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NORWAY OATS. 
From the mass of testimony, showing the advantage to be 
gained by the substitution of this seed for all other kinds, 
we present a few more extracts. 
NO HUMBUG ABOUT THEM. 
HENRY PULEMAN, Esq., Galesville, N. Y., writes, 
Aug. 16,'1869; 
The Norway Oats I had of you are no humbug; on the 
contrary, arc all you recommended them to be last year. I 
sowed on clay loam soil, and can beat all my neighbors 
about here for oats of any kind. No farmer can afford to 
raise any other kind if he can get these even at $10 per bushel. 
HEADS TWO FEET LONG. 
G. O. Bristol, of Tioga, Pa., writes: 
My Norway oats look very promising, standing four and 
a half to live feet high. I have measured some heads which 
are two feet long and contain upwards of four hundred ker¬ 
nels; it far surpasses anything ever seen in this section. 1 
have had a great many calls from parties who want seed. 
WOULD NOT PART WITH HIS SEED AT ANY PRICE. 
Lexington, N. C„ Aug. 1, 1S69. 
Sins: 1 sowed 1C pounds of your Norway Oats, half on a 
poor piece of land by the side of some black spring oats, 
and tiie balance on some rich tobacco land. The first were 
at least a third higher than the others by their side, and 
double the kernels on the heads. The drouth damaged our 
oat crop seriouslv, in fact, it is about a failure, but I find on 
measuring that 1 have 14 bushels. I am so well pleased 
with them that I shall sow a good part of them again, and 
would not part with it. for any money. 
Yours respectfully, ABRAM CROSS. 
TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUSHELS FROM TWO 
ACRES. 
Tranquility, N. J., Aug. C, 1S69. 
D. W. Rams DELL & Co., 
Dear Sir: We have harvested our Norway Oats, and 
must say that they are all that they were recommended by 
you. They were ripe as soon or a little sooner than our 
other oats, and of a much better quality. I am satisfied that 
I can raise three bushels of the Nonvays to one of common 
oats and with one-third of the seed. For feeding they must 
be superior, as they tiave thin hullsand plump meats. From 
our two acres I think we shall run some over tiro hundred 
and fifty bushels. The largest head that I have found is 19 
inches long. Yours respectfiill v, 
CLINTON VASS. 
THE BEST HE EVER SAW. ' 
JOHN COLEMAN, Esq., of Middleton, N. Y., writes, 
Aug. 17, 1869’: 
I purchased some of your Norway Oats last spring, and 
sowed them on light spil. without manure. They grew large 
and tall, with stalks capable of standing under great weight 
of grain. They are of better quality and ripen full as soon 
as other oats. As a field oat I think they are superior to 
any oar. I ever saw. I heartily recommend them to farmers, 
and shall sow my entire crop next year. 
“RAISED AN EXCITEMENT.” 
Womelsdorf, Berks Co., Pa., Aug. 5,1869. 
Messrs. Eamsdell & Co.: 
The thirty-live pounds of Norway Oats I purchased from 
yon last March was sown on about one acre of land good 
soil, and will yield meat least 80 bushels. Some good judges 
even estimate it at over a hundred bushels. 1 am free to say 
that it lias more than met my most, sanguine expectations, 
and lias raised quite an excitement t ere. They ripen with 
us a little later Ilian other oats. They are heavier and more 
nutritious, and grow a strong straw that will not fall, no mat¬ 
ter how rainv the season is. I can cheerfully endorse and 
recommend it to my brother farmers throughout the country. 
Yours trulv. 
E. PENN SMITH. 
HEADS TWENTY-SIX INCHES LONG. 
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Smyrna, Me., Sept. 3, ’GO. 
I can recommend your Norway Oats to every farmer, but 
if they could only see them growing in head once, they 
wouldHeed no endorsement, from me. They tell their own 
story. I measured one head 26 inches long, and there are 
mahv over 20 inches and upwards, and the oats pile right up 
on tiie heads. Truly yours, 
JOHN MARKS. 
inquirers upon all imaginable subjects. 
HOW HE COULD HAVE MADE MONEY. 
AH UNRIVALED LITERARY PAPER 
IS THE 
Terre Haute, Ill.. Sept.,2. ’09. 
The seed I tiad of vou lias done well. I paid $10 for one 
bushel. If I had bought 13 bushels at that price it would 
have paid me well. They stood up straight, while others by 
their side fell flat, to the ground. They are much heavier 
and better in every respect. 
Respectfully yours, 
E. GUERNSNEY. 
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A GREAT DEMAND NEXT YEAR. 
Thomson, Ill., Sept. 4, ’69. 
I was unfortunate in harvesting my oats, the weather be¬ 
ing bad. I estimate the loss at fully one-fourth of the crop. 
However, I find I have S3 bushels left, which is quite satis¬ 
factory for a seeding of one bushel. My common oats, from 
0 bushels’ seeding, yield ordinarily about, forty bushels to the 
acre. My neighbors all want some of those “big outs.” as 
t.liev are called here. I shall grow pretty largely next year, 
for there will be a great, demand for them next year when 
our farmers learn more of their excellence. 
Yours respectfully. 
N. S. FRENCH. 
SURPRISE OATS AGAIN. 
Lincoln, Logan Co., Ill.. Aug. 30, ’69. 
Hear Sin : Last spring I purchased two quarts of your 
JTorwav Oats and two quarts of the Surprise oats that some 
said were better than yours I sowed them both the same 
day on good mellow ground, about a rod apart, and both 
grew well until they began to head, when the Surprise broke 
down about middle way of tile straw, heads laying on the 
ground. The Xormavs stood erect, not a stalk falling. 
From the two quarts of Surprise I had one bushel; from the 
two quarts of Nonvavs 1 had three bushels. I can recom¬ 
mend your seed as ahead of alt others. 
Yours truly, WILLIAM SHEA. 
STREET & SMITH, Proprietors, 
No. 05 Fulton Street, New York, 
EIGHTY-FOUR QUARTS FROM ONE. 
Warren. Mass., Sept. 18, ’G9. 
I obtained from you one quart of the Norway Oat Seed 
last year, from which I have raised two bushels and twenty 
quarts. They were much admired by those who saw them 
growing. Many will lie wanted in this section, and if vou 
will send me some circulars I will gladly circulate them'for 
you. Truly yours, 
S. HORNER. 
FORTY-FIVE BUSHELS FROM ONE-HALF BUSHEL 
OF SEED. 
Newburgh, Md„ July 29. ISC9. 
Gentlemen : I purchased half a liuslu 1 cf your Norway 
Oats from Jones & Clark, New York. They ivere injured 
by the drouth to a considerable extent, lint '1 find on meas¬ 
uring that I have a yield of 1'orty-flve bushels from the Half 
bushel of seed. They ripen about the same time as the 
common oat and are much heavier. 
Very respectfully yours, 
P. A. L. CON-TEE. 
YIELD FOUR TIMES TI-IAT OF COMMON OATS. 
Wetmore, Kansas, Aug. 18. 
I had two quarts of your seed and tested it carefully. They 
are entirely different and far superior to any oat I ever saw. 
By a careful estimate 1 make the yield about Jour times that 
ot common oats, with same culture. I counted eighty-six 
stalkslrom one kernel. Respectfully votirs, 
NELSON"B. SIMMONS. 
WOULD NOT DO WITHOUT THEM FOR TEN TIMES 
THEIR COST. 
Carrolltown, Mo., Aug. 9, 'OOwS 
I sowed one bushel on bottom land, and they overflowed, 
which destroyed a large part of my crop, but I'have enough 
to see what they are and remarked to my men when wo 
were harvesting them that I would not be without them for 
ten times their cost. They should be harvested before fully 
ripe, as the meat is heavy and they shell more readily than 
the small oat. Yours truly, 
D. SETTLES. 
LOOK OUT FOR BOGUS SEED. 
Bruford’s Store, Pa., Aug. 2S, 1809. 
Dear Sins: I understand yon have tiie genuine Ramsdell 
Norway Oats. Please let me know the price. 1 have been 
badly cheated by N. P. Boyer & Co. They sold me common 
oats under the name of Nonvays. This year I hope to get 
the pure seed. Yours truly, 
' D. MOSTALLER. 
fSPUISIDUS SEE®. 
Hundreds of 1)11311615 of Canada, New Brunswick, Surprise, 
Poland, and numerous other varieties of oats were sola last 
year as our seed. Parties are again advertising and attempt¬ 
ing to deceive the farmers. One party has already forward¬ 
ed several thousand bushels of Canada oats to tlie West, 
where he is selling them as our seed. We cautioned farmers 
last year against these frauds. But, because they could buy 
at a lower price, and the representations appeared honest, 
they purchased elsewhere ; and now, when they have learned 
by the result that they were deceived, they arc writing to 
us to punish the swindlers. To all such we beg to say that 
we have enough to do to attend to our own business. We 
renew our caution, and give notice that hereafter we shall 
sell our seed under the name of the IIAMSDELL NORWAY 
OATS. The demand for this seed is sufficient to guarantee 
a sale of every bushel in the country at our established 
price; and farmers who bought seed from us are asking from 
$7.50 to $10, and one evidence of seed being spurious is the 
fact of its being offered at less than the regular established 
prices. No man is likely to go to the trouble and,expense 
of advertising and selling this seed at a less price'than lie 
knows we would pay for it, if genuine. There is not seed 
enough to supply the State of California alone, while, others 
are coming in from every State and Territory, and many 
parts of Europe. There arc upward o f five millions of farm¬ 
ers in the United States yet to be supplied with this seed, 
and the whole crop this year would not give each a pint. 
Where one farmer had the frith in our representations to 
buy last year, thousands are satisfied and anxious to get it 
now. One word more on this subject of inferior seed. 
Many seed-dealers bought and sold seed last year which they 
may honestly have believed to be genuine, which was not; 
and some farmers, we are sorry to say it, who raised 25 bush¬ 
els, sold more than twice that quantity. The demand which 
the great success of this grain the past season has created 
will sweep off the entire stock in a short lime, and will offer 
unusual advantage for bogus operators; nnd.we.arc com¬ 
pelled, in justice to ourselves as well as for the protection 
of the public, to publish the above facts. The only safe way 
for the farmer is to make up his mind how much he wants, 
and if a neighbor whom he knows and can trust lias the seed 
of his own raising, buy of him; if not. send at once to us. 
Our best and heaviest seed, Northern (troicn , under the per¬ 
sonal supervision of Mr. Ramsdell, will be offered first. 
YIELD AMU SpjALITY. 
Wo claimed last year tliat tiie Norway Oat would yield 
double that of any other kind. Tiicy have done better than 
that. 
We claimed that they were 23 per cent heavier. They 
have exceeded that in weight. 
We claimed that they were better in quality. Reliable 
farmers say they are worth 100 per cent more for home con¬ 
sumption. hud will make whiter and sweeter flour than itlie 
best wheat. 
Farmers who can do so are invited to visit either of our 
stores, and examine the grain and specimens of stalks, root, 
branch, and head. We have mammoth roots producing as 
many as 243 stalks from a single kernel, which are visited by 
hundreds daily, and considered, justly, as we think, the 
wonder of ilie agricultural world. We shall continue to 
furnish the genuine Ramsdell Norway Oats as a specialty 
for two years to conic. The price next, year will not lie less 
than $4. One farmer in every town can make a small for¬ 
tune on tiie crop from a few bushels. 
Price: $7.30 per bushel: $1 per half bushel: $2.50 per peck. 
Sold by the standard of 32 lbs. to the bushel. Express 
charges to he paid by the purchaser. Bags free. Remit by 
draft., P. O. money order, or registered letter, or send by 
Express prepaid, and the package will be. delivered'to tlic 
Company on receipt of the money. Address either of our 
Stores nearest your place. Circulars free. 
D. W. R AMSESELIi & CO., 
P. O. Box 5.CS9, 
No. 355 Pearl St., New York, 
and No. 171 Raise St., Chicago, Ill. 
REFERENCES: 
Samuel Sinclair, of N. Y. Tribune; G. Collamore & Co., 
New York: Harper & Brothers, New York; J. L. Pearce, 
Pres. Third National Bank. Chicago, Ill.; H. X. F. Lewis, 
Editor Chicago Western Rural, Prairie Farmer Co., Chica¬ 
go, Illinois. 
