RUDY-PATRICK SEED COMPANY 
DIRECTORS WHOLESALE SEEDS 
Roy A. Edwards, President 
Ross M. Eldridge, Vice-President 
Vernon F. Rudy, Vice-President 
Wilbur E. Hoover, Treasurer 
C. A. Patrick, Secretary NINTH AND SANTA FE STS KANSAS CITY, MO. 
Royal Brand Seeds Real Producers 
T his catalogue is intended as a complete reference book on the best va¬ 
rieties of farm and garden seeds. We do not conduct a mail order business 
direct with consumers. Our seeds are sold by thousands of live progressive 
merchants and jobbers throughout the country. This patronage over a period 
of many years is the result of the dependability, hardiness and productiveness of our 
high grade selected seeds. Our seeds are grown in those sections of world production 
which our long experience has shown to reach their fullest development as to type 
and strain. Likewise our seeds are selected as to their adaptation to the sections in 
which we sell. To use cheaper and unknown seeds is to risk poor crops and unsatis¬ 
factory stands. 
We maintain a complete laboratory for analyzing and testing the seeds we send 
out, thus insuring tested stock at no increased cost. 
Our organization, developed through a quarter century of growth, is composed 
of men of ripe experience, trained in the technical demands of this exacting business, 
whose life work is dedicated to the promotion of better seeds and larger crops. In 
addition to the executives, who guide the policy of this business, is a large force of 
capable office, plant and field workers, seed analysts, cleaning and refining experts, 
field buyers and inspectors, feed millers, credit men, traffic men, etc. 
A very few communities raise sufficient seeds for their own consumption. Even 
when some farm seeds are produced in a particular section, they may not be fit for 
seeding. They need to be analyzed in the laboratory for noxious weeds, to come 
under the eye of the experienced cleaner. Why experiment when the services of a 
large concern are at your service? Any slight increase in price over home grown or 
cheaper seeds is more than offset in the increased results per acre and larger yield in 
bushels and tons. 
Then, too, our machinery and equipment is the most improved and modern. Our 
seeds are refined by new processes, special screens, air blasts, gravity separators, etc. 
All. perform their minute operation, almost with human touch, and the many thou¬ 
sands of farmers and gardeners, who intrust their seed orders to the merchants han¬ 
dling our seeds, reap the benefit. 
When the season for planting is on, large stocks must be quickly available. Our 
orders are usually shipped the same day they are received. 
REAL SERVICE, not only in preparing seeds, but in getting them to the con¬ 
sumer, as needed, is our slogan. 
“The relianc’e on the reputation and responsibility of seedsmen is more im¬ 
portant than other vendors of goods and services as they deal with the life germ of 
the seed in the eternal cycle of plant production.” 
As crops are subject to the human element in sowing and reaping; governed by 
soil and seasons and the divine chemistry of nature there can be no guarantee of 
results by anyone in the cycle of production. It is therefore sound sense to rely on 
the personnel, laboratory equipment and reputation of a large seed house as Rudy- 
Patrick in order to safeguard as much as human experience and resources may per¬ 
mit. In common with other seedsmen we are forced to follow the nature of our 
business in respect to non-warranty of seeds and all goods are sold under the usual 
seedsmen’s non-warranty disclaimer. 
We give no warranty, expressed or implied, as to description, quality, productiveness or any other 
matter of any seeds we send out and we will not be responsible for the crop. If the purchaser does not 
accept the goods on these terms, he must notify us at once, and we will give instruction for disposition 
of goods. 
RUDY-PATRICK SEED CO. 
•rONSTABLE-HURD PTG. CO., KANSAS CITY, MO. 
