
6 HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE FOR APRIL, 1942— Henry Field Seed & penis Co., Shen 
HENRY FIELD’S SEED SENSE 
‘ROR THE MAN BEHIND THE HOE” 
Published by Henry Field Seed & Nursery Co. 
Field No. 1 Building Shenandoah, Iowa 
Henry Field, Editor 
Contributors 
“Alfalfa” John Nicolson (Seed) Helen Field Fischer (Flowers) 
Pate Simmons (Seed & Nursery) LeOna Nicolson (Nursery) 
Burke Schriver (Field Seed) Irving Steurer (Garden Seed) 
Paul Wilkinson (Nursery) Howard Bagnall (Field Seed) 
Deane Schneider (Field Seed) —& all my friends and customers 
Subscription Price—A Garden Seed, Field Seed 
or Nursery Order 





Free Postage and Packing at Fields 
Don’t include extra money for postage and packing on 
nursery stock when you order from Henry Field. I know you 
do when you order from a lot of nurseries, but we’re different 
and we pay for all that ourselves.. Our prices listed in the cata- 
‘log are all you have to pay and we don’t try to get double 
price by adding on ‘extras.’ The only exception is big shade 
trees which have to go express and we even pay that on $10 
orders or more. So don’t be fooled by those extra charges. 
Buy at Field’s and get more for the same money. 
About Honesty 
I happened to be brought up to be honest and square shoot- 
ing. I was taught that to cheat or to steal was a sin and that to 
be truthful and fair were virtues. 
I often think that if my father and mother hadn’t stuck to 
their guns on that point, I never would have been a seedsman. 
Seedsmen have to be honest. When you buy anything else but 
seeds, you can see them and feel them and know what you are 
buying. But when you buy stringless beans, or Fillbasket peas, 
or Radiance roses, you don’t know whether they’re true to name 
or will even grow until you plant them. 
It rests entirely upon the seedsman to be honest and give a 
square deal. There are some who don’t pay much attention 
to that trust, but you never have gotten and never will get 
anything from me that isn’t just as I say. If that wasn’t so, I 
wouldn’t still be in the seed business, doing the most business, 
I ever have done. Think it over. 
Our Planting Directions Free 
If you’re worried you don’t know how to plant something or 
are not just sure how to take care of it, don’t forget that each 
order that goes out of here has free planting instructions with 
it. There’s not any mystery to planting anyway—yjust plain 
common sense, but just in case you don’t know how to plant 
some particular item, we make it a point to see that you’re 
furnished the information when you get your plants. That’s 
part of Field’s service and it’s free. 
About Field Customers 
SE RT SR ET SEES 
I always did say I had the finest customers of any business 
man alive and the way they’ve been boosting for my business. 
really proves it. Seems like a Field customer don’t get satis- 
fied until he has made two or three converts from people who 
haven’t been buying seed from me. 
Doing missionary work just seems to come natural to them. 
I don’t think any other seedsman in the world has such a fine 
loyal bunch of customers—people who will take time off to 
pass their catalog over the fence and say, ‘‘Here’s a seedsman 
you can trust.’”’ They just naturally seem to want to help their 
neighbors get ‘‘Seeds That Yield” and do me a good turn at 
the same time, 

The personal word you speak for me is worth more than. 
all the advertising in.the world. And I appreciate it. Keep 
on doing it and J’ll show my appreciattion is better service and 
better seeds and better prices. If every customer spoke to two 
more we’d really have a big customer family wouldn’t we? 
P.S. When you give away your copy of the catalog, don’t be 
bashful about asking for pnetuer copy. I’ll send one right 
away. H. F., 
How to Be Hanae 
Iran across this old Chinese proverb the other day and 
thought it ought. to be passed on to you folks.. 
“If you want to be happy for an hour, get drunk. 
If you want to be happy for 3 days, get married. 
If you want to be happy for a week, kill your pig and eat it. 
_ If you want to be happy forever, have a garden.” 
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taken ic celebrate Lukie first being allowed to sit up. 
that’s as far as he’s gotten for the doctor won’t let him 
around as yet. Ruth says he does manage to navigate 
by hitching across the floor on his seat, but they aren’t 
to try out the crutches for awhile yet. se 
Incidentally, Big Boy wants me to thank everyone fo 
na ater but I wanted to thank you too. It was a Bie fir 
thing for you folks to take time to do. ve 
That’s Elizabeth Rose on the left, then Big Boy and é 
etta holding up one of Lukie’s books and Susan on the r 
They all posed with Lukie because he wanted them to. 
A ‘THANK YOU’ from Ruth — 
Remember last month, I printed some pictures of Ruth’s 
Lukie, recuperating from a serious accident? Down 
bottom of one picture I agreed to send on to ‘Lukie’ oe 
that boys and girls might send in here for Lukie. 
Well you ought to have seen the deluge. It really would! h 
done your heart good to see the many many nice letters f ; 
many many nice people—all helping to cheer up Lukie and g 
him something to do. 
Some sent letters. Some sent cards. Some even sent sma 
and one lady sent Lukie a $1.00 bill which I imagine is by 
fully written to give a boy something to do and think: 
It was really wonderful the way you folks helped out. At 
they weren’t all from boys and girls either. Mothers < 
father had a big hand in it too. .You’ll find some pts ok 
elsewhere in Seed Sense. 
But what-I started here to do was print the fevice reg 
from Ruth. It says about how we all feel better than I 
myself—And Ruth said she wanted to take this way to 
each and everyone who had been so nice to Lukie. : 
‘Dear Dad: 
Please send along all the letters for Lukie soon. 
joys all the mail so very much and Henrietta mak. 
success of reading them to him. 
Until reading a few of those letters, I never realized 
so clearly that sorrow and trouble are the common lot 
all. One letter made us cry. It was froma mother w 
not so lucky as I and lost her little boy. 
The letters all come straight from the good hearts 
people and I hope you will thank them in both Luki 
and mine.—Ruth.”’ i 
A Lesson In Politeness : 
ok SS SR EER PRR Con TR 
Many people overlook being polite in their cor 
people. This point is best rE Se! this | 
Lincoln. 
President Lincoln, driving along a tics: roa 
friend, met an aged Negro who lifted his hat. Lincoln D 
returned the salute, whereupon his con Re ce 
prise: 
“Surely, Mr. President, it isn t your custom 3 p you 
to a Negro.”’ ; 
“Why yes, indeed,” replied the President, “you | 
pect me to permit a Negro to outdo me in politeness! 
