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COUNTERBALANCE 



THE HIGH COST OF LIVING 



By Growing Your Own Fresh Vegetables On 

 Your Own Plot of Ground 



123 per cent 

 Increase 



in cost of 



Vegetable Foods 



Tables pre- 

 pared by the 

 N- Y. Journal of 

 Commerce and 

 Market Reports, 

 issued in Octo- 

 ber, 1916, show 

 that wholesale 

 prices for six 

 principal vegetable 

 foods, viz.: Beans, 

 Turnips, Potatoes, 

 Onions, Cabbages 

 and Tomatoes, 

 have increased on 

 an average 123 per 

 cent, over last 

 year's prices. 



Turnips, Cab- 

 bages and Potatoes 

 have increased in 

 price fully 200 

 per cent. 



mere 



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ase 



us. 



In the year just passed, owing partly to weather conditions, and partly 

 to scarcity of labor, garden crops in many sections of the country were 

 short and in some sections failures. Consequently, prices for fresh 

 vegetables were advanced to a degree that was heavily felt by the con- 

 sumer and added very materially to the expense account of the family 

 table, already swollen by the extravagant prices charged for meats and 

 other foodstuffs. 



Fresh vegetables are needed by every member of the family every 

 day in the year, and if grown in the family garden instead of being 

 purchased at the prevailing high prices at a store, constitute an 

 inexpensive and very valuable supply of food. 



Owners or occupiers of garden plots thus have a counterweight 

 to the increased cost of food supplies in their own hands. 



We ourselves are mighty pleased to record the fact that we 



have hundreds of thousands of customers scattered all over our 



big country who have been far-seeing enough to adopt this 



method of circumventing the high cost of living. As one of 



our customers aptly puts it in a letter we print on this page, 



"That high cost of living man never worries us." 



Market reports from various centers, and tables compiled by 

 the N. Y. Journal of Commerce show that six of 

 the staple vegetables are now fully 123 per cent 

 higher in price than a year ago, and during the 

 winter and spring will undoubtedly advance 

 still further. 



If you are not already enrolled in our ever 

 increasing army of customers we invite you 

 to purchase a supply now of 



Henderson's Tested Seeds 



and grow your own fresh vegetables on your own 

 plot of ground. 



Thanking you for past favors, and soliciting 

 your continued patronage. 



Sincerely yours, 



$125.00 worth 

 of Good Food 

 for $2.50, plus 

 a Little Healthy 

 Labor. 



"Henderson' s 

 Seeds last year 

 brought us won- 

 derful luck. On 

 our back lot we 

 raised our sum- 

 mer and winter 

 supply of Toma- 

 toes, Com, Let- 

 tuce, Beans, 

 Onions, Limas 

 and, Okra from 

 the $2.50 worth 

 of your seeds. 

 Our garden will 

 figure in value to 

 US$125.00. That 

 high cost of 

 living man 

 never worries 

 tts." WILLARD, 



DOWNS, 

 Fredericksburg, 

 Va. 



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President 



PETER HENDERSON & CO., NEW YORK. 



"EVERYTHING FOR THE GARDEN" FOR 1917 



On the front cover of this, our annual catalogue, we print in colors a view of the garden of General Andrew Jackson, The Hermitage, 

 near Nashville, Tenn. 



This is the fifth in our series of famous gardens, and we are sure that, a picture of the home of one of the greatest Americans will be 

 appreciated. Andrew Jackson, the hero of New Orleans, "Old Hickory," as his soldiers affectionately dubbed him in allusion to his 

 hardihood in the campaign against the Creek Indians, was noted not only as a soldier but also as a statesman. And truly, for 

 hard common sense, courage, foresight and keen judgment of men and things, it would be difficult to find his peer in any period of 

 our country's history. Discussing husbandry and the cultivation of the soil, before Congress, in 1828, he uttered the following opinion: 



" The agricultural inter •est of the country is connected with every other , and superior in importance to them all." 



There has been but little change in this respect since Jackson's time, and the successful cultivation of the country's crops is still the 

 real and lasting foundation of national prosperity. 



In presenting this, our annual catalogue to our friends, both old and new, we draw attention to the 32 pages illustrating in colors 

 many of our leading specialties, making our "Everything for the Garden" 1917 greater, brighter and handsomer than ever. 



