Fireproof seedhouse on Windermoor — home of Stokes 1 Seeds 



Sixty-five Per Cent of Our Business is with 



the Market-Grower! 



UPPLYING seed to the man who plants for profit, therefore, is without question, the most 

 important part of our work. The conclusion that Stokes' Seeds now dominate the market- 

 garden field may be quite easily arrived at in view of certain points which were brought out during 

 the Better Seed Session, at the last annual meeting of the Vegetable-Growers' Association of 

 America, held in Chicago. It was there pointed out that a proportionate average of 10 per cent 

 of the seedsmen's business was devoted to market-gardening interests, the other 90 per cent 

 being with the home-garden trade. These figures were brought out for the purpose of show ing 

 that the seedsmen should not be asked to consider any very drastic changes in nomenclature, etc., just because 

 the market-gardener saw the necessity of certain reforms. 



Stokes Seed Farms Company has no desire whatever to take exception to the stand of our fellow-seedsmen. 

 We do want to make it very plain, however, that we are in business primarily to serve the interest of you market- 

 growers and that consequently it is our business to offer you everything pocsible in the matter of seeds and ser- 

 vice. It is because we are tremendously anxious to make it possible for you to purchase reliable seeds (and by 

 reliable seeds we mean seeds well-bred, true to name, and of high germination) that we are adopting a very 

 simple but efficient policy of conducting an absolute-type test of everything sold. 



Because our plan of Seed Insurance has proved too burdensome to most of you planters, we have decided to 

 take the responsibility of this work upon ourselves, this by means of a very definite system of checking which will 

 be working for you day and night, thus making it possible to know the inherent qualities of every pound ot 

 seed we sell, for neither Stokes Seed Farms Company nor the men we serve can afford to work on anything but 

 the most efficient, systematic basis. 



Our prices, as quoted this year, are as low as is consistent with the quality and protection offered. (We hope 

 most of our customers have long ago given up buying seeds by price only.) 



The fact that our volume of business for this past season was over 50 per cent ahead of the preceding one is 

 cause for gratification. It is you gardeners whom we have to thank for this. We tremendously appreciate the 

 progress you have made possible, for it seems to us that you market-gardeners generally are recognizing the 

 necessity of dealing with those seedsmen who have made a careful study of your requirements and who more fully 

 understand the responsibility they are under. 



STOKES SEED FARMS COMPANY 



President 



Windermoor Farm, 



October 24, 1916 



