THERE is a tale in a very old book of a man who may have been a good carpenter 

 but who had no sense whatever with regard to brick work or masonry. "When 

 he built a house he paid no attention to the experience of his father or friends 

 but decided to have for his foundation nothing but sand — and all the world 

 knows what happened. The winds blew and the rain came and the house fell. All that 

 foolish man gained was experience. All the good lumber in the frame work, all the time 

 spent in fitting joints and driving nails went for nothing. If he had had simple reason 

 in the beginning, the final calamity would have been avoided. Any one might have 

 known if he had stopped to think that foundations should be made of sterner stuff. 



Possibly the sandman advertised. At any rate he told about his wares being just 

 as good as the stone dealer's and a great deal cheaper. Other merchants have sold sand 

 in place of limestone. Other people in other times have builded upon the sands of 

 shoddy material — once. What will you do? 



The price of seeds is such a small part of the cost of raising vegetables or flowers 

 that it is folly not to be sure you are buying and planting the best. No amount of labor 

 or pains will avail if you do not start right. The best is always the cheapest. 



ixsi:re success by plantixg ferrvs seeds 



OUR TERMS ARE STRICTLY CASH WITH THE 



ORDER. We do not send C. O. D.. as the cost of collecting 

 return charges is quite an unnecessary item of expense, 

 and the prices being given, we can conceive of no necessity 

 to warrant goods being so sent. 



HOW TO SEND MONEY. Remittances may be made 

 AT OUR RISK by any of the following methods, viz. : Postal 

 Money Order,'Draft on New York or Chicago, or Express 

 C'ompany"s Money Order. 



The rates charged for Postal Money Orders and Express 

 Money Orders are now so low that these are the best ways to 

 remit. "We will bear the expense of sending money in either 

 of these ways. Deduct the cost of the order from amount 

 sent. Express Money Orders can be obtained at all offices 

 of the principal Express Companies. They are cheap and 



ABSOLUTELY SAFE. 



When Money Orders cannot be obtained, letters containing 

 money should always be registered. Money in ordinary letters 

 is unsafe. If currency is sent by express, the charges should 

 be prepaid, and if local checks are used, they must be cer- 

 tified. 



FREE OF POSTAGE OR EXPRESS CHARGES. Packets. 

 Ounces, Two Ounces. Quarter Pounds or Pounds, ordered 

 at list prices, will be sent free by mail or express. 



Customers ordering: enough for a freight shipment. 100 

 pounds or more, or desiring to pay their own express charges, 

 may deduct 10 cents per pound from prices of this catalogue 

 on all seeds quoted by the pound or less. 



PINTS AND QUARTS. Pin-ts. Quarts and Four Quarts. 

 ordered at list prices, fifteen cents per quart, ten cents 

 PER PINT, must be added for postage or express charges, and 

 they will then be sent free. 



ONE-FOURTH BUSHEL, BUSHEL AND HUNDRED 

 POUND LOTS. Where One-Fourth Bushel, Bushel or 

 Hundred Pound lots are ordered, we deliver free at depot or 

 express office in Detroit, Mich., the freight or express charges 

 to be paid by the party ordering. 



^"Where perishable or other goods are ordered to be 

 sent by freight or express to such great distances that the 

 cost of transportation will nearly or quite equal the value of 

 the goods, we must decline to ship unless purchasers remit us, 

 in addition to the price of goods, sufficient funds to prepay 

 transportation charges. When this requirement is not com- 

 plied with, we reserve the right of declining the order and 

 returning money to the person ordering. 



SEEDS BY MEASURE. One-fourth bushel and over 

 sold at BUSHEL rates; four quarts and over up to one- 

 quarter bushel sold at four-quart rates; less than four 

 quarts sold at quart or pint rates. 



SEEDS BY WEIGHT. "We supply half pound and over 

 at POUND rates; less than half pound lots are charged at 

 ounce, two-ounce or quarter pound rates; 25 lbs. and over 

 at 100 LB. rates when quoted. 



BAGS. To every order for one-quarter bushel and upwards, 

 to the amount of two bushels, 20 cents must be added for a 

 new bag in which to ship. 



SEEDS IN PACKETS. We offer the following induce- 

 ments to those wishing to purchase seeds in packets : Select 

 packets to the value of Si. 15 and send us Si. 00: for S2.35 send 

 S2.00: for S3.60 send S3.00: for S4.85 send S4.00; for S6.15 send 

 S5.00; for S12.50 send §10.00; for S26.00 send §20.00. The seeds 

 will be sent by mail, postpaid, but these low rates apply to 

 seeds in packets only, and at catalogue prices, and "not 

 to seeds by weight or measure. 



NAME AND ADDRESS SHOULD ALWAYS BE GIVEN. 



"We frequently receive letters containing money and orders, 

 which we cannot fill because the sender has failed to sign 

 his name or the p. O. address is omitted, and the post mark 

 being blurred, we are unable to fill the order, no matter how 

 much we desire to do so. Use our Order Sheet and EnvelojH? 

 whenever you can, filling out the blank and signing your name 

 and you will have no cause to censure us. 



GUARANTEE. Complaints made that seeds are not good, 

 should quite as often be attributed to other causes as to the 

 quality of the seeds. There are hundreds of contingencies 

 continuailj' arising to prevent the best seeds always giving 

 satisfaction, such as sowing too deep, too shallow, in too wet 

 or too dry soil: insects of all descriptions destroying the 

 plants as "soon as or before they appear; wet weather, cold 

 weather, frosts, chemical changes in the seeds induced by 

 temperature, etc. For the above reasons it is impractieabre 

 to guarantee seeds under all cireimistance.<?. 



We give no warrantj', express or implied, as to description, 

 purity, productiveness, or any other matter of any seeds we 

 send out, and we will not be "in any way responsible foi- the 

 crop. If the purchaser does not accept the goods on these 

 terms they are at once to be returned. 



D. M. FERRY & CO. 



Detroit, Mich, Jan. 1, 1904. 



