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Come from Two Sources — (I) Better Quality; (2) Bigger Yield 
Both Require Good Seeds,, So Order Generously of These 
Isbell 1937 Specialties of Outstanding Merit 
The 1937 Profit Column 1000 From 1 
Isbell's specialties represent years of painstaking scien- Tomatoes for instance, a packet of Phenomenal 
title seed selection and plant breeding. There are none Tomato can grow 1000 plants, yield 1000 pecks—250 
better in the whole world. Use these tine seeds to replace bushels of finest market tomatoes. Yet a half peck pays 
all your less profitable sorts. ^ or y° ur seed twice over and you have 999^4 pecks to 
sell besides. 
Many a grower who has just barely missed getting a The same fact holds also with other profit-making 
profit from his. land and lubor will put himself into the vegetables such as: Isbell’s Early Wonder Wax Beans, 
profit column in 19.:>7 just by using better seed. That s Isbell’s Longpod Stringless Beans, Isbell’s Honey Rock 
why we have devised our prosperity drive to meet him Muskmelons, Isbell’s Super Detroit Beet, Isbell’s Early 
hall way in both better quality and fair price. Bird Radish, Isbell’s New Wonder Peas, Isbell’s Danish 
There is no investment a grower can make that will Grown Ballhead Cabbage, Isbell’s Earliest and Sweet- 
pay as well as better seeds—no kind of merchandise est Watermelon, Longfellow Cucumber, Imperator Car- 
that will give you as much for your dollar. rot, King of the North Pepper, and many others. 
If you want to make 1937 a clean-up year, buy plenty of good seeds—buy early and get the 
best. Look over our new specialties and improved old favorites. 
One Example of Isbell’s Readiness to Boost Your Profit 
Let’s consider for a moment an acre of onions. On an Contrast this with an acre of Isbell’s Brigham Strain 
acre of onions grown from inferior seed, you may pro- Michigan Yellow Globe Onions. Your chances are for 
duce the same number of onions of the same size as our 95 to 9S% uniform sized, hard, fine keeping bulbs. Sort- 
Brigham strain’of Michigan Yellow Globe, but there the ing time is cut to a minimum; you get 500 to 600 bushels— 
similarity ends. By the time you sort out 25% of under- twice as many salable at a higher price for U. S. No. 1 
sized onions, misshapen culls, and necky bulbs, you are than for inferior grades. As a matter of fact, in recent 
losing not only 25% of your crop, but the labor as well. years inferior onions have sold as low as one-half the price 
And if you do not market all your crop at of U. S. No. 1 grade. And many growers who store half 
once, you face additional heavy losses from their crop for spring higher prices find the keeping quality 
poor keeping quality, so eventually you arrive and value of our Brigham strain Michigan Yellow Globe 
at a half crop of liard-to-sell onions, yields more than double over ordinary strains. 
Take a pencil and paper, and a few minutes’ 
im» figuring will show you how vital good seed stocks 
are. Here, for example, are two comparative crops 
—not extreme: 
Crop A—Inferior Onion Seed. 
500 bushels per acre 
wmmmm Less 125 ” sorts 
salable 
~/ ’■ jft 125 bu. U. S. No. 1 Grade 
fir . ■ ‘ *. '■ v at 75 c .$93.75 
200 off grade at 50c.100.00 
Ik - 
fi ^ ' “ Total revenue .$193.75 
f|j ’ Crop B—Brigham Strain Michigan 
ggg Yellow Globe. 
Bplf < ' ‘5ftST. »' 550 bushels per acre 
HBl|. Less 20 ” sorts 
smJe M, 7 ■ ,t> tS ’{, ,• .■ k j &V . . 53 0 ” salable onions 
IT. S. No. 1 at 75c .$397.50 
%: Difference in favor of Brig¬ 
ham .$203.75 
ikilp Jljfe 4 Cost of seed, sown in rows 14 
inches apart at rate of 4 lbs. seed 
P6 4 fbs. 6 ' at $2.75 .$11.00 
Additional profit on an $11 seed 
» investment .$192.75 
or about 1873% just because the 
V seed was better. 
■r jdHj Brigham Strain 
iMSsSr Michigan Yellow 
Globe 
This is the heaviest yielding 
and best keeping type of Yellow 
Globe Onion. 
w/ Michigan grown seed from 
selected bulbs of the original 
strain. 
„ . Eull description is on the reg- 
IJrigliam ular onion seed pages. I*kt. 10e; 
»z-> 25c; % p,., 80c; lb., $2.75, 
Michigan postpaid. 
Yellow Globe Costs us more to raise this 
pure strain. It is worth much 
_ ~ _ more to you. 
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