To Our Customers and Friends 



Another year has rolled by and asain we li;i\ o tlio pli asure to greet you with our Annual 

 Message through the medium of our GABDEIT AlTlTUAIi for 1919. 



We thank you sincerely for the many kind orders sent us the past season and we hope for 

 a continuance of your valued favors, which will have always our careful and personal 

 attention. 



The year 1918 was a hard one for Seedsmen. Many crops were failures and of poor qual- 

 ity and transportation service was bad and help short. We worked hard and did the very 

 bfst we could to secure the best seed possible. 



For the coining- year railway service will be greatly improved. Under Government control 

 conditions are about normal again. Seed crops are larger and better matured with a few 

 exceptions whicii are sliort as noted below. 



After over four years of destructive war, which has ceased with the signing of an armis- 

 tice at this writing. From this awful catastrophe famine and starvation is staring many 

 people in the face and tlie urgent call for supplies to feed iieople. Tliis Nation will be looked 

 to i nthe next few years as the main source ofsupply of food, etc. Tiiis will create a great 

 demand for our products of all kinds and with tlie cry of high cost of living, the American 

 public has been aroused to the pleasure and profit of gardening; this will reduce the living 

 expense of many a family and the surplus can be exported to supply the great demand for 

 food products. 



We appreciate the orders that you have given us and assure you that all orders, whether 

 large or small, shall have our most careful attention. 



We come to you again offering in seeds the best that our wide experience can procure. 

 We offer you only the best of the standard varieties, and we hope you will come to us for 

 whatever you require in seeds, or for information as to growing them. 



Our motto is "satisfaction to everyone," so if customers have any cause for complaint 

 we hope they will notify us at once. 



We like to have our Catalogue in the hands of every person that expects to buy seeds. 

 We will appreciate the courtesy if our customers will send the addresses of their neighbors 

 that may want good tested seeds, and will return the favor by sending some extra packets of 

 seeds. 



We can assure our customers that we will use our best efforts to furnish them with the 

 choicest Seeds that can be grown. We know that planters of Seeds buy them entirely on con- 

 fidence and we try to hold the confidence of our patrons, by furnishing them reliable pedigree 

 Seeds. If you have never used our Seeds, try tliem this year. Good Seeds like drugs require 

 knowledge and care to handle them. 



SEED CROPS ^"^^ith a few exceptions Seed Crops are normal this year and there will be 

 isjujuu plenty to go round. The short items are Cabbage and Turnips especially, 



they are almost a failure and prices will be high. The other sorts which are somewhat 

 short are Onions, Peas, Radish, Clover, and Timothy Seed. Wit hthe advanced cost of labor 

 to produce seed and the higher prices of all farm products, the price of seeds will rule on 

 most items somewhat higher than in former years before the war. 



TESTED SEEDS Seeds are all tested as to vitality, and none is sent out from our 



xjnts xjj±j iij£i±jut:3 establishment until we are satisfied that they are absolutely of the best 

 quality and of the highest germinating power, and are certain to grow under favorable condi- 

 tions and planted at the right time. With bad weather and careless planting the very best 

 Seeds may fail to grow and no seedsman is to blame for this. If any fail to grow when 

 properly tested, we stand ready to replace the same or give value in other Seeds. 



WARRANTY Failure of Seeds to produce a good crop is dependent upon so many causes, 

 as every experienced cultivator well knows, that the utmost care with the 

 seeds and planting cannot control it, and the maturing of a crop also sometimes fails from 

 causes that no human power can control. We know that the seeds we offer are unsurpassed 

 in quality, yet with our practical experience of many years as growers we find that crops 

 sometimes fail no matter how good the seed. Hence to guarantee seed to invariably produce 

 a perfect crop would be sheer folly. Under all these circumstances, while we exercise the 

 greatest care to have all seed pure and reliable we give no warranty express or implied as to 

 description, quality, 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. 



MARKET GARDENERS AND DEALERS send '"?o.''"ou"; 



Wholesale Price List. 



OUR RESPONSIBILITY catalogue will go into the hands of many who have 



never dealt with us, we kindly ask for a trial from you, which 

 shall have our best attention. As to our standing, we refer you to the Pella National Bank, 

 to the Postmaster, or to the Express Agent. 



In conclusion we tender you our thanks for past favors. We shall be much pleased to 

 hear from you in 1919. 



With best wishes for the New Tear, we are, 



Sincerely yours, 



PELLA, IOWA, January 1, 1919 



COLE'S SEED STORE 



