WOMAN’S 
90 BEAUTIFUL 
1 TO 2 
TEN EACH OF THE 
ALTHEA 
Rose of Sharon 
SWEET SHRUB 
Chocolate Colored Flowers 
SPIREA VAN HOUTTEI 
Snowflake White 
RED BARK DOGWOOD 
-- Creamy White 
FINK SPIREA 
Rosy Fink Flowers 
CLUB SPECIAL 
NO. 
FLOWERING SHRUBS 
FEET HIGH 
FOLLOWING VARIETIES 
HYDRANGEA 
Creamy-White Flowers 
FORSYTH IA 
Golden Yellow, Bell Shaped 
WEIGELIA 
Fink Flowers 
DEUTZIA 
Finkish-White Flowers 
ALL FOR ^5.65 
Express Prepaid 
COUNTY AGENTS 
SCHOOL TEACHERS 
There U no more importaLOt work in your entire county than 
the work you do erery day aa part of your regular job. Sometimes 
you may think the pay ia small but you are both teaching and 
learning whenever you put one of your farmer friends on (he right 
track. In thia generation you may live to see the fruits of your 
work reflected in happier, more prosperous citizens of your com- 
Bonity. 
Perhaps there are some items in this folder that will help you 
to st^ve the problems that are facing land owners near you. Kead 
it over carefully and if you would care to have additional copies 
for free distribution they sre yours for the asking. 
BETZ TREE SPECIAL 
So. H 
90 FLOWERING AND SHADE TREES 
2 TO 4 FEET HIGH 
RED BUD. Reddish Pink Flowers. 
WHITE FLOWERING DOGWOOD. White Flowers. 
CHINESE ELM. Fast growing, drought resistant shade 
tree. 
SWEET GL'.M. Rugged bark, brilliant autumn coloring 
leaves. 
AMERICAN BEECH. Grayish-White bark. 
TLXIP POPLAR. Tulip shaped flowers. 
BLACK WALNUT. Edible nuts, good for shade. 
AMERICAN SYCAMORE. Grayish, scaly bark. 
SILVER LEAF MAPLE. Good for shade, rapid giowing. 
Ten each of the above varieties. 
ALL FOR $6.45 
Express Prepaid. 
COLLEGE PROFESSORS 
LAWYERS 
Nobody knows land values better than a lawyer. In his capacity 
I as adriser and legal guardian he often is called upon to decide 
I about mortgages and foreclosures. 
DOCTORS 
More than any other professional man. perhaps, the doctor 
needs a bobby. His working hours are so irregular and his work 
M exacting that he finds it necessary to get sway for a few hours 
oecaaiooally and relax. 
THERE ARE THOUSANDS OF DOCTORS WHO GROW 
THINGS—Flowers, trees, ett, as their recreation. Some of the 
outstanding developments in horticulture have been made by doc¬ 
tors who engaged in this work as a hobby. 
EVERT YEAR AN INCREASING NUMBER OF DOCTORS 
order plants and tree seedlings from as and begin this pleasant and 
profitable activity. Some use a dtj backyard or vacant lot; others 
plant small acreages in the country. This gives them pleasant 
hours out of doors and also adds quite materially to their income. 
IN THESE PAGE.S THERE ARE DOZENS OF SPECIAL 
ITEMS THAT WILL APPEAL TO DOCTORS. If you have al¬ 
ready started this interesting work, why not add a few new things 
this year and then pass this list on to some patient who needs this 
prescription himsdf? 
IN MAKING YOUR ROUNDS YOU SEE E.YAMPLES EVERY 
DAY OF FARMS THAT HAV'E SUFFERED FROM SOIL ERO¬ 
SION-FARMS THAT NO LONGER PAY THEIR OWN WAY. 
IF YOU WOULD UKE TO ASSIST IN THE WORK OF REFOR- 
ESTATTON A.VD RECLAIMING OF THESE WASTE AREAS. 
WE WILL GLADLY SEND YOU ADDITIONAL COPIES OF 
THIS BETTZ-BOYD N'EWS FOR FREE DISTRIBUTION IN YOUR , 
SECTION. I 
EVERY LAWYER CAN TELL YOU OF CASES WHERE THE 
VALUE OF PROPERTY DECREASED EACH YEAR UNTIL IT 
WAS NO LONGER WORTH THE AMOUNT OF THE FIRST 
MORTGAGE. 
IF YOU IX)UBT THE STATEMENTS FOUND IN THIS 
COPY OF BEI’Z-BOYD NEWS. JUST ASK YOUR LAWYER. 
And too. 
.Many lawyers have ordered from us each year themselves. 
They have learned that they can have many hours of pleasure out 
of doors growing plants and trees and that they will also show a 
substantial profit on the investment. 
IF YOU ARE A LAWYER. LOOK OVER THE ITEMS IN 
THIS LIST AND LET US KNOW IF YOU WANT ADDITIONAL 
COPIES FOR SOME OF YOUR CLIENTS. WE WILL GLADLY 
SEND THEM AND YOU WILL BE HELPING IN THE I.MPOR- 
TANT WORK OF CHECKING SOIL EROSION IN YOUR SEC¬ 
TION OF THE COUNTRY. 
BOYD NURSERY CO., McMinnville, Tennessee 
TREES GONE, “GOODBYE BIRDS’ 
CAMPBELL’S TREE 
BARGAINS 
No. C 
4 TO 6 FEET HIGH 
Well Branched Trees 
5 
5 
AMERICAN SYCAMORE 
BLACK LOCUST 
5 
RED BUD 
5 
TULIP POPLAR 
5 
SILVER MAPLE 
.4LL FOR $9.50 
Express Prepaid. 
One of the first things you learned about children was that they 
would do willingly and enthusiastically anything (hat was inter¬ 
esting to them. You can help in the important work of restoring 
the rich top-soil to many a depleted farm or meadow by explaining 
to your pupils the process of rainfall and the damage of erosion- 
USE THE ARTICLE.S IN THIS PAPER FOR TALKS TO YOUR 
CLASS. If you want additional copies they will be sent to you 
free of charge. Perhaps they will be interested in planting the 
school grounds, too, ^ind you can help them get started. 
In rural sections and even in cities, many school teachers are 
growing CHRISTMAS TREES for additional income. If you have 
a plot available this would be a most pleasant and profitable diver¬ 
sion for you. If you have a larger area (here are many items in 
(his Boyd-Betz News that will he of interest to you. 
Do you wonder sometimes, where you can get new material for 
your daily talks to your pupils? Try passing up the regular 
English class some day and use the time in discussion of some of 
(he articles in this paper. New interests will be aroused and you 
will be doing an excellent service for the entire community. IF 
YOU WANT ADDITIONAL COPIES FOR CLASS STUDY AND 
QUIZZES, we wilt send them free. 
SAKCASTIC NBIUUBUR: Dui 
brfore too can UmtM-r from I 
IK'TKKKS'l'BD FATUISR: 
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: fou knun it will be H Iona, luoa Unao 
Bw* trrvi*? 
at tiiut I will bf ariGna limbor from 
40 you arr NOT planilna- 
We never knew a professor who didn’t like to grow things him¬ 
self; it might be dahlias, irises, peonies or just plain petunias but 
they invariably do a good job with whatever they grow. Many 
fine hours, with profit attached, await you if you care to plant 
some of the trees or shrubs listed in this folder. Look it over and 
notice how your interest and enthusiasm rise. 
HEDGE PLANTS 
Plant a hedge fence. It will cost you less than the cheapest 
fence you can build; it will outwear the best fence you can build; 
it wilt look better than any fence you can build. 
We are large growers of hedge plants, and are thereby 
enabled to make (he following very low prices: 
, California . 
, California . 
, Amur River North, 
, Amur River North, 
, Amur Rives South, 
Per 26 
Per 100 
Per 250 
6-12 inch 
.76 
1.00 
2.00 
._12-18 inch 
.90 
1.60 
3.00 
18-24 inch 
1.00 
2.26 
4.25 
6-12 inch 
.75 
1.26 
2.60 
12-18 inch 
1.00 
2.26 
4.25 
6-12 inch 
.90 
1.76 
2.76 
12-18 inch 
l.OU 
2.50 
4.75 
, 18-24 inch 
1.25 
2.76 
6.26 
, , 6-12 inch 
, T2-1R Inch 
.50 
, .75 
1.60 
18-24 inch 
1.00 
2.26 
4.25 
IN MANY CASES THIS COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED 
AND THE LAND WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE INCREASED IN 
VALUE EACH YEAR IF SOIL CONSERVATION HAD BEEN 
PRACTISED. 
Boyal'. ralyranllm^ Floriiln 
When the trees are gone there will not be a place for 
the Birds to nest, which means more woes for people who 
have farms, yards and lawns. There will be more aban¬ 
doned faiTns, more people to be taken care of by the tax¬ 
payers. Tliese BIRDS SAVE farmers over $100,000,000 
yearly. 
"GOVERNMENT experts report that, if all birds were 
exterminated today there would not be a man. woman 
nor child alive in three years. 
"Many birds will eat their weight in insects daily. A 
pair of birds and their young have been found to consume 
from 300 to 10,000 insects in a single day. In the stomach 
of a single flicker Government experts found 5.000 ants. 
Martins and Swallows have been known to consume on 
an average of 3,000 mosquitoes in a day. It is claimed 
that one family of Jays will consume 1,000,000 caterpillars 
in a season. Sparrow.s are accredited with saving the 
TREES GONE, 
That trees throw off untold billions of gallons of water 
daily, which is returned as rain? From each pound of 
dry leaves from an Ash tree 1,018 gallons of water are 
thrown off yearly? Birch 918, Maple 611, Elm 822 and 
Oak 691 ? 
“GOODBYE MOISTURE^! 
HOW TO PLANT SMALL TREES 
Now, gentlemen, you have the opportunity to spend a 
few dollars to prevent your farm land.s from washing 
away and it will save your children and grandchildien 
from spending millions and at the same time you will be 
growing a crop of trees that will pay big dividends witliin 
a very few years. 
We require lumber for lebuilding and repairing o\er 
4,000,000 houses and barns on farms and villages where 
95 percent of the buildings are of lumber. It is TRUE 
that we need billions of trees planted throughout the 
United States for the use of Shade. Birds, Fuel, and 
Water. 
Practically all European countiies import from 75 to 
90 percent of the timber they use. They have no land 
on which to grow trees and as we have millions of acres of 
land with watpr, railroad and other facilities for getting 
the logs to the mills there is no reason why ue should not 
supply Europe with lumber for all time to come if we put 
our idle land to work. 
THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, one of the greatest 
lumber states, at one time had 28,000,000 acres of the 
finest virgin timber. Today they have less than 5,000,000. 
Their output for many years has been over two billion 
feet yearly. 
On April 5, 1932, for the first time in the United States 
almost 40,000 farmers (about 200,000 souls) lost their 
farms in one day for non-payment of taxes. While these 
farmers had timber to sell they were happy and paid 
their bills, and when the men in the cities got their hands 
on this money they, too, were happy, but like millions 
who smile when you say, "Make your idle land bring in 
an income," they had an idea there was enough timber to 
last while they lived and that farmers would be able to 
pay their bills and their children w’ould get by some way, 
trees or no trees. 
If you buy trees and want them to live, FOLl.OW 
INSTRUCTIONS. 
WOULD WE FIGHT? 
WE CERTAINLY WOULD 
40,000 ACRES OF FARM LAND SOLD BY THE 
STATE OF VIRGINIA on January 9, 1933, for 1931 
taxes. Had these farmers planted trees on their land 50 
years ago they could cut and plant each year and have a 
perpetual income for all time. 
If you invest your money in old mother earth it is safe, 
provided you do your duty in helping nature provide for 
the soil. If it is taken the right o»»re of it will pay you 
big for your investment, even if you have one of the 
poorest farms in the country to start witli. 
BUILD BRUSH DAMS 
The soil that is washing away must be stopped and it 
is up to the individuals to put a stop to it, and we are 
suggesting some ways that are cheap and still tlie l)esl 
that we know of to pul a stop to gullies and hillsides 
washing away. Get the brush if possible when tlie leaves 
are on the trees or branches of the trees and stack them 
crosswise of the ditches, driving some stakes so as to 
hold the brush, and it will start holding the dirt that is 
washing away, and if you wish, if the gullies be very bad, 
another thing to do would be get some Hall’s Honeysuckle 
vines, plant in the ditches alx)ve and also below the dams, 
and they will be very helpful in holding the di) t that is 
heading down stream. 
ALL WASHED UP 
farmers of this country more than $lii0,0u0,000 annually 
by their destruction of insects and weed seed. It is esti¬ 
mated that in Massachusetts alone birds destroy from 
May until September, 21,000 bushels of insects daily and 
in New York 3,000.000 bushels annually. 
"This study has entailed the sacrifice of 75.(J00 birds, 
but through it there has been established beyond ques¬ 
tion their economic worth. Man sees them now as the 
world's greatest combat force in the struggle with in¬ 
sects. Many previously accounted of but little worth are 
now recognized as winged battalions that since the begin¬ 
ning of time have hung between man and his insect ene¬ 
mies. 
"This enormous consumption of insects and weed seed 
is made possible because of the rapid digestion of birds. 
Food, it is stated, passes through the process of digestion 
in birds in from twenty to ninety minutes." 
By OWEN P. WHITE 
(Reprinted from COLLIER’S Magazine of Sept. 29. 1934. by Special Permission) 
Trees can be successfully planted either spring or fall, 
when the ground is wet and the weather is cool. 
When trees are received, remove 
the wrapper and put the roots in 
water until planted. DO NOT AL¬ 
LOW THE AIR TO STRIKE THE 
ROOTS, as (his will dry them out 
quickly. If you are not ready to 
plant, bet the roots in a trench, 
water well and cover with soil un¬ 
til time to plant. 
Soil should be prepared by plow¬ 
ing or by hand for small areas; if 
possible mix some fertilizer with 
(he soil before planting. Spread 
the roots out so that (hey will not 
he bunched in the hole and don’t be 
afraid to make the hole a little 
larger than necessary. Water if 
the ground is dry, pull the soil 
around (he small trunk and then 
next day tenp the soil well with 
your fool."~'Ulant each tree just a 
little deepei than it came out of 
the nursery. 
"Uncle Sam’s good earth—his rich topsoil, that is—is 
the most valuable thing he owns. It always has been. 
Without it, regardless of all his other possession.s, we 
would have been no better off than the Hottentots or the 
Chinese. Witli it we have become the most powerful and 
the richest and the most arrogant nation on earth. De¬ 
plete it or destroy it, and what happen.s? Even the aver¬ 
age farmer himself doesn’t know. 
"Erosion, of course, is the answer. Due to erosion, 
either by wind or water, all of our fai ms have lost .some 
of their topsoil, some have lost all of it, and yet when I 
recently suggested to a man whom I encountered out in 
his field looking as disconsolate as his corn did. that what 
was the matter was that his farm was washing away 
right out from under him. his courteous reply was: "Hell, 
man, me and my dad have already wore out three good 
farms and so I reckon there ain’t nobody can tell us what 
to do.” 
"Unrestrained ignorance, or carelessne.ss, if you prefer, 
conscientiously and continuou.sly iipplied cjui work mira¬ 
cles. Hei e’s the proof of it. Willi in the past sixty to 
seventy-five years. 35.»)(}().000 acres of good farm land, 
which is the equivalent of 219.0(.i() farms of 161} acres 
each, have been permanently ruined. On top of lliat. 
125,000,000 of the 350,000,00u aeie.s now in cultivation in 
this country are a national liability and not an asset, be¬ 
cause, due solely to erosion, what they are producing in 
addition to sub-marginal crops, is sulj-marginal citizens. 
Again, another lOO.OOO.OOO acres are j-apidly going the 
same route, 
"These aie huge losses. Believe me. they are! The 
potential value to Americans of the second and thii-d gen 
eration from now of the 35,000,000 acres which oui- 
farmers have already killed, to say nothing of the 225.- 
000.000 which they are now gouging to death, can nevei- 
be estimated in dollars and cents. It can. though, be ap¬ 
proximated in terms of hunger and human misery if we 
will but jump our imaginations ahead foi a centurv to 
the time when almost ail of the farm land of this couiitry 
will be as barren and worthless as the bleak clav aieas. 
RED RUIN IN GEORGIA 
IF A FOREIGN NATION CAME INTO THIS COUN¬ 
TRY AND ROBBED US OF OVER $400,000,000 worth 
of top black soil whicli required 1,000 years to build up 
one inch and made paupers of millions of our farmers as 
soil erosion has in the past fifty yeais? 
"A century ago there was not a ruined acre in Georgia. 
Look at it today. I've just done so and was amazed at 
what I saw. I visited one county, for instance, where I 
went over 125.000 acres on which a goat couldn’t even 
pick a living. Erosion did it. Either because they were 
ignorant, or shiftless, or perhaps both, the white men 
who originally cleared this land for cultivation plowed it 
in such a fashion as to encourage rain water to run down¬ 
hill. It accepted the invitation with alacrity. With every 
downpour tons and tons of topsoil were vvashed off of 
every acre and nobody paid any attention to it. Or if 
they did they didn’t worry about it. 
“Why should they? There was plenty of land; it was 
cheap; if one farm was "wore out” another could be liad , 
almost for the clearing of it, and so, with no human hin- 
diance wliatever, the erosion process went on until the 
topsoil was gone and the red-clay subsoil was e.xposed. 
That was the end of Stuart County, Georgia, most of 
'\ hich is now so cut up with prodigious gullies that it will 
never again be of any use to anybody. 
"Everywhere I went I saw this demonstrated. In Vir- 
.(inia I explored a tract of 136,000 acres which was, when 
we first gut it as good farm land as ever lay outdoors. *, 
T(»day forty per cent of it, with its topsoil all gone and ^ 
its red clay ribs sticking out in plain view, has been per- • 
nnmently abandoned, while tlie remaining sixty pei- cent. ' 
unless strenuous measures are taken to arrest the erosion ‘ 
process, soon will be. In North -Carolina, where I went - 
o\ ei- an area comprising 185 square miles, most of which 
ha.s been stripped of most of its topsoil, I was told that 
there is one big gully to every hundred acres of land. 
Soutli Carolina provided an even drearier picture, becausi^l 
in traveling over a section of 21fi square miles, practically ^ 
every other farmhouse tliut 1 came to was deserted. 
“Nor is the South, which we have been examining thus 
far. the only section of our country that is being de¬ 
stroyed by erosion. To a greater or a less extent it all is 
and, in case you should happen to doubt the validity of 
that statement, all you need do to prove it for yourself is 
to jump in your car. take a ride into the country and look 
with a seeing eye at the farms on both sides of the high¬ 
way-. Do that and you can quickly determine just what 
is becoming of three billion tons of topsoil that is being 
washed off of our cultivated lands every year and can 
never be brought back. 
TREES GONE “HELLO, CHINCH 
BUG!" 
"When we are discussing land erosion the chinch bug 
may seem to be immaterial and highly significant. Hav¬ 
ing arrived, not only in Iowa, our richest farming state, 
but also in Missouri. Indiana and Illinois, by billions of 
.lillions, and having done more in thirty days to restrict 
barley than the A.A.A. has accomplished in two years, In¬ 
is not only significant of the drought of this year, Ijut. 
which is truly ominous, he is distinctly prophetic of an¬ 
other dry spell for next. In short, he is just a warning 
symptom nf what we are-coming to in case. we. keep on-.x 
destroying our topsoil. I 
"Moisture is the only thing that kills him; our topsoil 
is the only thing that conseiwes our moisture. Conse¬ 
quently, when it is gone, or when most of it is and with it 
most of the eartli’s moisture, the only cultivated thing 
then that this little pest won’t kill when he touches it 
will be the soy bean. That sounds like China. Over there 
because the chincli bugs won’t eat soy beans the Chinese 
must, and, as things are now going, how long will it Ije 
until we are on the same diet?” 
WHO IS RESPONSIBLE for the loss of over ONE 
HUNDRED MILLION ACRES of what was our best 
farm land by erosionOver one bundled and twenty- 
five million acres practically destroyed by dust storms 
west of the Mississippi. Flood losses over one hundred 
million for the lack of trees to hold the water back and 
THOUSANDS of LIVES LOST. 
No one wants to live on the farm when tliey could not 
at least support themselves and as a result 10,000.009 
young men and women from 17 to 24—thousands of col¬ 
lege graduates—never had the opp(»rtunity to earn a 
dollar. 
Under the circumstances what President Roose¬ 
velt do to save the farms still producing' crops from being 
totally ruined but put 375.000 men planting trees, build¬ 
ing dams, etc.? 
He knew what happened in Europe in the 15th century 
when no man was allowed to marry until he had planted 
so many trees, and the same thing that happened in 
China, India, and other treeless countries, would even¬ 
tually happen here. 
TAXPAYERS will pay billions for doing work farmers 
would gladly do themselves if NEWSPAPERS AND 
BUSINESS MEN WOULD EXPLAIN WHAT TREES 
MEAN TO A COUNTRY and encourage the work. 
IF half ou)- original softwood timber owned in 1900 
was cut before 1930 as the Government claims and more 
trees were destroyed by prairie fires in 1932 on FIFTY- 
TWO MILLION ACRES than were planted by all forestry 
departments the past fifty years, and as it takes from 6(1 
to 259 years for trees to grow large enough to make the 
assorted sizes of lumber we require, what will children 
of today use for lumber when they grow up? 
FRUIT TREES 
Everyone that possibly can should, by all means, have at lea.st a few fruit trees or a home orchard. 
At the very low prices these fruit trees are offered you we feel sure that you will want to order some 
trees right away. In a year or two you can have fruit from your own orchard and it is much nicer and 
more economical than going to the market for them. Consider this offer and send in your order now 
while our stock is complete. 
APPI.E TREES 
Red June, Early Harvest, Yellow Transparent, 
Yellow Horse, Winesap, Stayman Winesap, Red 
Delicious, Limbertwig, Yates, Jonathan. Winter 
Banana, Yellow Delicious. 
Per 10 Per 25 
PEACHES. J. H. 
Belle of Georgia, Caiman, Champion, Craw¬ 
ford’s Late. Crawford's Early, Elberta, Early 
Rose. J. H. Hale, Hiley, Heath Cling, Golden 
Jubilee, South Haven. Red Bird, Indian Blond. 
Shipper's Red, Shipper's Late, Greensboro. 
Mayilower. Roche.ster, White June. 
18-24 
inch, 
1 
year .... 
. . .$0.75 
$1.50 
$ S.aO 
Per 10 
Per 25 
Per 100 
2-3 
feet. 
1 
vear.... 
. . . 1.2") 
2.50 
8.00 
18-24 inch . 
-$1.00 
$2.00 
$ 7.50 
3-4 
feet. 
1 
year .... 
. . . 1.50 
3.00 
10.00 
2-3 feet . 
, 1.25 
2.50 
10.00 
3-4 
feet, 
2 
year.... 
. .. 2.00 
4.00 
12.50 
3-4 feet . 
, 1.50 
3.00 
12.50 
4-5 
feet. 
2 
year.... 
. . . 2.50 
5.00 
17.50 
PEARS 
(iarber, Kieffer, Biirtlett 
, Pineapple. 
I.UMS 
18-24 inch . 
.$1.50 
$3.00 
$12.50 
2-3 feet . 
. 2.00 
4.00 
17.50 
Abundance, 
Burbank, 
Kelsev’s 
Japan. 
Blue 
3-4 feet . 
5.00 
22.50 
GRAPES 
18-24 
inch 
. . .$1.50 
$3.00 
$12.50 
Agawam, Catawba, Campbell’s Eariv. Concord. 
2-3 
feet 
. . 2.01) 
4.00 
17.50 
Moore’s Early, Niagara, 
Worden. 
3-4 
feet 
, . . 2.50 
5.00 
22.50 
2-year . 
.$1.25 
$2.50 
$10.00 
Write for our catalog on other fruits. We carry a full line of fruit and berry plants that we are unable 
to list in this bulletin. 
BOYD NURSERY CO., McMinnville, Tennessee 
BOYD NURSERY CO., McMinnville, Tennessee 
