Cash Prizes for Potato Growers 
$100.00 for the Best 3 Potatoes 
We will pay $100.00 in cash for the best three White Gold 
Potatoes grown this year. It costs you nothing to enter this 
contest. Every grower of White Gold Potatoes is eligible. Sim¬ 
ply send us three White Gold Potatoes by parcel post, any time 
after September 1st, 1935, and before November 1st, 1935, and 
to the person sending the three best we will pay $100.00. 
If you are a potato grower you should by all means enter this, 
contest, for you will profit greatly by having grown this most 
wonderful of all potatoes, even should you not win the $100.00. 
There are no strings tied to this offer. The only conditions 
are that your three potatoes must be, if you enter the contest, 
mailed to us during September or October, 1935 , and that you 
write your name and address and the words “3 White Gold Po¬ 
tatoes” on a sheet of paper and enclose with the three potatoes. 
No other writing should appear. 
No one living within ten miles of Galesburg, Michigan, or 
employed by or connected with the Burgess Seed & Plant Co. 
can enter this contest. 
Tlie $100.00 prize will be promptly paid and the name and 
address of the winner printed in our next annual catalog. In 
the event of a tie between two or more participants for the 
prize offered, $100.00 will be awarded to each one so tying, 1 ! 
All potatoes sent are to become our property. 
Remember, this offer is not compulsory. Growers of White 
Gold Potatoes may enter this contest or. not, just as they see fit, 
and they pay nothing for the privilege of entering. Don't forget 
—contest closes midnight, October 30, 1935. If you are not 
familiar with the new White Gold Potato, read the following 
description. You will not regret it if you plant some of them 
this year. 
WHITE GOLD 
The Best Early Potato 
Ever Introduced 
Potato Eyes by Mail 
Ten Days Earlier Than Any Other White 
Potato 
Thousands of our customers who want to grow a few of our 
White Gold Potatoes this year, will probably hesitate ordering 
on account of high express charges on a peck or bushel of seed. 
For the benefit of our customers who want to get a start witli 
this most excellent of all potatoes, we are furnishing good sound 
potato eyes by mail. These eyes are carefully packed and we 
warrant them to arrive in good growing condition, no matter how 
far away. Remember, the potato eyes are sent postpaid. This 
is your opportunity to get a start with this wonderful potato. 
60 eyes should produce a bushel or more of good potatoes. Some 
claim 3 to 5 bushels from sixty eyes, and one customer in 
Alaska reports 350 lbs. from 30 eyes. 
Orders for the South can be sent at any time during the win¬ 
ter with perfect safety. Orders for the North and West can be 
sent at once or later as desired. If shipping date is not specified 
by the customer. Northern orders will be booked when received, 
and sent when spring opens up or planting time arrives. Upon 
receipt of potato eyes, if too early to plant, put in moist earth 
and keep where they will not freeze. 
Prices of White Gold Potato Eyes 
White Gold will go a long way toward ending the depression 
for farmers who grow it. It is by far the earliest white Potato, 
which enables the grower to get on the market when prices are 
high. It is also a profitable main crop sort, due to its big yield 
and fine appearance and quality. 
White Gold has the size and shape of the Green Mountain, 
though the eyes are shallow and it is slightly netted in appear¬ 
ance. The yields compare favorably with late varieties such as 
Rural New Yorker and Carman. The outstanding feature, how¬ 
ever, is its earliness, for here is a white Potato of good size 
and appearance, a big yielder, and ten days earlier than Irish 
Cobbler, Early Ohio or Bliss Triumph. It is also a good winter 
keeper and of splendid cooking quality. Naturally the price of 
seed of this new variety is somewhat higher than ordinary varie¬ 
ties, but it is worth many times the difference in cost, as grow¬ 
ers will derive greater profits because of its earliness. 
Bushel, $3.00; % bu., $1.75; 14 bu., $1.00, f. o. b. Galesburg. 
30 for 50c; 60 for 80c; 
100 for $1.20; 250 for $2.50; 
500 for $4.75; or 1,000 for 
$9.00, by parcel post, post¬ 
paid. No order accepted for 
less than 20 eyes. 
HYBRIDIZED POTATO SEED 
$100.00 for One Potato 
Seed from the Seed Balls—Headquarters Stock. Your fortune may be in one 
of them. They are as easy to grow as tomatoes. Millions never saw a Potato 
Seed Ball. Thousands have tried in vain to get the seed. Now is your opportunity. 
This unrivaled seed will produce an endless variety of new kinds. It is from 
'these that all valuable new varieties of potatoes are produced. Growing new 
and distinct Seedling Potatoes from the Seed-Ball Seed is intensely interesting. 
They will be the greatest curiosity of your garden. This seed will positively 
Potato Seed Balls—One-Half Size 
produce innumerable 
new kinds, colors, 
shapes, sizes and qual¬ 
ities. The product will 
astonish you. Some 
may be of immense 
value and bring you a 
golden harvest. Every 
farmer, gardener and 
bright boy should plant 
a few packages of this 
seed. Pull directions on 
every package. 
Big Prize Package of 
Hybridized Potato Seed, 
25c; 3 packages, 50c; 7 
for $1.00, postpaid. 
In addition to the $100.00 prize for the best 
three White Gold Potatoes, we will also give 
$100.00 for the largest potato grown from 
Hybridized Potato Seed. 
To enter this contest you simply have to send 
one potato grown from hybridized seed and 
mail this potato to us during September or Oc¬ 
tober, 1935, enclosing with the potato a sheet of 
paper with only your name and address and the 
words “Hybridized Potato” written on same. 
Other than this the same rules apply as for com¬ 
peting for the prize for the best White Gold 
Potatoes, as described above. 
Enter Both of These Contests 
Plant both White Gold Potatoes and Hybrid¬ 
ized Potato Seed this spring, and plan on com¬ 
peting for both of the above $100.00 prizes. 
There is no charge for entering either contest— 
you don’t even have to buy your seed from us, 
but be sure that you plant genuine White Gold 
Potatoes and real Hybridized Potato Seed. The 
seed we offer is extra select and it is our rec¬ 
ommendation that you take no chances with sec¬ 
ond grade seed. 
We Deliver Everything Prepaid Unless Otherwise Specified 
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