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Fellow 
Gardeners 
This year, we’ll find the biggest demand 
for fresh vegetables we have ever had. The 
old adage, “The early bird catches the worm’’ is 
going to be strictly the case with vegetables this 
year, without a doubt. Plant plenty to eat and to can, 
and you’ll be able to dispose of any surplus at a nice 
cash profit. On a small plot of ground, it has been 
proven again and again that there isn’t anything you 
can plant that will supply the returns in food as well 
as cash returns, like a well planned, well cared for 
vegetable garden. 
We have made it our business to select for you fine, 
pure seed strains. Our growers know that we are 
cranky about quality and want only the highest quality 
and absolute trueness to name in all of our vegetable 
and flower seeds. 
Last year was certainly a terror. Heat and 
drouth burned gardens, pastures, and crops 
everywhere. I travelled through 18 states dur¬ 
ing the summer, and even in Wisconsin and 
Michigan there were no gardens. 
The fruit cellars and vegetable cellars are 
empty. I am confident this year will see more 
gardens planted than have ever been planted 
since we have been in business. 
LOW PRICES 
Again this year, I am furnish¬ 
ing you these fine, clean, pure 
seed strains, fresh from the 
finest growing sections at prices that are low. Vege¬ 
table seed crops were extremely short last year, in fact 
the shortest on record. However, by careful planning 
ahead, I am able to make you these unusual offers. I 
guarantee you the same high quality, dependable 
strains and quick service. Order early while the sup¬ 
ply lasts. 
Gardeners Every¬ 
where Have 
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Learned to Rely 
with Confidence on 
My 
I sincerely hope that you people will place 
your orders at once for garden seeds and 
flower seeds. I guarantee you new crop, high 
germinating seed. You can hear my vegetable 
and nursery talks over Radio Station KMA, 
and I hope you will tune to rfur station, 930 
kilocycles. 
date the fine business of the past season, as 
well as the previous ones, but I do want to 
impress upon you that many items were natu¬ 
rally short because of the drouth, such as 
Sweet Com, Beets, and Tomatoes, and I have 
been very busy seeing to it that my supply of 
new crop seeds is ready to ship to you, and 
I hope you will place your orders for them 
immediately. 
TRUE-TO-NAME 
Garden Seeds 
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EARL MAYS BIG RELIABLE 
VEGETABLE GARDEN 
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RADIO GARDEN 
Visits About Vege¬ 
tables and Flowers 
Well, Friends, at last we are on 
full time, and it’s a great relief now 
to be able to broadcast to you con¬ 
tinuously, because I can render you 
better service. We start in the 
morning at 4:45 A.M. and broadcast 
until the next morning at 1:15 A.M. 
You can listen to us all day if you 
want to, and I hope you’ll want to. I’ll 
be on, as usual, at 10 in the morning, 
from around 11:30 through the noon 
hour, and at 7:30 in the evening, and 
I will have other members of our or¬ 
ganization who are especially qualified 
in the various departments, such as 
Alfalfa and Sweet Clover, and Shrubs 
and Trees, and Gardening and Baby 
Chicks, to visit with vou daily, over 
KMA. 
POSTPAID 
14 lb. Giant Stringless Green Pod Bean. 
l / 2 lb. Little Marvel Peas. 
% lb. Golden Bantam Sweet Corn. 
2 oz. Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean. 
2 oz. New Hopi Lima Pole Bean. 
1 oz. Early Wonder Beet. 
Pkt. New Coreless Carrot. 
Pkt. Danvers Half-Long Carrot. 
Pkt. Golden Acre Cabbage. 
Pkt. Early Curled Simpson Lettuce. 
Pkt. Wonderful Head Lettuce. 
Pkt. Yellow Giant Onion. 
Pkt. Hollow Crown Parsnip. 
Pkt. Early Bird Radish. 
Pkt. White Icicle Radish. 
Pkt. King of Denmark Spinach. 
Pkt. Ruby King Pepper. 
Pkt. National Pickier Cucumber. 
Pkt. Champion Moss Curled Parsley. 
Pkt. Mammoth Sandwich Island Salsify. 
Pkt. Purple Top White Globe Turnip. 
% Gallon Onion Sets. (Your choice of color.) 
_ n __ (Pkt. New Pairy Bouquet Linaria 
pRtE Pkt. New Comet Radish 
( Pkt. New Rutgers Tomato 
See What These Folks Say 
About my big $1.00 garden collection: 
“Enclosed find $1 for the collection of gar¬ 
den seed. I sent for your collection of gar¬ 
den seed last year and I can truthfully say 
I raised the best garden last summer ever. I 
don’t believe there was a single seed missed, 
and every plant kept such a healthy cast all 
through the severe growing season.”—John 
T. O'Hern, Barnum, Iowa. 
“I am sending you $2.00 for two boxes of 
the same garden seeds I got from you this 
spring. One for myself and one for my boy. 
We surely got some fine beans: canned almost 
68 quarts and the peas are grand, too. I an) 
canning carrots now. They are great. Also, 
our cucumbers are just ready to can; will 
have a good many of them,”—Gertrude Con¬ 
ner, Cumming, Iowa. 
THE VERY BEST IN EVERYTHING 
My big $1.00 Garden Seed Collection is 
probably the most popular single item in this 
book. It has made friends wherever it has 
gone. This year, I have made it even bigger 
and better, too. 
“We sure had a wonderful garden: from 
a single packet of onion seed from your Big 
$1.00 Collection, we harvested last fall over 
a bushel and half of real good large onions. 
I would suggest for anyone who would want 
a real garden to order the Earl May’s Vege¬ 
table Garden Collection, and say, Mr. May. 
you should see our fine lawn.”—Edward 
De Paepe, Fail-bank, Iowa. 
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