HIRAM W. SIBLEY. President 
H f ATKINSON, Vice President 
W. G. MITCHELL, Cashier. 
The Bank of Monroe 
To whom it may concern! - 
Messrs. Gunson, Higbie & Co. are customers of this bank and 
we value their account highly. We believe that any statement 
that they make may be relied on. 
If you wish to know still more about us take a train to Rochester, come to the corner of Spencer and Cliff streets, and see us 
personally. Let us show you our wonderful facilities for handling the seed trade in our new warehouse, which contains the most 
perfect seed cleaning machinery made, run by a ten-horse power electric motor ; our enormous cellars, and grain storage capacity, 
our office force, cousisting during the busy season of from thirty-five to forty hands ; in fact, what we believe to be the most exten- 
sive and complete plant of its kind in existence, and if it is during the growing season, we should be pleased to show you the growing 
crops on our extensive seed farms. Our latchstring is always out. — Come. 
GX/JVSOJV, HIGBIE SSL CO. 
'ROCHESTER, jV. 
Hoist our ^/'eedLs haVe fielded. 
W. A. Hughes of Crawford Co., Penn., says : "I grew 593 
lbs. of potatoes from 3 lbs. of your seed." [The above state- 
ment was sworn to before J. C. Nelson, a Justice of Peace of 
that county.] 
M. Blue of Livingston Co., Mo., says : "The farm seeds 
you sent are the finest lot that ever came here." 
J. McLeod of Oxford Co., Ont., says that he grew 29 full 
bags of wheat from one bushel of our seed sown on less than 
an acre. 
James Meadows of Dallas Co., Ia , says : "I never saw such 
oats as my customers have from the seed I sold them last sea- 
son. They are threshing all the way from 75 to 105 bushels 
per acre. ’ ' 
J. W. Davis of Shelby Co., Ia., says: "Another firm 
wanted me to work for them and offered me a larger commis- 
sion, but I would not accept. I know you and my customers 
are all satisfied. I never saw such crops as are grown from 
your seed. " 
W. J. Winkle of Waupaca Co., Wis., says : "From the one 
bushel of your potatoes I grew 72J4 bushels of splendid stock. 
People came to see them as if they were a menagerie. They 
all said they were the finest stock they had ever seen." 
Mahlon Smith of Marshall Co., Kan., says: "The seeds 
introduced by your firm are doing wonders here, of which I am 
receiving many unsolicited testimonials." 
C. H. Boyce of Livingston Co., Mo., says : "The premium 
corn at our fair here was raised by Wm. Thomson from your 
seed. 
J. H. Castle of Otsego Co., N. Y., says: "I bought 30 lbs. 
of your seed potatoes and grew 28y 2 bushels of the finest stock 
I ever saw. I could sell them all for $3.00 per bushel, but I 
want them all to plant myself. From 10 pounds of your corn 
I harvested 112 bushels of ears." 
