Put Hoffman's Seeds to Work on Your barm 
Jloffmaris 
IN ONE TINY SEED . . . WHAT POWER! 
Take, for example, one alfalfa seed. So small that a bushel 
contains over 12 millions of them. But that one little seed, 
if it’s a GOOD seed, will produce a plant with great roots, 
sometimes 10 feet long. With dozens of shoots above the 
ground. Making unfailing feed for cattle. Not for just a 
day! But for years, sometimes 7, 8, or 10! Often three hay 
crops a year! 
Or a single grain of corn. Making an enormous maze ot 
roots, anchoring to the ground a tall plant, often 15 feet high. 
With many big leaves, and finally a full ear with more than 
a thousand new kernels like the original grain! 
Wonderful power! Power for Good! But there’s another 
equally powerful force on the farm. Power the other way! 
Weed plants grow seeds, too. And they seem to have great 
power to get along in this world. How well we farmers 
know it! 
What about it all? True, a new Federal Seed Law has 
just gone into effect. To help right some seed-evils. But 
there’s another way, man to man, that is most powerful! 
For the past 41 years, since 1899, there has been a happy 
sharing of Confidence, or call it Faith, between Hoffman 
customers and the men back of Hoffman Seeds. Its power 
is beyond measure. It is very much alive today! Weeds don’t 
have a place in it. But Good Seeds do—and always MUST! 
A tremendous power for good always has, and always 
will, come from a joining together of good faith, good seeds, 
and good farming! May this book play its part toward put¬ 
ting on such a program on your farm through 1940 and the 
years to come. 
A. H. HOFFMAN, INC. 
LANDISVILLE (Lancaster County), PA. 
Three Lancaster County examples of 
" Strip-Farmingwhich is today gaining 
wide use, to combat the evils of erosion. 
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