By Way of Introduction 
For every purchase of seed there should be a reason. With thousands of 
farmers and dealers offering seed in one way or another there should be some 
inducement to buy or my paper and postage is wasted. 
Convenience, cost, quality and adaptability generally determine purchases 
of seeds. In the matter of convenience due to the low cost and excellence of 
our freight, express and parcel post service we are all on much of an equality. 
As to cost 1 believe because of my location at the place of production this can 
be held to be at least reasonable, in many instances low. To determine this 
exactly for you I am always pleased to quote you delivered prices. Dismiss¬ 
ing convenience and cost with these few words the remaining space will be 
devoted to the matters of quality and adaptability. 
Quality is determined largely by using only parent stock of the highest 
procurable type and purity, reproducing the same under conditions insuring 
the crops best development. Few producers or dealers in farm seeds have as 
good control of the production as I happen to have. With a rather large ex¬ 
perience in the production of vegetable and farm seeds I realize fully the 
importance of the best of stocks and growing conditions. This business is 
built on the belief that I possess both in unsurpassed measure. Rocky Ford 
is famous as one of the very largest producers of garden seeds and produces 
farm crops in quantity and quality equaled by very few, if any, sections 
anywhere. 
Where Winter hardiness is to be considered, the planter is assured that, 
due to our altitude and almost total lack of snow protection, our alfalfa and 
clovers get as much hardship as any produced in America and will equal any 
in Winter hardiness. An inspection of the native plants and the successfully 
grown fruit varieties prove, that any fruit or plant incapable of withstanding 
the severest American climatic conditions, does not flourish permanently here. 
Due to more than ordinary care on the part of the Rocky Ford farmers and 
the rapid and continuous rotation of the many crops grown here, no section 
has less noxious weeds. However, to give most positive assurance of this, we 
are glad to cooperate with the state seed laws in the matter of laboratory 
tests and tagging. 
Prices quoted herein are F. O. B. Rocky Ford. Always glad to specially 
quote delivered prices, with samples, to those living outside of the Rocky 
Ford trade area. The principle of “Pittsburg Plus” prevails in the seed as in 
the steel business. Unless you live in a section producing a surplus of seeds 
you will pay practically the same transportation cost, whether you buy from 
me here, or from some local dealer, who has had to add it to his price. In 
any case quality should be the determining factor. 
