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HENRY FIELD'S SEED SENSE FOR APRIL, 1941—Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co., Shenandoah, Iowa 9 


How to Make Money 
_— LLL ED TS EE ELLIO TET IE TE 
-Here’s a picture of the melon stand of 
1 M. Beck of Thomson, Ml., who took 
y advice about making money selling 
truck in your own roadside stand. It 
_ looks like he has done a good job of it. 
You need to have fresh vegetables, a clean 
Stand, a big sign, a nice smile and give 
_ B00d measure and you'll do well. If you 
grown-ups don’t think you have time, let 
the kids do it. They'll make good money 
and learn a lot at the same time and 
_ mostly they can take care of it when 
school isn’t on anyway. 
: "Garden Seed Free Gifts 
Don’t forget to ask for your free gifts 
when you send in your garden seed or- 
_ der. very order for $1.00 or more can 
_ choose for their gift one of the follow- 
~ ing: 3 Royal Purple Giads; 1 pkt. Scar- 
_ tett O’Hara; 1 pkt. California Giant Zin- 
_ hias; 1 pkt. Harly Blooming Poppies. If 
_ your order is for $2.00 or more, you can 
_ choose two of the gifts; if for $3.00 or 
_ more, you can choose three of the gifts, 
ete, These are simply my way of saying 
_ thank-you and I want you to ask for the 
one you want. And chances are, you’ll 
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_ find some other free gift tucked in too. 
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_ Some Garden Seeds Scarce 
2° It isn’t very often we run iow on gar- 



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‘den seeds, but this is one of the years. 
Most of you know on some varieties we 
' make heavy importations from the most 
_ famous growing fields of Europe where 
_ the finest seed comes from. In some cases 
this was cut off entirely and in some we 
_ were able to get only a partial shipment. 
So if you’re putting off ordering car- 
‘rots, onions, beets, and a great many flow- 
ers, don’t—because there won’t be seed 
of some of these left. Some folks have 
“ordered a two-years’ supply, but I don’t 
know that that’s necessary. 
Boys and Girls Read This 
Don’t forget that all kiddies whose 
‘father or mother order garden seeds from 
‘Henry Field get a big Conglomeration 
eket of all garden and flower seeds to- 
ther for just 1c (it must be your own 
). Here’s some of the things Billie 
ms 6 years old, raised from just one 
Ket; * 
_ “Dear Mr. Field: Here are the things I 
_ raised from your one cent package of seed 
last spring. I sold about $1.50 worth of 
watermelons and muskmelons, and 
Mamma canned six quarts a beans from 
he beans in my garden, I had peas, let- 
tuce, cabbage, turnips, beans, beets, rad- 
_ ashes, carrots, parsnips, tomatoes, cucum- 
_ bers, squash, pumpkins, muskmelon, and 
atermelon. I also had one cane stalk and 
orning Glories, Hollyhocks, Nastur- 
ms, Zinnias, and Marigolds.” 
—Billie Lutz, 6, Manhattan, Kans. 
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35 Prizes with Field’s Seed 
Here’s the garden truck grown from 
Henry Field seed that Walter Eckley of 
Tekamiah, Nebr., exhibited at the Burt 
Co. fair last year. Out of 33 entries, Wal- 
ter won 20 FIRST prizes and 5 Seconds, 
which is a pretty good record, seems to 
me. To do that, the stuff has to be extra- 
fine quality and absolutely true-to-name, 
which means Walter is a good gardener 
and he used good seed. 

Vegetables for Freezing 
Now that there are so many cold stor- 
age locker plants around the country, a 
lot of folks are learning to put their vege- 
tables away by freezing them. Our state 
college at Ames has been experimenting 
with different varieties trying to find out 
which varieties are best for this purpose. 
Here are their recommendations: 
SNAP BEANS—Burpee’s Stringless, 
Bountiful, Giant Stringless. 
SNAP BEANS, WAX POD — Pencil Pod 
black wax, Round Pod Kidney Wax. 
LIMA BEANS—Henderson Bush. 
CORN — Golden Sunshine, Golden Ban- 
tam, Golden Cross Bantam, Country 
Gentleman, Stowell’s Evergreen. 
GREENS—Swiss Chard, Kale, Spinach. 
PEAS—Little Marvel. 
If you have a locker, be sure to order 
some of these varieties for freezing and 
give them a try, 
Some Good Thoughts 
Dear Mr. Field: 
I have been a gardener since I have been 
large enough to use a hoe. [ have never 
failed in the same crop two years in succes- 
sion. I attribute my success to the follow- 
ing rules: 
First: I plant moré than we will need. 
There are always garden enemies and I. 
have had them all. 
Second: I keep each foot of space 
working for me throughout the growing 
season. My friends tell me that I plant 
until the ground freezes. Anyway, be- 
fore one crop is gone another is coming 
up between the rows. This keeps the 
rows the same distance apart. 
Third: I rely upon a number of tricks 
to lighten my work. 
Fourth: I start fighting my garden 
enemies before they appear. 
Fifth: I plan each garden carefully, 
Then not even the August sun stops me. 
But these things alone will not assure gar- 
den success. We have a family tradition. 
“The better the seed the better the garden.” 
Years of dealing with your company have 
taught us that if one tries and tries again and 
does not. succeed they are not using Henry 
Field’s seed! A satisfied customer, Mary 
McQuitty, Tarkio, Missouri. 


Canned 206 Quarts 
“Dear Mr. Field: 
“Picture of myself and some of your 
Scarlet Slicer tomatoes which I raised 
last year. They were the finest I’ve ever - 
raised. Canned 206 quarts, ate all we 
could, gave some to the neighbors and 
there were still plenty on the vines that 
the frost got. Am ordering more seeds 
this year from you, you can be sure,’’— 
Mrs. Tom Jones, Polk, Mo. 
Don’t Worry About Wilt 
If you have been troubled by wilt tak- 
ing some of your vegetables, you shouldn’t 
be worrying about it, you should be try- 
ing some of the new wilt-resistant strains. 
They have been developed, now, in almost 
all vegetables susceptible to this disease 
and they really work. 
In Watermelons there is now a wilt- 
resistant strain of both Kleckley Sweet 
and Stone Mountain (Cat. page 21). 
In Muskmelons, there’s a new mildew-fre- 
sistant strain of Hales Best (Cat. page 
14) and in Cabbage, if you’re bothered 
by wilt plant, either Marion Market, 
early; Wisconsin Hollander, late; or Wis- 
consin All-Season (midseason) and your 
troubles are mostly over. 
About Hybrid Sweet Corn 
I’ve never seen people go hog wild the 
way they have about Hybrid Sweet Corn. 
They’re simply stampeding us with or- 
ders and telling their friends about it, too. 
This hybrid sweet corn, just like hybrid 
field corn, yields more, and is bred to be 
sweeter, more tender, and larger than the 
older varieties you used to plant. And it 
really is. 
I think the most popular variety is my 
Hybrid Corn Blend (on front cover of 
the catalog). It has some of all varieties 
mixed to give you sweet, hybrid roasting 
ears coming on all season long. For 
canning, the Harly Giant Golden Bantam 
leads the pack in popularity. It’s pictured 
on the front cover of the catalog, too. 
If you haven’t tried them, you really 
should give yourself a treat to the sweet- 
est sweet corn you ever ate. 
oh * * * * 
It’s a funny thing, but the higher up a 
man gets in the business world, the less 
you can figure out what his signature is, 


