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Dear Friends: 


Once more the world is at war. Our national sympathies must be and are 
on the side which we consider right. Yet we cannot believe that war—other than 
for defense of our own shores and our own liberties—is justified. We seek no 
war and we invite no war. We arm for defense only and want no part of 
foreign disputes. But, we cannot be oblivious of the world in flames nor can 
we feel that we will be unaffected! 
For we know that we will be affected regardless of the outcome. We know 
that our whole economic life will be disjointed in a world, sick and suffering, 
struggling to find its way back to a bare existence, when peace is finally signed. 
Our keynote must be production—whether in the factory, on the farm, or in 
the home. If we must face a world with a lower living standard, we must produce 
more that our own scale of living may be not lowered. 
This is not a sales talk for seeds. It is cold logic. The nearer we approach 
self-sufficiency on the farm, in the home or in the nation, the nearer we are to 
security. 
In World War I the nation called for more and more food production. Then 
we had to feed Europe—today we cannot, but when hostilities cease we will feed 
Europe and feed the world because the great heart of this country will not allow 
millions of the innocent victims of war to starve. Your production of your own 
essential requirements will release foodstuffs for someone more needy than you. 
This time the slogan is not “‘it’s patriotic to plant a garden’ but “it’s humane to 
plant a garden.” 
Our seeds have had an enviable record for quality since 1892. We have 
jealously guarded that record and we intend to maintain it. We solicit your orders, 
confident that we can please you. 
May your year be happy and prosperous, 
THE CHASS Gy HART SSEEDECO: 
WETHERSFIELD, CONN. NEWPORT, MAINE 
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Growers, Importers and Dealers in 
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