1936 
TODD’S CATALOGUE OF HIGH-GRADE STRAWBERRY PLANTS 
Friends and Patrons: 
Another year is with us, and again I am pleased to have the pleasure of 
placing before you my annual strawberry plant catalogue. This is my only sales 
man except the friends who have been using my plants for many years and advise 
their friends to do likewise. I greatly appreciate this, and right here I want to 
thank all of my friends for this favor. Every year I receive many letters from 
my customers saying, “You do not say half enough about the quality of your 
plants and the way you trim and pack them for shipment.” I am willing to let 
my customers do the talking, and of course am pleased to receive your kind words 
and the testimonials you send me. 
Last season was a very good one here for growing plants and I am pleased 
to say that we have a very good supply of most of the varieties listed here, and 
that they are exceptionally fine. I do not like to boast of our plants and I am 
not going to say they are better than anyone else can possibly grow, but I am 
willing to have you test them by any plants that you may buy elsewhere. 
I do not claim to grow and ship as many plants as many nurseries, but I will 
say that I believe our plants are as large and fine as anyone grows, and I am sure 
that we trim and pack them for shipment much better than many nurseries do. 
I have bought new varieties from different nurseries and found that many of them 
ship the plants with the old dead leaves and runners attached, and then throw 
in most of the soil in which the plants grew for good count. In many cases after 
we trimmed and threw out the plants not fit to set we did not have more than 
half of what we had paid for. I expect you have had the same experience. 
The plants that I am offering you were all grown from large, healthy, select¬ 
ed plants: plants with the “Fruit-ful” qualities and are large, healthy, heavy- 
rcoted plants, equal to the best that I have ever sent out and customers who have 
been dealing with me for many years know that this means equal to the best 
grown. We send out nothing but first-class plants, trim and pack them as they 
should be, and I assure you that you cannot buy better plants, or plants that will 
produce more or better fruit, no matter where you buy, or what you pay. 
In sending me your orders for 1936 you will receive plants of the same high 
grade, and the same liberal treatment as in seasons past. I am only asking a fair 
price for good plants and good service, and have always found my customers 
ready and willing to pay for this. 
STRAWBERRIES AS A MONEY CROP. 
While it is true that there are “off'' years in growing strawberries the same 
as in all other crops, and that the large commercial growers some years realize 
very little, yet it is the grower who has berries every year who makes the monev 
and often realizes a handsome profit; $200 per acre and much higher is often 
realized. Some, where all conditions are favorable, with a large crop and near¬ 
by market receive $1000 per acre but this is the exception and not the rule, even 
in years of low prices I do not know of any other crop in this section that pays 
as well as strawberries. Last year many of the growers in tins vicinity received 
as high as $500 per acre. 
