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Seed Sense Section Henry Field Spring, 1938, Catalog—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 
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Goodbye Feed Shortage 
You can say goodbye to feed shortages if you 
plant Sudan. This is a picture sent in by It. J. 
Gustafson of Kiron, Iowa. He says: “I enjoy 
your Seed Sense very much, so am sending you 
this picture of the Sudan 1 got of you. It sure 
was a dandy field with all shocks higher than 
my head. All the other seed yielded good, too.” 
Watermelons—2 Lbs. for $1.00 
I had a lot of farmers try this last year. Dump 
2 lbs. of watermelon seed in your corn planter 
box on one side and plant some rows of water¬ 
melons right in with your corn. 
One fellow, here, made $1600 off of 8 A. of 
melons and another made $450 from 2 A. 
I’m going to repeat my special offer of last 
year. Either 2 lbs. of seed ( % lb. of 8 choice 
varieties, my choice) or 2 lbs. of a grand mix¬ 
ture of 20 or more varieties for $1.00, postpaid. 
There’s a bargain and a good idea. Try it. 
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this is the most practical of all. 
My plan is dig an ordinary hole, 2 or 3 feet 
deep and a little larger than the hot bed being 
made. Fill full of manure, preferably fresh horse 
.manure with plenty of straw and tramp it down 
‘to about 4 in. above ground level. 
Make your frame of 1 in. boards and put on 
top of manure and fill inside with dirt 4 in. deep. 
Make one side 12 in. high and one 8 to get slope. 
Bank the dirt thrown up around the side. Cover 
with glass cloth or glass on the top, and you are 
ready. 
The main thing is to get your cabbage and to¬ 
mato plants started early. You can do this, 
without a hot bed in a south window indoors. 
New Odorless Cabbage 
You’ve probably read a lot about this in the 
farm papers and magazines. It’s a regular cab¬ 
bage of a mild sort only it hasn’t the cabbage 
smell. Some folks tell me they like it better 
than the regular kind. You’ll find it there on 
page 7. 
had it blended especially 
4 1b. for $1.00 for me for years and most 
all of my customers use it 
10 lb. for 2.50 all the time, now, too. 
I guarantee it to taste 
All I ostpaid better, make more cups per 
pound, and please you bet¬ 
ter than any other coffee, regardless of price or 
it won’t cost you a cent. If it doesn’t, send back 
what you haven’t used, and I’ll refund every 
cent. 
If you want a stronger guarantee, write it 
yourself. I’ll stay hitched. The main thing is 
to try REAL coffee now. Prices low. 
Women folks like my cloth bag for making 
towels, aprons, bags, etc., too. 
Lucky Daisies! 
Here’s a sunbonnet and a little girl out wa¬ 
tering the daisies. They’re mighty lucky daisies 
to get such good care. They’re not quite as big 
as the GIANT Supremes I’m giving away Free 
on page 3, but they’re mighty nice and happy 
looking. This is Merle Krause from over at 
Elmhurst, Ill. 
New Things 
Yes, a seedsman has to keep up-to-date, too. 
Every year I add new things (if they are good) 
and get new and better strains of old favorites. 
You’ll see a lot of them as you go through the 
catalog. Here’s just part of a list of some I 
want you to notice for sure. Don’t have room 
for all. 
New Vegetables 
Sugar Lump Melons—No Wilt Beans—New 
Super-Gold Popcorn—New Slicer Tomato—-New 
Wilt Resistant Watermelons-—-New Mule Hybrid 
Sweet Corn—New King of the North Peppers— 
New Yellows-Resistant Cabbage — New Odor¬ 
less Cabbage—New Squash, and a lot more. 
New Flowers 
New Dwarf Sweet Peas—Mrs. Fischer’s Early 
Strain Heavenly Blues—New Double Nasturtium 
—New Dwarf Zinnias—New Giant Size Cosmos 
(Pinkie)—New Dwarf Bush Balsam (8 to 10 
in.) and more. 
. New Nursery Items 
New Everbearing Blackberry — New Hardy 
Peach—New Hybrid Missouri Blackberry—New 
Hardy California Grapes—New Dwarf Asters— 
New Dwarf Flowering Quince—New Double 
Coreopsis—New Red Gaillardia and New Dwarf 
Gaillardia—7 New Roses—2 New Early-Bearing 
Apples, and a lot more. 
Mother Won’t Miss This One 
“Mother won’t miss just one. There are so 
many on this rose bush she got from Henry Field. 
Mother says it’s an American Beauty Climber. 
Aren’t they pretty?” This is Betty Lee Barton 
and her great grandmother, Mrs. James Graham 
of Bloomfield, Iowa, sent this one in. Both the 
roses and the little girl are mighty nice, aren't 
they? 
Mr. Pearson’s Book Counter 
Here are a few of the books, Mr. Pearson, our 
KFNF pastor has for sale. It’s not all of them, 
but the ones you most all want. 
RADIO HYMNAL—327 familiar hymns. Cloth 
bound. 60c each or 25 at 40c each, postpaid. 
Manilla bound. 50c each; 30c each in lots of 
25, postpaid. 
BIBLES—Teacher’s Bible is 5x7 % in., gold 
edges, leather cover, self pronouncing print, 
maps, concordance, illustrated. $5.00, post¬ 
paid. 
Student’s Bible — 5x7% in. Imitation 
leather cover, clear type, self pronouncing, 
maps and illustrations. $1.75, postjjaid. 
DICTIONARY—1100 pages. All the new words. 
Self pronouncing. $1.00, postpaid. 
MOON SIGN BOOK—Complete instructions for 
planting by the moon and planets. $1.00, 
postpaid. 
17 OUNCES BULK SEED and 
18 PACKETS CHOICE VARIETIES 
ONLY 
$100 
Postpaid 
ALL 
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BEST 
VARIETIES 
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FREE 
Here's the list 
Corn, Golden Bantam 
Peas, Early Alaska 
Beans, Stringless Green Pod 
Bean, Golden Wax 
oz. Pole Bean, Missouri Wonder 
oz. Beet, Early Round Red 
Radish, French Breakfast 
Radish, Early Red 
Radish, Icicle 
Lettuce, Early Cul led 
Lettuce, Iceberg Head Lettuce 
Carrot, Danver’s Half Long 
Carrot, New Coreless Chantenay 
Watermelon, Stone Mountain 
Muskmelon, Field’s Daisy 
pkt. Tomato, New Stone 
pkt. Cabbage, Early Jersey Wakefield 
pkt. Parsnips, Hollow Crown 
pkt. Spinach, Thick Leaf 
Onion, Yellow Globe 
Swiss Chard, Tall Green 
Cucumber, Pickling 
Turnip, Extra Early 
with each Gladiolus Bulblets 
1 Pkt. Pansies (Trial 
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collection 
Just ask for my 1938 Garden Seed Collection 
with 100 Free Glads 
100 GLAD 
BULBLETS 
with each 
collection 
ABOUT THE BULBLETS 
These proved so popular last year, I 
am going to give 100 free with each gar¬ 
den seed collection this year. 
Glad bulblets are the ideal way to 
start a big “glad” garden. Usually they 
are called Seedsmen’s Size, because seeds¬ 
men buy and sell them among themselves 
and grow blooming size bulbs out of 
them. 
No reason why you can’t have them, 
too. About 10% bloom the first year, and 
all the second year. Believe me, they 
make lovely glads. 
300 FREE AATTH TAYO COLLEC¬ 
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