COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA 
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^ M A If you raise stock you will 
1^1 save mone y b y feeding be¬ 
sides grain, beets and car¬ 
rots. These roots have the same influence on the health of 
your stock as fruits and vegetables have on yourself. You 
cannot eat all meat and stay in good health, neither can your 
stock eat all grain and stay well. All grain diet means ill 
health. You have to buy stock powder, call the veterinary 
maybe. Both cost money. Feed roots and your stock will 
be in pink of condition. You will do better financially, your 
stock will feel better and would thank you heartily if stock 
was endowed with the gift of speech. If in doubt as to what 
is the truth, whether it pays or does not pay to grow and 
feed roots, write to Dept, of Agriculture, Washington, D. C., 
for information about root crops, write to your Agricultural 
paper, ask your friends and then ACT. 
GIANT YELLOW ERFURT 
Also called Golden or Yellow Tankard. Flesh yellow, 
roots cylindrical shaped, growing well above the ground. 
Very nutritious. Pkt. 5c; % lb. 10c; y 2 lb. 20c; 1 lb. 40c; 
10 lbs. $3.50, prepaid. 
YELLOW OBERNDORF 
Also called Yellow Globe, Golden Globe, Champion Yel¬ 
low Globe, etc. It is a fine variety with nearly globe shaped 
roots that grow two-thirds above the ground, making it easily 
gathered. Best variety for poorer soils. Pkt. 5c; *4 lb. 10c; 
lb. 40c; 10 lbs. $3.50, prepaid. 
MAMMOTH LONG RED 
This variety has been known to produce mangels over 
60 pounds in weight. Pkt. 5c; *4 lb. 10c; y 2 lb. 20c; lb. 40c; 
10 lbs. $3.50, prepaid. 
FANCY TURNIPS 
To get richly colored, fancy turnips of any of the purple 
top varieties, you must not allow the roots to crowd one 
another out of the ground. And you must not allow the roots 
to starve from lack of water. Properly thinned out, you will 
get beautiful roots from the seed we send out. 
How to Make Gardening Pay 
Work, work, work, and some thinking will do it. Think¬ 
ing plays an important part. To make gardening or any 
other business pay is not easy. There is strong competition 
—there are too many gardeners. But no matter in what line 
you may be engaged, you would find the same conditions—• 
hard struggle, lasting for years before one is a success. 
That can not be helped, we must submit to that, must never 
get discouraged. You work hard, all gardeners do, in work¬ 
ing you are hard to beat. But how about thinking, planning 
ahead? There it is where too many gardeners are below the 
mark. Thinking, weighing facts in your mind as you see 
them happen, noticing the constantly changing conditions 
and chances, is what counts. 
Noticing, for instance, that a certain crop is bringing 
very low prices, you can gain by planting this same crop 
on an enlarged scale the following season. A little thinking 
will reveal to you, that you can gain by cutting down or 
planting only the usual acreage, the season to follow, of 
crops that at present are paying well. Why? Take potatoes 
in 1927. That year potatoes sold for real money, but in 1928 
prices were below the cost of production. Everybody plant¬ 
ed potatoes, folks planting potatoes in 1928 must have been 
under the impression that because in 1927 potatoes paid well, 
they will always pay well. They did not, the growers lost 
money. Another case. In 1927 carrots in our market were 
hard to sell even at very low prices. Disgusted, the growers 
in 1928 either did not plant carrots at all or very few only. 
Result was that in 1928 carrots were among the crops that 
paid well. Spring crop of beans in 1928 did not bring the 
cost of picking them, the growers were “sick” of beans and 
did not plant any for a late crop. A few gardeners did and 
made money, beans were scarce and prices good. This 
proves that low prices are followed by high prices and high 
prices are followed by low prices. It is easy for the think¬ 
ing man to foretell how the market will go for months ahead. 
And that is very important as it means the difference 
between profit and loss. Think twice, before you place an 
order for seeds. It pays to plant the best only, regardless of 
what the seed costs. Ordering wisely chosen varieties will 
help a great deal to make gardening profitable. We know of 
a local gardener, who in 1927 planted a new superior variety 
of late cabbage, of a muskmelon, a new tomato, besides a 
few other items of less importance. His melons, cabbage 
and other vegetables being of superior quality fetched fancy 
prices; he found gardening a well paying business, while 
many other gardeners had a hard time to make expenses. 
They did not think, our gardener friend did. 
SUGAR BEETS 
VALUE—Are grown for the rich sugar content. They also make 
rich, juicy and sweet feed that materially increases the flow of milk 
in milch cows and makes it rich in cream. 
CULTURE—Select a piece of mellow ground, plow to the depth 
of at least 9 inches, pulverize the ground by harrowing, and put the 
soil in as fine condition as you can make it. The idea is to free the 
field as much as possible from all weeds and grasses. Cultivate 
thoroughly. If you plan to plant only a small field of beets plant 
by hand, using 8 to 12 lbs. of seed to the acre. If large fields are 
planted use garden drill, and 12 to 16 lbs. of seed to the acre. Cover 
the seed to a depth of 2 inches. Have the rows from 16 to 28 inches 
apart depending on conditions. Plant as soon as the ground is warm 
enough to eause germination of the seed, about the early part of 
May. The crop must be well cultivated at all times to hold the 
moisture in the soil and to destroy all weeds. 
KLEIN WANZLEBEN 
Very productive, flesh snow white. The most popular sugar beet. 
Pkt. 5c; % lb. 10c; % lb. 20c; lb. 40c, prepaid. 
HALF SUGAR 
This fine sugar beet, while giving nearly as large a yield of 
easily grown and harvested roots as a crop of mangels, supplies 
a food of very much higher nutritive value. Pound for pound, the 
roots for feeding purposes being really more valuable than those 
of the very best strains of sugar beet, and yield under equally 
favorable conditions, being more than double. Pkt. 5c; lb. 40c; 
10 lbs. $3.50, prepaid. 
PLANTS SUITABLE FOR BEEP SHADE— Cypripedium, 
Funkia, Gentian, Christmas Rose, Lily of the Valley, Ruscus, 
Veratrum, Asperula Odorata, Corydalis, Pachysandra, Tril¬ 
lium, Maiden Hair Fern, Ostrich Fern. 
OUR SEEDS ARE TRUE TO NAME 
Of the Highest Quality—Fresh and Strongly Germinating 
—You can not buy better seeds anywhere, no matter what 
price you pay. 
