G. B. CUTLER SEED CO. 
a few words for the first page of this 
little book. I’m like the old darky when 
a white friend came upon him on the 
street and said, “Rastus, I was very sorry 
to hear that you buried your wife.” Rastus 
replied, “Yas suh, boss, ah jes had to— 
she was daid.” I just have to write my 
piece in here or this seed book would be 
like so many other ones that are used to 
start fire with in the morning. There 
may not be perfect grammar in this here 
story but I try to put across a few good 
ideas on the best place to buy your field 
and garden seed. I believe the prices are 
just as low as I can make them and you 
still get good quality seed. You are given 
the privilege of testing a sample of any 
of the seed. That would be like the old 
farmer who wrote to Sears Roebuck & Co.: 
Please send me one of them gasoline en¬ 
gines which you advertise on pags 799 
and if it’s any good, I’ll send you a check. 
The following reply was received: “Send 
us the check and if it’s any good we’ll 
send the engine.” 
Last year I sent out 6,500 catalogs and 
I had the satisfaction of selling more 
bulk garden seed than any previous year. 
That alone tells a story. I think that with¬ 
in a few years I’ll have all the gardeners 
converted from buying their seeds in the 
pretty colored packages and paying for 
the picture and getting less seed and in¬ 
ferior quality. If my reader is a fussy 
lady and likes to have her garden all 
decorated with nice bright pictures she 
can come in and buy her garden seed in 
my plain envelopes and I’ll draw her some 
pictures for her garden. That’s fair 
enough, don’t you think? The gardeners 
can be glad that the government hasn’t 
formed an AAA or ABC that limits the 
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