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D. M. FERRY & CO'S 



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Whatever Your Lot 



Sow Ferry's seeds. The cost of living continues to rise but sunshine and rain are free. Still as of old the 

 summer sun shines and summer rains fall in your own backyard. There is no land so poor that it cannot 

 be made to grow something. Shall it be something worth while or weeds ? 

 You can afford to enjoy a bigger garden this year because the value of the yield was never before so 

 great as compared with the cost of fresh or preserved vegetables. The yield is great, too, in satisfaction for 

 Ferry's pure bred seeds are selected for generations to produce the choicest possible fruits. We place at your 

 service the facilities of the largest and best equipped seed growing and selling organization in the world. 

 It costs more to produce the kind of seeds we sell but yoa cannot afford to plant anything but the best. The 

 best is always the cheapest. 



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, 

 Dreift on New York or Chicago, or Express Company'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, 

 or of the cost of a New York or Chicago Draft if no more expensive 

 than a PostEil Money Order. 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 abso- 

 lutely SE^^e. 



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 pre- 

 paid, and if local checks axe used they must be certified. 



NAME AND ADDRESS SHOULD ALWAYS BE GIVEN. 



Frequendy w^e receive unsigned letters. Sometimes they contain 

 money and orders. Sometimes too, letters are received in which 

 the name of the town is left out and the postmark is blurred. We 

 cannot fill orders unless we know the name and address of the 

 buyer. The easiest way for you is to use our order sheet filling in 

 the blanks. 



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 

 8 cents per pound from prices of this catalogue on all seeds quoted 

 by the pound or less. 



^P^Where perishable or other goods are ordered to be sent by 

 freight or express to such great distances that the cost of transpor- 

 tation v^rill nearly or quite equal the value of the goods, we must de- 

 cline to ship unless purchasers remit us, in addition to the price of 

 goods, sufficient funds to prepay transportation charges. When this 

 requirement is not complied with, we reserve the right of declining 

 the order and returning money to the person ordering. 



In common w^ith some other seedsmen v^^e have, for the con- 

 venience of our customers as well as ourselves, discontinued the 

 use of the terms bushel, peck, quart and pint and now quote all 

 seed listed in our catalogue by weight. 



Ten pounds of Beans, Corn or Peas are now supplied at the 100 

 pound rate. On Grass, Clover, Miscellaneous Farm Seed and 

 other seeds where 100 pound prices are quoted we supply 25 

 pounds at 100 pound rate. 



HUNDRED POUND LOTS. When ordered at the 100 pound 

 rate we deliver free at depot or express office in Detroit, Michigan: 

 the freight or express charges to be paid by the party ordering. 



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. We do not, however, put up 

 half pounds of beans, corn or peas. 



BAGS. To every order for 10 pounds and upwards, to the 

 amount of 100 pounds, 30 cents must be added for a new bag in 

 w^hich to ship. 



SEEDS IN PACKETS. We offer the following inducements to 

 those wishing to purchase seeds in packets: Select packets to the 

 value of $1.15 and send us $1.00; for $2.35 send $2.00; for $3.60 

 send $3.00; for $4.85 send $4.00; for $6.15 send $5.00; for $12.50 

 send $10.00; for $26.00 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. 



NON- WARRANTY. Sometimes though not often our seeds do 

 not come up after planting. This may be due to one or more of 

 several reasons, such as covering too deeply or not deeply 

 enough, too much or too little water, too cold weather or a baking sun 

 w^hich forms a crust too hard for the tender shoots to penetrate. Some- 

 times insects destroy plants at the surface before they are seen by 

 the gardener. We cannot personally direct the use of our goods 

 after they leave our hands; neither can we fully control anywhere 

 or at any time the operation of natural law^ as it affects seeds; 

 therefore, we give no w^arranty, express or implied, as to de- 

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

 or bulbs we send out, and we will not be in any way responsible 

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

 terms they are at once to be returned. 



D. M. 



Detroit, Mich., January 1, 1917. 



Ferry & Co. 



