AMERICA'S BIG TASK FOR 1919— 
FEED EUROPE 
This means that every Market-gardener, Farmer, and 
Home-gardener must grow the greatest quantity of Food 
Crops that it is possible for them to produce. 
The results of the year just closed put everyone of 
you who made the soil produce its best in food on the 
honor-roll, for without the abundance of food produced, 
our men could not have been fed and made fit as they were. 
Now, since the war is won, there will be, in 1919, a 
far greater need and demand for food than ever before, 
because the way is now open to feed the millions of starving people in Russia and other 
countries, and it is the Big Task of America's Gardeners and Farmers to first produce 
this food, for these countries are depending on us to feed them. 
Make 1919 Your Banner Year. All the vegetable and grain crops that you can produce 
will be needed — grow them and market them profitably. 
Be Sure That You Have the Best Crops. It is easy to sell first-quality vegetables, and 
they always bring higher prices. To get these better crops 
Plant Schell's Quality Seeds 
THEY GROW BETTER Pof They Are Absolutely the Best they yield better 
Every Home-Garden should be farmed intensively. The vegetables you grow and eat 
will reduce the amount of meat your family would otherwise consume, and your health 
will be better as a result of a vegetable diet. Grow and eat vegetables. 
Concerning the Seed-Supply. We have an abundance of all varieties of the seeds we 
are offering you. Although there is a great shortage of many varieties throughout the 
whole of the United States, yet, because of careful foresight, we have the seeds, and we 
are prepared to fill your orders for any quantity, large or small, and fill them promptly. 
Send Your General Order at Once. By having your seeds on hand you will be ready 
to plant when conditions are just right. Then keep sending, during the season, for any 
other seeds you may need or for more of the same, if necessary. 
Remember These Facts: 
First — Schell's Quality Seeds Are Absolutely the Best. I know you want the best; 
that is why you should send us your order. 
Second — Harrisburg is the logical place to send your orders for quick service. It is 
the commercial heart of Pennsylvania, the railroads, like great arteries, running in every 
direction — north, south, east, west — with two hundred trains, arriving and departing daily 
to every section of the state and country, make it possible for your order to be filled and 
back to you within twenty-four hours. In the very height of our busy season, when orders 
come in in such tremendous numbers, it is sometimes a physical impossibility to be so 
prompt, although we work night and day. Therefore, we urge you to Send Your Order Early. 
PRICES. I urge you again, as in the past, not to let lower prices lure you to take any 
chances on cheap seeds. The price of seeds is the very least part of the cost of the crop 
they produce. For instance, the price of a pound of Beets or Lettuce or Onions is nothing 
compared to the cost of your labor during the months required to prepare the soil, sow 
the seed, cultivate, nourish, and harvest the crop; then market it. Don't buy cheap seeds. 
Your whole season's work may be done for nothing, and you cannot afford to take such 
a risk. Our prices are reasonable for the best quality, and any other seedhouse offering 
the same high quality will have prices either equal to or more than ours. In comparing 
prices, remember we quote prices of Beans and Peas by the pint and quart. Some cata- 
logues quote them by the pound ; a pound of beans equals only a pint, hence pound 
prices would be about equal to our pint prices. 
Take no risk. Send your order to me and plant Schell's Quality Seeds. 
(For planting table, telling how and when to plant, see inside of back cover.) WALTER S. SCHELL 
