER R. STECKLER, Vice Pres. and Mgr. 



A. J. TROSCLAIR, Treasurer EDNA E. STECKLER, Secretary 



The SoutKs Leader and Most Dependable Source of Seed Supplies. 



NOTE: — To our Friends and Customers. We are anxious to increase our mailing list 

 with correct names and addresses of those interested in seed and for that 

 courtesy, we will be glad to send 6 Papers of Assorted Flower Seeds suitable 

 for the Season in return for this favor. 



Copyright 1928, J. Steckler Seed Co., Ltd. All rights reserved 



