


HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR MARCH, 1941—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 













This Garden Cost lie 
This is a garden raised from one of my 
Conglomeration packets. This is the 
packet where I put a little bit of every 
kind of seed, and then some more, into 
one big conglomeration. This is for sale 
only to boys and girls who may buy it for 
ic (it must be their own) if they order 
the same time their mother or father 
does. My, do they have fun sorting out 
the seeds and then tending them. 
This is Gerald Jansen, of Keytesville, 
Mo., who says he raised about one of 
everything in the catalog in his garden 
pictured here. 
Extra Garden Profits! 
| RESO SS NE LES ELSE ASI LEO LEAS LLL A, 
The extra profits are the profits you can 
make growing two and even three or four 
erops in your garden in a season. Just 
because one crop is up and done is no sign 
the land should lay there idle. It should 
be growing something. I’m harping on 
this subject early so you sure will remem- 
ber to order those seeds now that you are 
going to use as “‘fill-ins’’ later on. 
Here are a few suggestions to help you 
plan crop succession: 
1. In your radish row, plant Parsnip, 
Carrot, Parsley, Asparagus, Onion 
or Leek, so when radishes are done 
something else is coming. 
2. Follow early cabbage with late Tur- 
nips or Chinese Cabbage. 
3. Follow early Peas with late Cab- 
bage. 
4. Plant 2 rows of Potatoes between 
each 2 Watermelon rows and dig 
Potatoes after the Melons are gone. 
5. Plant Beets, Kohl Rabi, Lettuce, 
Mustard, Spinach, Onion Sets, Rad- 
ish, Barly Beans or Peas between 
rows of late Cabbage, Melons, 
Squash or Tomatoes. That way 
your garden works double. 
6. Fill in with the champion “fill-in” 
erops—Turnips, Beets, or Beans in 
any spots that become vacant in the 
garden. 
A New Field Customer — 
“Dear Sir; A vote of thanks to whom- 
ever sent my mother’s name, Ida H. 
Baker, to you this spring. But my nose 
is out of joint because that was the first 
time I had ever seen one of your cata- 
logs. Fifty years old, too! Just think 
of it! Iwas glad we got it and mad that 
we had never gotten it before. And did 
the seeds grow! I say they did. Even 
the stick that was mailed to keep the 
nursery stock from bending is growing. 
We set it down beside the apple tree. 
Please send me a catalog. I loaned the 
other to friends and they did not return 
it.’—Yours truly, Bessie I. Baker, Bain- 
bridge, Indiana. 























ust look at that serious expression. 
yo-year-old Mary Elizabeth Dyer, at 
wistown, Missouri, must be trying to 
figure out what specials she wants to or- 
Won 24 Prizes with Field’s Seeds 
“Dear Henry: 
My motto is ‘Seeds from Field’s are 
Sure To Win.” Bought all my seeds from 
you and won 24 prizes in all at the fair. 
Your Mule-Hybrid won 8 firsts and 2 sec- 
onds over aJl other hybrids. Besides, won 
prizes on Barley, Soybeans, Japanese Hul- 
less Popcorn, Bermuda Onion, South Am- 
erican Popcorn, Sweet Clover, Soybean 
Hay, Kaffir, and Milo Maize.”—Mr, Ralph 
Hibbs, Thayer, Kans. 
































Sense, the same as the rest of the family. 
_ Her mother says, ‘‘She nearly wears some 
of us out ‘reading the pictures.’ Our 
seeds and plants came in good shape and 
the plants are all looking fine. 






You Get More Seed in Field’s 
Triple-Size Packets 

Mrs. Field’s Orange Marmalade 
We are very fond of Orange Marmalade, 
but most of what you get, and especially 
what you buy, is too strong in flavor and 
generally too sticky to suit us, so Mrs. 
Field started in to experiment and find 
out how to make it; and after trying out 
all the recipes she could get hold of and 
making a dozen or more batches, she 
worked out a recipe that suits us very, 
very well. Here it is: 
2 Oranges (medium 4 Cups Water 
size) 6 Cups Sugar 
2 Lemons 1 Pkg. Penjell 
(Makes 8 large glasses) 
Grind the two. oranges and one of the 
lemons in the food grinder. Add the juice 
only of the other lemon. Add 4 cups (1 
quart) of water, and cook the mixture for 
20 minutes in the pressure cooker at 15 Ibs. 
pressure. Add 1 pkg. Penjell (or a like 
amount of any good commercial pectin). 
Add 6 cups (3 lbs.) sugar, and boil rapidly 
in an open Kettle for a few minutes, till 
heavy enough to jell well, or 216 degrees on 
the thermometer. One good test is when 
two drops drop together from spoon. 
One important item in cooking in the 
pressure cooker, which softens the pieces 
of orange and lemon rind so they are not 
tough, and the using of the juice only of 
one of the lemons keeps it from being 
quite so strong. If you like it still milder 
you could leave out the rind of the other 
lemon too, and just use the juice of the 
lemons instead of grinding any part of 
them. The commercial pectin (we use 
Penjell) helps it to jell quickly without 
long cooking, which would give it a 
stronger taste.—H.F. 
* * & 8 & 
“Dear Mr. Field: Just received Seed Sense, 
and to say it is good is putting it very mildly. 
It is more than good. By the way, we like 
good seed, the kind we always get from you.” 
R. B. Hall, Henning, Minn. 

































Maybe you noticed in the catalog I al- 
say on beans, peas, and corn, 
Price: Triple Size Pkt. (3 oz.) 10c.” 
Maybe you wondered why and maybe you 
didn’t. Anyway, here’s the reason. 
Most seedsmen offer you a small size 
ket and charge you 5c or more for it. 
at’s all right as far as it goes, but it 
esn’t go far enough. That small packet 
-won’t even give you a good look. So I 
put mine up in big triple-size packets— 
ough seed to plant all you need and 
n some. And when I say “‘Triple-Size, 
ean Triple-Size.’’ If you don’t believe 
1e, just compare once for yourself. 
e’ve checked time and time again and 
e of the tiny packets I’ve seen from 
e companies had so little seed you 












































gs just another reason why Henry 
always the real gardener’s head- 
rs for seed. ; 
