Our Fireproof Seed-house on Windermoor — as Old as the War 



One Million Allied Acres 



HIS huge acreage represents the ground planted in Stokes' Seeds during the past year. 

 Larger opportunity for service came to us, and we were privileged in being able to meet 

 the increased demands. You, our friends, will have the satisfaction of knowing that 

 the support granted us in past years has made it possible to have rendered this larger 

 service at a time when the food-feserves of the world were lower than at any time 

 within the past century. 



In seed corn alone we sold over one hundred thousand bushels and this at a figure 

 which did much to stabihze the seed markets of the Middle West at a time when they were reaching 

 uncalled-for heights. If the states of Michigan and Ohio have a single cause for complaint of the corn 

 furnished by us, we have yet to hear of it. 



Besides our usual channels of trade, which increased over any previous Windermoor records, we 

 were privileged to supplj^ seed to the American Red Cross in France, as well as to the National War 

 Garden Commission of Washington, for garden service among the cantonments in this country. 



Such is the uncolored record of a civihan seed firm. We did not yield to temptation, close the doors, 

 and join up, but we often wished it had been possible. Under the circumstances, we can only tender 

 our warmest gratitude to the boys who have gone and who have proven themselves to be as good as any 

 fighters in the world. For 1919 our company has been offered the splendid opportunity of cooperating 

 with the garden service of the American Expeditionars' Forces. The men connected with this anticipate 

 upwards of fifty thousand acres of fresh vegetables for the soldiers who are still o^■erseas. 



