HENRY FIELD’S 
SEED SENSE 
“FOR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOE” 
-Published by Henry Field in the Print Shop- 
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Vol, XXIV 
Shenandoah , Iowa , March , 1940 
No. 2 
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Henry Field’s Sermonette 
Yes, why not have plenty to eat of all the 
without having to go and buy it at the store? 
There is no rea- 
food 
want, 
and the pride of showing that you 
member of society by growing your 
And don’t forget the flowers. I 
self-supporting 
this picture, 
my garden. 
but 
can rest assui 
always 
son in the world 
why you should not 
have an abundance 
of the very best of 
vegetables and 
small fruits, grown 
right in your own 
back yard or kitchen 
garden, picked fresh 
at just the right 
time, andbetter 
than anything you 
could possibly buy. 
It isn’t hard to do, 
and there is no great 
trick to it. All it 
needs is the will to 
start, and the perse¬ 
verance to stick to it 
and stay with it. 
The vegetables 
shown in this pic¬ 
ture were grown in 
our own garden at 
our cabin in the 
Ozark’s, on land 
probably not as good 
as most of you folks 
have of your own; 
and we had plently 
more besides what’s 
here. Lots of things 
I didn’t bother to 
put into the picture. 
Sweet potatoes, for 
instance, onions, 
and watermelons, 
and turnips, and 
okra and cabbage. 
I could have made 
another pile as big 
picture at all. 
Just think what a comfort and what a help it 
to have a pile of good eats like that to draw on 
you took a notion to have a good dinner. 
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idn t have any 
owers 
m 
they are juitks^a^y 
* to grow as the 
stuff. 
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you 
you 
do. 
den 
plants orderedTSu^ 
have the g r o u ncr 
plowed ordugup 
ready for them by 
the time they reach 
you.—H. F. 
P. S. Hope to see 
your order soon. Will 
give you real service. 
is 
Don’t Miss 
Mule-Hybrid 
Why Not Have Plenty To Eat, Too? 
as this, out of things not shown in this 
Some corn compa¬ 
nies have been com¬ 
plaining that corn 
business is bad this 
spring. They say it 
is way down below 
last year. But it 
isn’t with us—Mule- 
Hybrid is being or¬ 
dered so fast, we 
have had a hard 
time keeping up 
with the business. 
It’s running just 
about THREE 
TIMES heavier than 
last year. 
There must be a 
good reason for 
that—and there is. 
would be 
whenever 
All this could be grown on a half of a town lot, at an expend¬ 
iture of not over $2.00 or $3.00 for garden seeds and plants. 
Of course it means some hard work. But that’s good for 
you. I think a lot of us would be better off if we would 
put in more time in the garden. We would be better off not 
only financially, but physically, mentally, and morally. 
It is my firm belief that if every family had a garden and 
a pile of vegetables like this, it would solve most of the national 
problems that now worry us so much. Think it over, and see 
if I’m not pretty near right. 
Get busy and plant a garden, and show that you can support 
yourself no matter what the politicians do or don’t do. 
And besides all this, gardening is lots of fun. I have more 
pleasure and real enjoyment out of my garden than anything 
else I do, and I believe you would find it the same way. There 
is something entrancing about creating things in this way, 
adding to the beauty and the health and wealth of the world, 
Mule-Hybrid corn has been making phenomenal records every¬ 
where it is grown. After that, back fence gossip spreads the 
word mighty fast that that man Henry Field has really got a 
hybrid that works. No fancy literature, no expensive salesmen, 
—just the heaviest yielding corn of the good, deep, farmer-style 
that’s best for feeding. 
The best part of it all is that, though better than common 
hybrids, Mule-Hybrid STILL COSTS YOU LESS. It always 
makes my blood boil to see what some companies ask for corn. 
They have to ask more, though. Selling through salesmen is 
expensive—it’s bound to be. Salesmen get from $1 to $3 per 
bu. for selling you corn and that’s money you can put in your 
jeans and save, if you buy it DIRECT FROM HENRY FIELD. 
Now I don’t want a single solitary one of you to miss out on 
Mule-Hybrid corn this year. If you don’t want to put all your 
acres into Mule-Hybrid—all I ask is that you, at least, put in 
one to five bushels and let it speak for itself. You want to know 
which is the best hybrid? The yield of Mule-Hybrids’ will tell you. 
And get your order in soon. Stocks are going fast. It’s first 
come, first served on Mule-Hybrid this year the way I’m being 
stampeded for seed. 
