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Henry Field's Seed Sense Section of the 1938 Spring Catalog. Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 
My OWN CORNER 
FOR "JUST 
VISITIN’" 
Just Sittin’ Watching My Garden Grow 
Yes, sometimes the boss just sits. Not very often though. 
Usually, you folks keep me humping. But it doesn’t hurt most 
of us to now and then take time off just to sit and watch the 
world go by. We’d all be better off if we did more of it. 
I call this my own page. The rest of the book 
is written to suit you and all the rest of the folks. 
It must be done just about right. No mistakes, no 
wrong grammar, and no waste space. 
But this page, I write just to suit myself. If it 
don’t suit you, you don’t have to read it. You can 
go on and read the rest of the book and come back 
to this later when you haven’t anything else to do. 
I’ve had a lot of fun getting this catalog ready. 
How do you like the big, new size, anyway? I 
kind of thought you’d like it a lot better and be¬ 
sides, I can get a lot more pictures on the pages. 
So I’m trying it out. If it pleases you, say so on 
your orders. 
It’s been a great year, hasn’t it? How has it 
treated you? "We came through with flying colors. 
Seems like every customer brings in two or three 
new ones, and they keep us humping. They’re all 
welcome. And right now I want to thank all of 
you for telling your friends about me. It’s the best 
kind of advertising I could have. And I’ll try to 
live up to your recommendation 100%. If any of 
you have given away, or do give away, your catalog 
to a neighbor, I’ll send you another. Glad to do it. 
And the letters we’ve been getting are the best 
part of the seed business. I’d rather read your 
letters than eat. Keep them coming, and the pic¬ 
tures, too. I can’t put out a Seed Sense without 
them. 
I suppose you read Seed Sense. It’s free with an 
order. We’re going to print about four or five 
again this year and you’ll probably get one in a 
month or so, if you’ve sent in an order by that 
time. 
I hope you all have fine gardens this year. I’m 
planning a bigger one down at my Ozark Cabin and, 
of course, one here at Shenandoah. 
Plan on having the best garden you ever had. Of 
course, you ought to buy your seeds of me, but 
whether you do or not, read the catalog through 
or just look at the pictures, and you will get a lot 
of good ideas about gardening that won’t cost you 
a cent. 
John Henry Married 
When Mrs. Field and I took 
our trip to California, we 
stopped at Pueblo, Colorado, to 
see John Henry and his new 
wife. 
John Henry took a job out in 
Pueblo early this summer, met 
a mighty nice girl and was 
married July 24. 
They are all set up fine in a 
nice apartment. 
That’s Mrs. Field, Ethel (my 
new daughter-in-law), John 
Henry, and myself. 
Here’s Frank 
Here’s my eldest, smil¬ 
ing as usual. He’s back 
at the Seed House after a 
few years work out at the 
stores. 
Frank talks every day 
over the radio, helps the 
Nursery Department and 
is general right hand man. 
Notice the pansies in 
his buttonhole. You very 
seldom ever see him with¬ 
out flowers around some¬ 
where. 
Here’s What Your Neighbors Say 
Now I won’t bother you any more, and you can 
go ahead and read the catalog and fill out the order 
sheet in the back. Of course, I want an order. 
Even if it’s not a very large one, send it along. It 
takes orders to keep this business going and I 
know I can do you some good in the seed line. The 
business couldn’t succeed, if I didn’t. Or, if you 
can’t send an order, or come see me, write me a 
letter anyway. Whether you order or not, you can 
be friendly. And if I can help you in any way with 
advice or information, just help yourself. 
Write soon, goodbye. 
HENRY FIELD. 
Save Your Garden—Use Bug Dust! 
“I wish to thank you for a fine garden saved by your 
combination Bug Dust. It cleaned the green lice from the 
peas, black lice f rom my beans, and striped bugs from my 
cucumbers—not to say anything about the cabbage worms.” 
Mrs. Ross Ritchey, Rt. 3, Woodbine, la. 
* * * * * * 
“Dear Henry: Your Bug Dust spreads easily, kills the 
bugs and does not injure the plants as some insecticides do.” 
Mrs . H. E. Hazen, Toulon, III. 
* * * * * * 
“Dear Sir: This being my third order for Bug Dust, I 
can truly say that it is the best, or I can go one better, it 
is the ONLY Bug Dust. I wouldn’t garden without Field’s 
Buy Dust.” L. M. Morrison, Churdan, la. 
Government figures, just released, show that one- 
tenth of all the food raised, goes to feed insects. They 
eat up over THREE BILLION dollars worth of food 
a year. 
That doesn’t mean, of course, that you’ll lose any 
three billion dollars. But, anyway you look at it, bugs 
are mighty pesky, especially when they move in and 
eat up a garden you’ve hoed and tended all year. 
There’s one SURE way to stop them and that’s with 
BUG DUST. It’s made out of the new dust 'called 
ROTENONE which is 38 times as powerful as Arsenate 
of Lead, and still NON-POISONOUS. It’s both an in¬ 
secticide and a fungicide and stops disease as well as 
bugs. 
I’m the only one who sells it. I heard of the discov- 
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Single Lbs.40c 
10 Lbs.$2.75 
20 Lbs.$5.00 
Single Lbs.40c 
ALL POSTPAID 
ery three years ago and 
made this dust. It’s cheap, 
powerful, and safe and I sell 
a world of it. Over 20,000 
customers bought it last year 
and most of them were peo¬ 
ple coming back for more. 
So it must be good! See 
page 42. 
Safe to Use 
T!ug Dust is absolutely safe 
.to use. You can put it right on 
your l.-tluce in the morning 
and eat it at noon without 
washing it, and it won’t hurt 
you, but it will get the bugs. 
It’s cheap, too, considering it 
protects about $100 worth of 
vegetables in your garden. 
Don’t Look Now! 
“Don’t look now, I think I’m 
going to slide off. Why doesn’t 
Henry Field make a square 
watermelon?” That’s Miss Lillie 
Dusek from way down in Lo- 
vake, Texas, and a mighty 
healthy looking customer of 
mine. I think of everything I 
sell, kids like watermelons the 
best. 
Guaranteed Nursery Stock 
My nursery stock is all state 
inspected, free from disease and 
the heaviest quality, and first 
class in every way, or I don’t 
send it out. That’s why I can 
guarantee it. 
If you’re not pleased in every 
way, notify me within 5 days 
and I will replace it at once. 
I guarantee it to reach you in 
first class, live growing condi¬ 
tion. After that, up to Octo¬ 
ber 1, we take only half the 
blame, (weather one-half) and 
replace at half price anything 
unsatisfactory through any 
fault of the stock. 
Fair enough? 
A Squash Recipe 
I never cared a terrible lot 
for Squash until this year. But 
we have gotten to eating these 
Delicata and Table Queen 
squashes a new way. First you 
cut the Squash open, from end 
to end, take out the seed, and 
fill the center with fresh pork 
sausage with a little sage and 
onion mixed in. Put the halves 
back together again and bake in 
a good hot oven. Believe me, 
you’ve got something, then. 
About Postage 
Most every item in my cata¬ 
log is postpaid. I pay the post¬ 
age on all garden seeds, all 
flower seeds, and most nursery 
items. 
But some nursery, like big 
fruit and shade trees, can’t go 
by parcel post, so I quote the 
price not prepaid. There are 
just a few of these and all are 
plainly marked. That means, 
you pay the express when it ar¬ 
rives. 
But, if your total nursery 
order is over $10, I will pay all 
the charges here. Most of you 
know this, but I thought I’d 
remind you again. 
Buy At the 5 or 10 Rate 
I want everybody to be sure 
and take advantage of my low 
quantity rates on fruits, shrubs, 
etc. You don’t have to order all 
one kind of fruit trees to be 
able to use the low prices. You 
just have to order that many 
fruit trees. 
Suppose you bought 5 apples 
and 5 cherries. Then, use the 
10 rate. Suppose you bought 
5 Spirea and 5 Lilac. Then use 
the 10 rate. The same is good 
with perennials, shrubs, grape 
vines, etc. 
Take advantage of it. 
