WM. HENRY MAULE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. The Practical Farmer—91 
Personal to my Friends and Customers. 
‘Dear Friend: 
By. dear friend I mean each one of the 426,000 different people 
who have planted Maule's Seeds during the past 5 years. This letter 
I hope will interest many of you, so that I may have your hearty sup- 
port and co-operation. For some time past I have been the sole pro- 
prietor of The Practical Farmer, a weekly newspaper published for 
more than 50 years, in the city of Philadelphia. I have not only in- 
vested tens of thousands of dollars in the property, but I am also 
giving a large amount of my individual time and attention to making 
this grand old publication the greatest agricultural weekly news- 
paper that is published in these United States. 
The Practical Farmer in the past has been one of the greatest 
leaders in journalism towards advancing American agriculture: the 
advice of its able editors and correspondents has been faithfully 
followed by thousands of practical farmers and gardeners in all parts 
of the Union, with the result that in hundreds and thousands of cases 
its subscribers have doubled and trebled their incomes with half the 
usual amount of manual labor. 
The Practical Farmer has been a great medium in the past, but 
wherever possible I propose to make it even greater in the future, if 
money and brains can accomplish the purpose, and I promise it will 
benefit every member of the family from the boys and girls to grandpa 
and grandma. 
The editor, Mr. L. H. Cooch, ably assisted by the associate edi- 
tors, Mr. T. B. Terry, Mr. T. Greiner, Mr. Geo. T. Pettit and Mrs. 
Velma C. Melville, all have their shoulders to the wheel and are sure 
to accomplish great results in 1908. Now I cannot make this paper 
what I want to make it without the sinews of war, and I put it up to 
every reader of this letter to either send me at once or when they 
are sending in their order for seeds, $1.50 for a S-year's subscrip- 
tion for the greatest agricultural weekly paper published in this 
country. Think of it! 156 issues for $1.50; less than 1 cent a copy 
for the weekly visits of a paper that will not only brighten the 
home, but will help you with all the knotty problems that may arise 
in your farming, gardening or dairy operations. If after you have 
taken the paper for 3 months, it is not all and more than I claim 
above, write me and I will cut your name off the subscription list 
and cheerfully return your money. Nothing could be fairer than this, 
‘and I hope this proposition will appeal to so many of my customers 
that by this time next year 200,000 Practical Farmers each week will 
not be sufficient to supply the demand. 
Yours for advanced : 
agricuiture, 
— Peglleny 
