We Spent $50,000 To 
Now, after years of investigation «nd at the 
expense of more than $50,000.00, we have 
changed ALL our varieties to '‘Record-Bear¬ 
ing” Strains. ALL Stark Trees are propagat¬ 
ed from the best known Record-Bearing Par¬ 
ent Tree of each variety—or from trees scien¬ 
tifically proved to have superior bud varia¬ 
tions and bud sport characteristics—with the 
ability to transmit to their offspring superior 
higher color and earlier color, uniformity of 
shape and type, greater crops, larger fruit. 
Leading horticulturists and most successful 
orchardists, in planting their own orchards. 
ASSURE You Extra Value 
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prefer to plant Stark Trees that they KNOW 
have been propagated from Parent Trees of 
KNOWN Bearing Records. For instance. Prof. 
Green, for years Chief State Horticulturist of 
Ohio Experiment Station, stated: 
“If I were planting an orchard myself, I 
wonld prefer that the nursery stock I used 
would be propagated from trees of known 
records.” 
Prof A. D. Shamel, in charge of U. S. Govt. 
Fruit Improvement investigation, says “Of 
Great Value To Fruit Industry!” 
Th is Absolutely Assures Greater Tree Value 
It preserves Superior Colored Strains, like 
Starking, etc. It perpetuates Heavy Bearing 
Types, such as Golden Delicious. It keeps 
“drone” trees out of Stark Trees. It prevents 
our best varieties from degeneration — and 
§ revents best varieties from relapsing into 
egenerate, weak strains. 
It preserves the habits of heavier annual 
yields of better colored fruit, ideal shape, 
larger size and other better characteristics— 
and, thus, assures better fruit, bigger crops 
and greater profits to those who plant Stark 
Trees. 
Every Farmer Knows This 
To Be A Fact 
It Makes More Certain /r True- 
to-Name” Trees 
In these days, every farmer and stockman 
now knows that he gains bigger crops from 
superior seed—gets finer stock from thorough¬ 
bred or pedigreed parents—and, while trees 
are not the product of two parents, their 
propagation from a Stark “Record-Bearing” 
Strain Parent Tree is of vast importance and 
of GREATER VALUE to the man who wants 
assurance of a reliable source of the best fruit 
trees and the biggest profits. 
Our system of propagating ONLY from 
Record-Bearing Parent Trees of each variety, 
minimizes errors in propagation and, thus, is 
double assurance that EVERY Stark Tree is a 
True-To-Name tree. 
A leading Editor writes: “It is a fact that 
your house is one of the very few that have 
kept their stock pure and straight. I do not. 
recall a single instance where it was claimed 
your stock did not turn out true to name.” 
Prof. Shamed U. S. Department of Agriculture, 
Demonstrates This Method 
Prof. A. D. Shamel, in charge U. S. Govt. 
Fruit Improvement Investigations, is noted 
throughout the World as the Foremost Au¬ 
thority on Bud Variation and for the wonder¬ 
ful benefits he brought Fruit growers through 
his splendid work on bud variations in various 
branches of Horticulture. His work for citrus 
g rowers alone saved millions of dollars. Prof, 
hamel states: 
“The work of searching out such valuable 
new improvements as your bud sport Starking 
and other superior variations of standard vari¬ 
eties is of great value to the fruit industry. 
These improvements in color, size, shape of 
fruit and increased production, as well as 
other important characteristics, can unques¬ 
tionably be reproduced by propagation from 
these known superior strains. On the other 
hand, drone or poor bearing strains also occur 
and careful, intelligent, parent-tree selection 
STARK BRO'S NURSERIES 
will eliminate inferior strains from propaga¬ 
tion and will result in better fruit and more 
profit for fruit growers. Our experiments and 
observations for twenty years have definitely- 
proved these facts, and the fruit growers are 
realizing more and more the vast importance 
of obtaining trees propagated from these su¬ 
perior strains.” 
Remember, it has taken our Staff of Scien¬ 
tific Horticulturists nearly 30 years of contin¬ 
uous work and search to finally arrive at the 
point where we are able to offer Stark “Rec¬ 
ord-Bearing” Strain Trees in every variety. 
Growers should, therefore, be very cautious 
about bogus so-called “Superior” strains, of¬ 
fered by those who have not the facilities for 
the great and costly work and who have not 
spent years and years in searching out and 
investigating the records of the Parent Trees 
from which they propagate. 
LOUISIANA, MO. 
