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HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR APRIL, 1940—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 
HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
“FOR THE MAN BEHIND T HE HOE" _ 
Published by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co ~ ”” 
Field No. 1 Building Shenandoah, Iowa 
Henry Field, Editor 
Contributors* 
“Alfalfa” John Nicolson (Seed) Helen Field Fischer (Flowers) 
Pate Simmons (Seed & Nursery) LeOna Nicolson (Nursery) 
Mrs. Leanna Field Driftmier Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
Paul Wilkinson (Nursery) _ Frank Field (Seed & Nursery) 
Subscription Price—A Garden Seed, Field Seed 
or Nursery Order __ 
Nursery Quality — Best In Years 
This is a good year to buy nursery stock. Never saw a year 
when stock made out so good. It’s partly the weather and 
partly our severe grading, I guess. Everything we’re shipping 
is the biggest, strongest, healthiest looking nursery stock I’ve 
seen in over 50 years of this business. 
I’d go the limit on planting this year. This big stock is going 
to give you real quick results, and that’s what you’re after— 
early blooms and early fruit. 
And, if when you get your order, you don’t think the stock 
is about the finest you ever used, fire it back and I’ll make it 
right, but I know there won’t be any who will take me up on 
that. 
Use Your Henry Field Store! 
Our eleven seed and nursery stores throughout the country 
have been almost as busy as we are here at Shenandoah. Folks 
have been coming in by droves. Some come to buy (complete 
stocks of all seeds and nursery stock in each store) and some 
come for information on seeding or planting, and some come 
to meet their neighbors. Whether you come for one thing or 
another, I want you to feel free to use the store. That’s what 
they’re there for and if we can be of help to you any way, that 
pleases me. If you haven’t dropped in yet, find the store near¬ 
est you and go in. You can get all your planting needs right 
there. 
Des Moines, Iowa—400 E. Locust and 215 Walnut St. 
Fort Dodge, Iowai—505 Central Avenue. 
Omaha, Nebraska—1211 Farnam St. 
Lincoln, Nebraska—942 P St. 
Council Bluffs, Iowa—535 W. Broadway. 
Perry, Iowa—1309 2nd. 
Chariton, Iowa—North Main. 
Carroll, Iowai—126 W. Fifth. 
South Omaha, Nebraska—2419 N. Street. 
Spencer, Iowa—258 Grand St. 
You Don’t Have to Apologize To Henry 
You folks never heard me complain about the size of your 
order, have you? It is true, some orders are so small, it costs 
more to handle them through the office than the amount of 
the order, but that’s part of the business. You wanted just 
that much seed and that’s all so that’s what I send. I want 
your business big or little. I don’t care what size your orders 
are. One year they may be small, but if I please you you’ll 
come back someday when you have a bigger order and all is 
forgiven. So, don’t think for a minute you have to apologize 
to Henry like the man in the letter below did. I want your or¬ 
ders big or small and I’m speaking right up in meeting and ask¬ 
ing for them.—H.F. 
“Dear Henry: The seed and bush cherries arrived on March 4th and 
■were as sound as a silver dollar. I am satisfied in every way and want 
to thank you for the free seeds which you sent and wish you a prosperous 
season and accept my most sincere thanks. I hope to send more orders 
as I know it costs money to send a catalog out and an order should be 
big enough to pay the expense. Some don’t realize this. Again I thank 
you for recognizing my order. It was small, you filled it just the same.” 
John Downs, Redwood City. 
Send Me Your Pictures 
When you take those pictures this spring be sure and have a 
print made for me. Seed Sense is your magazine—made for 
Henry Field customers—and there just wouldn’t be any if it 
wasn’t for your pictures. 
As always, I pay 50c each for the ones I can use and ask 
that you send an extra print that you don’t want back as it’s 
never decided until just the last minute which ones we can use. 
Any pictures—your children, garden, fields, pastures are all 
welcome. You folks know what generally is in Seed Sense. I 
especially want pictures of your hybrid corn, your chickens, 
and pastures. But whatever you send, send them. Remember 
other Henry Field customers like to see and hear what you 
look like and what you do just as you like to look the pictures 
over yourself.—H.F. 
90 Years Old And Still Coming 
Here’s a picture I think everybody will be interested in. 
This is Alfalfa John Nicolson with one of our oldest regular 
customers—J. C. Heck of Mound City, Mo. Mr. Heck was 60 
when he started to trade with me and he has been coming in 
regularly each spring now for 30 years. So that makes him 
90 and he can ‘young man* me. He doesn’t even ask to see the 
seed—he just takes our word that it’s good and has us load 
up his car. 
This year his order called for 5 bu. of Best Red Clover, 5 bu. 
Best Sweet Clover, 450 lbs. Brome grass, and 8 bu. of Timothy. 
Prom that order you can tell he’s no small farmer, and we’re 
mighty proud he won’t trade with anybody but us. 
Ever Try Bug Dust For These? 
Bug Dust has been almost miraculous in its work wherever 
used. We get hundreds of letters every day from customers 
saying they couldn’t garden without it. But most interesting 
are all the uses they cook up for it besides using it as combi¬ 
nation insecticide and fungicide at which it is so successful. 
Here are just a few of many hundreds. Maybe you will find 
some you will like to try. Understand, I haven’t tried these 
all and can’t vouch for them, but the letters claim on a stack 
of bibles that they work. 
1. “We mix Bug Dust with water and pour it around trees 
to get those grubs or borers.” 
2. “I dust Bug Dust on my sweet corn silks and am never 
bothered by ear worms.” 
3. “I stir Bug Dust in the soil of my house plants to stop 
those little black flies which come from those white worms.” 
4. “We mix Bug Dust in the soil when planting melons and 
the like to stop rodents from bothering them. Three cheers for 
Henry Field’s Bug Dust.” 
5. “I dusted the window sill that Box Elder bugs came 
in with Henry Field’s Bug Dust and not a one is in sight now. 
1 have tried every preparation known, and this is the first 
that stopped them in their tracks.” 
Bug Dust has made a real reputation. I don’t know how 
many hundred write me that they couldn’t garden without 
Field’s Bug Dust. It leaves absolutely no poisonous residue 
like Arsenics, but still is effective as anything I know. If 
you’re troubled with bugs, try my Bug Dust. 3 lbs. $1.00 or 
2 lbs. and a dust gun for $1.00 postpaid. —H.F, 
By Way of Contrast 
“Tli© Detroiter” carried a thought provoking advertisement 
the other day. 
It pictured a four-cylinder limousine of 1910 that sold for 
$5,500. By its side was pictured a 1937 eight-cylinder car of 
the same make, almost inconceivably superior, selling for 
$1,075. A reduction of more than 80 per cent in cost, and a 
car 10 tunes as good. 
Then, beneath legends showing that in the same period 
federal tax payments in Michigan have increased 5,938 per 
cent; cost of federal government 1,068 per cent; per capita 
cost of federal government 735 per cent; public debt of the 
federal government 5,075 per cent, and the per capita federal 
debt 2,120 per cent. 
Following this was the sole comment—in six words: 
“Which needs reforming—business or government?”—H.F. 
