


CHRIS. REUTER 
Founder 
Do Your Share and be 
Ready for Whatever May Come 

FRENCH MARKET STORE 
NEw ORLEANS. LA 
Garden Supplies 
320 N.CARROLLTON AVENUE 
NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
Prone GAwvez 3141 
Dear Friend: July 1, 1941 
When armies are in training and industry is forced 
to concentrate upon munitions, the problem of food 
production and transportation may become a difficult 
one. Higher wages and shorter hours in factories are 
draining competent labor away from the market gar- 
dens, where the work days are long and there is over- 
time work without overtime pay. Every home vege- 
table garden will be a real contribution to the National 
Defense and the time to start making your garden is 
before and not after, a food shortage has developed. 
A home garden will keep you supplied with fresh, 
healthful vegetables, and also helps to reduce the cost 
of living. 
There can be no reserve of fresh green vegetables 
except in gardens. The interruption of the rapid trans- 
port of these foods to market this fall and winter, may 
cause widespread shortage overnight. The vital im- 
portance of these protective, vitamin rich foods in the 
diet, especially of children, is well established. You 
ean protect your family and contribute to national 
preparedness by growing a large part of the vegetables 
you need in your own back yard. 
Many vegetable seeds are scarce and prices have 
increased due to war conditions in Purope and poor 
growing weather in the principal seed producing areas 
of this country. Reuter is amply prepared to fill your 
orders promptly with the finest American-grown and 
imported vegetable seeds at prices only slightly above 
values that prevailed during normal times. You are 
urged to order early. Don’t delay because the demand 
for high-grade, pre-tested, quality vegetable seeds of 
many kinds may soon exhaust the present stocks avail- 
able in this country. 
Most sincerely, 
Goad Y.0. 2. the kitchen door 
takes a load off man power 
and transportation and helps 
keep down the cost of living. 
PLAN AND PLANT EARLY 

CABLE AcoRESS 
103) Decatur SF "REUTERSEEO™ 


LOUIS. B. REUTER 
President 
