Tio the Trade. 
In seeds, even more than in most things, very low prices generally go with 
poor quality. To raise good seeds requires experience, skill and care, which have 
to be paid for. On the other hand, it is equally true that high prices do not of 
themselves insure good quality. A wise man will not let low prices weigh against 
quality, nor will he blindly buy the most costly in hope of getting the best, for he 
would often be paying only for expensive advertising and costly illustrations of 
impossible novelties. 
A Seedsman’s claim for patronage should rest on his facilities for producing the 
best seeds and his ability to sell them at moderate prices. We are by far the 
largest seed producers in America and employ the most able specialists in seed 
growing. On our Oakview Seed Farm we grow the finest stock seeds that can 
be produced, and these are planted for us in those climates and soils which long 
experience has demonstrated will produce the best possible seed products. We 
test. the vitality of all the seeds we Sell, and every summer on our trial grounds 
test several thousand samples of seeds to see they aretrueto name. These constant 
efforts to insure the best quality enable us to send out nothing whose growth is 
not satisfactory or of whose purity and trueness we are not as certain as it is 
possible to be. 
We own the largest and most complete seed warehouses in this country, have 
the best seed cleaning machinery, unexcelled facilities for executing all orders 
promptly, and in all respects we are in position to offer the BEST SEEDS at 
MODERATE PRICES. The fact that we have met the demands of the trade is 
proven by the constantly increasing number of the most critical seed buyers who 
look to us annually for their supplies. 

tas Not bound by these prices for any definite time or quantity and subject 
to advance without notice. 
Our prices are for delivery f. o. b. cars, Detroit, Mich., and do not include the 
cost of containers. When seamless cotton grain bags, boxes or barrels are neces- 
sary for safe transportation, such packages will be charged at value and are not 
returnable. 
Proportionately higher prices will be charged for quantities less than 4 Ib. or 
Y% bu. Where two qualities of any variety are quoted, the best will always be 
sent. unless specially otherwise ordered. 4 
TERMS—Net Cash June 1, 1896, without regard to date of purchase, 
or a discount of one per cent. per month on the unex- 
pired time when paid before maturity. 
Field Peas, Clover, Hungarian, Millet, Timothy and all Grass Seeds, 
net cash, without any discount whatever. 
CASH or satisfactory references should accompany orders from 
unknown correspondents. 
In producing and handling our seeds we take every possible precaution to have all 
of them of the highest quality, but we give no warranty, express or implied, as to | 
description. purity, productiveness, or any other matter connected with any seeds we 
send out, and we will not be in any way responsible for the crop. If the purchaser 
does not accept the seeds on these terms they must be returned at once, and anv money 
paid us for them will be refunded. 
Detroit, January 20th, 1896. D. fl. FERRY & CO. 
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JOHN BORNMAN & SON, PRINTERS. 
